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by Paperweight 7y ago
I wish there was a "continually improved" model of car where they gradually tweak every part that fails over time, instead of just throwing it all out with an "all new redesigned" model every 10 years (with all fresh wea
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Both eBay and Amazon have abandoned their own core business models and are trying to become second-rate clones of Alibaba. The snag is that they aren't headquartered in mainland China.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
I looked at Costco's financials a few years ago and their total annual profit is (was?) approximately equal to their total annual income from membership fees.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Good for sorting hashes.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
US CAFE standards are well-known to have resulted in the switch from station wagons to minivans and SUVs, resulting in a great overall increase in emissions than what would have otherwise occurred. The new (2020/2021) European regulati
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by Paperweight 7y ago
What about the perverse regulations that punitively tax and restrict the production of smaller cars, because they use more fuel per unit weight?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
I wonder if mainstream CPUs will ever get back to being truly programmable with software instructions, instead of running off and speculating on what you might do next.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Started-up with principles. Got big. Reverted to the beancounter corporate mean. Now charging what the market will bear. Opportunity now open for new startup with principles. Rinse and repeat.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Interesting. The cannons would be so loud that, if they're at 0db, the rest of the orchestra would be waaay down there without substantial dynamic range compression. You'd have to crank the amplifier waaay up to listen to the orch
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by Paperweight 7y ago
That's actually amazing music, though will blow your speakers at 1% volume ;)
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by Paperweight 7y ago
http://dr.loudness-war.info/
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Unikernels will be all the rage
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by Paperweight 7y ago
This is why they're orbiting at a safe distance and waiting to see what we do when we discover antimatter bombs for ourselves.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Googled it in the morning and got this: http://runtimejs.org/ Also a big collection of info on unikernels: https://github.com/cetic/unikernels
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by Paperweight 7y ago
It would be interesting to run a NodeJS clone or QuickJS ( https://bellard.org/quickjs/ ) on/with this.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
This comment will get downvoted but, dude, you are a GOD tier programmer. How?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Meanwhile in Corporatist America you are not allowed to fix your own tractor due to software copyright laws...
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Yeah... their website is full of broken links and there doesn't seem to be anything published about this in the last SEVEN years since the initial recall. Edit: A 2017 "SDS" is lost in the source code of their website and it
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by Paperweight 7y ago
So I take it the defense lawyer dismissed the MD offhand, but on your turn, the DA broke out into a sweat and dismissed you?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Ultrasonic cleaners, man!
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by Paperweight 7y ago
What was it like? I see on his Wikipedia page that he's made a lot of discrete cellular automata over the years, but Logo seems more...analog and continuous?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
So you gotta log into your registrar and copy paste your IPv6 address and wait god knows how long for it to propagate...
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by Paperweight 7y ago
I wonder what would happen if you combined this with a Game of Life type algorithm?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
...yeah there's no way the creatives we're talking about are gonna use that. There must _not_ be any command line or scripting involved for most of the population to be able to use it. But why reinvent the wheel? I think that the
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Visualization of NPM's 411 Dependencies(npm.anvaka.com)
2 points by Paperweight 7y ago|0 comments
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Kind of, but to be safe you have to change 12 preferences from the defaults, IMO. New Document: Format: Plain Text (select) Options: Check spelling as you type (disable) Correct spelling automatically (disable
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Programatically invoking the "Save As" dialog seems troublesome. Maybe there could be a signed WebExtension blob in the file, too - or it should download the latest updated library script every time the file is opened (although th
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Cool! Just by putting "0." in front of your version number, you're magically not liable anymore!
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS). It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functio
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by Paperweight 7y ago
The philosophy is to regulate unhandled economic externalities.

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