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by ahelwer 5y ago
You presumably know at least a few housed people in your life with drinking problems. Why don't they just quit drinking? Why do you think it would be easier to quit drinking while also not having housing?
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All of these things interact and affect one another. Say you're living in some common marginal situation working a low-wage job with high rent. Some event happens where suddenly you require a few hundred dollars, nothing serious for mo
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Microsoft Quantum team reports observation of a 30 μEV topological gap(microsoft.com)
3 points by ahelwer 5y ago|0 comments
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Death for something as complex as the human body isn’t a binary state.
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Denmark has partially socialized housing.
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Countries with socialized housing, healthcare, and education do not experience the cost increases of those things seen in the US. So you have it backward. The US runs these things like a half-assed free market so public wealth is efficientl
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by ahelwer 5y ago
None of your analogies are applicable. Nuclear power stations require extraordinary stability in a world that cannot provide it. Earthquakes, tsunamis, war, or another failure mode nobody’s even thought of yet can lead to entire states beco
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by ahelwer 5y ago
An honest mistake like blanket-targeting Chinese researchers in a wildly racist investigative policy.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
There is only 3 degrees of freedom, not 6. So yes it's a sphere and you sit in the center. You only get depth perception from your eye parallax, but it's enough to see the rock geometry.
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360 (along both axes) and 3D.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I watched the first half. Having watched many (too many?) climbing vids it was actually incredible by comparison. The scenes are a series of statically-positioned full-sphere 3D shots where you can watch him climb through a sequence or turn
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Not an alike license.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Google et. al (and OSI for that matter) will find no such alike-license acceptable until a platform using that license becomes too valuable to ignore, like Linux with GPLv2. So the calculus has to tilt such that giving their work away for f
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I don't know, there are a few companies I've seen around lately that have an open source "core" with proprietary business add-ons. Teleport and Tailscale for example. The Tailscale CEO wrote a post about it recently that
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Opened a bug: https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5421
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Is there a way to collapse the table of contents sidebar like in the old version? I read documentation pages like this on a vertical monitor (which is usually great!), and the sidebar on the new site takes up a full third of horizontal spac
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Ask HN: Why have chorded keyboards not become popular among software engineers?
17 points by ahelwer 5y ago|11 comments
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I have a renewed interest in fully-split keyboards because of the idea of using a VR headset instead of monitors for my day job - I currently just use a goldtouch partially-split/tilt keyboard which is inexpensive and works incredibly
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by ahelwer 5y ago
My point had nothing to do with energy prices and CO2 tax would not change the fundamental calculus faced by insurance companies.
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Nonsense. The "actual statistics" from the perspective of insurance companies are that if anything bad happens, your insurance company is going bankrupt. It doesn't matter how unlikely that's been calculated to be in som
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by ahelwer 5y ago
> If your company goes bankrupt tomorrow, and the headset bricks itself, I'd have no recourse. Everything (including the hardware design) is open source, so yeah you absolutely would have recourse. > I would absolutely love to ha
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Okay, easy fix. Check the files for copyright if you create a sharing link for them.
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If they cared about that they would either pay me so much money I'd be insane to walk away or they would hire people in other time zones to cover the load. Instead they chose to pay for their customer satisfaction with my burnout. The
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by ahelwer 5y ago
There were 37.2 million people living below the poverty line in the USA in 2020[1]. The 2021 budget for the US military was 705.4 billion dollars[2]. Let's be anomalously generous to the military industrial complex and only cut that in
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by ahelwer 5y ago
From experience, it's really hard to fix the root causes of issues when you were woken up three times the night before and had two more of the same incident occur during the workday. In my case I struggled along for a couple years but
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by ahelwer 5y ago
It’s critical if you’re an independent contractor or will become one some day. Writing blog posts about interesting projects or topics then submitting them to tech news aggregators (HN, lobste.rs, r/programming) pays dividends for year
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by ahelwer 5y ago
You can also do this directly with gitlab pages, which supports hugo. My blog runs on it.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Actually the solution to poverty is quite simple! You directly give everyone the base resources necessary to lead a dignified life. Some people instead prefer to create narrowly-targeted means-tested programs incentivizing hypothesized thir
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I’ve been using microsoft onenote forever. I guess it basically meets all my needs modulo some annoying quirks when copying or pasting text, and there are occasional sync conflict errors. Are these alternatives like notion and obsidian wort
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Secretly installing malware on millions of customers' computers then releasing an uninstaller that installs additional malware is such a cartoonishly evil/ridiculous thing to do that I have nothing but respect for someone still bo

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