Sileni

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by Sileni 7y ago
Part of that could also be how TV/Netflix can be in the background. I probably watch a few hours of a random Netflix show over the weekend. But I'm also doing laundry, touching up some hobby code, or just spacing out and drinking
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by Sileni 7y ago
This is a bit like saying "F1 doesn't produce useful cars", isn't it? The point of a competition is to meet specific parameters as well as possible and push the boundaries of what can be done. It's not meant to crea
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by Sileni 7y ago
I refuse to replace my NVMe for this reason alone. That screw is going to get stuck somewhere and I'm going to have to take the motherboard out completely to get it, hoping the whole time I didn't fry anything. Why. Why make a scr
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by Sileni 7y ago
In the larger scale type of manufacturing I'm working with, those small bots tend to have trade-offs that mean they're not really worth choosing over a larger, more traditional manufacturing robot, or a solution without robotics a
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by Sileni 7y ago
Two real ways to go about it, it works about the same as learning guitar for a specific genre. Either find someone competent in that play-style to tutor you, or take a beginner-intermediate class in piano. Up to that point it will conceptua
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by Sileni 7y ago
Watch out, you'll have a DJ before you know it.
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by Sileni 7y ago
Did a 2600x / Vega 56 build recently, and I'm honestly impressed with the value. Total under $1k after tax. I would have spent that before getting a GPU if I had gone Intel.
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by Sileni 7y ago
Usually 10s or so. Not a great user experience, but she mostly uses it to share recipes with friends or relatives. Once it's awake, it's pretty quick, faster than Google's App Engine free tier in my experience. If she wanted
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by Sileni 7y ago
Running my girlfriend's recipe blog on Python + Django + Wagtail CMS on a Heroku server, wired up to Google cloud storage. It ends up being completely free with the dev tier Heroku server and staying within the free tier of Google&#x27
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by Sileni 7y ago
I imagine quite a few of those are either A) A place to get coffee and hang out B) Not making much money, but kept open by people who just want to own a bookstore. A) is the model a lot of Barnes and Nobles are going with these days; they&#
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by Sileni 7y ago
Social Security in the US as well. Most of my generation that I've talked to have just accepted it as another tax; there's not going to be anything left of it by the time we would actually expect to withdraw from it.
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by Sileni 7y ago
Not OP, but I've done some work in the space. The market is just saturated now. It takes such little effort to start a dropshipping "business" that unless you have a really unique angle or spend absurd amounts on marketing, y
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by Sileni 7y ago
I think this is a fascinating project, but I have to ask. How do you get your foot in the door with consumers? I'd feel a bit sketched out if someone showed up and just asked to follow me around for a while. What's the incentive?
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by Sileni 8y ago
Like I said in the first response, if you're willing to throw a huge excess of energy at the problem, sure. Calculate out the energy expenditure on any of those reactions. You're talking about burning thousands of times more hydro
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by Sileni 8y ago
> It takes a relatively large amount of energy to break down those bonds, and when you do, your end product is something far more stable than the original chemicals you started with. Sure, you could theoretically break down most plastics
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by Sileni 8y ago
Chemical reactions are typically driven by moving from a high potential energy state to a lower potential energy state. Polymers are incredibly stable because of their binding mechanisms. It takes a relatively large amount of energy to brea
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by Sileni 8y ago
Eh, call it a non-profit or charity. Give the kids who show promise in tech a chance to just start running instead of taking the typical college route. I doubt it'd be on the scale of 10k companies, but a thousand a year? That could be
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by Sileni 8y ago
My girlfriend and I were talking about a similar concept a few minutes ago. Our theory is this: When you meet someone who's similar to you, or doesn't have much overlap, you tend to get along easily, because it's a frictionle
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by Sileni 8y ago
The silver lining to jobs like that is after a year or two, you're the single, solitary person in the world that can keep the machine running as expected. Performance reviews become a breeze after that. "We've been looking at
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by Sileni 8y ago
Honestly the closest thing to a religious experience I have most days (weeks...months...) is getting rid of the foggy feeling in the morning with a cup of coffee while reading whatever I'm interested in at the moment. I've often w
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by Sileni 8y ago
Doesn't have all the functionality that AutoCAD does, and there are some usability issues if you're really comfortable in AutoCAD already, but I imagine FreeCAD [0] would work well for your use case. [0]: https://www.fr
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by Sileni 8y ago
Completely unqualified thought, but I think it has to do with how you organize information in your brain. Are you spatially oriented or do you think in lists? I'm a chemist, and I definitely think spatially. Creating images of physical
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by Sileni 8y ago
I didn't read her article that way. I read it as "Creating a new box to push people into defeats the purpose of opening up the boxes of 'Women' and 'Tech Workers'". She's alright with the labels of &q
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by Sileni 8y ago
The fact that they know there's an issue with replication suggests they're using the scientific method. Their experimental design might need work, but they're working within a scientific framework.
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by Sileni 8y ago
Insurance companies in the US have to pay out a certain percentage of the premiums they take in (80% last I checked) [0]. So they're also incentivized to let prices climb; their 20% for "administration and profit" is inflated
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by Sileni 8y ago
I'm gonna flip this on its head a bit; I've been that "bad actor" in the past, when I honest to god could not afford a course/book/whatever. Not "This will cut into my entertainment fund", more "
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by Sileni 8y ago
Always have to throw this in there when I see articles about lead exposure: Tetraethyl lead (TEL) is still being manufactured in the UK, and being sold in a handful of countries for consumer gasoline use. One company in the world manufactur
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by Sileni 8y ago
As a VC? The unicorn fund. Which agrees with what the market has been supporting this last decade. Given the same investments in each, the unicorn provides a bigger return. Because of economies of scale, it's more likely to gain tracti
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by Sileni 8y ago
The idea is that the venture capitalist's motivations aren't necessarily aligned with the company's. They're interested in creating a unicorn, because that one company will create the returns necessary to turn a profit o
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by Sileni 8y ago
No idea how you'd run into hardware restrictions; T440 is from 2013, and I have yet to run into a driver issue dual booting Debian and Windows. I don't understand the bit about the console; I haven't met a dev who doesn'

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