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by acuozzo 4y ago
There is zero need for color -- the plot is infinitely more important than knowing the hair color of its actors. Color is completely and utterly a waste in every respect. There is zero need for widescreen -- There is zero need for high defi
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> just mix the audio in mono and make sure that every word can be cleanly heard by my father who is 85 and uses a hearing aid Unfortunately, this would trash the theatrical mix. Dialogue would roar from the center channel with every othe
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> The real issue is that there is no good way to verify the identity or non-criminal nature of any of the migrants. Just as there was no good way for Diogenes to verify which bones belonged to Alexander's father.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/zz-dvd-1164/
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Your reply is delightfully pedantic.
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> Change is hard and bad habits are not easy to get rid of Which is exactly why no expert in treating addiction suggests using willpower to "cold turkey" as a treatment.
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> Most people don’t do this and spend their lives wondering why they can’t control their weight. My experience with obese and morbidly obese individuals in the northeast US suggests to me that the problem is more related to mental health
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by acuozzo 4y ago
An omitted possible third factor here is that of selection bias. Perhaps those drawn to so-called "weirdo diets" are also those more likely to maintain their weight loss.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I did some research on newspapers.com. The original story was published by The Guardian over four issues in March 1996 on the 12th, 13th, 15th, and 18th under the following respective titles: 1. "Soap Opera": http://acu
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> When is Zig the best choice? "Freestanding" targets, perhaps? I often write software in C to run directly on microcontrollers; no OS, no runtime. I can see the advantage freestanding Rust would provide for e.g. 802.11 firmwar
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I clicked the link and I see within the table mentions of "heap" and "free", but I regularly target systems with no runtime. Does Rust offer many advantages over Zig in this space? I mostly program in C, but I've be
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The software supply chain problem exists for native code as well.
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https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> The solution is to make the streets safer. This assumes that maniacs and teenagers won't work their ass off to make those traffic calming methods ineffective. My neighborhood has regular speedbumps, curvy roads, and a speed limit
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by acuozzo 4y ago
We have regular speed bumps. The cars accelerate back up to 50+mph right after driving over them.
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> If you can physically drive 50+ mph down a street signed for 25 mph then whoever built the road may have been thoughtful but they certainly weren't thinking about safety. Here's a nearby example road: https://www.g
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Protests happened before the Internet. Before telephones, even. US Population, 1870: 38,558,371 US Population, 2020: 331,449,281
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> but the ones I worry about more are the ones that actually are still increasing, like the chance of my kid getting hit by a car while they’re walking around the neighborhood Yes! This is my issue as well. Drivers on residential streets
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> When I grew up before then, kids were generally allowed to roam wherever they wanted unsupervised, as long as they were home in time for dinner. Me too. With that being said, as a parent now, the #1 fear I have with my children playing
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I gave examples of several other things which can be purchased with money that are not goods & services. "Purchasing power" is therefore not limited to goods & services, but I defined inflation as an increase in the cost o
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by acuozzo 4y ago
No, it's not. Inflation, by definition, is a decrease in the purchasing power of money. Money can be spent on many things besides goods & services. Consider, for instance: securities, land/real estate, entire businesses, forei
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> to subvert the government's artificial constraint on the free market No government constraint/restriction was mentioned in the hypothetical scenario I constructed.
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> Instead you would have shortages. This assumes an increase in spending rather than saving and/or paying down debt(s).
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> 1: The root of inflation is the printing of money The root of inflation is an increase in the cost of goods & services. If the money supply increased, but the head of every company willfully elected to ignore this (due to patriotic
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long is only guaranteed by to be a minimum of 32 bits. It's 64 on Tru64 UNIX systems, for instance.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> The real question is where the hell is the open source hardware? Agreed. I get so angry every time I think about the amount of Verilog and VHDL that will never, ever get released even after the companies responsible for it die and even
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If someone buys Windows-only hardware that loses support after a few years, that's on them. Unfortunately, the FOSS world isn't always able to cater to professional and prosumer crowds. If it is absolutely critical to my work
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> because that apparently works well enough to get on HN If it was upvoted by HN users, then it "works well enough" for HN. Also, this practice is very common. Consider all of the "X considered harmful" media.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> To this day, none of us needed a study for any of this. I guess this means I should stop cracking my knuckles then since my elders told me doing so would give me arthritis in my hands. I mean, shit, by this logic I should wear a 3M res
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> This is not a handbook. The title is an attempt to link the video to "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook" which was eventually printed as a handbook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook

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