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by distortedsignal 4y ago
> ... I don't see why we should put up with it. I mean, you don't have to. Don't want to see YouTube's algorithmic feed? That's cool - just HTTP 3xx your youtube.com to the subscriptions page. There are some good
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I hope the /s at the end of the last comment was loud enough to not be stated. But I read the article. Yeah, it was dumb. Specifically: > If recommendation algos aren’t shared then we need - by legislation, if necessary - a switch t
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I feel like "open the recommendation algorithms!" is easy to _say_, and it's less easy (and maybe impossible) to do effectively. Should we have access (by law) to the code that makes recommendations on content? That seems lik
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
> The impetus is on you to decide when things have started to look uncanny. “I wish that would be addressed by the industry — like, maybe if it reached a certain light-loss factor, it would just shut down, you know?” Nelson said. “Or if
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
They should, but that's another issue.
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
Is that... true? Are there tournament rules that say that? I'm not much of an OTB player, but this strikes me as somewhat against the spirit of the game. I will freely admit that I don't play blitz unless it's on a computer (
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
It sounds to me like you want some way to engage with what the other person is sharing. I find that I get a lot of mileage out of asking <i>really dumb questions.</i> So with your example, I would first accept their feeling
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I don't know that there are many people in industry who can't code or who don't care. I think there are lots of people who may not share in the peculiarities of my opinions, or who need every minute to deliver requirements, a
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
> ... [I]n my experience it is rarely necessary to refactor Erlang code in the same way the object-oriented code needs refactoring from time to time. That... depends. If you work with only highly disciplined people who want to do the rig
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
It looks like r/selfhosted even has a wiki with some tips on getting up and running: https://wiki.r-selfhosted.com/ I've gone through some of it and it seems like a decent primer on where to start, but I'm no
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
The South Korean companies that you're thinking of (Samsung, LG, Hyundai) might have had a leg-up from some friendly government policies. Check out the history of Chaebol [1] in S. Korea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
The article is specifically talking about salting the ice in a homemade ice cream maker like this[0]. The ice is used to reduce the temperature of the milk/sugar/etc. to "freeze" the ice cream. None of this salt gets int
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
This is a good point - the issuer of Tether (iFinex?) could burn USDT that they hold without paying out to currency. I'm not sure how holding Tether would benefit the issuer of Tether, though, since anytime anyone transferred USDT to t
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I think a good way is to check out CoinMarketCap's Market Cap tracker. Let me elaborate. I think Market Cap = (value per asset) * (total # of assets in the market). So the Market Cap of USDT SHOULD BE roughly equal to the number of T
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
Could you point me to the car manufacturer that puts explosive charges in their cars? Asking for a friend... who is myself.
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
Interestingly, Disney didn't have anything to do with the original Iron Man. I believe it was a Paramount picture[0]. Disney only bought Marvel at the end of 2009[1] after the second Incredible Hulk movie[2]. Otherwise, I think that I
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
You’ll still need alignments. You’ll still need the steering adjusted. ABS modules can fail, those need to be replaced. Just because we’re getting rid of two large issue generators in the engine/transmission system, doesn’t mean the ne
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
The college that I went to had all the engineers learn how to run a metal-turning lathe. ME, EE, BME, I think even the Computer Engineers had to learn how to run a lathe. They put us through a safety class first, which mostly consisted of h
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I think it would be interesting to hear about different application/desktop streaming applications and how to set them up. Does anyone have an article on that? This is cool because it's open source and fast, but I assume that X11
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
I could see it. How does a car catch fire? After a cursory google, I found this article: https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-... IMO, a lot of the points in that article come down to "poor
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
One way to do this (at least in MtG) is to play “cheap” formats: only use so-called “common” cards (examples: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pauper#paper ). Only use a certain set or a number of sets. In DnD, ther
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
Having worked with erlang for some time now, https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0049 is _very exciting_ to me. One of the issues that I have with the codebase that I'm in is deep nesting, which could be solved with t
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by distortedsignal 4y ago
Having worked with erlang for some time now, https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0049 is _very exciting_ to me. One of the issues that I have with the codebase that I'm in is deep nesting, which could be solved with t
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
This one is actually really interesting! I would guess that it comes from electrical engineering, and specifically the signal processing side of things where filters happen. One option for filters are “notch filters” [1], and the letter “v”
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Hi...
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
> The required converter stations are expensive and have limited overload capacity. At smaller transmission distances, the losses in the converter stations may be bigger than in an AC transmission line for the same distance. The cost of
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
Is there a place you know of to get production EV battery packs? I'm an amateur mechanic, and this might be up my alley, but (as above) I'm worried about these battery fire situations.
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
Ford will sell you an electric crate engine for $4k [1]. At that point, I think it's up to you to supply the other parts of the system. I assume that at this point there are enough wrecks of Model S/X/3/Y that you should
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
I think the answer to why one chain is better than many chains is because it’s way harder to 51% one chain with many applications rather than having to 51% one chain with one application. I don’t know enough about blockchain tech to KNOW th
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by distortedsignal 5y ago
I use the interactive flag on git add for this. It lets you add parts of a file, commit, and then do it all again. I want to say it's git add -i, but I'm not 100% on that. My fingers just do the right thing when I want it to happe

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