RobLach

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by RobLach 5y ago
Even on TikTok American culture dominantly permeates worldwide. Chinese TikTok is a bit more moated.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Sure you can blame spotify but generally personality based entertainment goes in and out of vogue quite quickly.
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by RobLach 5y ago
I can generate a CSV that can be read in excel, etc.. extremely easily in a terminal. Just yesterday I was trying to add some metadata to a list of images that I handed off to a designer and I just piped a single "find . -fprintf"
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by RobLach 5y ago
Lasers and microwaves both would work. This paper from 30 years ago shows 50%+ efficiency with microwaves. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ITMTT..40.1239B/abstra...
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by RobLach 5y ago
Also 63% higher than 1932. Cherry picked statistical comparison.
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by RobLach 5y ago
If it weren't for linux I don't think git would have gotten much traction. Much of the inertia git overcame was because it was pulled alongside linux.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Surprisingly inexpensive.
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by RobLach 5y ago
What kind of applications of blockchains are there that a databased ledger wouldn't work for in a mainframe oriented system? You already have access controls restricting to trusted parties. Slapping a blockchain on top would just be ad
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by RobLach 5y ago
Standard practice is to use a signed decimal number with an appropriate precision that you scale around.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Physical sport competition shouldn’t be separated by n number of genders, but by weight class.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Do you have a justification for implying that adolescent depression stems from the lack of abuse? I'd point to half a dozen potential other reasons that immediately spring to mind. And, to answer your first 2 questions: yes.
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by RobLach 5y ago
"When I was your age I got whooped all the time and I came out alright" says the parent who did not come out alright, left with an internalized belief that abusing children is totally fine.
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by RobLach 5y ago
It looks more fun to use.
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A lot of this bill is R&D and infrastructure which has historically generally paid back a multiple of the original investment.
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by RobLach 5y ago
The original $100B to the NSF mission was dropped to $29B with a bunch of other things tacked on. I've also been searching for a breakdown of how the $250B is divided up but flipping through the legislative text it looks like another $
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by RobLach 5y ago
The Endless Frontier Act (EFA) is one of the most important legislative proposals you’ve never heard of — or at least it was. First introduced last year by Senators Chuck Schumer and Todd Young, the bill would have established a new Techno
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by RobLach 5y ago
As opposed to storing it?
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by RobLach 5y ago
That’s how the current carbon offset credit system works.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Ridiculous. China currently owns the main Bitcoin blockchain.
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by RobLach 5y ago
What's the argument? There are plenty of monetization approaches beyond subscriptions. FB rev/yr $90b LinkedIn rev/yr $9b
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by RobLach 5y ago
Note: Discord has 14x more active users than Slack. Discord has a technology and feature superset over Slack. The Discord audience is becoming the professional audience just about right now.
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by RobLach 5y ago
Why would they be "taken back"? If the the majority of the network agrees on the the new fork who is to say that isn't the de facto "real" fork?
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by RobLach 5y ago
That's all still in the "research" phase.
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by RobLach 6y ago
Foolishly presumptuous that the emergent culture from these interactive spaces isn’t an amazing realization of intellectual potential instead of a dismissive “waste of time”. I suppose it’s difficult to step back and analyze things beyond t
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by RobLach 6y ago
Heads up; this article is only a thoughtful proposal for good style, not a proven "optimal" style as I initially believed.
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I’m unsure if there’s any evidence to support this claim.
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by RobLach 6y ago
Some projector manufacturers are shifting a 4K DMD around 4 times to increase the refresh rate of a 1080P image 4x.
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by RobLach 6y ago
The mere fact that you did not need to scan the entire db means the data was not securely encrypted in the first place.
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by RobLach 6y ago
Compass's business model is taking VC cash to pay above market rate for realtor labor in an attempt to capture market share purely through more "boots on the ground". Whether this approach has any long-term value for sharehol
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by RobLach 6y ago
What's the technology?

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