aidenn0

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by aidenn0 10mo ago
> Dynastic wealth is wealth that has provably sat unspent and unconsumed for generations. It's effectively frozen in place. To the extent that this reflects good social norms around the stewarding of those assets, there's not m
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
It is hard to tease out what's going on because: - The public school system now acts as though its only goal is college prep - Above means that many of the kids most likely to excel at trades (i.e. the hard workers) go to college, beca
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
> Any tax reform that fails to reduce luxury consumption by the rich will completely fail to reduce economic inequality. While this is essentially tautological, I'm not sure you can practically tax the majority of luxury consumption
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
Another issue is how many apps now seem to have "chat with strangers" features built in to them.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
> I did Math all the time with my 5 year old and he loved it, but then I also love math, and it's easy to make fun. I have 4 kids; two of them also found math fun at age 5, the other two did not. I do not believe my ability to make
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I bet dollars-to-donuts it won't work with X11 apps
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I see more people with headphones now that BT headphones are everywhere...
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
It can absolutely be like that. Global keyboard shortcuts not working is a deliberate design choice in Wayland (as is non-foreground apps not having access to the clipboard).
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
Do OLEDs not support 24Hz refresh?
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I have a dedicated multi-channel speaker system and still have the problem
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
> Multi-channel audio has the dialog track separated. So you can increase the volume of the dialog if you want Are you talking about the center channel on an X.1 setup or something else? My Denon AVR certainly doesn't have a dedica
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I posted elsewhere, but you are looking at the wrong part of the chain. We have cheap (or free) software for large markets, and certain small markets where software developers with hobbies have made something. If every niche that will neve
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
In past cases of automation, quantity was the foot-in-the-door and quality followed. Early manufactured items were in many cases inferior to hand-built items, but one was affordable and the other not. Software is incredibly expensive and
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
And when changes are made at the site, bad things can happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse...
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
CD-R media is of limited shelf life as well though
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
Concrete is cement plus aggregate (it doesn't have to be sand; it could be gravel, for example). Coarse aggregates wouldn't work well in this, but it would be cool for a followup video where sand is used. The wikipedia pages sugg
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
> You literally don't understand what the term Nazi implies or what Nazi's stood for? I'm not sure how you could read my comment and come away with that impression. I gave a partial list of the sorts of things Nazi's
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
As far as I know, Nixpkgs doesn't use git as a package database. The packages definitions are stored and developed in git, but the channels certainly are not.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I don't know what atdrummond's political views were, and after your comment, I still don't know. The label "literal Nazi" has become not particularly useful recently. At best, it seems to be used to mean that the pe
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
Everything still works if you unconditionally modulo by any multiple of 9 between 18 and 0xffff, but that's very expensive.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
They do, but strings that are numbers will be reinterpreted as numbers. [edit] let testArray = []; testArray[0] = "foo"; testArray["0"] = "bar"; testArray["00"] = "baz"; console.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I think the older you are the harder Lua is to learn. GP didn't say it made wrong choices, just choices that are gratuitously different from other languages in the Algol family.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
This is always true for every program written in most languages (very few languages have zero dependencies on the architecture, particularly if you include endianness). If you want to be really pedantic, you can get completely different beh
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I'm going to mildly disagree here. NixOS is an improvement over RH et. al. even if you stray a small amount from the happy path; to use the GP example, if they couldn't do what they needed with the nixos LUKS options, they can cl
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
See also Regehr's example[1] where a formally verified C compiler generates incorrect output because of an inconsistent value in <limits.h> (TL;DR: The compiler can pick whether "char" is signed or unsigned. Compcert p
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
At least with health insurance most companies purchasing insurance for their employees have at least 2 companies to choose from, which gives some incentive to keep costs down. With power companies, there seems to be little market pressur
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
I'm about 80% certain that cache.nixos.org caches the results of the builds, not the input sources.
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
Doesn't the area described by a turbine's motion scale with the square of the blade-length, so given a circular area covered by a turbine, the power will scale linearly with that area?
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
If the government has to approve expenditures and profit margins, there seems to be little reason for a private utility to exist?
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by aidenn0 10mo ago
So they are limited in their RoR on capital expenditures. Are they limited in their capital expenditures in the first place? That is, if they overspend on everything they build, do they make more profit than if they engineered things more

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