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by avidiax 3y ago
The insularity isn't behind that, in my opinion. It's more that almost all of Google's features are ad-funded, and the company has chosen to make lots of (apparently) free, but poorly supported and uncertain products, rather
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by avidiax 3y ago
Maybe this is an improvement. They used to allow cinema lens rigs. At some point it is just having the iPhone film the viewfinder of a professional camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkPter7MC1I
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Solderless PCB Assembly with Z-Tape – You Shouldn't, but Maybe You Could?(tomverbeure.github.io)
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Isn't that how things are supposed to work? If your company is prioritizing security and privacy, no, this is not how it's supposed to work. This shows a failure of the process. By design/default, this MAC address should
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by avidiax 3y ago
I think, yes, in theory. But your node will not receive general public traffic until it has demonstrated uptime, bandwidth, etc.
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by avidiax 3y ago
A big part of the psychology of home buyers is about resale potential or value. This is why, for example, single people care about school districts, people buy more bedrooms than they need, etc. So to resell an assumed mortgage, you have to
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by avidiax 3y ago
This doesn't seem like a complete solution, as the article notes. The seller would have to find another assumable loan to be able to buy an equivalent replacement home. Taken to the furthest conclusion, the home-owning class would even
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by avidiax 3y ago
I and my wife have used this many times when traveling in Japan. It is useful for the shopping suitcase, i.e. the big check-in one that collects the souvenirs, cosmetics, food/wine, electronics, etc. that are going home with you. It on
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by avidiax 3y ago
I think the part that's missing from most of these scenarios is that all this surveillance can be retroactive. Now, you might say that things can't be made retroactively illegal, but selective enforcement can be done retroactively
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by avidiax 3y ago
* Structured logging is far more powerful than plain text, but we lack tools to convert plain text logging code to structured, and lack tools to convert plain text logs to structured * Logging in a large system is a tragedy of the commons.
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by avidiax 3y ago
I think there's a solid argument that e-bikes are essentially motorcycles lacking a variety of safety gear. That may be an advantage where you can ride e-bikes on dedicated bike lanes, but is probably a disadvantage if you ride e-bikes
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by avidiax 3y ago
How much damage does a routine underperformer cause vs. creating a very toxic corporate culture where routine underperformers learn that it's easier to slow others down and those same managers now hire underperformers on purpose?
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by avidiax 3y ago
When will we have Blade Runner style interrogations to get a job? Employers have already been known to give Big-5 personality tests to all applicants. fMRI or other similar tests seems like a small price to pay to cherry pick the "righ
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by avidiax 3y ago
As an overweight rider, I'd prefer rim brakes since they don't brake fade as quickly as rim brakes. I can't even lock up the front tire on my last two bikes, both with hydraulic brakes. They just don't have enough torque
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by avidiax 3y ago
Why did Amazon close this? Were people succeeding their PIPs? Isn't that a good thing? Were people discovering that they were in secret pre-PIP (pivot), and then giving up earlier than the company wanted? Were people taking the severan
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by avidiax 3y ago
This is my question. Does this mean that the solution orbits are stable equilibria, i.e. small errors or perturbations return to a stable orbit?
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by avidiax 3y ago
https://archive.is/iH8qy
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, because I enjoy an economy 4 door twice as much now that they cost twice what they used to. Now I have Bluetooth, a rear view camera, increased fuel economy and improved crash protection. Today, if I get t-boned by a lifted F-350, I&#x
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by avidiax 3y ago
> And then there of course is the challenge of practically enforcing anything I feel at least some of the proponents of these restrictions want the challenge. This will effectively be another war against an idea, which justifies endless
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by avidiax 3y ago
I think it's a metalepsis [0] on "poison tongue" which is a Biblical reference for slander/libel: Quoth the ChatGPT: > The term “poison tongue” is often used to describe someone who speaks in a way that is hurtful, ma
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by avidiax 3y ago
What does "social" mean in this context? I.e. it means that now the task can be tackled by multiple people or organizations, that this is desirable , or that it should be?
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by avidiax 3y ago
Switzerland has the same problem. If the rent increase has been determined by market conditions to be 10%, incumbents have their rent increased by 40% of that, so 4%. And it's not asymptotic. If the rent increase next year is 0%, the i
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by avidiax 3y ago
Switzerland has an imperfect system with some good features. Landlords can't raise the rent without cause. The cause can be that the variable mortgage interest rate went up (and the tenant can reverse the increase if it goes down), or
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by avidiax 3y ago
In many jurisdictions, requiring uncompensated oncall would, by itself, possibly be "constructive dismissal". PIPing without an actual performance problem is also constructive dismissal, and doing it because the employee is refusi
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Crashes involving light rail are common in urban areas, That's a good point. That doesn't mean that trains need to be as heavy as they are, though. Having a crumple zone and weighing 3x of non-commercial road vehicles would s
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by avidiax 3y ago
> before they go on a job? Not every burglar is a "cat burglar". Many of them respond to crimes of opportunity, where they could not have foreseen the need to leave their phone on but at home. Of course, this investigation meth
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by avidiax 3y ago
> So thus, the more hoops you put into your process to try and stem the tide of the hoards of desperate unqualified applicants, the more you disproportionately screen out the highly qualified applicants who have better things to do and b
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by avidiax 3y ago
> a comparable carriage fitted with pneumatic tyres could need as many as 20 wheels. How does a bus get by with far fewer wheels? I think the answer is that they are still building with the same weight as a train, rather than a bus. That
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by avidiax 3y ago
> if you want to convince people of something (aka politics) you may want to appeal to them using logic and for that you'll want to use facts I used to think this way, but this advice needs to be conditional. Dispassionate or distan
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, there are transflective LCDs. My angle is that we don't need complicated e-ink + LCD displays. Just make LCD less straining (reduce glare, automatically limit brightness).

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