cecilpl2

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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> the ones who have their ownership verified on the blockchain are the owners According to who? Not according to the government. "Owning" an NFT doesn't give you any kind of reproduction or copyright rights.
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Houses in my culdesac in a suburb of Vancouver were selling for $450k in 2014. We bought here last April for $1.05m after seeing prices rise $200k in a month. The neighbors just sold last week for $1.35m, and there's a house around the
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Also in Vancouver and similar numbers. I know at least 10 people who currently have COVID, including myself and my partner. It's not mild for all. Two people in particular have been brutally sick for over a week. One spent three days i
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
On average the S&P increases by 10% annually. Across 250 trading days, it increases by 0.04% daily on average. So his picks do not beat the market on average.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Theater or not, the reasonable thing to do in this situation is to understand that the host is not the person making the rules. You do the thing because that's the script, whether you agree with it or not. In fact maybe the host doesn&
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I have cut some text, Now a new feeling haunts me. I must paste it, MUST.
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If I tried to walk 100 meters with 2000 litres, I might fatigue myself so much that I would no longer be able to walk any further, no matter how much water I had left.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Games are a prime example of systems which must take advantage of all possible hardware resources.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This is famously how Al Capone was taken down, since they couldn't pin anything else on him.
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What if you kidnapped someone else's child, can you claim them on your taxes?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Around that same age I also tested whether Santa was in fact secretly my parents. I decided that Mall Santa would be the only person I told that I really wanted an RC car for Christmas, and I steadfastly refused my parents' attempts to
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
NFTs allow you to have your breadstick and eat it too!
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I found my favorite story buried in the middle of this, from 1986. It's a classic on par with The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. Reproduced here for your reading pleasure: Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
How do you know you are not also picking the next word at random from a probability distribution? I mean, as I'm typing this sentence, I have some notion about which word is going to come next, and a sense of where the sentence is goin
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They are all accelerating away from us, in every direction.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I built a toy CPU in software once as an exercise. I started with "class Transistor" (wrapping an AND op) and "class Wire" (wrapping a boolean), and wired them together incrementally to make gates, flipflops, registers,
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
The sun doesn't have a solid surface like the Earth - it is a ball of gas that gets progressively less dense as it transitions to vacuum.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
No honestly I'd rather everything were flush, but that's the best I can do with the stand and monitors I have. The monitors aren't all the same make/model.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Pretty much the standard tools that most people have open all the time I guess. I just want to see them all all the time without having to constantly switch windows or hide the thing I'm working on. Music, messenger, Discord, Slack, 2
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
They are about 45 degrees to the right of center. I turn my head or swivel my chair.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
You'll have to excuse the mess :) https://imgur.com/a/5uTm7VB Also obviously I hid all the proprietary stuff.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Windows :D That's an interesting configuration! Also my first encounter with someone else who understands the value of screen space. Do you also like to keep all your things out in the open rather than tucked away inside cupboards and
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I run 7 monitors. I've got a 2x3 grid of 24" monitors on a stand, and then a 27" widescreen standing tall beside it for code or a long terminal. It's fantastic, though I could stand to have another row above. It's n
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
My office shutdown this year is three full weeks, from the 20th to the 7th. Nobody is burning PTO.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Neat idea! Seems like the following less-confusing assignment also works: a = [0] a[0] = a
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This has a name - Elsagate [0]. There's a subreddit [1] devoted to tracking it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
The first paragraph of the article: > When using Google, I sometimes look at a result, then go back to the results page to check another result. When I go back, Google sometimes pops up a box with related searches around the result: 1) S
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Thank you
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This box is absolutely infuriating and frequently comes up for me using the repro steps in the article.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This is not quite right. In no cases are nucleons converted into energy. D+T fusion releases a He4 atom and a free neutron - 5 in, 5 out. U235 absorbs a neutron, then decays into Ba144, Kr89, and 3 neutrons - 236 in, 236 out. In the fission

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