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by chao- 6mo ago
The "exact 50%", or the boundary between green and blue, is nominally hue 180, which is cyan. A search for the RGB, CMYK and HSL for turquoise yielded a few hue values from 171 to 174 (depending who you trust, and allowing for a b
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by chao- 6mo ago
>eval, send, method_missing, define_method, as a non-rubyist how common are these in real-world code? The interesting bunch (to me, based on experience) is `eval`, `exec`, and `define_method` (as well as creating new classes with `Clas
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by chao- 6mo ago
Customer interviews are an indispensable, high-value activity for all businesses. They are a permanent, ongoing capability that the organization must have. A conversation will surface things that analytics will not catch. People will descri
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by chao- 6mo ago
I agree, comparing to other expensive markets seems a bit odd, rather than comparing to markets with some other similarity (population, geography, median income, et cetera). The full table in the original report is much more interesting: h
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by chao- 6mo ago
There is no accounting for taste. For instance, I still prefer discrete buttons over tap-clicks or multi-finger-taps, but I would accept the mild annoyance of tap clicks over the pressing down the pad itself.
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by chao- 6mo ago
I know that Wikipedia is a very just-so community, whose rules I do not comprehend. Yet when I hear that a programming language with a decade of development, and "dozens" of companies using, it isn't worthy of an article, my
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by chao- 6mo ago
If all one cares about is the accuracy of predictions (i.e. setting aside value judgements vis-a-vis society or fairness), it does seem like "insider trading" should make prediction markets more accurate.
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by chao- 6mo ago
>This is a desirable end state for [a category of people] who want to spend all day talking even though they aren't talking to a person. When I am not in actual meetings, I do already spend all day talking to anthropomorphized fac
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by chao- 6mo ago
Even though moments where I would reach for it are rare, this is a very welcome feature. In times when I could have used it, it was not difficult to emulate via more branches, consistent naming, referencing the PRs, etc. Not difficult, but
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by chao- 6mo ago
I purchased my RX 580 in early 2018 and used it through late 2024. I am critical of AMD for not fully supporting all GPUs based on RNDA1 and RDNA2. While backwards compatibility is always better than less for the consumer, the RX 580 was a
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by chao- 6mo ago
Talking to friends who have fought more homelab battles than I ever will, my sense is that (1) AMD has done a better job with RDNA4 than the past generations, and (2) it seems very workload-dependent whether AMD consumer gear is "good
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by chao- 6mo ago
I've lived in North America most of my life, at various latitudes and in various climates. Maybe half of the continent gets four, equal length, distinct seasons? That's enough to culturally dominate perceptions, but I have never k
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by chao- 6mo ago
I see no need for a false dichotomy of "require" vs "ban". There aren't laws requiring a state to have lumber mills, or outright banning them. There are many alternatives with a wide spectrum of attributes: - Limiti
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by chao- 7mo ago
I'm not sure about all wind energy, but offshore wind energy has been set aside because Donald Trump's Scotland Golf Club lost a lawsuit to an offshore wind farm a decade ago, and he appears to have a blanket opposition to the con
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by chao- 7mo ago
Yeah, cache eviction is the reason I was assuming it is "probably not possible architecturally", but I also figured there could be features beyond my knowledge that might make it possible. Edit: Also this 192MB of L3 is spread a
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by chao- 7mo ago
Crazy to think that my first personal computer's entire storage (was 160MB IIRC?) could fit into the L3 of a single consumer CPU! It's probably not possible architecturally, but it would be amusing to see an entire early 90's
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by chao- 7mo ago
From the administration that brought us "We are currently clean on OPSEC", I can't claim surprise. Disappointment, but not surprise. Nor, however, can I take the statements of malicious actors at face value. They hacked a per
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by chao- 7mo ago
You may be a bit too credulous. There has been a "leak" or "rumor" that Intel's GPU initiatives are canceled about once every three months, for over two years. Yet Intel continues to release new SKUs and make new pr
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by chao- 7mo ago
>I don’t like the idea of government having that level of control. This is my usual stance. I have to deal with various regulations (and worse: state-by-state laws) in my business, so I tend to be reflexively anti-regulation. And yet I
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by chao- 7mo ago
I am not so egotistical as to think I get to decide any of this. Hence, I did not say I "should" get to decide. I simply said that if I could, that is what I would like to see. I tried to phrase my comment to convey that I know it
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by chao- 7mo ago
This isn't from the bill, but this is what I would like to see: Any endless scroll "feed" can only be chronological content only from people/orgs/entities you opt-in to see ("follow", "subscribe"
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by chao- 7mo ago
If you watch the video, you'll see he shows a many dozens all in a small area, just within quick pan of the camera. He can probably pick up one per second for several minutes. That, or scoop them up in a huge bunch with a little bit of
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by chao- 7mo ago
It only took him under one year to pick up the ONE MILLION cigarette butts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gK-X32cy8 He started in 2020 and the video summary was made in 2021.
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by chao- 7mo ago
One IP address (exclusively ours) among our email IPs at my place of employment was affected. We have used that IP for nine years. Emails are strictly transactional (receipts, password resets, et cetera). The "rate limiting" start
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by chao- 7mo ago
Rather than a singular "question" that seems stupid, consider prime numbers. People toyed with prime numbers for centuries, asking all sorts of questions, with little-to-no impact on the vast majority of humans. Fast forward to
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by chao- 8mo ago
Well with that attitude, you'll never catch 'em all!
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by chao- 8mo ago
I used to do origami obsessively in my youth, and recently picked it up again while spending time with my nephew. I'll have to give this one a go!
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by chao- 8mo ago
This brings to mind the childhood of John Stuart Mill: - Learned Greek starting age three. - Was studying Plato at age six. - Studied Latin starting at age eight. And more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
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by chao- 8mo ago
Your concern is valid, but you are misguided on a few details. I will inform you as best I can in the context of US intellectual property law. I am not a lawyer, but I have spent a lot of time adjacent to this stuff, and am not aware of a &
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by chao- 8mo ago
We know that it isn't intractable, nor is it particularly difficult. However, our particulars are such that Heroku is a small fraction of our expenses, so it simply feels like an annoying distraction from otherwise focusing purely on o

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