al2o3cr

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by al2o3cr 5y ago
FWIW, the "Leveling Tie" connection is for when you're using compression on a stereo signal - it ensures that the same level of gain reduction is applied to each side, to avoid disturbing the stereo image.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"Firstly, it is not an obvious way to declare an enum if you are at all familiar with their use in other languages." It's the same way C does it, other than saying "const" instead of "enum". Explicitly cas
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
I was not picking up on gossip ... It makes everything harder. To me, this suggests a company that isn't communicating effectively - side-channels like gossip were filling in the gaps when folks were in-office, but no
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Shorter Cummings: "we need a better grade of fascist dictator for 2024"
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Thoughts on the license: * as others have already said, it's way too cheap. $19 is an amount that's going to be annoying to get expensed in most decent-sized companies. Also consider how much it will cost to defend your rights, sh
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Wikipedia says a 1U CubeSat would run around $60k USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
As they started to sell I noticed people quickly listing theirs for sale at much higher prices so I experimented with increasing my prices. Holy money-laundering batman
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
A theme that runs through this post: * "we even tried to make a shooter game" * "constantly shifting my focus, different programming languages, different platforms, cool new technologies" * "I don't want to dea
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
the data can't be shared on a database with other customers FWIW, this is pretty standard boilerplate security language in a lot of domains (it was in healthcare, for sure) - but it's not always a hard requirement. Dig i
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
From a purely-technical perspective, I don't believe account-to-account direct transfer is possible in an ACH file. The file format (see part 4 of that article) of the "PPD Entry Detail Record" specifies one end of the transa
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
> Imagine an Internet where accuracy was valued. LOL even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-full of assholes and cranks, the above archive is just the _good_ parts.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Simple: when you hit the sign-in wall and reopen the link in an incognito window, you count as a second unique visitor! GROWTH HACKING FTW
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
From those user stories the technical lead decides what the skill requirements and timeframe is in order to accomplish the implementation. This sounds like a recipe for an overloaded technical lead - determining skill requ
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
an MVP for a web service called View Nitpick: if someone types in "user-generated content view" to their favorite search engine, they're not likely to find you.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"aims to launch next year", as in the signs you find at bars that say "FREE BEER... TOMORROW"
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
and have 2 different team dealing with it So the ONLY time the two parts will be tested together is in production? Good luck with that. Isn't it especially risky for startup which less legal resource. If your startup
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"This use case results in the creators being able to incentivize their audience to purchase and hold their tokens." So the "use case" for creators is that in exchange for an initial investment they get magic beans they c
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Github's engineering blog did a post recently about their remote IDE setup: https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move... In their case, running the software locally was RAM-intensive so cloud machine
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Project Rho is a good one-stop-shop for all things interstellar travel. Here's their page on the Orion: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist3.php... The numbers there indicate that the Orio
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Bullshit—as a multifarious form of self-stupefying pseudo-consciousness feeding on itself, procreating by imitating others and proliferating rotten speech—is a powerful and infinitely renewable resource. I guess "
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"Einstein said this once in a lecture and then never again" is not a persuasive argument, as most every reply to that Quora post points out. "Weber electrodynamics" is strongly counter-indicated by multiple experiments;
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
LOL @ "they'll have to settle [for pre-owned]" - yeah, I'm sure the folks that just picked up a literal million bucks worth of new cars are just DYING INSIDE at the thought of not being able to buy more.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
something like Ivermectin that can kill 99.9% of the virus in vitro Hydrogen peroxide can do better, try injecting that and see what happens. You'll definitely not get or spread COVID!
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
What many crypto skeptics fail to appreciate is that increasingly more funds flowing into the crypto economy are intentionally on a one-way trip LOL, a "one-way trip" from the pockets of suckers to the pockets of
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
For one, it's going to produce a metric where all the diagonal elements are positive (or zero) - different from the -+++ or +--- signature of "normal" spacetime. The paper's calculation reminds me of Kaluza-Klein theory,
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
As a followup, officials in these cities plan to press hard against requirements to eat all your vegetables and turn off the light at bedtime. If their demands are not met, they plan to lie on the floor and scream until they get their way.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
And by "generating demand", they mean "finding bagholders". Even the FAQ admits these things have literally no other use besides "stacking": it's location-based pump&dump-as-a-service
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"We must act quickly to hand over the sidewalks to private Innovators, a statement which is totally unrelated to my leadership of a company that wants to monetize sidewalks"
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
FWIW, this appears to be the site: https://www.google.com/maps/place/8559J8Q5%2BFC/@33.6386875,... (based on the map on their "Infrastructure" page)
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
(in re: "put heavy industry in space") Bezos is theoretically right about all of this. Apart from minor implementation details like the laws of thermodynamics, sure.

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