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by billjings 5y ago
Videos over messaging are a different problem space from the one outlined in this article. The number of people watching a messaged video is low; latency might be the topline metric the team optimizes for, since it has a big effect on wheth
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by billjings 6y ago
Depends on the use. For low distortion, tubes fare better because their operating point is more linear than any single transistor. Ge doesn't make a huge difference here iirc. Outside their operating point is another story. As said els
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by billjings 6y ago
Incitement isn't permitted by any interpretation of the 1st amendment. The current state of affairs offers nothing more granular than shutting down all of Parler in response to their failure to moderate this speech effectively.
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by billjings 6y ago
I can't imagine a director like Fincher ever taking it into consideration, but compressibility is a real issue that modern filmmakers should aspire to keep in mind. I ran into this dealing with marketing folks at [bigtechco] where bitr
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by billjings 6y ago
Surprising. What platform? How much bandwidth? Now I need to watch Mann....was the artificial grain just pure noise of some kind?
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by billjings 6y ago
But I know for a fact that without adderall, I wouldn't have done a damn thing. I've tried for a few months. Shrugged and went back. There's an underlying assumption here: that the medication either makes things better, or
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by billjings 6y ago
Sort of? On the one hand, they were a cultural byword for a morally degraded profession at the time. "Tax collectors and prostitutes" is a phrase that comes up not infrequently in the gospels, and not just out of Jesus' mouth
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by billjings 6y ago
I don't understand how part time employment requires him to be classified as a contractor, not an employee.
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by billjings 6y ago
I think it's more a matter of expertise/experience than size. The different platform teams have to have gelled enough to agree on the core architectural abstractions, which is a level of maturity that goes a step beyond necessity.
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by billjings 6y ago
You are correct, sir. I must have had commodore on the mind after that VIC20 Doom port made the rounds recently.
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by billjings 6y ago
I hate these articles that feature a programmer who works within a certain domain and assume all programming tasks are similar. Citation needed? Last I checked, Graham was working on a C64 Smalltalk80 VM as a side project, so I presume he
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by billjings 6y ago
What makes it work? I see the web content, but driving web content to Amazon would make the site pointless. It seems like Amazon's prices are higher, though. Is it direct sales?
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by billjings 6y ago
"Ultimately all physical retails spaces have the same common problem -- why should someone go into your store when they can get the same products online. ...I personally think there are two answer, one is to move the core retail busine
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by billjings 6y ago
2015 is not the correct tag; this was publically published recently, I believe this year, as part of House antitrust discovery. So the date of authorship, while usually a good guide, would not be helpful to users looking to filter out repos
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by billjings 6y ago
Can we correct the title? 2015 is not the correct date of public publication; this document was published as part of House antitrust discovery, I believe this year, and was private communication before that. Finding the precise date is beyo
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by billjings 6y ago
Well, doing some quick googling.... Rule of thumb for a boat motor is 1hp for each 40-50lbs of weight. Say conservatively that you're 160-200lbs like myself, that's 4hp minimum. Solar panels are ~15w/ft^2. 4hp = 2983w, which
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by billjings 6y ago
Your response doesn't address the points of concern I raised about the quality of Hungary's democratic institutions. I agree that it is debatable as to whether those concerns make it an autocracy. As you say, it is not a clear cut
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by billjings 6y ago
Hold on: Hungary is not an autocratic country? Hasn't Fidesz controlled the country for over ten years now? Haven't they amended the constitution? Packed the courts? This is not a topic that is at the top of my mind, so I am not a
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by billjings 6y ago
I was referring specifically to American companies. They don't do so in China for the simple reason that they're not allowed to operate there.
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by billjings 6y ago
"I found it funny that the author of this post is trying to defend liberal values like the free flow of information on the internet by...making Apple and Google remove Tiktok from people's phones." This is what the posted art
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by billjings 6y ago
I think your chronology is correct, yes. The family tree in the article is not a chronology, I think, so your chronology augments it with useful information.
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by billjings 6y ago
> It is unnecessary to reverse something which was not lost in the first place. As others have repeatedly pointed out all over the comments on this article the US has continued to climb up the manufacturing food chain and dominates the t
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by billjings 6y ago
My friends in property management tell me that people are indeed moving. My neighbor had a turnover just last month. Job losses plus no rent relief pretty much require that people will move.
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by billjings 6y ago
But Bob didn't take a moment to see if or how he could integrate his existing knowledge into this new way of doing things, or ask if there might be something he's not seeing. I've taken those concerns to people in the clojure
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by billjings 6y ago
This seems to be a limitation of the tool, yes?
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by billjings 6y ago
Simple stuff works out of the box in the OS for most flows; Soundflower (as mentioned elsewhere) gets you the rest of the way. macOS also has the capability to create an aggregate audio device from multiple devices. That's a pretty nic
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by billjings 6y ago
In my experience, musicians and other creative types care first and formost about getting results. So that means they need a toolchain that is flexible and rich enough to yield great results. Performance is a factor there, inasmuch as it co
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by billjings 6y ago
I think the point "Health care officials and government don't respect the public" is worth some deeper consideration. As a thought exercise, I'd like to put myself in the shoes of that public health official and see what
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by billjings 6y ago
I wrote my answer to this a few years ago: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/a-crash-course-in-awk/ A tl;dr for the following tl;dr: it's great for quick-and-dirty processing of logs. The tl;dr is that AWK is
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by billjings 6y ago
A friend of mine built this, and I feel the need to promote it: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses There are Rust and C++ bindings, and it performs some truly ridiculous TUI tricks.

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