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by ema 5y ago
I think a law that forbids blocking third party clients (either through terms&conditions or technical means) would level the playing field a bit. Though I see issues around balancing the need of platforms to update their APIs and an API
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by ema 5y ago
> given the richness that we see around us, what is the difference between a "simulation" and something that isn't a simulation? One thought that stayed with me for a while is, my entire experience could, theoretically, be
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by ema 5y ago
There was a month or so after I moved back to Germany from the Netherlands where my own accent when speaking German was super noticeable to me. Otherwise I don't even hear my own accent when speaking English even though it is undeniabl
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by ema 5y ago
There are plenty of people who do pay attention to parrots. I'm sure they will tell the rest of us when the parrots got anything interesting to say.
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by ema 5y ago
There are significant differences between what is labeled 'university' now and a hundred years ago. We shouldn't let ourselves be blinded by what was accomplished under this label in the past to what it applies to now.
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by ema 5y ago
The important feature of the metric system, for day to day use at least, is that it plays nice with decimal numbers. I grant you that in this regard Celsius has no advantage over Fahrenheit. However for measuring lengths calculating in thou
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by ema 5y ago
Sure a big salary is nice but especially Google hasn't done much in the last decade to make it look there is exciting, or even just satisfying, engineering happening there.
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by ema 6y ago
The advantage of the wheel quickly disappears without a smooth pavement. However the Greeks had roads good enough for wheels so that's not it.
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by ema 6y ago
I have no idea if this number is realistic but lets say the US military pays 10 billion dollar a year for this. The consumer price is about a thousand dollar a year so they would need about 10 million customers to get the same revenue. If t
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by ema 6y ago
It probably depends on the person. I for one never leave IKEA without having bought something I hadn't even thought about beforehand.
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by ema 6y ago
It's only a zero-sum game if more money wouldn't ramp the production up faster. This might be case but I whish people who say it's zero-sum would say why they think so.
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by ema 6y ago
I mean Twelve Angry Men is a movie that is just one long meeting and it is deservedly a classic.
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by ema 6y ago
I wonder how many of the people taking issue with Python2 still being used are using miles and inches to talk about distances?
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by ema 6y ago
How do we know that we know all the active ones? Wouldn't they prefer to not be too widely known?
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by ema 6y ago
When I experimented with 2D metaballs a decade ago I started with a low resolution scan and then subdivided all squares whose corners weren't either all inside or outside until I had individual pixels. Except for a few glitches when ju
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by ema 6y ago
I'm extremely surprised that creating 2k threads makes mac os reboot. Sure that's a lot for one application but not a totally crazy amount.
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by ema 6y ago
Maybe there should also be a "seconds since last progress update" counter. In case of a download it gets reset every time a new packet arrives.
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by ema 6y ago
Doing a hybrid approach which is basically swap to off-chip ram shouldn't be too hard.
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by ema 6y ago
What I don't understand is how covid affects Mozilla's revenue. I mean nobody stops browsing the web because they have to work from home, or can no longer eat out, or whatever other measures where taken.
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by ema 6y ago
> You can use this reasoning to dismiss [...] probably 95% of all scientific results from economic/medical/social/nutricion/climate science. Most researchers are incentived to churn out as many papers as possible. Mos
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by ema 6y ago
To expand: an update that puts older versions of bitcoin on a different chain is called a hard fork and it is treated as a big deal. It is supposed to happen as rarely as possible.
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by ema 6y ago
Didn't the bronce age end like three thousand years ago? It's my understanding that by that time the Indo-Europeans were already well established. Besides while they contributed a large fraction of the ancestry of contemporary Eur
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by ema 6y ago
Would smalltalk been as successful as ruby is now if DHH had written rails in it?
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by ema 6y ago
I don't think using cars for grid storage makes sense since you do want to limit cycles. Giving those batteries a second live as grid storage when they're down to X% of capacity might be worth it though. Also yes shifting charging
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by ema 6y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to treat floating points not as single points on the number line but as a range. This way when you subtract two similar numbers the result is a range that is wide in relation to the distance from 0, explicitly enc
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by ema 6y ago
In my experience menial jobs are not necessarily soul sucking. One of my jobs was literally 90 percent cutting open plastic bags and throwing their contents into a machine. Sure that is not nearly as rewarding as cleaning up some messy code
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by ema 6y ago
One thing that made YC great was that it was started to allow the original 4 partners to learn how to be investors. The first batch wasn't intended to be profitable, it was intended to reveal what works and what doesn't. (Luckily
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by ema 6y ago
Squishy things should pack more efficiently since they can deform to better fill the voids left. Not sure if this makes a significant difference here though. It's only the weight of the grains above that would cause the deformation to
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by ema 6y ago
For me it depends strongly on the task whether 'just get started' works or not. With menial tasks like emptying the dishwasher I only have to convince myself to do the minimum possible amount of progress and I will usually keep do
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by ema 6y ago
I think there is a similar pattern during the early stages of many technologies. At first they are made by tinkerers for themselves and so are tool for individual empowerment. People then think of that as a core aspect of the technology, bu

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