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by ahelwer 6y ago
I use a wireless Xbox One S controller as a shield remote. It works great; I also use it when streaming games from my PC to the TV. I tried the shield controller and was pretty unimpressed.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sadly google has started serving ads on the android TV home screen, which will presumably affect the shield.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Using material information from your white-collar job to do some inside trading isn't the go-to example for the "two justice systems" of the US. You'd have to be immensely privileged, almost certainly in the top 10% inco
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Tactile, not tactical. Mechanical keyboard users I've known all became obsessed with them and never stayed with the same model for long, rendering their longevity irrelevant.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
People talk a big game about how durable these pricy mechanical keyboard are, how they can be repaired and last forever, etc. I don't think it works out that way. Looking through these comments you can see people with the Ergodox EZ as
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For split travel keyboards I've heard good things about this flat ball hinge model, which folds up into a square: https://shop.goldtouch.com/products/goldtouch-go2-wireless-b...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I do love the sculpt but they tend to die within a couple of years. I went through two of them before switching to something more durable. The build quality is just bad - many times my computer was behaving weirdly, traced to one of the fun
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The trackball thumb module is a great idea - being able to mouse without moving my right hand off the keyboard would be ideal (you can buy an actual mouse to use for FPS games if you want that). For anyone who is seeing this and thinking th
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Then you missed a pretty good post. You need at most ten decimal places on pi to get atomic-scale precision in anything to do with reality.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You might be interested in an influential essay called "Higher-order truths about chmess" by Dan Dennett. Chmess is a hypothetical variant of chess with slightly altered rules. There are infinite interesting theorems you can prove
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It really is worth it if you get past that part, which I completely agree is a total slog. The audiobook is very well done. Things pick up considerably once you get to Apert.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sounds identical to articulating a concept in any informal language.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Does not follow. You can use a thesaurus to find many different ways to say the same thing in informal languages.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
We don't have to stumble around blind here. Philosophy has long pondered the nature of language. A more recent idea is that a language as we think of it - English, French, etc. - does not exist per se; rather we engage in "games&q
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, people certainly invent novel proof techniques which remain controversial for over a century. For example, Cantor's diagonal argument, which people still deny the validity of today (although those who do are generally considered
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've always liked the idea of math as a type of language. When you learn quantum computing, for example, you go beyond the limits of our informal language (English, etc.) which developed in a purely classical world. This is why pop sci
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Eh. I used TLA+ for a few projects inside Microsoft. It probably takes a couple of weeks to write a spec for a complicated problem. Then less time to implement it, because all the heavy lifting has already been done - in many cases you&#x27
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've been down this road with a few people, so I'll take a shortcut and get to the crux of it: do you believe that masks stop spread of coronavirus between individuals? If so, what factor would account for masks stopping spread be
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you aren't in America, and you're frequenting (largely) American discussion boards, you're going to see the topics that get a lot of discussion - things where not everyone is on board with one side or the other. This of co
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you know of any companies in your field where the CEO believes you personally don't deserve rights? Would you work for that company? Why or why not? If there is no such company, why do you feel qualified to level t
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't know, man. It's easy to get all abstract with phrases like "support a cause" but we live in a concrete world. Mozilla employs a lot of gay people. Prop 8 was viciously homophobic, both in concept and especially i
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sure it does. The answer is most of them.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Much of the world doesn't actually enjoy living under total American hegemony. Much of the world has a very negative opinion of the USA. You can easily be forgiven for not knowing these things because they are never reported in America
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Or it's just like having an incanter on the squad.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Formal methods aren't as widespread in safety critical industries as you might hope or believe. Model-based testing is still considered cutting edge, never mind formal verification. Formal verification is only as good as your model, an
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah. You can always manually check & download the drivers from NVIDIA's website, like people used to do until geforce experience was released. Then there were a few blissful years where it was just a simple auto-updater for your G
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's to reduce signup friction for their geforce now cloud gaming service. Also probably to target you with ads when they release a card that would be a nice upgrade for your current one. Very annoying, yes.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Looks like this person has a triple monitor setup, so that'd be either three DisplayPort/HDMI cables or a single DisplayPort cable if they can daisy chain them (only possible if these are all 1080p monitors). It is an appealing id
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Maybe I'm overly empathetic here because my partner works in a psych unit, but it seems pretty misguided to blast a probable mentally ill man's name & face out to the public in this way.
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