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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Honestly, switching to a more natural layout like Dvorak is probably one of the best things you can do for wrist pain. I don't think there have been any studies on it yet, but anecdotally it's great. Many people report likewise. I
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> I don't know that there is much the government can do. Universal subsidized childcare like most developed countries?
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> 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to ap
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I can't imagine that everyone in California is making >$250k. There must be lots of people making low 6 figures or even gasp 5 figures and still somehow managing to survive.
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> As they say, science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it just communicates what present people think about the future. What is a prediction, other than a statement about what present people think about the future?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Here's a detailed example (with math!) of the CPI Hedonic Quality Adjustment for TVs. I found it by googling "CPI quality adjustment". https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
As I mentioned in the sister comment I do indeed track unit prices for things like meat, dairy, and produce. My total monthly expenses have increased by roughly 50-100% since 2006, but that's also because I now earn more, buy more expe
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I am indeed referring to total monthly food expenses, and also individual prices for things I track the unit cost of, like meat, dairy, and produce. To break it down further, best unit prices from 2006 to present: Lean ground beef: $3/
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This guy claims inflation in the 8-10% range for the last 15 years, which translates to a 3-4x price increase since 2006. Anecdotally, having tracked all my expenses since becoming an adult in 2006, in my area I have noticed: * Food prices
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Paul Graham, the cofounder of YC, whose website you are on.
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The same for me - I got 6 correct with some thought, but three of them were instant ideas (less than a second), and those ones were always right: Cast Away, Space Jam, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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The ones I've seen have a slanted pedal-powered conveyor belt inside the bowl. Liquids run down to the front, and then you pump the pedal a few times to crank the solids to the back.
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Sounds like pretty much the exact opposite of Brandon Sanderson.
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Also we have built a very large amount of infrastructure that assumes the climate is the way it is now. You think it's expensive and annoying to have software dependencies pushed to you when you aren't ready, try being forced to t
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Well first of all I wasn't using gdb since it's not available on the platform this code was running on. Second, the std::terminate call doesn't get called from the dtor, it gets called from the stdc runtime in the call frame
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> When the personality function doesn't know what to do it will invoke the default exception handler, meaning that in most cases throwing from a nothrow method will end up calling std::terminate. This is an interesting tidbit that c
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I never miss an opportunity to plug my favorite Andy Weir short story - The Egg. It's very short and very good. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
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> Processing speed doesn't matter to us, it could take a million "years" to render a frame but we experience it in real-time. This is part of the premise of the fantastic novel "Permutation City" by Greg Egan.
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When you drill down, laws against murder are really just outlawing moving various atoms around in specific ways.
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Note that SpaceX hadn't even launched its first rocket in 2004. They didn't reach orbit until 2008 and yet sent crew to the space station over a year ago already.
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Clearly, people do renovations in the spring and their Christmas shopping at Cabela's.
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People who don't believe those kinds of thing deep down tend not to make jokes like that.
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I can think of many internet-based platforms that had a much lower growth rate than the internet.
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> But then what if I stop coming up with cool game designs and stories and music as a result? It seems to me that you could try it, and if you don't like the results, then stop taking it. The effects aren't permanent.
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Sometimes I have days where I'm just really focused on work problems. Sometimes I have days where I'm killing it in the gym or on the track. Sometimes I have days where I just want to work on my garden, or sit and read, or spend 4
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> If you leave early on the productive days, would you stay back longer on the days you aren't doing so well? No, I do exactly the opposite. I work longer when I'm super productive, and I cut out early when I'm not having
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
You are mistaken. The lawsuit itself is clearly referring to dynamic memory allocation. It refers to "static or dynamic ram" to mean RAM in general, but the paragraph has nothing to do with the characteristics of SRAM vs DRAM. Fro
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
My solution for good reddit browsing: * Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension, and customize to your liking. * Set it to permanent old.reddit.com mode, so all reddit links immediately go there. * Only browse reddit on mobile us
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I'd argue Stuxnet was a pretty major one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet Between 2005 and 2010 the US military wrote a virus that destroyed many of Iran's uranium-enriching centrifuges. It featured Win
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
In newer versions of both iOS and Android, your app can get terminated by the OS without warning for misbehaving. Things like too many context switches, using too much CPU, or exceeding some internal and unspecified memory limit.

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