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by erikw 6y ago
I think more competition in this space is great, and overall we'll all benefit. However, notice that when you open up Steam, the default view is your library of games, whereas when you open the Epic Games Launcher, your default view is
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by erikw 6y ago
The incentive to care (in the US at least) is called tort law. Punitive damages against a company the size of Amazon for what sounds to me like theft should be very large. I'm sure that a lawyer would be interested in taking up this ca
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by erikw 6y ago
For the basics of how electricity works (as well as for an in depth understanding) my recommendation is Electricity 1-7. It's a textbook originally published in 1966, so it doesn't cover anything digital, just good old analog elec
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by erikw 6y ago
This is so frustrating to hear. A lot of comments mention the IA "overreaching" with this. While I agree from a legal perspective, I don't agree morally. The IP lobby overreached when they got life of author + 70 years /
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by erikw 6y ago
I see readability as a key advantage of TS. Once you are able to comfortably read type signatures, it is trivial to see what a function is supposed to do, or what a library is supposed to provide. When things don't work as expected, th
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by erikw 6y ago
I did WISP work for a while in snowy rural California. My biggest surprise is that my time was 90% construction (drilling through walls, snowshoeing out to climb towers, running cables, etc) & customer support, and about 10% fun network
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by erikw 7y ago
Something I'd like to see massive companies do to is offer lower skilled internships. I had a tough time convincing anyone to hire me coming out of a bootcamp, and I saw a lot of other people in similar situations- even people who I kn
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by erikw 7y ago
Unfortunately AMD video cards don't really support PCI passthrough- I'm in the same boat as OP with an RX 5700. The issue has been present for several years, and is somewhat fixed by community patches, which makes me suspect that
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by erikw 7y ago
Great point that I forgot to mention, because I take it for granted- this laptop is upgradeable (SATA, NVMe, and RAM), so you don't have to commit 100% upfront, but can upgrade over the life of the computer. Regarding an above comment
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by erikw 7y ago
A Lenovo E495 Ryzen 7 U3700 with 32GB RAM and an NVMe will set you back around $600-700 today. Actually more expensive now than it was several months ago, but I would expect these to be inexpensive used within a year. Zero hardware issues i
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by erikw 7y ago
Yeah, having been much more productive in a previous remote position, I had thought that I was always more productive working from home. During a recent remote stint in my current position (which is normally onsite), I realized how much com
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by erikw 7y ago
One cool trick: the USB standard [0] dictates that USB A type ports should be oriented "toward the host". On a computer, this means that the thick part of the plug should be facing toward the top surface motherboard. As long as yo
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by erikw 7y ago
That reminds me of Google Buzz. I used it with a group of maybe 5-6 other people, and it felt like Google had built this product just for us- deep integration into Google Chat and Gmail, everything was solid, and no one else was using it, s
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by erikw 7y ago
This article is pretty substanceless, but especially since it references Bill Gates, got me thinking- why is no one calling for a tax on intellectual property? The article implies that a lack of income tax is regressive, but it seems that t
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by erikw 7y ago
I don't have specific insight into the machine learning aspects of Alexa, but based on my experience developing Alexa applications, I believe that the individual voices are trained on specific ML models. Most voices are unilingual, but
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by erikw 7y ago
Does anyone have Linux experience with the Dell Inspiron 15 5000 AMD laptop? I was looking to get a Lenovo X490 or T590, especially now that they have an AMD version, but they've removed a lot of features that longtime Thinkpad fans li
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by erikw 7y ago
Anyone familiar with a low carbon footprint meat brand or certification? Seems like an interesting market opportunity. I didn't find a source for child comment re "the West" not being a primary market for Brazilian beef expor
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by erikw 8y ago
I like to set up mini dev environments in Alpine Docker containers when I'm testing or trying out a new stack, and for the most part really like this pattern. That said, I run into a lot of issues that I think are musl related. The bes
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Cell css: generate atomic CSS from HTML classes without sacrificing performance(cellcss.com)
1 points by erikw 9y ago|0 comments
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Take a stand and advocate for net neutrality on your site(cloudflare.com)
2 points by erikw 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikw 9y ago
Yes, I have the same experience. Accessing from Fremont, Ca.
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by erikw 10y ago
I see this sentiment a lot- "yes patents are bad for individuals and from a macroeconomic perspective, but we need them so that Big Pharma can ultimately improve our quality of life." I wonder though, has anyone studied to see if
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Beej's Guide to Network Programming(beej.us)
28 points by erikw 10y ago|6 comments
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by erikw 10y ago
Yeah- the money per person is lower, but a lot of the effort of waiting is in managing tables- ie, the entire table usually pays a bill at the same time, and then the table needs to be cleared and prepped for the next customers.
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by erikw 10y ago
I'd like to share some anecdotes from my experiences as a waiter. 1. The people who demand the most service ("This is too cold, take it back", "Bring me a different fork, this one has a spot on it", etc) tip signifi
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Comprehensive map of California broadband availability by speed(broadbandmap.ca.gov)
1 points by erikw 10y ago|0 comments
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Kickstarter “Peachy Printer” project dead due to embezzlement(youtube.com)
4 points by erikw 10y ago|0 comments
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SoftRAM – software scam for Win 3.1 and 95 that sold 700,000 copies(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by erikw 10y ago|0 comments
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Estonian legislation to allow bank accounts to be opened remotely(siseministeerium.ee)
3 points by erikw 10y ago|0 comments
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Summary of 477 SSRI antidepressant trials(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by erikw 11y ago|0 comments

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