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by arinlen 5y ago
> I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac. I'd already be happy if maximizing a window on macOS worked reliably.
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by arinlen 5y ago
> For managers, the who is the why. For managers, the "who" matters only as a factor determining the velocity and success of delivering the "why". To put it differently, no matter how well the "who" is going
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by arinlen 5y ago
> All this makes me want to do is delete my entire Github. I do not want a future employer judging me on the basis of the half-finished amateurish experiments I knock off on my free time as I'm learning a new language or messing aro
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by arinlen 5y ago
> It’s not relevant. Is anyone expecting him to be the CEO? The article quotes a shareholder rallying behind Musk's offer as justifying his support for Mr Musk's personal involvement. The article includes quotes from shareholde
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Dogger Bank Wind Farm(en.wikipedia.org)
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by arinlen 5y ago
> I remember doing a bit of spare time research into getting power from the Sahara desert when I was a school kid. The idea is obvious (...) I'm afraid you failed to understand the point. There is no question that Morocco has an imp
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Brexit isn't mentioned anywhere and the physics of it would be the same regardless of the EU existing or not. The point of mentioning Brexit is to stress that the physics alone makes this sort of project hard to justify on technic
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Are you able to compare the experience of being at a Big Tech company compared to a very small team with wide responsibilities? Most "Big Tech companies" are already structured internally as small teams with wide responsibili
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Boss wants to change our iOS game icon. Changing icon requires a new build. A new build requires iPhone X support. iPhone X build target requires Xcode 9. Xcode 9 requires macOS 10.12. OS update breaks old Unity3D. Upgrading Unity brea
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by arinlen 5y ago
What was the exact consequence of the projects not having been updated? Are they actually supported in the current set of macOS/iOS versions? Apple is renowned for being very proactive in pushing Xcode updates, and with it pushing plat
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit. This scapegoat has no credibility. At the
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Was he fired? I thought he quit after Tsipras sold out the Greek people? His less-than-transparent scapegoat of "the referendum didn't went my way" doesn't hide the fact that Varoufakis was forced out of SYRIZA&#x27
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by arinlen 5y ago
The man is sufficiently credentialed to suggest that this is at least a well considered position of his based on his experiences as an economist and finance minister. He was fired from finance minister of Greece after only a few months on t
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by arinlen 5y ago
> You may or may not agree with his ideas or not but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone with more nuanced takes on politics, tech, and crypto. His very short and tumultuous tenure as the finance minister of Greece's
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by arinlen 5y ago
> What a manipulative comment. First of all, you didn’t quote the key points of the study: Please point out exactly where my direct citation from the article is manipulated in any way. > Meaning The risk of myocarditis in this large c
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Regular plasma donation is probably much worse for your long term health than ppb levels of pfas. You should in the very least read the summary. Even though the trial referred in the submission tracked regular plasma donations, the r
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by arinlen 5y ago
> "Mild mycoarditis" is a complete propaganda lie up there with war is peace. I'm not sure you're adequately informed or even being honest at all. Myocarditis refers to inflammation of the heart muscle. Amusingly en
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Many times faster doesn't mean shit if it takes up 4-6x more space than it needs to in what is likely the most expensive commercial real estate the company owns/leases. Unless you're hoping to monetize that spot on your
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by arinlen 5y ago
> A home lab was generally seen as something to experiment with and learn something from. It looks to me that rolling your own media center is something to experiment with and learn something from.
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Why does a single missile cost $80k? Is it just profiteering or is there an actual technical/economic reason for this? Unit costs tend to be estimated by dividing the total amount of cash spent on a weapons program and divide it
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by arinlen 5y ago
> The Neptune might be another great weapon as well, for example, and they'll never be able to produce enough of them while at war. It seems that producing only two already had a critical impact on the ongoing war.
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by arinlen 5y ago
> They're very different weapons; an NLAW is unlikely to incapacitate a tank at any range SAAB claims that the NLAW "(...) can destroy a heavily protected modern battle tank with one shot, and the system is effective at ranges
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by arinlen 5y ago
> 2) All viruses are changing fast ... that doesn't mean they suddenly produce totally new types of symptoms. COVID variants were already observed to trigger totally new types of symptoms. https://www.thelancet.com&#x2F
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by arinlen 5y ago
TL;DR > " We also estimated the excess numbers of myocarditis events per 100 000 vaccinees in the 28-day risk periods. Among all males, these numbers were (...) [at most 4.97 events] after the second dose. > " Among all fem
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by arinlen 5y ago
> It does seem that a young male already immune due to having had Covid (...) There is no such thing as "already immune due to having had COVID". Unvaccinated individuals were observed to have far higher reinfection rates than
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by arinlen 5y ago
> I’m not a manager. But I do think it’s useful to apply a realpolitik kind of analysis here. Taking Zoom calls for a living is hell. People in power do not voluntarily consign themselves to hell. Your comment does not have anything to d
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by arinlen 5y ago
> If your needs are that mundane, I really don't see why an Apple ARM chip would matter? I don't think "mundane" is a fair and honest take. Just like most of the industry benefits little to nothing from performance ga
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by arinlen 5y ago
> This even starts with basic Numpy and handling tensor objects. It's not easy for a type checker to understand what operations you can do with what shape of tensor. That doesn't sound like a Python problem. Instead, it sounds
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by arinlen 5y ago
> Apple's current line of ARM chips lack the memory and IO features that are essential for server application. Some people just want to run software. There are plenty of cloud service providers that use COTS desktop hardware as ser
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by arinlen 5y ago
> What Pandas does is notoriously hard to fit into a compile-time type system. Certainly too hard to go into the brains of scientists who didn't grow up coding. I'm not sure if that's true. Doesn't Pandas handle ETL a

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