Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
We can easily produce a surplus of all the beer we need. We have to tax it to limit consumption. We have a surplus of labour. That is the problem. We need some people to work, but we really don't need everyone to. If you need proof loo
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I have a Bill Cosby quote that I attribute to Dr Huxtable. It is sufficient citation, old heads will know but don't react, and new heads will just nod and not get triggered.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The more bondage your language has the more information your compiler to make optimisations.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Nintendo Game Builder Garage for the Nintendo Switch will get him started. https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/products/game-builder-g... The app has tutorials and built in games to get him to work up to mak
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
(it was the best kind of correct: technically correct)
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> But I don't think I've ever seen any other community (except C++, 20 years ago, perhaps?) being so vocal about wanting to rewrite the whole software ecosystem in their language. cough NodeJS cough
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Weathering is marginal as the Chernobyl photos are proof of. Car drivers don't pay for the damage that 18-wheelers do to the roads in any different way than bike drivers.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
You would only need to build it once and not resurface and pave it every 5-10 years. So yes we'd still need people to pay for roads. But for the current roads we already paid for, the average car is apparently around 4100 lbs whereas t
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Because the wear and tear of a bicycle on a road is anywhere near that of a car? Roads would last forever if they only had bicycles on them. A study by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) determined that the road damage caused by a sin
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Scrum is basically a set of necessary but not sufficient processes. I was sceptical about it, took the course, and aced the test. Scrum itself is like the rules for holding a good meeting. It's good common sense advice that I don'
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
How about... fast charging a dozen business laptops? A charging station at a conference or a convention or a media event. Other things charge over USB such as cameras and various other sensors. I could see it being used in remote outputs th
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
https://turingcomplete.game/blog Last blog update was March 2022 so it doesn’t look too lively.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I think the word "exposed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there for purists to quibble about... ...but to me that's more than fine.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Tangent on CollapseOS/DuskOS because this is the first time I've encountered this and it is very much up by alley: --- Being that it is for a post-Collapse world would be nice to see it ported to run on RISC-V (not trolling) becau
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Seriously? If I take a shit, it's more than 5 minutes itself. Waiting in line to buy coffee or a donut, let alone eat (I guess if you are in a real hurry eat in your car, but don't you want a break???). Just doing a lap of the par
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
...for a worm.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Remember that companies/corporations predate stock exchanges. While not definitive, ChatGPT says that: > The idea of organizing a group of people to work towards a common goal for profit or mutual benefit has evolved over cent
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> So I can see the logic in treating the inputs to the AI training data sets the same way we treat humans learning something. If we don't take this approach then there will be a series of very lame legal loop-holes with putting me
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
This is why taxes are important. They are the socialisation of profit. People should be able to take a risk... but they should also payback the institutions that facilitated that risk.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Real EPUBs can crash Kobos and you need to specifically reformat them with a plug-in in Calbre. It may be a recent update that broke it, since I used to have less problems.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Glad to see that RISC-V is supported as a target: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_list#Supported_targets_...
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> The 8 billion is for a specific portion in a high CoL area with the majority being land acquisition costs. This is exactly the kind of thing I was suspecting was by misleading by the original number. "America can't build affo
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I hate this kind of math because it really doesn't tell you much. What are the fixed costs? What's the maintenance? What are the costs to extend? If this is the cost now, what is the cost for the next phase? How much benefit are w
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The _data_ yes, the _database_ no. The data will get migrated to different solutions at different times. I've lost track of how often I've been porting MySQL to SQL Server, SQL Server to Postgres, Postgres to Mongo, Mongo to cloud
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> probably not with the same ORM or even the same language I mean, they shouldn't? Like you've just identified a bug: another application can access your database. If another department needs your data, they should request an e
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> unit test their own little service and call it a day without verifying the end to end functionality -- the "works in my microservice" effect. You really shouldn't have to do more if the contracts are strong-enough. If yo
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
At low speeds it looks like he could just make an aquatic landing. Auto-gyros from my understanding naturally auto-rotate on engine failure so it should it glide down non?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Crime rates have gone down, but I think it's because there is nothing worth stealing anymore. I even looked at Craig's List and found a bunch of legit used older laptops for $100. What has happened is that the only thing worth any
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Not an engineer, but what is wrong with it? It seems really on par with a lot of ultra-light experimental planes out there. It's obviously risky, but for what it is, it seems remarkably solid.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Well you could make a drone, but a lot of drones are used for hovering and an autogyro cannot hover. It's not a helicopter; it must stay moving forward eliminating alot of the current uses of drones. The anti-stall feature(?) (there

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