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by db48x 3mo ago
>The Lancet, looking at the impact U.S.A.I.D. had over the past twenty years —saving ninety-two million lives… If you look at a graph of the world–wide death rate over the last few decades, you’ll see that it’s been going down pretty con
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by db48x 3mo ago
Geography and property lines, twin banes of every infrastructure builder.
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by db48x 3mo ago
Often the bigger difference is just that fiber never goes in a straight line, even if it’s going to the right city. All that pesky geography gets in the way and makes the path longer.
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by db48x 3mo ago
We should port it to Rust.
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by db48x 3mo ago
In theory you would be right. In practice you have to ask all of your competitors for permission to change anything, and all the old copper is still there. They never actually swapped it out for fiber! You cannot take out any of their old c
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by db48x 3mo ago
Ziply is a regional ISP. They serve the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Here’s a map showing their backbone links: https://ziplyfiber.com/~/media/Residential/modules/Columns--... > I
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by db48x 3mo ago
False! Ziply Fiber offers speeds up to 50Gbps. https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig
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by db48x 3mo ago
If someone working for me wrote that I would fire them.
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by db48x 3mo ago
It’s not to keep malware from walking the heap, it’s just a simple protection against simple buffer overflow attacks. If a process running on your computer has a fixed–sized buffer allocated on the heap and I send too much data to fit in th
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by db48x 3mo ago
The title seems to describe exactly what the video is about. What made it seem like clickbait to you?
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by db48x 3mo ago
I know, it was just a joke :)
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by db48x 3mo ago
Wow, 102°F. That’s just an ordinary summer day in most of America. It’s pretty shameful that the hospitals couldn’t handle the influx. Didn’t they expand capacity after COVID?
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by db48x 3mo ago
Not arguing, just saying that sometimes things come with compromises. It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that some expansion cards don't fit in the expansion slot. There’s always going to be _something_ that needs a bit more space.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Now you’ve got two things plugged into your laptop, instead of one that sticks out by an inch. :)
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by db48x 4mo ago
There’s nothing to “get”. The circuit doesn’t fit inside the slot for expansion cards. You could plug in a dongle instead, but then you’d have a big hole in your laptop with a cable sticking out. Or you could just get a wider laptop bag. Th
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by db48x 4mo ago
> The OP didn't claim you didn't provide specific feedback, it was that they were entirely ghosted mid-process. And that others said the same. Eh, if even a small percentage of those emails end up in a spam folder then there ar
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by db48x 4mo ago
You’re welcome.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Anathem is excellent; why do you call it “so, so bad”?
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by db48x 4mo ago
But surely the photo has the same value to you no matter how much effort it took. Sitting outside in the cold next to your telescope while you take the photo doesn’t make the picture more valuable than sitting inside at your computer taking
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by db48x 4mo ago
Love that second footnote.
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by db48x 4mo ago
It’s worth noting that the latest trillionaire lowered launch costs by ~10×. It has never been cheaper to launch a telescope into space. I’m surprised that no universities have launched their own space observatories. Harvard has a $50 billi
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by db48x 4mo ago
I don’t think the telescope has to be sitting next to you. Actual astronomers take pictures remotely all the time. They don’t ride a shuttle up to the Hubble Telescope when it’s their turn to take pictures with it, they put coordinates into
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by db48x 4mo ago
A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge Dune, by Frank Herbert Diaspora, by Greg Egan The Clockwork Rocket, by Greg Egan The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
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by db48x 4mo ago
Yep. I like the reasoning he used for jailbreaking Dana.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Because everyone reported performance metrics using it as a benchmark. Higher number = more sales.
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by db48x 4mo ago
> 2.) You are in the small minority whose knowledge is valued highly enough by the market that they're not predestined to become part of the precariat and might have some pennies by the end of their lives. No, I think most wage–earn
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by db48x 4mo ago
Then simply change the keybindings. Use `C-h k` and then middle click on the ruler-mode’s header to find out what command is bound to the middle mouse button, then bind that same command to a different mouse button: (keymap-set ruler-
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by db48x 4mo ago
Technically Kill and Yank came from TECO, which is an entirely different visual editor that predates Emacs.
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by db48x 4mo ago
> It's not the same mistake. You didn’t answer my other question, but I still wanted to return to this point. Consider two scenarios: 1. Chimp A does a task, gets a token, gives the token to a human, and gets cucumber in return. 2.
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by db48x 4mo ago
None of that seems relevant to your initial question. Start a company, sell something people want, earn your stability. What part of that requires associating with Paul Grahram or YC?

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