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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Using all of Windows, macOS, and Linux in a typical day makes you an extreme outlier. Sure? I just wanted to make note of something I think is great and underrated about Electron. The outlier-y nature of that something is exactly why m
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by caconym_ 5y ago
As a user I care about having the features I want, working the way they're supposed to. And, as someone who uses all of Windows, macOS, and Linux in a typical day, I want these features to work consistently across platforms. There is r
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> What does it mean to "live under a rock"? "Living under a rock" is an idiom used to describe one who is/has been cut off from the mainstream. > Which rock do I live under? The rock of literally never having
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> But the specifics matter. What matters is the kinds of jobs From the article, emphasis mine: > Only by actually addressing problems at the point of production—for example, by ensuring decent jobs that allow workers to support a fam
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I might add that the people who can afford it move to those certain cities. But yes, you're right, we already do a great job making sure that not all children have equal opportunity.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
It was sarcasm, intended to (at the very least) draw attention to the possibility of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater", and the perils of focusing on imaginary "welfare leeches" at the expense of general prosper
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I, for one, am sick of subsidizing people who will decide to play video games and smoke weed all day with our tax dollars. IIUC, one of the best predictors of a person's earning potential (which we can of course use as a proxy metric
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> I also can't help myself but point out that it is very bad to extrapolate from a sample of outliers. I don't think that's exactly what's happening here. As an analogy, look at twin studies: they're undeniably b
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> And it's not like you're not being tracked when you stream from a Roku stick / Chromecast. Believe it or not, there are ways to deliver content to a display that don't involve Roku, Chromecast, or any other instrume
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Earth is going to get very crowded in the next couple of centuries. The economic case for large-scale expansion into space isn't exactly clear at this point, but when things get tight I'd rather have state and corporate actors loo
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Without a complete and honest accounting of the risk profile, which is something NASA and its contractors have historically not been great at, it's hard to say whether test/backup hardware would have been warranted. IMO "buil
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I like how you call my comment "pure fiction" and then launch into a bit of highly opinionated speculative fiction regarding what "life on Mars" will surely be like. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you think I mean b
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by caconym_ 5y ago
It's definitely not an easy place to live. My understanding is that even in a best case scenario where everything you need turns out to be theoretically available, you'll need a bunch of currently-speculative industrial processes
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You also seem to be taking as a given that independent survival on Mars is functionally impossible due to a lack of "local resources" from which to derive the essentials of survival viz. "air, water, food, and radiation shiel
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Maybe your initial comment was not clear. Reproduced below: > Excitement cannot overcome a lack of exploitable natural resources at the destination. In context ("the more SpaceX progresses, the more people will get excited about spa
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Nation-state scale science programs notwithstanding, I think the possibility of independent sovereignty will be the main draw of going to Mars, if/when independent survival is technologically (and economically, in the local scope) feas
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I wanted to start writing fiction for years, but I never made much progress. The thing that finally got me going was the (implicit) realization that I'd been censoring myself, and that the kind of fiction I like to write isn't rea
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Most jumpers probably have no idea how dangerous it is to spin a multiengine aircraft, and anybody who would classify as "lazy" a pilot's avoidance of an asymmetrical thrust condition a hair above stall with a large, draggy m
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Regarding higher airspeed, I'm not suggesting that they go any faster—only that they burn altitude to maintain airspeed instead of flying level on asymmetrical thrust. Regarding sink rate, in the absence of a definitive source I don&#x
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by caconym_ 5y ago
How many skydives out of twins using this procedure or similar?
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Also not a pilot but my understanding is that spins in multiengine aircraft are generally considered extremely dangerous, to the extent that they aren't even spun in testing/certification. From here^[1]: > No multiengine airpla
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The typical small two-stroke engine has two big problems that cause hilariously bad emissions: 1) The lubricating oil is mixed into the fuel and burned in the combustion cycle. The combustion products of this oil are not clean. 2) They comb
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Okay. So just to make this very clear: you very much do have an opinion on the practical merits (viz. "fun") of a game console you have never in your life seen or touched, let alone used for any meaningful length of time, and yo
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by caconym_ 5y ago
If you agree that you have no useful opinion on the Playdate's practical merits as a video game console, then maybe you should edit your original comment to say what you now claim to mean. Making this explicitly negative value judgment
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by caconym_ 5y ago
It's not a "trap". If you say something like this: > This is another functional display piece for a designer's desk, just like the Playdate. Then you'd better have something to back it up. And unless you'r
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The Evolv Shift Air 2 is a cool case, but (as you say) it is on the large side for Mini-ITX cases and therefore likely has much more mass appeal, since the smaller a case is the more difficult (and rewarding for hobbyists/enthusiasts)
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by caconym_ 5y ago
180mm GPU is a shame. Would be an instant buy for me otherwise, but if you want to build a capable gaming machine I think that's a real stretch.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The people buying Mini-ITX cases for custom PC builds are typically hobbyists, and the value they derive from these cases (which are expensive across the board, it's a niche low-volume market) is not the same value you or I get from bu
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Critical skepticism is an important element of science. There's a continuum here. I guess we might say that at one end is blindly trusting whatever you're told, and at the other end is skepticism to the point of divergent irr
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I'm not convinced it's the subject matter and/or length turning people off Cryptonomicon. For all its weird made up words and spec-fic wankery, the fact is that Anathem has a pretty standard YA-esque protagonist and a rel

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