RickHull

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by RickHull 4y ago
> It also removed any desire in them to go fast on the street and do stupid things with cars. This is one of the most important principles, akin to running away from a fight given martial arts training.
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by RickHull 4y ago
I hoped to preclude this type of response with this: > There is nothing an abacus does better than a calculator, but I don't begrudge abacus aficionados, and abacus mastery is quite impressive. Cheers!
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by RickHull 4y ago
Clutch engagement via pedal is nowhere near instant, and the dual clutch gearboxes (computer controlled) are faster. Feathering the clutch is mostly useless in everyday driving and performance driving. Likewise, dropping from 6th to 1st.
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by RickHull 4y ago
Sweet fact check!
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by RickHull 4y ago
> The whole "advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to xyz" has always felt contrived to me, like, I can use Gmail to receive all sorts of wrongthink and I'll still see ads on it Good point, but... The advert
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by RickHull 4y ago
This reads to me as a power user (and thus influencer) totally disenchanted with the product, yet the product manager is most assuredly hitting his KPIs. Net result for Apple in 1-3-5-10 years: ?
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by RickHull 4y ago
You're not gonna need it I'm not gonna need it You aren't gonna need it I amn't gonna need it You ain't gonna need it I ain't gonna need it
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by RickHull 4y ago
What is the value in buying a lottery ticket? The expected value of the ticket itself is negative, relative to its purchase price. So the buyer gets additional value from the "little thrill" of the purchase and observing the res
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by RickHull 4y ago
My million dollar idea is that I take my keyboard with me. My preferred layout, keycaps, switches, etc. Inside is something like a Ryzen APU, upgradeable / swappable, with an internal battery. It has display outputs and can easily b
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by RickHull 4y ago
I'm guessing "egregious"
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by RickHull 4y ago
https://htmx.org/
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by RickHull 4y ago
Check out https://github.com/rickhull/conway_deathmatch for a simple ruby implementation. Also there is an elixir branch...
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by RickHull 4y ago
Very tangentially related, though with AI and aliens, if you haven't read Blindsight by Peter Watts, you owe it to yourself to check it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
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by RickHull 4y ago
Wow, how many criminal crooks have you personally dealt with? How much anecdata are we talking?
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by RickHull 4y ago
They should call it The Hider
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by RickHull 4y ago
Yes, Coinbase has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders that does not exist for customers.
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by RickHull 4y ago
Your hosts love that
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by RickHull 4y ago
Oh yeah, I remember this guy! We need more people like this writing critically about technology and hardware.
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by RickHull 4y ago
https://www.oilshell.org/
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by RickHull 5y ago
Capitalism's inherent human alignment: Every final (non-waste) output of a capitalist system is intended for human consumption. Compost, pet food, sheet metal, etc are all intended to satisfy human preferences. Price signals ensure t
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by RickHull 5y ago
Who exactly do you have in mind, that is a big proponent of capitalism yet is unaware of its nature? Most X-risk theorists I'm familiar with are relatively unconcerned with capitalism, as its notions of profit and wealth are inherentl
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by RickHull 5y ago
Maybe something from the parent corp? https://neutralcorporation.com/
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by RickHull 5y ago
> A lot of it is just straight-up fraud. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has documented this in some detail. Alexandros Marinos provides a counterpoint [1] > Reading the article, I was surprised (but not really) by the central role Gideon Meye
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by RickHull 5y ago
I think what people mean by corporate media is media which serves corporate interests. As in, fluffing up Big Tech or Big Oil or Big Pharma. Any media organization with employees is necessarily a corporation, right? So by your defini
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by RickHull 5y ago
> The City of London is a byword for the businesses that operate there. Great example of synecdoche (rhymes with Schenectady)
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by RickHull 5y ago
The resignation letter says there was a hostile takeover and bad faith actions by the new owner. Most of the staff has resigned in protest. Thus, the reputation that freenode built is likely not any indication for how it will perform and
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by RickHull 5y ago
For those interested, I wrote a similar library for Ruby: https://github.com/rickhull/device_input
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by RickHull 6y ago
The VR6 from VW was introduced in 1991. I'm sure you can point to lineage with earlier designs, but it's a unique design. The Freevalve design from Koenigsegg also comes to mind.
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by RickHull 6y ago
If it's a DC-8 then we're really in trouble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
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by RickHull 6y ago
Note, this is from the creator of Ruby's Rack https://github.com/rack/rack

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