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by dsr_ 3y ago
Remember that just because you know that 19% of the painting have snow and 7% have a beach, you do not have a good estimate of how many paintings have both snow and a beach. (There is one which might qualify, but upon viewing, I don't
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by dsr_ 3y ago
And would need about 750,000 of the best Level 3 DC fast chargers connected simultaneously. And 0.01% inefficiency in transfer would melt the car (and the road, and...)
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Twenty-five years ago a recruiter asked my wife how far she was willing to move. "Why would I move? This is Boston: if there are high-tech jobs at all there will be something here."
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by dsr_ 3y ago
What Strange Horizons really wants is a high-quality SF/F/Horror story. They see hundreds or thousands of low-quality stories for every high-quality story. And nobody wants to be told that the reason that they aren't being pu
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"Please note, this is not a rant about out-sourcing." This should have been a rant about out-sourcing. If understanding what they are spending money on is not a core requirement for a capitalist organization, I'm not sure wha
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him" see https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu for context.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Asus Zenfone 9 does the same.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I assume a major part of the job is going on runs to acquire the salt shakers, the briefcases, and the bottles of ether.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It's clearly both. Some are dim, some are trolls, some are both. And sane people double-checked the words, shrugged and didn't bother commenting.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
If you buy a Zoom H8 with all of the optional microphone sets, you don't quite get up to this price. Teenage Engineering is selling the fantasy of being Hunter S Thompson's assistant.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
An optimal filesystem... for what? There is no single filesystem which is optimized for everything, so you need to specify things like cross-platform transportability, network transparency, hardware interfaces, hardware capability, reliabil
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by dsr_ 3y ago
For about 18 months after WWSUL was published, you couldn't meet with a BBN sales rep without getting a copy pushed into your hands.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The tiny sensors inside your ear are nerves attached to hair of various lengths. It's specialized, but it's recognizably the same thing as the kind on the outside of your body.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Since e-ink tablets already understand PDF, the easiest way of doing this is to write a printer driver that picks a tablet as the target, and a daemon on the tablet that accepts the incoming PDF and makes it the new document being displayed
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by dsr_ 3y ago
IANAL. Oracle is very litigious. However, OpenZFS has been releasing code for more than a decade. Ubuntu shipped integrated ZFS/Linux in 2016. It's certain that Oracle knows all about it and has decided that being vague is more in
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Which is why having a nice chunk of RAM on the disk itself is useful. 2x write queue size x block size is nice.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Though, if you had been writing them all down, you would have a useful searchable wiki or ticket system by now.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It's a semi-joke about LISP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
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by dsr_ 3y ago
No, HN runs on a variant of an emulated LISP Machine.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Surely a tip at a self-checkout station comes in the form of a discount?
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by dsr_ 3y ago
People often fail to recognize sarcasm on the Internet.
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by dsr_ 4y ago
These came from Sipura, which Linksys bought. The last time I had some in service, they were responsible for connecting landlines for FAX and 911 service. (This was before VOIP exchanges had E911 availability and while FAX was still a viabl
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by dsr_ 4y ago
It's not like Altman has any influence over OpenAI.
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by dsr_ 4y ago
The 4 battery, 2 door, a/c L7 car comes in at a little over US$9000.
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by dsr_ 4y ago
And the people who fly a lot? Almost all of them are flying on business, on somebody else's money. Which is also why the hotel where people stay when they're visiting friends has free wifi, and the hotel next to the convention cen
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by dsr_ 4y ago
Have you considered a well-written email, followed by an offer of chat if anything remains unclear?
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by dsr_ 4y ago
In a town with one employer and one (local) bank, even if they aren't part of the same ownership structure, they will end up being in cahoots. Regulation and competition are both vital tools for good societies.
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by dsr_ 4y ago
All societies are engaged in encouraging some behaviors, being neutral about some, and discouraging others. The tools for encouragement and discouragement are almost always, and always should, lie on a continuum from "subtle" to &
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by dsr_ 4y ago
I only want a touchscreen if the machine is lightweight and the hinges go all the way around, to put it in tablet mode. A nice 12-14" tablet is great for reading long documents, or for writing them with an external keyboard.
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by dsr_ 4y ago
The Zulip chat system is explicitly based on the same ideas, if not the same code.

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