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by etskinner 2y ago
For some government and commercial interactions, printing things out is the only way to get something done
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by etskinner 2y ago
Consider a similar tasks that are practiced by thousands of professionals daily: Live translation, flying a plane while talking to ATC, playing music while talking. Some people find these things nearly impossible, but with enough practice i
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by etskinner 2y ago
It beats figuring out which of the 5 typical buttons are up/down/left/right, in my opinion. It's only the build quality that seems to be the issue, not the concept
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by etskinner 2y ago
Seems to me they might have been saying the cost for the drug therapy rather than the bloodletting
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by etskinner 2y ago
For anyone who also thought that was a weird way to say the stat, it's £2,000 upfront and £4,000 a year for one person. It does seem awfully high. Donating blood costs way less. Maybe the treatment they're saying the cost for is t
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by etskinner 2y ago
It's already profitable, or at least net-zero, it's just not politically correct. Here in Minneapolis (more generally: Hennepin county) we industrially incinerate our trash. The site lists many benefits: https://www.hen
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by etskinner 2y ago
That doesn't negate their point. Starlink satellites still pass over Africa regularly and completely. The only caveat I'll say is that starlink generally requires ground stations to provide connection at scale. So it's not 0
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by etskinner 2y ago
I think they're referring to Home Assistant, that's what they found
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by etskinner 2y ago
It definitely is for you and for other people. I challenge you to describe what it's for if not those two things
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by etskinner 2y ago
I think you're missing a small yet significant portion of people who will pay for content after consuming it. Off the top of my head I've "tipped" after the fact for: An awesome free work time recording app, "free
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by etskinner 2y ago
The only thing constant is change. Queens and Brooklyn used to be a marshland swamp. If somebody proposed we build a metropolis in the everglades, we'd say we're ruining that too. Cities should densify as needed, not be held to so
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by etskinner 2y ago
There's a little bit of feedback: Each belt has a rotary encoder to track position, and the motors apply positive torque rather than positive position. This is in contrast to how stepper motors work on a 3d printer, for example.
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by etskinner 2y ago
Yes, they support either setup, vertical or horizontal
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by etskinner 2y ago
Why tune anyway? Isn't the job of speakers and earphones to reliably reproduce the sound that the person who produced the track wanted? The only tuning that should be done by default is to compensate for the form factor or the room, su
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by etskinner 2y ago
If you want to have different preferences, bookmarks, extensions etc. set for different profiles. For example, I might want to allow 3rd party cookies on a work profile but not on a personal profile.
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by etskinner 2y ago
You only need a ham license for transmitting, not for working on radios or listening
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by etskinner 2y ago
You're right! But also, it's effectively the same as ionizing: "UV-A and UV-B are technically non-ionizing, but all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization. For example, ultraviol
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by etskinner 2y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation : >Exposure to ionizing radiation causes cell damage to living tissue and organ damage. >Gamma rays, X-rays, and the higher energy ultraviolet part of the ele
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by etskinner 2y ago
I'm not convinced, both android and iPhone have a feature that shows you when it's recording microphone or camera [1] [2]. Moreover, those things require app creators to request microphone and camera access. If this happens, it&#x
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by etskinner 2y ago
> There are things we can do now—things we need to do now, like video conferencing and real-time collaboration—that couldn’t be done with traditional desktop software. This is not at all true. You could have desktop software with network
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by etskinner 2y ago
Bcachefs has this too
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by etskinner 2y ago
Really impressive that they got thru an entire develop, build, approval, and documentation process in just about 2 days. Not that any of those steps are extremely hard for this fix, but I'm always impressed when big corporations can mo
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by etskinner 2y ago
Did anyone else's brain refuse to parse this sentence? "Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become?" What is that supposed to mean
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by etskinner 2y ago
The reason that SMS is preferred is that "everyone has it". Requiring all customers to get an app is much harder than requiring them to have a phone number than can receive SMS
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by etskinner 2y ago
If you read the article, it's not some random unrelated person. It's the last person in a long line of heirs. Basically, Ravel's brother got it, and then various people via marriage and death assumed it, ending in this woman
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by etskinner 2y ago
Is "procedural units" a commonly used term? I couldn't find any info in a quick search. I'd love to hear more about the concept
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by etskinner 2y ago
Title doesn't reflect the article's title (emphasis mine): "Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'" Without "probably", it sounds like
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by etskinner 3y ago
Can you call it pure python if it compiles to React? Seems like the abstraction just makes it harder to debug
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by etskinner 3y ago
That was only an example, not a rule. Presumably you need to label it if you fix the note too
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by etskinner 3y ago
What makes them not as nice for your battery?

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