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by cvz 2y ago
Why did you feel the need to post a machine-written summary of an article you haven't read?
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by cvz 2y ago
It's evolved quite a bit if you don't need a `sh`-compatible shell. I'm a huge fan of `fish` for personal scripting and interactive use: https://fishshell.com/ Obviously you'll still have `bash` installe
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by cvz 2y ago
A good gasoline engine is, like, 30% efficient. Powerplants are generally a bit better than that.
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by cvz 2y ago
If you are concerned about legal stuff, ask a lawyer. Do not follow advice from random strangers on the internet. That said, the way you've described this, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Either this client really doesn&#x
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by cvz 2y ago
The way the article describes that diagram is misleading. The whole diagram is the fueldraulic system, and it's 50 psi on the return side and 2000 psi on the high pressure side like a regular hydraulic system.
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by cvz 2y ago
sRGB is a red herring here. There are colors outside the sRGB gamut, but those colors are all very saturated. "Gold", including the color of the actual metal, isn't saturated enough to be among them. The real problem is that
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by cvz 2y ago
> a genuine rags to riches story His accomplishments stand quite well on their own without needing to mythologize. He was born into a family that was already quite wealthy, it's what he did with that wealth that mattered.
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by cvz 2y ago
Out of the entire article, you singled out those words which were used entirely truthfully. What axe do you have to grind?
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by cvz 2y ago
Lithium salts would be a wonder drug if they didn't cause permanent kidney damage.
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by cvz 2y ago
Unfortunately people were hurt, the good news is nobody died. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/completely-preventab...
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by cvz 2y ago
In the "two's complement" representation, there is a sign bit, but the meaning isn't "invert this number", it's "subtract a large, fixed power of 2 from this number". The reason this has become t
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by cvz 2y ago
The personal attack on me is unwarranted, rude, and wrong. I don't know a whole lot about crypto because it's not central to my life, and the things I do know about crypto (for example, that it's lousy with scams) haven&#x2
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by cvz 2y ago
That isn't accurately representing everyone's opinion. There's a difference between "Musk should be silenced" and "Musk should be silent". One of them is a request directed to whatever sort of people might
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by cvz 2y ago
I've only ever heard of one use that wasn't speculative, promotional, astro-turfing, or just a straight up scam. That one use was an anonymous online marketplace to buy and sell illegal drugs. Do you have another example?
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by cvz 2y ago
If it's seasoned properly, it really is non-stick and that makes it trivial to clean without soaking or excessive scrubbing. I've cooked with the same cast iron pan, daily, for years, and it only gave me trouble when I had a habit
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by cvz 3y ago
There will always be someone with more money to point at. Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, $400,000 would pay almost all people's rent at least 5 times over. It would pay the average rent in Manhattan 5 times over. It would pay m
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by cvz 3y ago
He's not asking for sympathy. The entire article is about how he ended up where he is now, how the prison he's at now has saved him from a life of crime by giving him a meaningful chance at a career, that this is an anomaly, and t
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by cvz 3y ago
It's rational for the buyer's agent to do that, but that doesn't make the system less utterly corrupt. The buyer's agent represents the buyer. They should be paid by the buyer. The payment from the seller's agent to
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by cvz 4y ago
Which is balanced by the torque applied by the working fluid that's being shoved through the rotor to keep it spinning.
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by cvz 4y ago
The full line from the article appears to be more along the lines of (and I am paraphrasing here) "no one wants Mark Zuckerberg's cynical and unimaginative interpretation of VR" and not a dismissal of the technology itself.