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by cr0sh 8y ago
I don't know why, but all of this "privatization" bugs the hell out of me. Maybe it has something to with wanting to see my taxes being used properly, rather than going to a private company's profits. Maybe it's the
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> everyone will leave your regulated network for another parallel open network IPFS anyone Maybe that'd be a good thing? What I wish could happen here in the US is wider private mesh network adoption. Right now, it exists at a certa
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I'd say quite possibly so...if he also followed that up with "...but I could find out." (or something similar). Saying "I don't know" is one thing - it's good to admit one's lack of knowledge. Being a
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by cr0sh 8y ago
You're not the only one who has said something to this effect, so maybe I do need to look into it more. Lisp is something I've tried to get into, but never went much beyond simple "hello world" implementations. So maybe
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> to an experienced programmer you can look at code and tell what sequence the lines are going to run in Unless the code/language is asynchronous - which requires a different mindset. And/or event driven - yet another mindset.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Another good writing task for programming is to write down a recipe (properly). However, to do it off-the-cuff would mean you need to know how to cook - so maybe not the best example. Something that could be done is describing the task of m
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Something I experienced about 20 years ago - I threw my back out (just was sitting, and turned my torso - and that was it), major sciatica pain. Went to the doctor. I was prescribed a certain stretching exercise, plus also 800mg ibuprofen,
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> If the answer is a universal religion plus a sea faring civilization gives you world power it still makes me wonder why it took until the late 1400s to kick off. I'm not sure it would fit the idea, but: https://en.wikip
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'd argue that hydrogen is actually among the best, with helium of course being second. Helium wins out on the inertness, but has far lower lifting capacity, and of course has a supply issue. Hydrogen wins on lifting capacity, supply i
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Well - I will say I like the general concept. I just wish it wasn't implemented in Scheme (only because I am not familiar with the language; looking at the source, though - I'm not sure I want to go there - it looks like a mashup
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Gimp was never meant to do those kinds of operations, and it still can't - at least not "easily"; it's still as cumbersome as before. You can still do "pixel level" editing - you just can't do primitives.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I definitely miss my G1 - I loved the slide-out keyboard, and the "trackball" pointer device. If I could have those two things in a modern phone, perhaps slightly thicker with a larger battery, that would be almost perfect. But wh
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Personally, I'd like to nail the guys who put landscaping flyers in sandwich bags with some rocks and drop them on my driveway. In the grand scheme of things, this kind of advertising for me is minimal at best. I'd by far muc
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by cr0sh 8y ago
If you ever wanted to turn your RC-car racing hobby into a programming-hobby-activity, you can try to start your own Sparkfun-style AVC: https://avc.sparkfun.com/ ...or, compete in other similar races: https://di
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Just don't go down the path of game programming - that can easily lead to "monetization thoughts". Also - making a game today as a single person is difficult, with the exception of a few niche areas. Mainly because everything
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Owning a Jeep can also do it!
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> And I don't mean this as snark, but has anyone looked at what kind of "good works" churches do for their local communities? Well - some of them provide political platforms to inform their members who to vote for. I think
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Something to throw out: Do the manufacturers of this chalk (or any chalk) regularly test for asbestos contamination? From what I understand, it is kinda the same safety hazard you'd have with cosmetic uses of talc (for makeup and the l
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Use windex or other common glass cleaner sprays; they tend to evaporate very quickly.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I got a big porcelain board for 5 bucks on eBay because one corner was dented. Best purchase of my life. In case you or others aren't aware: Bathroom tile backer board is commonly sold at big-box home improvement centers for a ver
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It might also be due to lighting. Overhead projectors require a fairly dark room, and only work well up to a certain size and distance. Much beyond that, their light gets too dim, and if it is a large lecture hall, you need a large projecti
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by cr0sh 8y ago
They recently banned the sale of MEK here in the United States (it's used mainly as a paint stripper), arguably due to its inhalation danger. It was extremely volatile, and in an enclosed space (indoors), it could cause someone to die.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I have a couple of thoughts on how this material might be able to be used - but I'm not a mechanical engineer, so what I mention might be (probably is) worthless: 1. Mechanical compression using hydraulic fluid and electric pumps? 2. C
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> If you have an old AC unit, try to dispose of it responsibly by not sending it to a landfill. Considering someone stole the AC unit off the roof of the house next door to me in the middle of the night (it was a rental property and nobo
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All sensors and the systems they operate with have flaws. There is no way around this - it's just the real world. Even cameras will have flaws, or they can develop them over time (lens degradation, image sensor dropping pixels or gaini
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> The scary bits of self-driving is person detection, crossing detection, roadwork detection... Your point it very astute. Among a few other ML/AI MOOCs, I completed Udacity's "Self-Driving Car Engineer" nanodegree -
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm not a NN expert, but based on what I have found, the point of using RELU instead of other activation functions is what is called the problem of "vanishing gradients". Basically (IIRC), during backprop the error difference
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I wonder if it also has to do with the possibility that the students would just go to the library, and not go to class at all; that there isn't any kind of "punishment" for doing that instead of learning? By "punishment&
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I don't have any questions, just wanted to comment on this amazing work. It's been a while since I last played with SQL; at one time, it seemed like I was always doing something with SQL, mainly for MySQL - but everything now seem
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Strange. For me, it was the installation and setting up of CUDA on my long-in-the-tooth Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box that led to me upgrading to 18.04 LTS (along with a hand-munged version of the latest gcc, plus an ill-advisde NVidia driver upgrad

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