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by avsteele 3y ago
This article misses the mark IMO. It really doesn't seem like the bank was taking on risks that a ton of banks aren't also exposed to just doing normal 'bank stuff' The banks primarily invest in mortgages, and treasuries
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by avsteele 3y ago
'Ask'ing isn't at issue here. The question is whether the library should bear any liability if it declines to act as a fact checker for every book on its shelves. In the case where you got your preference you'd mostly se
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by avsteele 3y ago
You probably don't believe a library or book store should be sued if they sell a book with defamatory content, so why do you think Google should be here? The connection between wrongdoing by Google is even more attenuated here, since G
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by avsteele 3y ago
The article doesn't do a great job of explaining the legal issues or what the current status is. Can anyone here do a better job? Can any Canadian request links be taken down?
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by avsteele 3y ago
This is misinformation. You owe this tax even if you do not claim any R&D tax credit. https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/articles/tax/2023/sec...
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by avsteele 3y ago
I have pretty extensive experience in this domain. Personally, I found there is a application complexity ceiling above which LabView was not viable. It is pretty great for rapid data collection and analysis, and it is well integrated with a
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by avsteele 3y ago
A recall a number of news items from a few years ago which talked about how some olive oil vendors were adulterating their products with other oils. If this phenomenon could be better understood maybe there would be a rapid, optical/s
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by avsteele 4y ago
Man, this takes me back. I remember trying to help a friend with their PHP assignment in college (~2001). I had only ever worked with C, C++, and java in my classes and I just remember being was confused as hell since I couldn't unders
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by avsteele 4y ago
I'm telling you what the argument is. Not endorsing it. That's why its in quotes.
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by avsteele 4y ago
I'd be interested to see the data for unis showing their costs are lower. I doubt it. For private companies, and an SBIR ,you have to establish an indirect rate based on your actual costs. The rate is the ratio of all indirect costs fo
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by avsteele 4y ago
This a decent write up. The SBIR budgets wind up looking similar. I can see how the indirect costs ("overhead") seem like ripoff to a professor, but even if you are running a private business having an indirect cost rate of 50% is
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by avsteele 4y ago
"This thing is inherently too risky/dangerous to use ... like firing a gun off into the air"
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by avsteele 4y ago
In the SF Chron article it says the #'s for San Francisco are: 2019 = 41 2020 = 48 2021 = 56 2022 = 56 If you can't discuss the facts in a civil manner I am not going to discuss the issue with you any further.
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by avsteele 4y ago
This is wrong. The 56-year low was 2019. 2021,2022 up about >30% from that. Oakland and Vallejo increases even more horrible. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/crime-homicides-... https://
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by avsteele 4y ago
We are the customers. Of COURSE its appropriate to give feedback on what parts of the product we like/don't like. The assertion that, because they put ads in, that it is the business-optimal thing to do is weird.
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by avsteele 4y ago
I don't see how this is a criticism of async. You have two options: 1) Use Task.Run and await its result whenever you need it. 2) make a blocking call; same as if async wasn't available. How does having option 1 make the situation
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by avsteele 4y ago
async/await are great: * pull based -> you don't need to worry so much about rate-limiting like you do with events * works well when needing to pull over slow communications (serial, remotes)
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by avsteele 4y ago
It's important to have ConfigureAwait(true) (the default) any time you need the continuation to be on the same thread. This is used/needed for many UI frameworks (WPF), which is why it is the default. Otherwise you should use (fal
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by avsteele 4y ago
They are not interested in selling to anything other than drug/life sciences. See my comment above.
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by avsteele 4y ago
I just put in a request to talk to them. Got a call back from a sales rep. I explained the my application was remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope). The sales
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by avsteele 4y ago
Synology has an app which will automatically back up your photos to the NAS/server (only when on WiFi). I haven't been able to find an alternative to this on Android, have you? (photosync looks good but seems to only work for iOS
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by avsteele 4y ago
What left out there similar to this? I want to provide remote instruction and see through a user's eyes to help them fix/debug hardware. 2D AR is good enough. Hololens is winding down. What's the next best thing?
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by avsteele 4y ago
I hate how the internet age has conditioned customers to expect less. There is no way a non-internet business would cut off a client of 4-years without actually talking (phone) to them.
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by avsteele 4y ago
His argument presupposes further AI progress, the opposite of blocking it.
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by avsteele 4y ago
Can someone point out some person/groups of any prominence who are making the argument against AI progress because of to job losses? (AI risk is an entirely separate issue)
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by avsteele 4y ago
This might solve a big mystery for me. When I first set up my company's website it was hosted at GoDaddy. Totally static site. It got 'hacked' one day, with new php files and redirecting users to some nonsense. This was Aug
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by avsteele 4y ago
A 3U case can support full height cards. Anyone have a favorite 3U rackmount PC case? The only I've used and like goes out of stock regularly though.
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by avsteele 4y ago
People assuming these are all balloons: please explain why they shutting down airspace without a statement. If they think its a balloon, why not just say 'radar detected a probable balloon and we are shutting down airspace while it is
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by avsteele 4y ago
I don't find the article very reputable, as they make statements like this: Even when data are publicly available their use can breach what we call textual integrity. This is a fundamental principle in legal discussions of privacy
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by avsteele 4y ago
I'm an employer, but my opinion would be the same regardless. The script is something like this: Person1: Arg! This thing! Person2: What ya working on? Person1: <...> is giving me trouble. Person1 then figures it out while tryin

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