bmitc

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   by bmitc 4y ago

   Why? I'm pretty sick of this stuff. As if a multi-conglomerate will have no want to abuse the access to new data and push medical access in directions it shouldn't be going. Amazon just bought iRobot. So now they have microphones
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   Seems scary that something like the weight of a single airplane depends upon the amount of planes using some external system. So it seems that they not only discovered this particular bug by "luck" but that they've discovered
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   Dark matter is the name for unexplained mass that doesn't interact like typical matter. The existence of such mass is needed because there are galaxies that don't match what is predicted by general relativity. So either general re
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   I thought this was already known? What did this study add? > The team found that tabanid horseflies are attracted to large dark objects in their environment but less to dark broken patterns. All-gray coats were associated with by far the
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   My wife has been on a worker visa, and while our situations have been different than yours, I can sympathize with the hopeless feeling on that front. It is a terrible feeling, and it is truly a feeling of hopelessness. My one recommendation
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   I like Racket, but it is also a kitchen sink Scheme. It has a ton of features: GUI framework, drawing (although it's slow), event spaces, places, futures, OOP, mixins, traits, macros, #langs, etc. It can get quite complex very quickly.
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   It doesn't sound like they knew about it before it hit the atmosphere. I wonder how big it was before it broke up.
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   It seems to be a common theme to charge for something you already provide. From taking away ports so you can charge for dongles, adding in ads so that you have to pay to take them away, to charging subscriptions for previously free services
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   by bmitc 4y ago

   I guess so. But there's nothing I can do about that right now sans going to the future, as I'm still acquiring the pieces. Haha. I was trying to just make it clear that this was a choice was due to research and not use, as of yet.
10. 2650.▲
    by bmitc 4y ago

    Not sure about the downvotes. Is this bad solder or something? Don't try to convince me about leaded solder, please.
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    I haven't watched that particular video, but I would exercise caution with his videos. He can often exercise some rather strong opinions due to: (1) he's right, (2) he misunderstands the product or a feature but claims it's a
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    Recently being in the market for an oscilloscope, I was strongly considering the Digilent Analog Discovery 2, but I ended up going with the Siglent SDS1104X-E. https://siglentna.com/digital-oscilloscopes/sds1000x-e-seri
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    I am just beginning to solder, and I am committed to using non-leaded solder. After some research, I have settled on SN100C, but I haven't used it yet. https://aimsolder.com/products/solder-alloys/sn100c
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    I've been recently trying to set up a soldering station at home and am still in the research phase. I haven't been able to find one cheaper than the FA-430. It's weird as you can get a nice air purifier with a HEPA filter in
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    C++ is not necessarily popular for its merits. Inertia has a lot to do with it. I simply don't consider cans of worms pragmatic.
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    The word game appears twice in all the articles, so I took this writing as a broad outlook. And C++ is not C. Just because C++ ships games doesn't make it pragmatic. Aren't many game codebases considered to be absolute hell? And n
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    > but needed to get shit done eventually and so stopped his investigation. Very pragmatic. That's a strange take by him and on pragmatism. There's also almost nothing pragmatic about C++. Many functional languages are actually
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    I was thinking of users who might have phones that have a Twitter app or capability (didn't realize at the time of my comment that SMS tweeting is no longer allowed) but no authentication method other than SMS, presumably also without
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    Is it? Non-SMS authentication requires a smartphone and not just a cell phone. And they still allow it. They just make you pay for it. So it isn't a decision based on security, even though they chalk it up as such.
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    That makes sense. I forgot about the timescales for the evaporation. Thanks!
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    It is my understanding that, from a gravity-only standpoint, you are right. But I actually thought that black holes slowly evaporate, i.e., lose mass, from emitting Hawking radiation. It isn't clear from the article whether the vacuum
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    Do we know that the things he wanted to fix were important enough to fix?
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    Isn't this him just bragging, which gets extrapolated to some platitude about startups? By the same token of startups supposedly being able to fix things faster, which is debatable, it is more likely that they have more problems by mov
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    To me, it seems unlikely because, as far as I understand, life immediately began as soon as Earth cooled. So life is just barely younger than the Earth by only tens to hundreds millions of years. Also, it seems hard to imagine a better plac
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    While I no doubt believe these things are true, these are interesting stances coming from people knowingly selling their companies to Google, who has had this reputation for a while. Did these CEOs have users front of mind? It's not bl
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    These balloons don't seem to match the, however brief, descriptions of what was shot down. Also, do they not have mechanisms that report the balloon's position? Seems like a lot of speculation.
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    At one previous employer, yes, and it was lovely. It was huge, and we could of course request books for interlibrary loan, request the library to purchase, or request personal purchases to keep at our desks. Checkouts were indefinite until
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    Thanks for getting it. Steps to run my F# or Elixir notebooks are: * Install F# or Elixir * Install the Polyglot Notebook extension in VS Code (for F#) or install Livebook (for Elixir) * Run notebook The idea of what Emacs provides is irrel
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    You can display images, including interactive ones, rendered LaTeX and diagrams, and arbitrary HTML/CSS/JavaScript inside "notebooks" in Emacs?
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    by bmitc 4y ago

    That doesn't solve my problems though. F# notebooks with Polyglot Notebooks or Elixir notebooks with Livebook, which are what I use, are much more advanced than Jupyter notebooks and likely anything Emacs provides. For example, in a Po