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by Jedd 3y ago
A foot is a (variable) measure of length. A board foot is a measure of volume - with an implicit third dimension. So you could just use the SI unit for volume. A board foot ~= 2.4 litres. This seems a bit silly though, as timber is not fung
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by Jedd 3y ago
> They provided something no one else did. Is that true? Perhaps Wework did / does some unique things I'm unaware of. As per [0] - co-working spaces started ~25 years ago, and by the time WeWork was founded (2010) there were a
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Its really impossible to go back in history, at all. That sounds quite defeatist. I expect that linguistic, archaeological, logistical, genetic, and probably a few other vectors, can lead us to at least a sequence (causation) view of
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Marsh believes he has found a way out of this dilemma with a patent-pending “secret sauce” he declines to discuss in detail, ... Presumably this is not a solution that has already been applied (unsuccessfully) to the technology in th
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Astonishingly, less than 1% of these NFTs boast a price tag of over $6,000 ... There's some inverted math comparisons in here, but I gather author is astonished that so few are high-valued. I would have thought that by now the rat
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Please, don't recommend Debian Testing to unsuspecting people. Was parent unsuspecting? They said they wanted 'more frequent updates even at the cost of a little stability'. They sound like they're very much in the
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by Jedd 3y ago
I use Debian, so I have no idea how main distros of ubuntu/fedora/opensuse work, or what versions of things they offer, and how that might compare to Debian testing. The nice thing is, though, all that information is freely avai
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by Jedd 3y ago
> The main problem with Debian is outdated software. I'm a Debian user. I see this a lot. Often in contrast with Ubuntu. Yet Debian's cycle is roughly on par with Ubuntu's LTS - every ~2 years.[0] Perhaps they mean there
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by Jedd 3y ago
> All computing up to the point of its [Apple Mac] introduction, at least from the "shell" standpoint of launching programs and managing files, was done exclusively through typing commands at the computer; you effectively had t
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by Jedd 3y ago
It relocated wealth, but it did not create it. There are lots of industries that are lucrative , but there's clearly no linear correlation to quality or societal benefit.
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by Jedd 3y ago
Yeah, okay, all fair points. I was sensitive to that matrix - despite not being au fait with all the nuances of the permission model in Android - likely being architected to look sinister by possibly cherry-picking the perms to highlight.
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by Jedd 3y ago
I haven't worked on smartphone apps. But I'm looking at the matrix in TFA and the highlighted section for permissions -'lines 1, 4, 10, 15' - which are unique to this app, and wondering why an app that does what TEMU pur
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by Jedd 3y ago
> This has literally been every startup in SV for the last 15 years That is literally not true. > But I stand by my previous statement that literally nothing in this article is actual evidence I read the article. Some hand-wavey bits,
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Continent-scale micro-pumped hydro energy storage using agricultural reservoirs(sciencedirect.com)
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by Jedd 3y ago
This feels messier, partly because it's easier to fudge accidentally, but very much mostly because it relies on your configuration being propagated. I understand that may work in some shops, but generally it can't be assumed. ctrl
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by Jedd 3y ago
Hardcore vim users use ctrl-[ instead. : ) Despite being two keypresses, this is usually faster to type, or at the least to return to home position from, and those keys are probably more consistently placed than the ESC key between vendor
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by Jedd 3y ago
That seems like an incredibly easy resolution, and one wonders why it wasn't part of the functional spec up front. Weirdly, and I hope this was paraphrased poorly, TFA includes: "Driving instructors are calling for a ban on excess
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by Jedd 3y ago
> which are conveniently given in knots (so nautical miles per hour)). Yes. We may be misunderstanding each other. It's convenient to have nautical miles per hour if you're using a base unit of nautical miles, and your map grid
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by Jedd 3y ago
I didn't say 'in one's head', merely used the same phrasing as nmilo. If you're using a plotter, then actual length is presumably irrelevant - any unit would do, yes? I was not asserting that nautical miles don&#x2
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Government needs to step in and investors need to write it as a total loss. Ahh yes, the ol' "privatise the profits, socialise the losses" approach to big finance failures.
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by Jedd 3y ago
I think you may have missed my point. The actual length of a nautical mile only makes sense because we have this weird way of measuring earth (based on how we measure circles). NM's were obviously defined using that weird numbering sys
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by Jedd 3y ago
> I wish that all miles were nautical miles because they have a real meaning. Could you define 'real' here please? This feels like one of those 'customary is better because you can't divide 10 by 3 using only integers
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by Jedd 3y ago
Yeah, lots of questionable assertions made there by author and/or interviewees, eg: > “I don’t think anybody contests that free-living bees have a better, easier life,” This feels wrong - supplemental feed, internal space that grows
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by Jedd 3y ago
Whilst not as effective as an alcohol wash, a sugar shake will show you some number of varroa, without killing (m)any bees. At the very least it'll show you if you've got lots of mites in your hive, but might report a false nega
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by Jedd 3y ago
I agree with the thrust of your arguments around fusion, though I would disagree on some of the conspiracy theory implications. Your pessimism may turn out to be well placed, but with the piddling amount of investment thrown into the subjec
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by Jedd 3y ago
If someone rang me and asked a question like 'am I in favour of throwing vast sums of money towards research and build of nuclear power plants?', it'd be a resounding yes with a strict qualification of 'fusion, not fissi
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by Jedd 3y ago
Yup, over winter (just at the end of that here, now) we've been continuing to clear a larger break around the abodes, a few very large bonfires over the past couple of months, but ultimately if a fire is heading towards us we're m
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by Jedd 3y ago
In Australia, once you get outside urban zones, I think the default building guidelines are no flammable materials on the outside of your house. That includes wood verandahs, posts, balustrades, through to aluminium rather than plastic-bas
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by Jedd 3y ago
Seemingly the president (a weird title, but okay) of that university brings in about US$750k / year - and is also noteworthy for being one of the highest paid public university presidents for some time[1] - netting US$6m for 2013 from
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Tailscale isn't really "open source" ... As you would have read a few paragraphs further on in TFA they describe the situation with much more clarity: "Tailscale uses the open source WireGuard protocol, and its clie

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