Steltek

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by Steltek 6y ago
Umm, you first? How is the "use your brain and your eyes" safety strategy working out so far? Are you against ABS too? Shouldn't people just learn to pump their brakes? Computers assisting but not supplanting people's
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by Steltek 6y ago
APCs are not "purely defensive". They're an intimidating presence which is by itself, a type of force. On top of that, it's becoming "a thing" to use vehicles to run over people you disagree with.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, Facebook is not a government and ignorant, uncivilized people getting whats coming to them features heavily in his works. While he certainly frowns on censorship, people intolerant and incapable of behaving themse
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by Steltek 6y ago
My first thought was about the diversity of faces used in the demo and how ten years ago, computers didn't think black people were humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM But after that, I was reminded of t
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by Steltek 6y ago
Spec-wise, that tablet also held up for longer than expected, even after being discontinued. Although that's also saying something about the abysmal Android tablet market. The Nvidia shield is still amazing although I'll chime in
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by Steltek 6y ago
The pity is that public schools are now the backstop for real social services that have already failed. Much like police being used to combat drug addiction and mental illness. It's a burden/cost that private schools don't
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by Steltek 6y ago
Sure but pretty much all cities are solidly blue unless you look at Oklahoma or Kansas or something like that. The Texas oil industry has a unique place in skewing the discussion on climate change. Even if TX flipped blue, it will be hard
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by Steltek 6y ago
It's odd to call foul in a thread about climate change disasters when Texas politicians continue to deny that it even exists. Or to reject Federal aid to coastal states but beg for relief yourselves after Harvey. "Hick" is
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by Steltek 6y ago
Maybe less than others but we're not unaffected. Boston is very susceptible to sea level rise and fisheries are going to be turned upside down from a warming ocean.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Personal anecdote time, I guess. My state has a bottle deposit law. I don't return anything but it still goes into recycling. We buy very few individually packaged things, I honestly can't be bothered to collect large bulky con
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by Steltek 6y ago
That is not a correct summary. The first part of this study includes private schools. The second part includes universities. Removing those factoers, USA K-12 is either average or below.
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by Steltek 6y ago
I probably need to load this up just to see how on Earth they replicated the Stata center[1] using only perfect cubes. Faculty would love to know the secret as to how to arrange their rectangular furniture inside random polygonal offices (n
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by Steltek 6y ago
Don't forget the constant peer pressure and lame jokes from your coworkers! Oh and if you're a Mac newbie, be prepared to figure it out for yourself. Not that people are unhelpful but that they genuinely don't know any othe
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by Steltek 6y ago
macOS has a 12+ year old bash. Also, even with Homebrew patching up Apple's neglect, coreutils behaves differently under a Darwin kernel than Linux. A repeat source of aggravation for myself is the behavior of 'ps'.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Did that exist outside of Maemo? I don't remember ever seeing XUL extensions on Android...
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by Steltek 6y ago
Sites are allowed to set cookies without consent when they are strictly necessary for site functionality. They do not need to provide you with the option to decline. The gray area is that they need explain why and how the cookies are stri
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by Steltek 6y ago
I'll disagree. There are too many regressions in the new UI (FF/Android Beta, 80.0.1 over regular FF/Android 68.0). I use FF everywhere exclusively and that includes on my tablet, where keyboard and mouse shortcuts are tota
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by Steltek 6y ago
Presuming the banner on this https://element.io/ I had the same understanding as you but if you read https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ , you may come away differently. Specifically, with regards to "stric
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by Steltek 6y ago
What evidence from the US can you present that people will universally wear masks or that they'd wear them correctly? It's far easier to accept that they won't correctly wear masks and this path of exploration fails at step
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by Steltek 6y ago
Residential solar once posed the opposite problem: generating power during the day in suburbs where it wasn't being consumed nor could it be transported to areas of high demand. If our current problem is higher daytime residential dema
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by Steltek 6y ago
Interesting theory re Arizona meaning Taiwan loses its advantage. Although no one can ascribe too much (or really any) foresight to the current US admin, I have to imagine there's a domino theory w.r.t. to Taiwan and the SCS region.
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by Steltek 6y ago
The West has been unwilling to use its economic levers to preserve competition and a healthy market. China has no problem using state control and doesn't care much for fair competition either. The West isn't doomed but we'r
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by Steltek 6y ago
I've heard the same about craft brewing. Personal microbrewing is fun: you can use whatever small scale apparatus you've hacked up and recipes are whatever whimsy strikes you. Actually trying to scale up and sell to people means
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by Steltek 6y ago
Aside from the drone, it's a Curiosity rover with upgraded tires (and diff instrument package). I think that is actually an incredibly exciting statement, not boring: Nasa has such high confidence in the refinement of Mars rovers tha
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by Steltek 6y ago
In more worldly/sciencey/engineering parts of the US, I tried shortening metric like that and then I ran into this fucking abomination of a measurement, which is also abbreviated to "mil" in the US: https://en
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by Steltek 6y ago
In-joke reference to a seemingly random beekeeping video that ran wild through a while ago due to a YT recommendation engine hiccup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636177
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by Steltek 6y ago
Fun fact: all six personas had beekeeping Youtube videos suggested to them. More seriously, I wonder if one could determine the "strength" of a bubble's wall and then check that against the expected time spent online by a gro
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by Steltek 6y ago
Mac/Web/Mobile all lag behind native Outlook for Windows. If they're getting extra love, it's because they need it.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Politely, I'd consider rephrasing this in the future. Not everyone springs forth into the world with a 5kloc .vimrc. Everyone is incrementally learning from someone else at their own pace.
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by Steltek 6y ago
And behind the scenes, engineers were working quickly to identify and fix problems on what was previously reserved spectrum for a life safety system. It's also a quintessential public good; saying that it should be taken for private u

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