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by catherd 6y ago
Open source hardware is also really good at allowing whoever can produce something cheapest to capture all the profits. Unless the designers are careful about controlling the results of their labor they won't be the ones "thriving
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by catherd 6y ago
Some of them were consumer products. But they lost out (probably) because they were more like something a technical person would want and less like something made for a consumer. Would you frame the reasons they failed differently? If TikTo
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by catherd 6y ago
There seem to be a lot of supporting arguments (look at all these dead projects he deems to have been fast, elegant, and efficient, also, hey, my current toys are not made for me to play with like I used to be able to, and the battery life
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by catherd 6y ago
My experience matches this. You can move heaven and earth to teach everyone the exact right way to do things, or you can set some overarching guidelines and move people around or re-define their roles until it starts working. In an environm
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by catherd 6y ago
What's the expected service life for that kind of network gear? Wouldn't most of it be gone or upgraded by then anyway?
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by catherd 6y ago
Not sure about now, but 20 years ago all it took to get into the in-state university system was SAT scores and a GED. Transferring from there to other schools in the US was pretty straightforward and there weren't any application essay
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by catherd 6y ago
It does work on air. Some commercial HVAC systems integrate UVC lamps. It needs relatively high power or a long straight run where the air flow and light are both pointed in the same direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by catherd 6y ago
In my opinion the best reason people are interested in this situation is Scott Alexander is considered to be NOT someone who will unquestioningly ride an empty wave of reactionary outrage if it's pointed in an advantageous direction: P
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by catherd 6y ago
As I understand it: Lincoln was anti-slavery in the sense that he thought it was morally wrong, he just didn't see any way of ending it that was constitutional. At the time, there was a balance of power between free and slave states. E
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by catherd 6y ago
I like some older country, but at the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon... I can't get into most of the newer stuff so it's not really on my radar.
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by catherd 6y ago
David Allan Coe seems to think it's the correct term: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhEHB0a7Uyg
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by catherd 6y ago
Well, you batted your eye... I count myself in that group. I have no interest in turning this into any sort of argument about which group gets to be the martyrs because other people can or can't call them names they don't like at
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by catherd 6y ago
I don't think there is a single "Southern way of life" since the South is a pretty big place. I'm not particularly interested in history, but from the little I paid attention, the part I grew up in was too steep, rocky,
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by catherd 6y ago
When somebody uses borgbackup with you guys, is there any way you can include "hey you have a stale lock file" (that's probably keeping your backup from working) in the automated email that gets sent when disk usage doesn&#x2
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by catherd 6y ago
It's quite easy to let a VPS act as a central hub as long as your use case exactly matches "I want everyone to have full read-write access to everything and they understand things like being careful about simultaneous editing and
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by catherd 6y ago
Not disagreeing, just adding more info: I think a lot of people on the manufacturing side react in a confrontational way because it's disrespectful to a manufacturer when someone wants to use the infrastructure they've sunk years
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by catherd 6y ago
I typically agree with your calls on being a jerk vs. not, but LeifCarrotson is being pretty factual here. Hardware is incredibly expensive and time consuming to create from scratch in ways programmers usually don't appreciate. If the
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by catherd 6y ago
This is an informative link. Summary: - of 4 coronavirus strains in one study (all the type that cause common colds), none gave long term immunity after exposure - of those 4 strains, getting re-infected multiple times in the same year is c
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by catherd 6y ago
People keep saying that, but I haven't heard of any clear examples of actual sick people who got it again, just positive tests that seem to be within the error bands for the tests. Not a doctor, this is not a rhetorical question: Shoul
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by catherd 6y ago
The only way to win at dotfiles is not to play. Fresh out of college all my peers were using fancy 3D mice with programmable buttons for mechanical modeling and one older engineer was just dragging his finger around on the laptop trackpad.
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by catherd 6y ago
I haven't seen N95 prices that cheap here in weeks. Anything I see is mostly around 30RMB right now (like a 3Q with NIOSH certification). KN95s are still lower. We've talked with multiple vendors who simply can't get non-wove
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by catherd 6y ago
Probably because despite how the media is portraying things, people are concerned and can actually act out of altruism. Plus, individuals who are practicing social distancing probably don't need to go through PPE like you would in an i
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by catherd 7y ago
The FDA recently said they would not block import of KN95s, and also issued an EUA on April 3rd that allows approved KN95s to be used in medical applications. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/the-f
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by catherd 7y ago
The mask situation in the US is truly fucked up right now. I've been finding and sending masks and other PPE to the US from China. Started out for friends and family then it expanded to friends-of-friends, then anybody. It has a really
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by catherd 7y ago
I know some people in the Philippines who normally do office task outsourcing, call center work, or language instruction who would absolutely love to get a few dollars an hour to teach or babysit kids via teleconference. And by absolutely l
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by catherd 7y ago
If you look at China and South Korea, they both took about 11 days between crossing 100 cases to having a strong effect on their case# curve. (18 if you ignore the roughly 7 day incubation + getting tested period) With incubation time remov
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by catherd 7y ago
...but you can make machines in machine shops, as pointed out above. or machines to make machines, if needed. or in the simpler case you might fall back to scraped and oiled ways and bushings
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by catherd 7y ago
Not sure "working fine in PRC" is really something you can say about anything web related. I do occasional web dev from within China and had to eliminate external references to get manageable page load times. At least from where I
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by catherd 7y ago
I set up a Shopify store from China (where a VPN is mandatory), and eventually had to tell Shopify to delete the site because I literally couldn't complete the captchas any more to access it. Couldn't even back up anything before
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by catherd 7y ago
On top of decision fatigue and needing to know the market, losing auctions gets expensive fast if you value your time.

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