Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
That's just you being unable to let go of your biases? In languages with pointers giving primacy to offsets makes sense. In every other context aligning with natural language and math (first, second, 1..n inclusive) is perfectly logica
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
That's entirely missing the point. "All models are wrong, but some are useful". You can test hypotheses and learn things even about chaotic or emergent systems.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Not everything is a state secret. There's no need to immediately migrate every trivial email and permit request, but having a parallel infrastructure for the stuff that needs it should be a no-brainer.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
My understanding is that in Europe regulations focused on the length of the whole vehicle, whereas in America the length of the cab and trailer were regulated separately. Also American truckers do a lot more long-haul work and American road
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Cardboard is mostly renewable, it's the applications where we combine it with plastic where alternatives are needed.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Sacrifice is a brilliant RTS where the commander (a summoner mage of sorts) participates at the ground level.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
DOGE and the nazi sale happened. That's not just problematic social media posting.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
In Europe people aren't really aware of the labor politics, but doing a nazi salute has made Elon radioactive.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Putting that kind of filter in the way of speech seems ripe for abuse. In the UK once website blocking powers were established, their scope was extended repeatedly by courts for IP protection purposes.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Disregarding for a moment whether that's what HN-greybeards want or not, being behind in this area doesn't necessarily preclude Apple from catching up later. There's enough of a market that they can buy it from one of Google&
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Not really a solution for large-scale collective action problems.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
Parent is trying to sarcastically demonstrate thought termination by way of woke. As in, some accusations shut down conversations by way of being too much effort or requiring too much social capital to argue against.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
I adore Peter Watts, so I'll be checking out Smith then! Watts is like brain candy, keeps my mind buzzing from all the ideas for weeks. Charles Stross can have the same effect, a sort of future shock.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
A contributor's license agreement would overrule the terms of the employment contract, assuming they set one up properly.
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by Tarq0n 8mo ago
A lot of modern comedy is awful because it substitutes embarrassed laughter for amused laughter.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
While the presentation has merit, the events listed on this page at the time of this comment don't meet the my bar of one of: 1) Essential to not have missed for everyday conversation; 2) Will affect my decision making in some way; 3)
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
Sort of, with at least two caveats. 1) velocity of money matters, some spending creates more economic activity than others due to re-spending. 2) Investment is not the same as having your money sitting idle. Investment makes certain activit
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
An EC2 instance is a sandbox within a large server, so that's not really reframing the issue.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
Dualism is almost always unhelpful as a model. Your soul is a process your body runs, they are indistinguishable.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
In large organizations motivated reasoning trumps ethics. Behavior starts working along incentive gradients like an ant heap. Spend enough time in an environment like that and you learn to frame every selfish decision as good for the custom
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
The problem is the limited charging infrastructure. Hybrid owners don't need to plug in for the vehicle to function so they yield available chargers to actual EVs. To get past this you would need ubiquitous charging infra.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
The salient feature is that people consume a higher percentage of their wages than investors do of their wealth. Redistributing some profits to wages means that money gets spent, inducing demand. This also has a higher multiplier effect tha
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
That seems contradictory with the idea that software should be developed in the private sphere: closed source, proprietary APIs, patents and trade secrets are the antithesis of sharing knowledge.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
Treating share of global gdp as meaningful is bizarre. It doesn't have to be bad for your share to shrink as long as the overall pie is growing.
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by Tarq0n 9mo ago
Not if you freely engage in rumination. Meditation is not just sitting with your thoughts.
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by Tarq0n 10mo ago
Histograms aren't necessarily a true depiction of the distribution. Bin count or width has a large impact on what details get shown.
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by Tarq0n 10mo ago
I've had it function just fine around 9000 tabs.
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by Tarq0n 10mo ago
You say that like scale is an inevitability. If Microsoft's offerings were unbundled into lots of smaller interoperable solutions we'd all be better off.
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by Tarq0n 10mo ago
Trust is key to modern society. Any measure aimed at supplanting trust increases transaction costs in the economy.
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by Tarq0n 10mo ago
30 seconds works fine for other semi-pressurized brewing methods like turboshots or soup.

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