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by ehvatum 7y ago
>it’s a slow app >it’s ugly >it’s poorly designed >nothing else even comes >the task was so monumental I think what's going on here is that Calibre is implemented for free in spare time in Python with an eye toward being
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by ehvatum 7y ago
A vacuous flaunting of luxury opinions diametrically opposed to personal freedom, that serve to elevate their proponent who, of course, would never consider following their own advice? In the NYT? Surely not.
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I gotta put something on my resume, thank you.
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"The AOL COMPACT DISC was both unit of currency and status signaling apparel, as only the wealthiest could hope to accumulate and maintain a collection of these easily damaged, gaudily refractive, oversized coins. Serving neither to ho
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>I still believe, perhaps naively, that it's possible to maintain not-normal opinions without causing pain to the people around you. And this is something that everyone needs to do, whether you're in the majority or the minorit
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There is certainly no shortage of impeccably composed essays dumping on Trump and developing a galaxy of identity-political rationales for why various people ought to dislike him. The story on the ground is distinctly at odds with the impre
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Trump successfully telegraphed US intention to leave the IPU and impose punishing costs on delivery of Chinese parcels in the US, making acceptance of an equitable compromise the only palatable alternative for the Chinese. Incidentally, eve
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by ehvatum 7y ago
The absolute lowest theoretical price for having the USPS deliver a presorted parcel that my logistic network injects into the USPS delivery network as close as possible to the recipient is still more than the terminal fee China would pay
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Has there ever been an instance where an inventor with limited resources used a software patent to protect significant innovation? Has anyone, anywhere, ever once faced a coding challenge, searched through software patents, and found a usef
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Remember, this was a low power computer with limited memory, for children, and getting it into the hands of those children as soon as possible was paramount. So, naturally, the user interface had to be alien and written completely from scra
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I disagree. According to the article, the USPS is subsidizing Chinese imports to the tune of approximately $150,000,000 per year. We have exhausted all other practical approaches to resolving this outrage. China will not budge unless they k
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by ehvatum 7y ago
>I've been doing this stuff for decades and I have never had reason to _read_ a patent filing Knowing of a software patent exposes you to willful infringement, and you'd need a lawyer to understand what the bloody hell most sof
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by ehvatum 7y ago
Break free of the bullshit. Find your own reasons to enjoy the challenge of becoming a better person.
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there are much bigger lies being told This is always true, for everything. Scientific method must be applied consistently. The instant agenda enters into the picture and dictates what truths are lies because bigger lies exist, all is lost
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If every living thing was burnt, the planet would cease to resupply oxygen and most of the free oxygen reserves in the atmosphere and oceans would be consumed through geological processes Over what timescale? If you burned every speck of
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by ehvatum 7y ago
I suppose we can give them a pass if they solve a bunch of captchas.
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Always interesting to read the final sum-total précis of what political people accomplish when they burst into a technical china shop with good intentions and not a clue. An unbelievably slow VM is an inevitable result, no matter the field.
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After eight years of Bush, people were prepared to believe just about anything would be an historic watershed of honesty and good governance. For the last of the Bush years, every day seemed to bring an unprecedented new scandal that oversh
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Teslas have active battery temperature management, even when parked in "deep sleep" mode, and very robust heating and cooling capacity. Left on a hot Arizona parking lot, our Model S will occasionally run the AC for the battery. T
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No bottles is a minor inconvenience, at worst. I have taken to loading up my carryon bag with thousands of free syringes that I charge with Gatorade, so I can directly inject electrolytes whenever I feel feint. Disposal of used syringes is
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“Whittaker also publicly denounced some Google decisions, including the appointment of Kay Coles James, a conservative think tank leader, to an AI ethics board. Google soon nixed the board.” Many people hold strong beliefs that conflict wit
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Suffering that does not respond to effort is definitely stunting. The thesis motivating my muskeg boot-camp concept is that participants exit the wilderness under their own power and therefore develop agency. My perspective on this is somew
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It is not facile to ask if experiencing deprivation is a necessary condition for experiencing happiness. Consider that strength training develops muscles. Does facing genuine adversity develop emotional response such that people become ca
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Send these miserable, privileged people to Africa to dig latrines for a year. They'll be a lot happier when they return. Deprivation is a necessary dimension of human experience. I was looking at setting up one-month trips for snowflak
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This article is a reminder of why I hack and found: existing to be happy does not result in happiness. We're evolved to be happiest when we carve it out from a hostile world, I think.
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A museum of frauds with background as to how they came to be and who was hurt by them: the motive, the method, the tragedy. I highly recommend it. http://www.faelschermuseum.com/Seite1_englisch.htm
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by ehvatum 7y ago
It's perfectly possible to do on a coding salary... in Missouri. I did it, and in fact I still am doing it. I still have have my day job. My big expenses are heavy industrial equipment leases ($7k/mo), electricity ($2k/mo in
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To elaborate on my comment, by eliminating all cartoons, the NYT invites one to think that politically correct over-sensitivity is the cause. Otherwise, why would they not simply avoid publishing anti-Semitic cartoons? Indeed, the author of
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by ehvatum 7y ago
The drastic step of eliminating all political cartoons carries a very specific and misleading implication, if one assumes that the NYT is impartial. Which they are not: https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/anti-semit
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