amalcon

32 ms·

421.
by amalcon 4y ago
Eruptions on the big island happen pretty frequently, maybe about 1-2 times per decade (partly because there are several volcanoes there; Kilauea was erupting when I was there less than a decade ago). It's in some ways comparable to h
422.
by amalcon 4y ago
Honestly I agree with you, but I was one of those people who mostly cared about high definition TV because the sound was better. I think we're something of a rare breed.
423.
by amalcon 4y ago
Agreed, I was surprised that the "equipment" section talked about monitors with high refresh rates as opposed to ergonomic mice and such. It was somewhere around 30 when I started to worry more about getting RSI than losing.
424.
by amalcon 4y ago
This sort of rhetoric is suboptimal. It only seems persuasive because you consider cryptocurrency to be analogous in purpose to cash, but the person you're trying to convince likely does not believe this. If they did, then they likel
425.
by amalcon 4y ago
None of these collapses have been due to fractional reserve banking, because fractional reserve banking requires being open about what you're doing. These collapses have been about fraud . There are lots of other kinds of fraud; get
426.
by amalcon 4y ago
The most often cited are things like the fire department figuring out which parts of a burning building have people in them, or a hospital noticing when a patient tries to get out of bed on their own.
427.
by amalcon 4y ago
Warcraft 2 had sole-purpose obstacles you could build for this. However, most people didn't use them. Farms were more cost effective in that role and also gave you army capacity. I always thought this was why Starcraft didn't ha
428.
by amalcon 4y ago
I took an ethics course in undergrad (don't recall whether it was required, but I can't think of anyone in my major+year who didn't take it). This was before mobile apps as such, but we discussed (among other things) both sp
429.
by amalcon 4y ago
At the same time, this is like... data integrity 101. For future reference if you want to build a system that manipulates valuable information (such as monetary accounts), and you've never done anything like that before: Please pick a
430.
by amalcon 4y ago
The advantage is mostly that if you're blind or can't hold a pen, the computer can help you with that. These folks otherwise need a trusted human to help them -- which mostly works, but not everyone has a trusted human.
431.
by amalcon 4y ago
I've known people to be laid off from one position, apply for a different position at the same company the next day, and end up hired into that position. It can happen.
432.
by amalcon 4y ago
The investors in the acquisition? A company doesn't need to be listed on an exchange to have investors.
433.
by amalcon 4y ago
Marketplace is part of it. In many regions, it's essentially replaced Craigslist for buying/selling random things like lawn equipment and children's toys. Beyond that, I think it's pretty well documented (and also stand
434.
by amalcon 4y ago
For medication like this, the doctor will usually prescribe a specific number of pills at a specific dosage. The number will rarely exceed what you ask for, and asking for large numbers of pills is treated (not unreasonably) as a sign of d
435.
by amalcon 4y ago
People (in the US) purchase insurance mostly because the insurance premium is 90%+ paid by either their employer or the government. Everyone understands that the total price is a scam, but the <=10% that you pay out of pocket has an exc
436.
by amalcon 4y ago
They are creditors, though. The terms of the loans are not public, but usually being a creditor provides more leverage than a minority equity stake.
437.
by amalcon 4y ago
My two biggest childhood hobbies were reading and video games. Frankly, grand strategy games like the Civilization series and simulation games like SimCity taught patience and planning much more effectively than any of the books. What the
438.
by amalcon 4y ago
Of course, all of those other options are actually difficult in certain ways. 2+3+4+5 can all be expensive. 3+4 are stigmatized in many cultures. 2+5 require knowledge that not everyone has. That said if you're having trouble calmin
439.
by amalcon 4y ago
Agreed mostly. Put other stuff -- mostly water, but some food -- in your stomach, and be aware of the volume and ABV of your one drink, and you can be fine. Source: I occasionally drink, but it's rare enough that doctors' office
440.
by amalcon 4y ago
This is not even in the top ten criteria for selecting a doctor. If I find a doctor who knows what they are talking about, actually listens, and actually lets me make an appointment, I'm not walking away from that unicorn just because
441.
by amalcon 4y ago
Yeah, kind of reminds me of the Star Wars sequels (well, I actively disliked the last one also, but the first two sequels anyway). Are they as good as the original trilogy? No, but when they came out my expectations were calibrated to the
442.
by amalcon 4y ago
Certainly the N64 (immediately prior to Gamecube) was supposed to be super high tech. They actually stressed the partnership with SGI in the marketing, and literally named the console after the word size of its CPU. In retrospect the form
443.
by amalcon 4y ago
In addition to using the wrong type of filter, "roughly 2/3 the DBA" is not a terribly helpful statement because decibels are a log-scale unit. A 60dB sound will carry about 100x the energy of a 40dB sound. It's not su
444.
by amalcon 4y ago
It's difficult to answer this right now because the overwhelming majority of people who use Rust now have at least some background in C or C++. If you're coming from Java, the most difficult thing you'll need to learn is memo
445.
by amalcon 4y ago
My favorite type of "What" comment is: // The following block should have the same // result as this (simpler) code: // <code> // but for <reason> this version is bet
446.
by amalcon 4y ago
"Comments go out of date quickly" is true -- it's the "there's no point in investing in them" that's incorrect. In addition to being valuable in the short term (to both you and anyone else who ends up loo
447.
by amalcon 4y ago
It's a fact that PoW involves quite a bit of waste, just like it's a fact that e.g. a coffee shop will waste quite a bit of coffee (by discarding it at close or when it gets too old). That the market dynamics all but require the
448.
by amalcon 4y ago
Penicillin (along with every other antibiotic) is a deeply imperfect treatment in many ways (sub-100% effectiveness, deadly allergies, other side effects). It's also one of the most potent life-saving inventions in history. If the re
449.
by amalcon 4y ago
You can obviously rate limit the requests, and there are other tricks as well. I tend to think FIDO is better than push notifications for other (related) reasons, but it's not impossible to mitigate this kind of attack.
450.
by amalcon 4y ago
Basically two things: 1. It was better than the other stuff I had access to at the time. This is due more to the poor quality of the other stuff I had access to at the time than any benefit of Turbo Pascal, but it still mattered. 2. There

More ›