RobLach

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541.
by RobLach 9y ago
Ah so this is more of a kinetic sculpture than a timekeeping device.
542.
by RobLach 9y ago
Is that actually clear? New York has a much higher percentage of homeless people per square mile yet it doesn’t feel as problematic because more of them are sheltered. According to HUD ~88% of SF’s homeless population is unsheltered whole
543.
by RobLach 9y ago
You can explicitly budget in a surplus target.
544.
by RobLach 9y ago
I personally feel that taxation shouldn't even be that debatable in the legislature. How it should be is just covering the cost of a moving-average window for the previous x amount of years of spending mapping according to a integratio
545.
by RobLach 9y ago
Every day I'm further convinced that all that's happening in this space at the moment is that cryptocurrencies are soaking up enough fiat money to push it at someone to come up with a good reason for them to exist.
546.
by RobLach 9y ago
> is this even decentralized? not in the least
547.
by RobLach 9y ago
I'm just speculating about the economics here, and it kinda sounds like a high-school daydream solution, but I feel like you could artillery an area with some munitions filled with seeds and just rely on the natural rate of survival gi
548.
by RobLach 9y ago
How I'm understanding this is (as you also pointed out): The wallet address you pass in, as well as the default, is never read anywhere. It starts a service that joins a mining pool on the OP's behalf rewarding the hardcoded addre
549.
by RobLach 9y ago
Ah that makes sense. My last exposure to this space was IBM Power stuff and we were calling them sibling threads or side threads.
550.
by RobLach 9y ago
The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features. The second (STIBP) protects a hyperthread sibling from following branch predictions which were learned on another sibling. Is this about threads in the context of SMT? I gues
551.
by RobLach 9y ago
This interface is incredibly hard for me to use. I'm having to do a lot of scrollbar fighting and I can't figure out how to see the nodes beyond the edge of the frame.
552.
by RobLach 9y ago
Visa could easily declare all transactions irreversible and close down their call centers if it made any economic sense to.
553.
by RobLach 9y ago
These are some good deals. That $200 C2034 "Modern Home" kit is just under $5000 adjusted for inflation which includes a kitchen, fireplace, and porch. Compare to this wooden shed I found online where the closest, slightly smaller
554.
by RobLach 9y ago
Feels like a hoax (especially given the target audience).
555.
by RobLach 9y ago
4.3k people never hearing about using no framework for the frontend gave me a good laugh particularly re: the state of javascript.
556.
by RobLach 9y ago
"Ubisoft has also implemented VMProtect, a piece of software that protects code by executing it on a virtual machine with non-standard architecture [...] tanking the game's performance by 30-40 per cent" This feels so extreme
557.
by RobLach 9y ago
This methodology is barely science.
558.
by RobLach 9y ago
It's a shame that when I see "Wikileaks reveals CIA" I'm thinking "Hmm, I wonder what's happening today RE Russia" instead of being concerned with the actual release.
559.
by RobLach 9y ago
Just want to point out that a megacorp breeding and releasing a sterilization disease is pretty sci-fi. Also a mutation away from a Children of Men style dystopia.
560.
by RobLach 9y ago
If the claim that higher supply doesn't lower prices is accurate, and if we assume that higher density means a higher efficiency regarding city services (which has been historically true), then increasing supply seems like an obvious m
561.
by RobLach 9y ago
The techcrunch article says that but the Jefferies analyis mentions them in the notes for those charts saying they're compareable to Amazon.
562.
by RobLach 9y ago
As I understand it IBM now pulls in a team of domain experts to help tune their algs and even markets this as an advantage over their competitors. That makes the MD Anderson case more interesting as it mostly means that MD Anderson spent $6
563.
by RobLach 9y ago
I'm still wondering why external drives are cheaper than internal ones. It seems silly that if I wanted to buy an 8TB drive for my desktop I should buy an external and toss the enclosure. My only guess is market pressure because of hig
564.
by RobLach 9y ago
I'd probably quit my second night-shift job since now I can afford rent for my studio apartment with just one.
565.
by RobLach 10y ago
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. A stoic tenet plus it grounds everyone once you realize not even the power and wealth of a Roman emperor is enough to escape certain realities and you need to re-adjust your definition of success.
566.
by RobLach 10y ago
Probably because they're not just working hard enough amirite?
567.
by RobLach 10y ago
Cool. I like the philosophy behind it. Hate having to type "->" which seems to popping up all over the place. :P
568.
by RobLach 10y ago
That's quite daft. The scales are systemically imbalanced: consider punching up rather than punching down.
569.
by RobLach 10y ago
Not to get too high-minded here but the most fundamental question of everyday life: "why live at all?" is greatly dependent on completely understanding the what we currently consider outermost fringes of physics. Free Will in a de
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by RobLach 11y ago
Alpha channels in H.26x (really any delivery codec) are a nightmare compared to APNG/GIF.

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