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by Coffeewine 4y ago
It’s deeply unfortunate, I can certainly see why a person who has a severe mental illness might prefer euthanasia. That said, as a number of mental illnesses can make it difficult to verify consent, it seems the bar should be higher for tho
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by Coffeewine 4y ago
The point of the comparison was to argue that one would expect a system which involved vastly more human labor to be much more expensive, yet the author had figures which suggested it would be less expensive. The implication presumably bein
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by Coffeewine 4y ago
I don't know about production chips with such things integrated, but it's certainly been tried. The below article is from 2008. https://www.eetimes.com/ibm-git-demo-3d-die-with-microchanne...
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by Coffeewine 5y ago
I can’t comment on google’s offerings, but I loved my shield tablet back in the day and would love to see more spiritual successors. Sure it was less speedy than most comparable iPads, but I quite enjoyed being able to run emulators, softwa
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by Coffeewine 6y ago
I have a three color model from waveshare, and the way it works for it is you have to send a black and white bitmap, followed by a color and white bitmap. It's possible for these guys you need to repeat that five times.
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by Coffeewine 6y ago
I don't think that's quite true - food insecurity has significantly increased since the pandemic response has began. https://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/the_covid_19_crisis_has...
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
The listed reasons: > First, although child-care workers aren’t expensive on an hourly basis—their median hourly wage is less than that of non-farm-animal caretakers and janitors—labor is the biggest line item for child-care facilities.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
To build on this point, even the discussions which aren’t literally US politics are predominantly incredibly negative. To a degree that’s the internet these days, but Reddit exhibits it quite strongly.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
So this may be a dumb question, but by which metrics did the united states have one of the finest education systems in the world?
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
I suppose it depends on how you interpret the 2nd and 4th, but prisoners certainly can’t bear arms or refuse arbitrary searches. Similarly they lack the right to freely assemble.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
Sometimes a family member such as a grandparent, sometimes a company who the parents of the child pay to look after the child. Businesses which provide this service are called "daycare" in the US.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
It’s slightly ironic that were even having this conversation because the Chinese government is a (for all but a few) safe topic for Americans to criticize. There is no shortage of companies within the United States were criticizing say, Chr
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
Might be cheaper to surround it with a colossal chain link dome, if money is no object.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, does that extend to things like chemical or biological weapons? I suppose such an interpretation would have the side effect of making literally any hazardous substance legal to possess.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
A very interesting read, clearly concentrating the elderly poor in this fashion was not intended, but I imagine now that they are concentrated it will be quite hard to resolve as the lack of services must make the area very unattractive to
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
My org is still writing new code in perl5. The degree to which it's unappealing is, in my opinion, greatly overstated.
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by Coffeewine 7y ago
From the article: Photography is not just a system of calibrating light, but a technology of subjective decisions. Light skin became the chemical baseline for film technology, fulfilling the needs of its target dominant market. For example,
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
The list was an interesting read, but I don't think anyone should really take it terribly seriously. It's 50 companies from a billion different industries vaguely ranked against each other.
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
Dumb question - is the supposition then that HTTPS is completely broken as well? Or is it merely that the NSA will be able to see who tor users are talking to, if not what they say?
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
The article concludes with a succinct TL;DR, but it's worth a read if you're at all interested. So, ray tracing. It’s a rendering technique that has been around for over 45 years. It’s nothing new. Finally seeing the benefits of
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
I've been using Dancer/Plack for a number of years now, are there any particular features of Mojolicious which make it preferable to your mind?
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
That backblaze report is absolutely fascinating! I'm curious though what the statistics would be from a more consumer point of view, with regards to quantity of use, operational temperature and so forth. I imagine most consumer drives
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by Coffeewine 8y ago
> “I decided to decline treatment because I can’t really afford any surprise bills right now,” she said. “The bill I’d probably incur would not be worth saving my ear, which was sad but a choice I had to make.” She felt that losing her e
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by Coffeewine 9y ago
AMD's cross-licensing agreements are unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your point of view, nontransferable. https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clar...
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by Coffeewine 9y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/17/business/martha-stewart-s-... > for lying to federal investigators about a stock sale that she called ''a small personal matter.''
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by Coffeewine 9y ago
The plot of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Plus !
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by Coffeewine 10y ago
I agree completely, it's still impressive to me that they presumably managed a competitive offering with such a system. I imagine having it be a highly homogeneous design also helped.
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by Coffeewine 10y ago
This is fascinating: The Epiphany-V was designed using a completely automated flow to translate Verilog RTL source code to a tapeout ready GDS, demonstrating the feasibility of a 16nm “silicon compiler”. The amount of open source code in th
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by Coffeewine 10y ago
Has anyone gotten it to accept a webp image as input? It threw 'Error while processing this file' for the ~10 files I attempted with. They were all created with cwebp and the photo preset. I was, of course, quite curious if it cou
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by Coffeewine 11y ago
Do they say anywhere what mining scheme they're considering? It seems a weakness of this scheme would be the distribution of points. If they have a scaling difficulty similar to bitcoin, it seems possible that early adopters could wind

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