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by D13Fd 1y ago
A proof-of-work system intentionally wastes energy as a means of doing a distributed spreadsheet. That's it. When you use scale that spreadsheet to track currency, a proof-of-work system wastes massive amounts of energy, by design, all
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by D13Fd 1y ago
The reality is, if crypto requires a proof of work system that burns energy for nothing, it’s not a system we as a society should be using.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
With proof-of-work, we as a society are doing insane things like burning large amounts of fossil fuels on a warming planet just to ensure people don’t cheat at various distributed spreadsheets. Even if you don’t participate in crypto, those
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by D13Fd 1y ago
I have this. It’s pretty uncommon for me but happens every once in a while. I have heard it’s no big deal. My imagined explanation is that it is a muscle that spasms and temporarily blocks sound to the ear, but actually I have no idea.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
Same. I've never been a huge StackOverflow user, but it is so irritating to search and find your exact question on StackOverflow, often as the top result, only to see that it was instantly shut down two years ago as a duplicate of so
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by D13Fd 1y ago
> But yeah, as far as Starfield goes, I heard how barren everything was and decided I should just wait until maybe they make it better in a few years. That’s the right call IMO. As a huge Bethesda fan, it was a massive let down. Honestly
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by D13Fd 1y ago
That makes sense. I too use Obsidian for just about all of my notes (and nvAlt before that -- my Obsidian notes archive dates back over thirteen years). I think the key difference is that I don't use the Git CLI on a daily basis, so d
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by D13Fd 1y ago
Honestly this sounds a bit cumbersome. I built my blog years ago using Puput ( https://github.com/APSL/puput ) and Render, and it has been running strong with minimal maintenance since then, with hundreds of posts. The s
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by D13Fd 2y ago
This looks nice but the “custom everything” approach sounds awful. Over time one of the custom software components will break and the amount of time you spend fixing it will likely ultimately outweigh the benefit of the calendar in the firs
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by D13Fd 2y ago
It just filters out crap.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
I feel bad mentioning Kagi so much. But it’s a better product and I also want other people to use it so that it sticks around. Honestly it was odd to read an article about leaving Google search as if it was a momentous thing. $10/month
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> I don't have children so I am not sure why I should have to pay any tax what-so-ever for your child to receive a poor education. Because it’s a shared societal good, like government, roads, policing, defense, energy infrastructure
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by D13Fd 2y ago
Why not just go for the MBA instead of the MBP? The MBA is lightning fast and can have 32 gb RAM. It seems like exactly what you want - a touch lighter (.7 lbs lighter!) and smaller but still crazy good.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
The MBA (MacBook Air) easily beats the MBP in my opinion. 32GB ram, M4 CPU really is enough for the vast vast majority of tasks. I use mine to process video and 40 megapixel RAW images, and it flies. And the portability is significantly bet
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by D13Fd 2y ago
This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the article.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
Yeah I used to do 2-4 2-liters per day before I gave it up around 12 years ago. I’m hoping that, to the extent it does damage, the effect stops when you stop drinking it.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> The constitutional remedy for abuse of pardon power is impeachment. It is not. The constitution allows impeachment for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors only.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
The problem is that, through the pardon power combined with immunity from prosecution, the president can shield the entire executive branch from any obligation to execute on the laws that congress writes. It effectively neuters congress and
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> I give it 50/50 they do that. Do they even need to, though? If the president cannot be prosecuted for any official acts, and has the power to pardon any subordinate for ignoring the law, and to fire (and then prosecute) anyone who
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by D13Fd 2y ago
It’s not clear what good the midterms can do. It appears likely that the Supreme Court will hold that the president has the power to make these cuts regardless of any laws passed by congress. And even if he didn’t have that power already, h
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> Soft power sounds like manipulation to me. So if we destroyed our manipulation, great. Wow. So hard power -- literally killing others -- is OK, but "manipulating" them is not? The fact is, power is power, "soft" or
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by D13Fd 2y ago
Now they don’t face the same resource and compatibility limitations they did then.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> (10^100) + 1 − (10^100) is 0, not 1. I came to ask about this. I was confused for the whole article about how this could possibly be 1.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
> holy crap that’s a lot of metal shavings.. like multiple 55gal trash cans’ worth I don’t think so. A 55gal Tran can full of metal shavings is probably several hundred lbs. 2 dozen kilograms is only about 53lbs.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
There still is no replacement for Google Reader. The difference is that there was a community around Reader’s social features. That only really works with wide adoption, and it’s a lot easier for people to adopt a Google product than a rand
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by D13Fd 2y ago
Well it's that or they go unemployed.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
If it’s not legal, who will enforce the law? The courts more or less can’t do it on their own (I.e. without the DOJ). And if the law gets enforced, won’t the president just pardon Musk?
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by D13Fd 2y ago
I typically test around 90-100wpm.
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by D13Fd 2y ago
There is essentially no relation to taxes. Everything they are cutting falls into the “Other” category in this chart: https://www.crews.bank/charts/taxes-and-spending Even if they cut 100% of government functions other
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by D13Fd 2y ago
They were elected on a mandate to burn it all down, in their view, and this is what that looks like.

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