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by dandelany 5y ago
Great post. Just to be pedantic for a moment: > it gives you results that are 100% correct, which is pretty important! Not quite 100% correct, as the `ST_Distance_Sphere` function uses a spherical earth model, & in fact the earth i
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by dandelany 5y ago
What you are calling charity (which also lumps in patronage since patrons don't pay "fair market prices") is precisely how music has been funded for hundreds of years and how classical/orchestral music continues to survi
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by dandelany 5y ago
"marginal cost of streaming OR downloading a song is effectively zero" - only if you don't consider royalties to be part of the marginal cost? What's weird to me is the seemingly pervasive idea that the cost of everythin
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by dandelany 5y ago
I’m no chef, but I live in a dry climate, and for soft cookies I get good results by storing them in sealed containers with a slice of bread immediately after cooling. The moisture in the bread makes it like a humidor for your cookies so th
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by dandelany 5y ago
Relevant Medium article linked from the Talk page: https://hmoluseyi.medium.com/was-nasas-historic-leader-james...
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by dandelany 5y ago
Sorry, but I just recently watched a crowd of angry trolls sell memes and Internet in-jokes as facts to droves of angry Facebook users, and then they combined forces to elect a fascist. I no longer believe this kind of crap is inconsequenti
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by dandelany 5y ago
I’m honestly so tired of hearing this lame conspiracy theory/in-joke. It’s so dumb and trollish and barely funny, all it does is give ammo to repubs who think dems are wackadoos. Fellow dems, this ain’t it.
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by dandelany 5y ago
Meanwhile in the Theranos thread next door… “What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn't do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.” Financial professionals do dumb things, sometimes
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by dandelany 5y ago
Probably studying axonal transport, the ability of some neuroinvasive viruses to spread from one neuron to the next via the axon & its connection to other cells.
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by dandelany 5y ago
I was the same for years until I had a pourover at a coffee shop in NYC that knocked my socks off. I still enjoy bad coffee but the pleasure I’ve gotten from making better coffee over the years has been worth it IMO. Incidentally, it’s enti
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by dandelany 5y ago
This. The sanctimoniousness of this post is pretty grating - you don’t get the good parts of emergent behavior without letting people mess around and explore the space in some weird ways you may not like. Also agreed re: the nsfw part. I th
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by dandelany 5y ago
You can just use PureComponent instead of implementing shouldComponentUpdate, but you're right that it doesn't come "for free". PureComponent : class components :: memo : function components
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by dandelany 5y ago
Ha, I suppose in context your interpretation makes more sense :)
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by dandelany 5y ago
Here’s my reading of it: when speaking about dynamical systems with several interdependent moving parts, humans are fond of asking “why” questions and looking for simple narratives in such systems where satisfying answers may not exist. For
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by dandelany 5y ago
It’s just PR. It matters to Apple whether the story is “Apple steals tech from tech startup & gets sued” vs. “patent troll frivolously sues Apple”. It’s not to convince a judge, it’s for the court of public opinion. Lawyers spinning the
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by dandelany 5y ago
Interesting article. I also can’t imagine that it’s either sisal or Americana exactly, both are so tough & fibrous, and are in such widespread cultivation that this preparation would be more well-known. The agave heart or “piña” used fo
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by dandelany 5y ago
Yikes. Your symptoms were likely caused by calcium oxalate raphides, little mineral needles present in raw agave (and several other plants). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide
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by dandelany 5y ago
That is the case every year, as indicated by the grey mean in the background of the chart. Point is, we gained ice at a lower-than-average rate during “gains season” and now we’re losing ice at a greater-than-average rate during “melt seaso
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by dandelany 5y ago
Great idea & execution, I've definitely thought about building something similar and have tried Gource once before. However, I must add a +1 to the parent commenter re: rectangles. Circle packing is pretty, but a proper rectangular
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by dandelany 5y ago
I have thought about this too, retrograde orbit buys you a lot of “free” energy for deorbiting things going in the other direction. The “puff coherency” problem as you succinctly put it seems like the hardest problem. Maybe if the gas is io
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by dandelany 5y ago
The principled thing to do about software you consider spyware is to not use it. Not paying for a paid product you use daily and continuously derive value from is hard to justify in my view.
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by dandelany 5y ago
I think of it as “in [any] orbit” vs “on [target] orbit”
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by dandelany 5y ago
This oversimplifies but there is some truth to it too. I am mentoring two junior devs at the moment, one at work and one friend. In some ways I really miss & envy the happiness they feel when we get something to work. One of them finall
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by dandelany 5y ago
Let’s say we have 12 iron mines with known amounts of iron ore supply, and 10 steel foundries with known amounts of demand. For each (mine, foundry) pair, there is a known cost of shipping the ore from point A to B. Which mines should send
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by dandelany 5y ago
What a bizarre comment. I guess we should get rid of ALL queer lit then, since the least charitable reading of “queer” is a slur? I’d rather be a part of a community that gives folks the benefit of the doubt/charitable interpretation d
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by dandelany 5y ago
Nine pages? All this hoopla for the month leading up to the release and we get NINE measly pages with no supporting documentation? am I missing something? I expected to see something similar in quality/detail to an FAA accident investi
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by dandelany 5y ago
Density isn’t everything. It’s likely a lot cheaper and less environmentally destructive to dig a big hole in the ground than to manufacture a lithium battery.
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by dandelany 5y ago
Well said. Perhaps the proverb should be “an ounce of prevention is worth a one-sixteenth chance of a pound of cure” :)
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by dandelany 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. They literally didn’t even mention Hackaday or Tindie. Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence as a Tindie seller.
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by dandelany 5y ago
Just guessing, but something like: 1. Network - just as you describe. Freemium/ad revenue. Low $/High volume 2. Platform - sell data derived from Network to manufacturers, eg. “Part X is increasingly popular and likely to go out o

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