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by epr 6y ago
I knew I had heard another version of this story, but it was about Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Found it on the smithsonian website. Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, cal
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by epr 6y ago
wealth - plentiful supplies of a particular resource digital - involving or relating to the use of computer technology In this context, they presumably mean the abundance of resources that exist solely or primarily in the digital realm. Soc
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by epr 6y ago
> All answers are in that email they are responding to. My gf works in inside technical sales for an industrial instruments rep/distributor, and therefore a large part of her job is passing information between customers and manufact
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by epr 6y ago
1-2 tabs max? I'm not sure many would consider that very usable
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by epr 6y ago
Why? trademarks are not incompatible with capitalism
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by epr 6y ago
I'm confused. Aren't these registrations on wifi usually (almost always?) tied to a spoofable mac address? In that case, can't any competent bad actor simply record traffic to pick up mac addresses of others on the network, t
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by epr 6y ago
Undoubtedly, one of the largest problems since the dawn of humanity is the refusal to admit "I don't know". This is what is most frustrating to me regarding a variety of subjects including religion (and atheism for that matte
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by epr 6y ago
What trade-offs make the most sense are highly dependent on the problem being addressed. If there were ever an instance where text being the universal input and output type made sense, it would be in a Unix environment. That being said, wha
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by epr 6y ago
Rich Hickey addresses this in his famous 2011 talk, titled Simple Made Easy. > Are we all not glad we don’t use the Unix method of communicating on the web? Right? Any arbitrary command string can be the argument list for your program, a
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by epr 6y ago
> I love to debate and hear ideas from those I disagree with The right may take the cake as far as hypocrisy goes in general, but the one thing that pisses me off the most about the left is their lip service to open-mindedness. I often w
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by epr 6y ago
from the hacker news guidelines: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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by epr 6y ago
Your response suggests you misunderstand the point I was making. I completely agree with you that there are certain niches which require extreme precision for safety purposes like that which is being discussed in the article as well as your
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by epr 6y ago
> How do they write the right stuff? The article claims that it is their process, and although they are certainly extremely thorough, I don't buy it. At the very least, they cannot be compared to most developers apples to apples. Wh
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by epr 6y ago
> Insurance is NOT a financial instrument Unless you are attempting to redefine the word insurance you are simply incorrect. Insurance is one of the most commonly used financial instruments in existence. If insurance was somehow not a fi
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by epr 6y ago
> I'm not saying things other than land have no value/costs (I think that's what you were implying?) The single argument I made was quite clear and unambiguous. Everything composed of matter is finite in nature, and that f
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by epr 6y ago
Anything composed of matter is by definition finite from an economic standpoint. Even if you assume an infinite amount of something in an infinitely large universe, you still at minimum have a cost of transport, and likely a wide variety of
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by epr 6y ago
I randomly selected this book off a shelf in my high school library when I had to pick a book to do a report on for a bullshit elective in high school. Procrastinated as usual, so on the Sunday before it was due I figured I had less than 24
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by epr 6y ago
Simple solution to the dependency management (spitballing): a directory of files where the filename is the module name. Each file is simply: <url><newline><size in bytes><newline><hash> And then in an ap
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by epr 6y ago
I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on anyone claiming that a difference in interests does not equate to a difference in capabilities. Think about fields you are passionate about vs. fields you couldn't care less about. Do you
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by epr 6y ago
Just read this to my non-programmer girlfriend and she could barely stop laughing, especially at the ex-girlfriend jokes. I really feel sorry for all the people over-analyzing these things. Like, do you think the author ever killed his ex-g
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by epr 6y ago
Hold that thought. They probably have deaths by week already.
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by epr 6y ago
That does not look good for Sweden. I was just thinking that it would be interesting to compare total deaths per year for 2020 at years end to eliminate differences in methodology. It's a crude measurement, but if the coronavirus death
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by epr 6y ago
Is there a pronounced difference between coronavirus cases in Sweden vs neighboring countries? On a per population basis I'm seeing very similar numbers (links below). Anecdotal evidence is one thing, but these charts don't seem t
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by epr 6y ago
I don't think that's undefined behavior. That's how C's limited form of polymorphism is utilized. For example, many data structures behind dynamic languages are implemented in this way. A concrete example would be Python
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by epr 7y ago
> Price gouging laws do not change the underlying facts of how long it takes to spin up new production lines. Of course they don't. What they do accomplish is preventing prices from rising quickly enough to justify new production li
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by epr 7y ago
> But once we're in a "rich asshole can buy out the supply of life-saving equipment by outbidding hospitals" territory, ... Price increases also discourage the wealthy from buying more than they need. There is no doubt tha
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by epr 7y ago
> In emergencies like this, there isn't enough supply available anywhere to meet demand In the presence of price gouging laws perhaps, but not in general. I of course acknowledge the overhead cost of retrofitting existing manufactur
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by epr 7y ago
Raising the price does not "primarily" cut off the least wealthy potential buyers, that is just one of the effects. Much more important is that it prevents people from hoarding, which is by far the most common result of prices bei
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by epr 7y ago
No one said anything about only "rich people" "deserving" anything. If you draw the conclusion that only "rich people" will have access to something if the price is higher (notice they didn't specify how m
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by epr 7y ago
Not at all, hence the word "encourage" instead of something more absolute like "enforce". The distinction between a "want" and "need" is very tough to make beyond physical reality bound calculations o

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