alisonkisk

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by alisonkisk 5y ago
consumers don't prefer oil, but what matters is whether their properly had a gas line.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Doesn't matter. Consumers like the specs, and showing off how quick they can get to 40mph on a residential street.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Can you give one example?
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
It depends on how many wearings and how much material is in it.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Women's fashion also uses a small fraction of the fabric in men's fashion.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
The teams that are good enough get sponsord and can afford travel. The others don't need to go.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
It sounds like you are saying that education should be funded by the state. Which is a fine idea, much better than playing crazy financing games that turn education into (US) healthcare /insurance. But also, the ambitious and valuable
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
7 years is not a long time to live without credit that that a person is shown to be unable to handle. Being bankrupt is great if you are poor.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
It happened 1 year in 20, after an incredible run up, and good companies recovered.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
When you get an offer of $100K cash + $100K in stock, that's before appreciation. So 3 years from now your equity is appreciated but your cash is not, so you get $225K in cash equivalent.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
A language server is an API for a program in a language, so that text editors and linter and code generators can all interact with the program without knowing about each other.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Or you need an economic environment that doesn't drive people to become "crazy" and homeless.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
New ideas aren't a hard sell. Cumbersome ideas that cost more than the benefit are a hard sell.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Which means obviously fake stats. 55% high school, 35% postgrad, and only 10% college in the middle?
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
PureOS makes an effort to avoid saying Linux. IMO it's a deceptive marketing ploy to take software from GNU/Linux without giving credit, and pretending to be something different, perhaps to attract lay people who are scared of &qu
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
I agree, and thats why I donate to ProPublica, which is free and doesn't use it's reporting as reputation laundering for an Opinion section that promotes billionaire profits ahead of humanity. Also, using the library is supportin
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
It shows that the author is unconcerned about code quality in someone else's project. But you are right that the original project had the same problem of lack of review. This is a big problem in sole author open source; such projects t
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Is it so small because the OS basically had no drivers or interfaces, just bare CPU/RAM/peripheral messaging, and apps sent low-level binary messages directly to the hardware? More "EE" than "CS"?
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
n=3 concern applies ewually well to every formulation, as it's a peculiarity if human scale physics that's commonly used as an application of linear algebra and anaylsis (visualizing linear transformations and rotations, point-lin
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Most people need calculations to help them learn...
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
This is how the Wii works too. It tells you to swing the wiimote like a bat or a golf club or a tennis racket or steering wheel, but it works better when you just flick your wrist.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
James Damore got fired for suggesting that.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
A firetruck is not a face. How wouldn't a monkey know what a face is? Human babies don't know what a fire truck is either.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
That's an assumption not a conclusion.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
One of the teflon flasks had glass in it.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
You're missing the point. VR is an escape for people whose meatspace social lives are miserable, like computer networks were in the past.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Laptops don't need animations because they have enough real estate that they don't need constantly reflowing UIs to fit the most important information in the tiny bit of screen space, while maintaining a sense of spatial organizat
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Klimt is dead, and the originals are missing.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Only the "6,600 to 12,000 calories per day." is way off, because it's physics cal not nutritional (k)cal. And it's more like 100lb of hamburger for a human, not 300lb.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
> you can't just clam up halfway through a conversation. You certainly can.

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