albinofrenchy

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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
It isn't clear to me that regulations could or would cause that. Or that not being regulated would prevent it. FDIC / SIPC type protections would be beneficial to consumers in cases like FTX. I'm guessing if a crypto version
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
I don't claim to understand corporate structures or the best way to organize a large group of employees but metas problems seem to stem more from betting on the wrong thing which seemed like a decision that came from the top.
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
It really feels like he used to have advisors who would push back on his more outlandish ideas and that provided a good hype / pr vehicle for Tesla and SpaceX. That seems gone now. He seemed to go steadily off the rails since the Thail
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
Wasn't FTX considered a reputable custodian before it imploded? That's been my understanding but I didn't pay much attention before it went belly up.
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
Why would this ever be a smart move? Afaik he couldnt realistically dodge more taxes than he lit on fire at Twitter.
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
I think it's a pretty good explanation of why he didn't gain more traction than he had -- he's always been a zealot with a proclivity of misguided rants that he proclaims loud and far.
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by albinofrenchy 4y ago
I write mainly in c and like most aspects of it but its the absolute minimum standard for built in library support. The fact that simple reusable utility functions were/are complicated does make it feel half baked to me too.
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
If you are inclined to think the CCP knows / is covering up a lab leak; you are also inclined to think that they'd release fake disclosure data to cover it up.
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
Or you are good enough you don't have to try flagging every game for a chance to win!
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
It doesn't crash; it's sluggish. It's hard to quantify but it's like there is a quasi animation effect that you can't turn off. In something like 3|2 it's not terrible but in 1 minute games its a real issue. I
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
The lichess app is all around better. Bullet is unplayable on chess.com's app.
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
I've been considering writing up something for extended kalman filters like this. Kalman filters are great but in my experience extremely limited without the non-linear extensions which make them useful in a much wider variety of probl
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
This technique only works if the object inside the area is moving, and if you can shine a laser into the space in question.
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
> At this point, this is not a complete black box, “novel virus.” Not sure why you insist on being pedantic on word choice here. It obviously isn't a novel virus at this point; but it was in 2019 -- or whenever WIV would have found
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
The article addresses this very point. I have 0 trust in the CCP to do or say anything not in it's own interest, but on the whole the "They found a novel virus in the wild, sampled it, and then it escaped their lab" seems a l
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by albinofrenchy 5y ago
This kind of thing would have been found by address sanitizer immediately though no? rr seems useful in it's own right but not for this kind of issue.
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
Does twitter get away with hosting way worse content? Parler explicitly does not moderate calls both subtle and overt to violence -- much less just blatant propaganda. Pretty sure the reason parler gained traction is that twitter does.
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
Is this not the guy who went to the presidential debate as a guest of Trump's?
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
Governments would absolutely try to ban locks if they were as effective as encryption at keeping anything secure.
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
The anti-masker crowd is annoying but not the majority. You aren't going to ever fix stupid. The failures of the various governments to respond promptly is more alarming. Guidance on masking in the US is still regional; and the CDC is
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Using a vive controller to play duck hunt on a TV screen(youtube.com)
2 points by albinofrenchy 6y ago|0 comments
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
> But if there was a button that said "save the planet but destroy a few (<50) lives," it wouldn't be unreasonable to hit it. Of course, you are assuming the button actually does what it says. Maybe it just kills 50 peo
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
What University has 100 to 1? That's way, way more unbalanced than the typical cs program.
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
I'm really confused. I've only run into maybe one person working as a developer that didn't touch type. Is this really not nearly universal? My version of this would be learn not to use a mouse.
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
It's embarrassing that the flow of the conversation went from "The power disparity between low and high skill labor is causing terrible working conditions" to "But the employers have to deal with theft and time theft&quo
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by albinofrenchy 6y ago
It's amazing how this thread got derailed so quickly from "The power disparity between low skill workers generates worse working conditions" to "If we treat low skill workers well, don't we have to support them doin
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by albinofrenchy 8y ago
Linux has a giant user base, a giant installation base, and a giant pool of talented devs willing to take on unpaid work. If this is an indictment of anything, it's an indictment of the entire NPM ecosystem -- it's been the wild w
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by albinofrenchy 8y ago
Equivalent sales is a nonsensical metric between the two. I doubt their profit margin is 5x per device compared to the rift.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I have tried it in person; and it was overall disappointing. This was some time last year so maybe they've improved in the mean time but the AR overlays weren't particularly compelling and the FOV was terrible. I also felt the tra
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I don't know about the other devices, but the hololens is incredibly underwhelming when used. The marketing CGI for it is the best thing about it. I suspect that is probably true also of the magic leap one.

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