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by bb88 2y ago
> A bunch of stock is a source of income too, but it wouldn't be wrong to use some of it. Normal US tax law that most people fall under says no, stock itself is not income. It's only taxed at the time of sale. If you ask for
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by bb88 2y ago
SE Linux was created by the NSA back in 2001. And that is super popular, but that was also before Snowden. As someone said when the Snowden archives were published, "Nobody wants to be on the blue team anymore. Everybody wants to be
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by bb88 2y ago
Well... it's not as nice with a cable as when it doesn't have one connected.
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by bb88 2y ago
My first instinct would be to go look at the discrete cosine transform that JPEG uses. But I don't know how to do the other parts like aligning and using the timing patterns.
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by bb88 2y ago
Yeah interesting, but not really any different than the original content. Maybe a little easier to grok. I was looking for algorithms to extract out a QR code from an image.
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by bb88 2y ago
The first MX Master 3S I had lasted a bit over 3 years. The battery would be constantly needing to be refreshed about once a week. It kinda got annoying. I still have it with the intentions of hacking it and replacing the battery for a se
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by bb88 2y ago
This is pretty awesome. I would like to see the same thing for the decoder.
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by bb88 2y ago
I too have a logitech MX master 3S mouse and it's fantastic across Windows, Linux and Mac. The only downside of it, is that it needs a larger battery for the price. I think you can hack it and put a larger one in there if you like, bu
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by bb88 2y ago
The thing I think is funny in all this is that hiring a new manager is fraught with a high amount of risk (more so than an engineer), but they don't have nearly the level of hurdles to get over. Does the company interview past employ
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by bb88 2y ago
I think the problem with the US is slow eroding of the rights of youth. We're not treating them as young adults who are fully capable of making their own decisions one day. Instead we're treating them as incapable infants until
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by bb88 2y ago
It's not a problem unless Bambu Lab starts suing. Bambu Lab's biggest competitor isn't Prusa. It's Stratysys. Stratysys shipments dropped in the past several quarters after the introduction of the Bambu printers about 2
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by bb88 2y ago
The real problem is that patent system seems ripe for abuse. Even if the "invention" is not a valid patent, companies want to patent it anyway, as to force the other side to expend resources to prove it's not valid. There&#x
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by bb88 2y ago
similar arguments have been made about lead and leaded gasoline being made illegal in the 70s.
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by bb88 2y ago
It's the articles that decry "Big discovery in X". This could be because the researchers need funding so they will hype the results as much as possible. Then the articles need as much readership so the journalists hype the re
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by bb88 2y ago
I'm beginning to like Sabine more and more. She is pro-nuclear, but she's not afraid to criticize the issues, like she did recently with small nuclear reactors. The most optimistic view I've heard on string theory is that th
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by bb88 2y ago
It's not an insane idea for NVIDIA or AMD to build ram sockets and an NVME interface into their video cards. The CPU is shuttling data over the PCI-E bus for certain things. The 5090 is going to be US$3-4k(?) when it comes out. So at
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by bb88 2y ago
Minisforum made a mini pc with oculink this last year. I ended up 3d printing a stand for it to hold a GPU card and a power supply, using an oculink to pcie adapter I found on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-Barebo
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by bb88 2y ago
"Oh you don't want to be on a statin for the rest of your life, do you?" Yes! I do! It lowers the risk of stroke and heart attack!
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by bb88 2y ago
Exactly. Kids who went hungry at school had behavioral problems, and couldn't focus on schoolwork. The solution was to give the kids breakfast, not to tell them to cope with hunger until they got home.
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by bb88 2y ago
Doctors have long said, "Diet and Exercise", but they couldn't really address the pain aspect of hunger until the last few years. And hunger is painful. Hunger is something that is left to the patient to cope with -- usually
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by bb88 2y ago
Right and caloric deficit is just diet.
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by bb88 2y ago
That's usually how it works for me too. I find that days 2-5 I start feeling not very good. I wouldn't say bloated, but almost weird blood sugar levels. Usually about 6pm in the evening is when I start feeling terrible. Kinda ma
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by bb88 2y ago
Exactly. There are lots of skinny alcoholics and drug addicts. Unfortunately many of them are homeless. The real surprise I learned is that GLP-1 may discourage other addictions as well, including gambling. Source: A nurse I talked to wh
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by bb88 2y ago
Consumer cars really aren't meant to last over 100k miles. I know a lot of uber drivers will put 30k miles or more on per year. Also if a car becomes a standard widget made to be easily repairable with parts that are standard widgets,
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by bb88 2y ago
Fair, but it also reinforces the stereotype that the pro-SQL types are obstinate relics yelling at the youngsters to "Get off my lawn!" There's a pattern of "We can't change X, so we'll write Y that transpiles
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by bb88 2y ago
And yet, the Vietnam of Computer Science paper didn't stop the creation of ORM's. There's something fundamentally broken with SQL syntax, and yelling at people to "Just Use SQL" doesn't really help.
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by bb88 2y ago
https://archive.ph/wCreq
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by bb88 2y ago
There's a JSONB column type in postgres for a while now too with the arrow syntax. I think my point is that the structure of the data in a relational database is tree-like. Yet we can only get tabular data out of the queries.
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by bb88 2y ago
There's a lot to like about the Django ORM. And Django still has it's place. What I'd like is a SQL that creates and consumes a JSON structure as output/input, and then there wouldn't really be a need to serialize&
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by bb88 2y ago
Humans have had a long history with trying to declare people dead and getting it wrong. Occasionally a dead body would be exhumed from the ground only to discover scratch marks on the lid of the coffin. This led to inventions like safety c

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