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by Shacklz 6y ago
For those curious when and where to look to see the ISS by eye only: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ The site is incredibly awesome and helped me see the ISS (and other satellites) quite a few times already!
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> Also, LEDs can also act as light sensors. Food for thought. As an undergrad, I had to write a 'chat-program' where two LEDs on Arduinos were used for communication; essentially blinking at each other, acting both as sender an
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by Shacklz 6y ago
While I agree that the availability of guns is definitely a problem, a lot of the videos that end up in the news show that police are often acting extremely amateur-ish and escalate situations themselves instead of trying to deescalate. Mos
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube. For following channels, I personally use Feedly and can only recommend it - it's not exactly the same but for me it comes close enough.
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Wouldn't generalize this; I think there are also factors like game performance (FPS) that are at play. I can play Beat Saber and HL:Alyx just fine on the Vive without any issues whatsoever, but whenever I want to give 'Blade &
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> but somehow, news sites have a video that plays This is so annoying, engaging in such obviously obnoxious UX patterns should be regulated and punished with fines when user-intent tries to be circumvented. The "just dont visit that
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Only if you have the "Safe Search"-Option set to "moderate" (default) or below. If you set it to strict, typescript appears as the second result for me, without porn (but still a few links that I wouldn't want to cl
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There are also advantages for the user. For example, new features arrive for all platforms at the same time; there is no prioritization of platforms or such. Same for bugs - apart from issues stemming from Electron itself, they're like
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> [..] base pay that gives you the option to live life at a minimum however you're not de-incentivized to work like in the welfare system where you have to chose between either working and losing all your welfare benefits Exactly! I
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I consider the things you mentioned basics, but YMMV. I reckon that the majority of people would like to have more in their life than that, and would be willing to work to that effect, at least I would be.
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> How does UBI differentiate itself from socialism, a welfare state and/or communism? From welfare state: By giving it unconditionally. From socialism/communism: You're still allowed to own "means of production",
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> There's no preordained pool of work that you can run out of. But this is a point the article somewhat addresses - the graph for marketing-budgets shows that pretty nicely in my opinion. At some points, its just easier to make more
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by Shacklz 6y ago
While I don't really disagree with your first part (the website really seems to be a bit in poor taste), categorizing death as a disease seems a rather strange thought. I really do hope we never have to discuss the ethical and moral (l
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> No matter how brilliant you are, many people would simply assume that you have been given the easy route thanks to daddy. Probably still easier to pretend that you come from nothing than being successful while actually coming from no
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by Shacklz 6y ago
I've played Dota for way more hours than I want to admit, and unless you're playing on the highest of levels (Immortal) where people really have a very strong feeling for the win-conditions that they have and when it becomes very
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Wild guess (I really have no idea): Because otherwise they wouldn't get the licenses for their bought content to begin with? Netflix themselves probably couldn't care less; they know that everything they offer for streaming will b
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Wholeheartedly agree and would like to point to another library that is capable of providing runtime typechecks: https://github.com/vriad/zod It doesn't come with the fp-approach that io-ts takes, and has, in my o
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Agreeing with your sentiment, but want to point out that there are free-to-play-games out there where I'd be seriously surprised if they didn't do some very serious testing; they make just too much money and put out too many new f
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> If other people are so passionate about these social problems that they are drawn to riot then where was this passion more than two weeks ago? Might be that they were busy working/worrying about corona? Busy making a living? Being
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> will involve a firearm are much higher than they are in less-well-armed societies. Does anybody know if I'm right about that? Switzerland (disclaimer; I'm Swiss) has also lots of weapons around, but if the police are ever sho
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> where the typings aren't matching up with reality. There are also libraries which provide runtime type validation, such as zod or io-ts. Can only recommend; they allow that in combination with typescript's strict mode your ty
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Yeah, you pretty much summed up all features of skype. You can chat and you can screenshare. However, I do expect a little bit more than that in 2020 to be honest - I wanna be able to paste code snippets or the like without having to fear t
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Teams has its issues, but compared to skype its amazing in my opinion. Granted, skype is a pretty low bar to compare with, but still. At my last company, Teams was introduced as a tool besides skype - and everyone was encouraged to move mee
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by Shacklz 7y ago
I never quite understood how this is not obvious to everyone. The primary driver and motivation for politicians should be altruism, do good for the sake of it. So many people in NGOs etc. are capable of doing just that; working for "th
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by Shacklz 7y ago
I actually don't think so - to me it seems that the market still has strong demand for software engineers. What I do think however is that we might start to see a shift of talent towards more "mundane, boring" jobs. Less over
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Looks really cool! We're currently using io-ts, and the one thing that bugs us the most is it's less-than-optimal error-reporting. Especially for complex/nested objects, the error messages produced are pretty much useless. Th
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> In my opinion the problem with UBI is that it would take away the necessity for people to do something to survive and it would make a significant minority of the population miserable With all due respect, but this opinion reeks of some
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> Citation needed. Here you go: "The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940", Raj Chetty et al. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/398
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by Shacklz 7y ago
I'm kind of new to Anki myself (started a couple of weeks ago) so I might be wrong, but I think you can limit the amount of cards you want to review on a per-deck-basis. The default-number is quite high (200 per day I think?). If you m
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> Voluntary redistribution through loss making startups is the comfortable alternative to wealth taxes. That's just a little bit of redistribution from the top 1% to the top 10%, at best. Tech startups and their new fancy apps aren&

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