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by acuozzo 2y ago
Thank you for this! I just joined/subscribed to it.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Now, instead of purchasing a single $3 yarn skein in the color you need at Joann, you can purchase a rainbow of 62 yarns skeins for $35 from Amazon! sigh I remember when this happened to RadioShack. I went from being able to purchase just
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> even if your product is purely software, you can be considered to have operations in that country Couldn't users in pretty much every internet-connected country use VPNs and other methods of cross-borders indirection to access eve
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> your own *nix server Just be sure it's pre-Intel Management Engine / pre-AMD Platform Security Processor!
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> so that when they enter such fields they know what they are getting into I don't think this would help. IMO, it's a money vs. effort thing. Yes, real research is hard, but if someone learns early on that the system can be eas
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> so we use shorthand Which is fine until the shorthand breaks containment, the nuance is lost, and the masses generalize it far beyond what was originally intended.
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> they’re likely moving on to something that is... good for society anyway Like supporting advertising and/or furthering the financialization of our economy?
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> conveys neediness & a level of desperation In your experience, to what extent would displaying these qualities negatively impact a woman on a dating app?
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> the English writing is quite poor It's conversational. It reads as if it were dictated and published sans editing. This is what most readers want, it seems. Honestly, this doesn't bother me. I can't imagine the oral trad
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Have you read Snow Crash ?
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by acuozzo 2y ago
It's a problem of the commons. It's particularly hard to bootstrap. You can take the plunge, attempt to open up to dozens of different guy-"friends", and repeatedly run into replies like "sucks, bro" or even &q
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by acuozzo 2y ago
140 and 160 are related when it comes to SMS. The GSM-7 alphabet is the most common one in use with SMS (or, at least, it was as UCS-2 is more common now with emojis and such). 160 is the number of GSM-7 characters. 160*7/8 = 140 which
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> replacing it with another method that is officially documented to be worse isn't really a solution Agreed, 150%. My comment had more to do with rejecting files than it did with embracing environ as a suitable alternative. SQLite i
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> instead everyone has rejected file-based configuration management With good reason. Files are surprisingly hard: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/
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> Is this a reflection of the sad state of C library packaging? No, it's more of a reflection of how many different ISAs and compilers there are for C. To get a packaging system going for C you'd have to support quite a few of
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by acuozzo 2y ago
AFAICT, what you write here is more-or-less the standard approach to open addressed hash tables since they were invented. I'm not sure why Chris overlooked this in writing his article. The string comparison is supposed to only happen w
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by acuozzo 2y ago
To really drive the nail in... consider what advances have been made in software over the past 30 years. In software specifically, NOT software enabled by faster hardware. What can we do now in software which would not have been possible
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by acuozzo 2y ago
This probably doesn't count, but I pretty much eat the same thing every day. I think being pretty far along the autistic spectrum makes this easier for me than most.
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> Almost demanding I install and register this app to complete lease agreement. I wonder how he would react if you were to tell him that you don't own or use a cellular phone.
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> Can I corrupt data transmission and collection? In my 2018 Chevy Volt Premier it's not too difficult to disconnect the LTE module. You lose OnStar, remote start, and other "connected" features, but the car and CarPlay st
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by acuozzo 2y ago
I am.
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For me it's the result of pent-up anger from the popularity of drywall and particle board here in the US. It's not a big leap to go from complaining about the furniture and the walls being made from what seems like highly compress
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Agreed. I can hardly imagine doing sales and I don't really have any of the typical social anxiety, etc.— my masking is really good.
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> In a call you can't be ignored As someone on the Autistic spectrum... yes, yes you most certainly can. When you're speaking I'm (not necessarily voluntarily-)daydreaming about my current hyperfocus/obsession. I&#x27
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> you seem to be communication-averse Not OP, but I worked for years as a telemarketer as a teenager, so I'm not afraid of speaking on the telephone. However , as I've aged I've found that I'm extraordinarily bad at
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By leaving the bottom 50% to be propagandized by populists? If we were still living in the time of thirteen channels and Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
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I'm in the same boat, but my domain is embedded programming. I recently ran across advice here to just copy an existing successful idea and compete on e.g., price, rather than wasting time trying to come up with something novel /
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Understood. It's an interesting long-term strategy to revive Feudalism.
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> Consumers can assess the credibility of each. Assuming intelligence is normally distributed, then what's the plan for the bottom 50% here?
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The things I want most from a new C standard: 1. Fix the integer promotion rules. Obeying them as they are now makes code considerably less readable. 2. Choose one of the idiomatic approaches to type punning and make it standard. Having to

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