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by aidenn0 1y ago
> I was placed, and excelled, in moderately advanced math courses from 3rd grade on. In the school district I live in, they eliminated all gifted programs and honors courses (they do still allow you to accelerate in math in HS for now, b
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by aidenn0 1y ago
> It's like this in the US (or rather, it was 20 years ago. But I suspect it is now worse anyway) I'm sure it's regional, but my oldest kid started school in SoCal 13 years ago, and it is definitely worse. Nearly every
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by aidenn0 1y ago
Pretty much. It also was originally authored by the same person who did lzexe, tcc, qemu, and the current leader for the large text compression benchmark. Oh, and for most of the 2010's there was a fork due to interpersonal issues on t
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by aidenn0 1y ago
You for got the -z (or -a with a recent gnutar).
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I'm mildly surprised that almost 10% of the US golfs. That makes the 0.3% of water usage from TFA seem less bad.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I'm somewhat astonished at the per-capita household use of water per day. I assume it must mostly be for watering lawns? We have a swimming pool that leaks (we were quoted $125k to fix it since the deck will need replacing, and with i
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I mean if it's trained on things like Reddit then it's just reflecting its training data. I asked a question on reddit just yesterday and the only response I got was confidently wrong. This is not the first time it has happened.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
We now have 240Hz OLED panels; has anyone tried emulating a CRT on them by drawing 1/4 of a field per frame, leaving the rest of it black? If you could do this with less than 4ms of latency, NES light-gun games might even work on such
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by aidenn0 1y ago
To compare the price to another Japanese import, you could buy two new Toyota Corollas for less than this beast.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
> Authors weren't just "made more comfortable" by this as a fringe benefit, as you say, but really, they were able to make a living from their creative work By "made more comfortable" I was not referring to the e
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by aidenn0 1y ago
It is consistently worse than a google search with a site: set to their website. My best interactions have been with ones that were slightly less annoying than a phone-tree to get to a CS rep.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I have no issue with Ellison's colorful language, but the point expressed by LeGuin is quite different. Copyright violation is not theft . It's not even a criminal charge in the US unless done for profit! You know what also de
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I've seen the argument made that "when people talk and text, they don't use punctuation." This seems like nonsense to me, since when people talk they inflect in rather varied ways, and there is punctuation in texts ever
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I don't think that's the case. I think an implied point is separating the "I want to be programming computers in 5 years" folks from the "I want a stable job with good pay" folks. If you are in the latter poi
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I've seen it in public school systems. It's never "this is the right thing to do" or "this is the wrong thing to do" it's "I can't justify this to my boss" so you meet with their boss who s
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I replaced my Okidata ML92 with a Fujitsu DL-3800 and got a huge bump in quality when printing from Word 2.0 on Windows. The only downside was that if I finished a paper after about 10pm I had to wait until morning to print or I would wake
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I would literally rather hang myself than do this.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
Harlan Ellison was an asshole though.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
Wasn't the hardened valves for use in fuses also an important part of the Tizard mission?
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by aidenn0 1y ago
This doesn't use GPS directly, as that would have insufficient accuracy. It uses RTK, which calculates relative position from a base station very accurately.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
You are right, I wrote that before having my coffee...
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by aidenn0 1y ago
D2 already supports a live-updating HTTP server serving a live-updating .svg, so if you tile a browser with vim, you can already get live-updates. I discovered D2 about a year ago, and I use it for all of my diagrams now.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
So from TFA it just downscales from ELK? Do I have to specify ELK for this to work, or will it automagically enable if I try to output a .txt? (Really I'm just curious becasue I use ELK already for most of my d2 diagrams).
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by aidenn0 1y ago
Basically one provider. More details: All but the generation charges are from a single company that (among other things) is paying off a lawsuit for having not properly maintained lines running through highly flammable forests. The generati
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I had my overnight electricity rate wrong it us $0.2608 which makes it about 6.8 cents per mile vs 8 cents.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
I misremembered the cost for electricity; it's $0.26 not $0.28 (and that is the discounted overnight rate). Peak usage is over $0.50, but that's only 4pm-9pm in the summers. The bill is rather maddening because there is no one pl
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by aidenn0 1y ago
My total lot is under 5000 square feet (about 450 square meters), much of which is covered with house. I do have rooftop solar. A few other notes: - On average, both petrol and electricity is more expensive in CA than most of the US - Petr
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by aidenn0 1y ago
Unless you are in Poland; then you need to keep the Poles in the right-hand plane or it will be unstable.
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by aidenn0 1y ago
The article that TFA quotes has a much more thorough description: In 1979, kids may have been using it to mean "asshole" but the writers were in their 30s and definitely meant it to mean "idiot" By the end of the '8
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by aidenn0 1y ago
There's lots of gravity in space too.

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