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by awjlogan 3y ago
Thank you for the link, appreciate the read and the nuance is important and I don't at all believe in the fundamentalist view on either side. I'm in complete agreement that threatening someone with massive legal ramifications is n
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Do remember that Adobe, say, does not give away their product to students out of the goodness of their heart: they want you to use their product when they start working and ask your employers to shell out the full amount.
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by awjlogan 3y ago
In what way is it fallacious? Or dangerous? (That's a genuine question). Fundamentally, it's the same problem - producers have to adjust their prices to reflect the threat to their income. If I produce something, and I forecast X%
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Intellectual property is a response exactly to the difference in the marginal cost because it recognises the threat to the value creating producer. Just because you don't tangibly see the cost of the IP, that doesn't mean it was
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Brutal, but true :/
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by awjlogan 3y ago
You are, instead, "stealing" the means for the producer to make more if they can't afford to do it any more because you've normalised using people's work without compensation. It doesn't really matter if the ma
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by awjlogan 3y ago
If I don't think a product in the shop is reasonably priced, I don't have the right just to take it. The shop can decide to reduce the price in response to the market - they may make less profit than before and make up for it in
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Because you are getting something produced by someone for free if you pirate it and you are relying on others to fund your consumption. Take that to the logical extreme: everybody pirates everything. That is _very_ different to everyone not
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Completely agree - London's not that big, and it's great to travel around on the surface and experience all the different neighbourhoods and seasons. Generally, any distance inside Z1/2 will be faster, or at least competitive
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Identiconn Connector Identification Utility(connectorbook.com)
2 points by awjlogan 3y ago|0 comments
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Somewhat simplistically, the actual price at a given time is guided by the cost of the marginal source, i.e., the one source that is brought in to meet higher demand. If gas is your marginal source, then the electricity price is in large pa
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Show HN: Snag – schedule tasks to minimise carbon emissions(github.com)
3 points by awjlogan 3y ago|1 comments
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by awjlogan 3y ago
Yes, indeed :) Didn’t want to muddy the waters with vector instructions, and it’s fair to say that the dedicated DSP chip market has been squeezed by FPGAs on one side and vectorised (even lightly, like the Cortex-M4/M7 DSP extension)
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by awjlogan 3y ago
If that was an ask for a specific example, one of the most common uses for FPGAs is DSPs. Say you have a simple FIR filter of, say, 63 taps. To do this in a CPU requires you to load two values and do a multiply/accumulate for each tap
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by awjlogan 4y ago
If you're in Europe, then order your PCBs from Aisler (no affliation). They are a sponsor of KiCad, and you can add a small donation on each order. Direct upload of KiCad files, good turnaround time, and decent prices.
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by awjlogan 4y ago
This got a reasonable amount of attention, but it’s not particularly relevant. The example solutions would never be written in pure interpreted Python - you would import numpy and use the numeric functions from there, effectively using C ra
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by awjlogan 4y ago
Yes, it’s clearly not working in some regards. Your basic suggestion, however, is also unrealistic - a school in isolation can not make up for all the problems of an area. Similarly, a brilliant teacher can only do so much. If they can move
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by awjlogan 4y ago
The problem with saying that teachers will have an incentive to make a bad school better is that they can not hope to compensate for massive socioeconomic differences. If you pay solely on absolute results, all the good teachers are going t