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by amalcon 4y ago
So it is up to the platform, since the compiler is part of the platform.
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by amalcon 4y ago
A ranty article on what appears to be a random, unaffiliated blog, that cites no source ? I'm willing to listen -- I'd love to believe what they want to say -- but this is not how you convince me.
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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't think every meeting needs notes, but there are three levels that I've found useful (as a dev). I don't take all of these at every meeting, but I make at least one of them at most. - An email to the group summarizin
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by amalcon 4y ago
Those things have one pretty serious drawback: falls tend to happen while the person isn't wearing it. Of course, this might not be any different for smart watches and such.
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by amalcon 4y ago
The Rourke Bridge in Lowell, Massachusetts basically looks like someone did that, without putting a whole lot of effort into it. On the average day, 27,000 people drive over it anyway.
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by amalcon 4y ago
I've heard tell that in some cities with low labor costs, it's cheaper for a disabled person to pay someone to carry them up and down stairs than to rent an apartment with an elevator. That particular robot has been around in mor
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by amalcon 4y ago
Right, it's very different than any other console. It's not particularly out of character for Valve, though, and they are definitely part of the DRM establishment.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's sold by arguably the largest DRM provider. Valve just seems think of DRM as a way to keep honest people honest, rather than as something that aspires to be unassailable.
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by amalcon 4y ago
The reason for the strict limits on pseudoephedrine is because of its use in the manufacture of (prohibited) methamphetamine, so that's a poor example. Prescription drugs are also a bad example because fentanyl (and most other opioi
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by amalcon 4y ago
I'm mostly with you, but "it can wait until there aren't pressing feature demands" actually means "it won't happen until something completely breaks and it can no longer wait." There are always pressing f
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by amalcon 4y ago
That scene has long had the "janky but really fast translation" niche and the "good but takes a couple of days" niche. From what little I experienced of the former, people who cared about translation quality probably we
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by amalcon 4y ago
This has been a problem with every new productive technology. The civilized answer is "society takes on the responsibility of teaching them to do other things". Of course, this often does not happen for one of two reasons. First
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by amalcon 4y ago
A Japanese-style ryoba hand saw. I'm a hobbyist woodworker, and I didn't believe the hype until I tried one myself. I just have a $30-ish one, and it's like night and day compared to any other hand saw I've used. Ha
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by amalcon 4y ago
Well that was a quick Godwin. If I wanted to, I could make a very strong case that cynicism was a factor that led to the rise of the Third Reich (I'd be paraphrasing a book I read some years ago). I'm not going to make that
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by amalcon 4y ago
Cynicism tends to go hand in hand with defeatism. I have no problem with cynicism, if you're the rare person willing to take steps to fix or mitigate the problems you are cynical about. In the more common case, it just leads to givi
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by amalcon 4y ago
I admit that I have not done a good job of explaining what I'm driving at here, but payment shock is neither an obscure nor unhelpful concept in consumer finance. If you suddenly take on a very large, new payment, that creditor will w
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by amalcon 4y ago
The key thing here is that the loan payments are new, and are greater than profits were before the loan payments. That doesn't necessarily mean they are losing money -- revenue could have increased, or costs decreased, to make up th
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by amalcon 4y ago
The fact that Twitter currently has loan payments in excess of last year's profits could be a factor. Delaying means they will be more likely to be entangled in a bankruptcy and potentially get a worse outcome if they are. Even a low
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by amalcon 4y ago
The "members of the other party are literally evil and uniformly commit (non-political) crimes against humanity" thing is somewhat overstated. There are a disturbing number of people who think that, but it's far enough from
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by amalcon 4y ago
That looks to be a classic bait-and-switch, which is considered a form of fraudulent advertising in many jurisdictions. It may not be worth the hassle for you, but you probably could report them if you want.
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by amalcon 4y ago
Pumped-storage hydro (the cheapest and generally most practical gravity battery) is currently responsible for almost all grid-scale energy storage worldwide. I don't think it's fair to say it's not getting attention. What&#x
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by amalcon 4y ago
WebRTC is one of a very few newer browser features that has made me say "That seems legitimately useful!". Good to see it being integrated with more things.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It sure made for an interesting sort of nostalgia when I (much later, when I hadn't messed with those settings for years) learned what Direct Memory Access and interrupt codes actually were.
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by amalcon 4y ago
Avoid your own house or yard? Annoyance? Tell that to my wife, my brother in law, my uncle, my cousin, or my good friend. They all could literally die if stung, and have all been to the hospital at least once after a sting.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's about 80% the same as any other store (keep things stocked, tell customers where they are, operate a cash register kind of stuff), 5% copying keys, 15% answering questions that are either really simple ("what do I use to hang
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by amalcon 4y ago
The idea that free speech is disappearing in the US is patently absurd. Check out the Sedition Act of 1918 if you'd like to be informed on the progress we've made. The speech clause of the first amendment is stronger than it was
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by amalcon 4y ago
The problem with the ribbon is that discoverability is extremely slow . If I'm looking for a piece of functionality, it's much faster to read through text menus looking for related words than to inspect a similar number of unfam
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by amalcon 4y ago
Honestly, my favorite parts about rust are: - It has the best parts of C (code generation is predictable, no mandatory extra thread for GC or similar, interoperates very well with C code) - It also has some of the niceties that were popular
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by amalcon 4y ago
This is the kind of overly cynical philosophy that ends up defeating itself. Obviously it can Pascal's Wager itself away (i.e. it's rational to not have this philosophy as it will tend to make one sad and ineffective with no clea
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by amalcon 4y ago
If it were actual (autonomous) robots, yes. The article is actually talking about ROVs (remote-operated vehicles). The city still needs to pay a human operator, who happens to be a moderate distance away. It's arguably financially ju

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