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by Flankk 4y ago
Ah, the late nights hacking on a 386 in QBasic. Life would have gone down a different path without that dusty clicking and blinking thing. I guess we're getting old. Now the damned things are trying to write their own code.
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by Flankk 4y ago
> The U.S. produces as much as 160,000 cubic feet (4,530 cubic meters) of radioactive material from its nuclear power plants annually. [1] > The Energy Department has a backlog of nuclear waste clean up responsibilities, with material
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by Flankk 4y ago
Nuclear power plants create large amounts of waste that remain radioactive for thousands of years. In the United States, most nuclear waste is stored on site at the plant. This is because there is simply nowhere else to put it. Uranium is a
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by Flankk 4y ago
I agree completely. Taking more but giving the same in return. What companies lose is brand loyalty. Startups want to be Apple but plan for sprints instead of a marathon. Spotify and Netflix work as a subscription model because the model pr
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by Flankk 4y ago
Journalists have been doing this the last few years without using a disclaimer. Personally, I think it's completely different as film and music is art. If this was done with music it would be especially damaging. Imagine your favouri
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by Flankk 4y ago
Probably because most of the backend developers are former frontend developers that are sick of JS.
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by Flankk 4y ago
So they're still here, and they're brain dead.
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by Flankk 4y ago
Where is the "trust science" crowd when stuff like this goes down. It's strangely quiet in here. Shouldn't they be here telling us how this is a mistake because the editorial and peer review process prevents this? Someth
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by Flankk 4y ago
The perverse incentives still exist outside of capitalism. People, including scientists, do not like to admit when they are wrong. There is no incentive to retract a study. Bribery and corruption are not a trait of any particular economic s
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by Flankk 4y ago
The 95.3% efficacy for Pfizer and 94.1% efficacy for Moderna are based on early studies. This is incredibly old news. We've since learned that the efficacy wanes over time. This was first evidenced by increasing case counts with Delta
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by Flankk 4y ago
Only a fool would trust statistics. Confidence is proportional to the p-value. False positives are very common. The author acknowledged that the results are not significant.
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by Flankk 4y ago
That scatterplot of random data with a clean line through it is practically art. Statisticians will draw a line through a plot of noise and infer that the slope shows correlation. The race war thing was a conservative meme for a time. There
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by Flankk 4y ago
Company, not individual. There is a list on Wikipedia but it shows 34 games, not over 50. It's a shovelware factory. They farmed the work out to employees and contractors. I think they got lucky, they were on the verge of bankruptcy. N
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by Flankk 4y ago
> A person who chases two rabbits catches neither. -Confucius. A low success rate is not a sign you're doing things right. If you're solving a real problem people will not have an issue paying you. There is a real opportunity c
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by Flankk 4y ago
I know the difference, I'm an engineer. I assumed you were talking about recording since quite obviously you can get a bit-perfect signal from the digital side. It's maybe not so obvious going the other way. There is a persistent
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by Flankk 4y ago
The Salt Fix outlines how restricting sodium intake causes kidney issues and disturbs insulin response. It is causing iodine deficiency as well, which leads to thyroid problems. The author suggests HFCS and white sugar caused the obesity
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by Flankk 4y ago
A DAC is a sampler that sends digital audio to your computer. ASIO bypasses the operating system audio driver. The signal chain is that simple. I'm not sure what you mean.
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by Flankk 4y ago
It's actually incoherent. The author concludes that we need to move away from fossil fuels as a species. So AC is fine then, yeah? Or is the plan to give ourselves heat stroke until we figure out sustainable energy? Why is my higher st
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by Flankk 4y ago
You have missed the point. Scientists were the ones making it black and white. The consensus was the sun was bad for your health. They said stay out of the sun and supplement with vitamin D. As for salt, scientists got that wrong as well. R
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by Flankk 4y ago
That's the first I've heard that solar radiation protects against cancer. That's enough evidence for me to stop supplementing vitamin D and go outside. Next time hesitate before telling us the thing responsible for life on ea
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by Flankk 4y ago
It's inconceivable, looking at it gives me a feeling of derealization. God doesn't begin to explain it. We're some primates on a speck of dust why all of this then? To me it looks like a hall of mirrors. It's like lookin
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by Flankk 4y ago
Eagles and hawks eat the squirrels. I'm talking about predators.
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by Flankk 4y ago
Scientists artificially select invasive squirrels who are suspicious of devices that look like a trap creating an out of control wave of super squirrels. Also, they better be certain this doesn't affect species like eagles and hawks th
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by Flankk 4y ago
> We want to do the right thing by our employees. [...] And it’s really unclear what the right thing is. [...] We do have office space and we have welcomed people back to the office, but not many have been coming in. It took me a while b
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by Flankk 4y ago
14 G's! That would knock you out. There's no way it was that high. I looked it up and it says they tested it on chimpanzees. I'm sure the monkeys were absolutely thrilled.
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by Flankk 4y ago
Tony Stark from the comic books was based on Howard Hughes. When they developed the character for film, they used Elon Musk as inspiration for the character. So you have it backwards, Elon was even in Iron Man 2. Most of his PR stunts make
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by Flankk 4y ago
Tesla computer vision is done using neural networks. The tech has migrated to make driving decisions using neural nets as well. The code is basically just an artifact used to create a digital mind. However, it's possible that digital m
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by Flankk 4y ago
You can't have both? Have clear pricing with a variable enterprise discount. Big companies appreciate transparency too.
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by Flankk 4y ago
Call for pricing is usually B2B. Best case they want a salesperson to twist your arm, worst case the price is as much as they can squeeze out of you. If you ask why they waste people's time like this they'll say they're actua
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by Flankk 4y ago
Yes, I have this problem. I listen to electronic music when I code. It usually helps me focus. That is, until some vocalist fades in the mix rambling some inane crap I am forced to divert my attention to. It's like any other interrupti

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