davidcuddeback

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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> Everybody does. Then we're in agreement that taxes are a necessity. Can we also agree that taxes should be collected fairly (even if we might disagree on what a fair balance might be)?
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
Is that substantially different for taxes collected from billionaires vs taxes collected from ordinary people? If not, I don't see how this is relevant to discussing billionaires being undertaxed. It's shifting a conversation abou
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
I'm surprised this has to be explained, but taxes aren't paid to politicians. You're not likely to get a good answer when your question is not founded in good faith.
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
That doesn't answer where it can be purchased, nor does it imply that it will be available for purchase when all translations are complete. At 167 pages, part 1 could conceivably be it's own book for purchase. I too would love a r
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
Yeah, it's wrong. There isn't even a single CME strong enough to cause aurora every day, let alone strong enough to cook us, and let alone multiple times per day.
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
Duckduckgo supports "!wood" for searching the wood database. Makes quick work if looking something up from the address bar.
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
> It wasn't a sales opportunity Yes, it was. In the salesman's own words: "First, you're right, it is a low effort sales template. It does work." > not a good look for the blog author The OP isn't a b
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
> If I'm billed for a dedicated email for years and it hasn't been provisioned for me, isn't that a major problem with the service? If that's true, yes. But it sounds plausible that the salesman was in error (also a
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
Perhaps Spectre/Meltdown mitigations?
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
And it's already rebounded by a percentage point since this story was posted. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.INX:INDEXSP
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
Thanks. I'm going to give the Apple TV a shot. If frame rate matching works well in other apps, it will probably be good in Plex, too.
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
I bought an Nvidia Shield because the Plex client can switch the display's refresh rate to match the content (no judder for 24p content). Based on [1], it sounds like that should be possible with the Apple TV, too. Can anyone confirm i
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
Estimation usually involves gathering data and applying some statistics to the data. The question was about the details of that process. "They estimated" isn't telling us anything new.
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
No. https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/c0249398/800wm/C0249398...
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by davidcuddeback 5y ago
> I thought that the Northern Hemisphere was basically pointing away from the Galactic Centre, so shots like this were basically only from South America or Australia etc. From 40N latitude one can see the sky as far south as -50deg dec
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
It's somewhat debatable. 1I/Omuamua was reclassified as an asteroid because it didn't exhibit a coma. But it's possible that it's a remnant of a comet.
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
That's a wider FoV, not a larger diameter objective. I was thinking more along the lines of... http://www.jerryoltion.com/binoscope.htm Or on a more serious note, binoculars do come with pretty large objectives, but th
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
> (I did finally get tired of analysis paralysis and ordered a telescope last month. A StellarVue 80mm triplet refractor. There are long lead times these days for telescopes so it'll be a couple months before I actually receive it.
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
You could also look into astronomy classes at a local community college. I took an intro to astronomy class at a community college when I was about 18. I think it cost about $4 at the time, and I learned a lot of basics that way. You'l
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
I didn't know about the Universe Sampler. Great suggestion!
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
It depends on the magnification of the binoculars. Lower magnification binoculars are quite usable hand-held, and they can be stabilized pretty easily in a zero-gravity chair. The nice thing about smaller binoculars is that you can have the
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
The best telescope is the one you'll use often. I'd caution against the "bigger is better" advice. There are several reasons that's not always true. Larger telescopes are heavier, less portable, take longer to reach
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
No worries. I was just pointing out that there's still a way to hack around it.
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
`sudo -u user /usr/local/bin/bash` works on FreeBSD.
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
> You could conceive of a GUI as merely a projection of internal state. That mental model has been the most natural for me as well. It really clicked for me when reading Trygve Reenskaug's descriptions of MVC [1], particularly this
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
I highly doubt that nobody who used to work on Xorg would be offended by you calling it a broken pile of shit. And then there's this, from you, today: > GNOME is a dumpster fire [1] Can you say the same about Gnome maintainers? Do y
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
Wouldn't you still need language to disclaim warranties and liabilities?
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
That license doesn't seem to satisfy the parent's requirements: > gets me out of any legal responsibility/liability The license you posted doesn't disclaim any warranties or liabilities. I suggest reading what TFA&#
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
I'm so used to choosing between monomorphization and dynamic dispatch myself that I never thought of the possibility of a compiler being able to choose. Is the point to avoid monomorphization during dev to have faster compile times, an
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by davidcuddeback 6y ago
> I understand Rust does not hide representations enough for the compiler to be able to choose whether or not to monomorphize. Any chance you could expand on that?

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