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India’s engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by fludlight 6y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 6y ago
How long does vitamin d, as produced by exposure to direct sunlight, stay in the body?
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by fludlight 6y ago
“AI” replacing the jobs of AI engineers. But we were told it was only going to do that to blue collar work!
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by fludlight 6y ago
Homes in rural areas have lots of land where you can compost yourself. Plastic recycling can be expanded by increasing the bottle fee and expanding some form of it to all plastic.
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Suspected toxic spill in Russia's Far East has killed 95% of life on the seabed(cnn.com)
4 points by fludlight 6y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 6y ago
Ransomers also threaten to post the unencrypted data on the internet.
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by fludlight 6y ago
Not perceived: actual, effective latency is higher. Today's hardware is capable of better latencies, but most software guys don't care about latency all the way from firmware to OS to apps to websites. It does matter to some deg
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by fludlight 6y ago
I feel the same way about rust’s standard lib, which is pretty sparse compared to, say, python and go. Finding libraries for common tasks is the most stressful part of an otherwise stress-free language (first world problems, I know). I get
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by fludlight 6y ago
The pandemic will feature prominently in fiction for many years. Every genre from scifi, dramas, horror, comedies, etc will be touched by it since the event has touched every person on earth. Themes around loneliness and isolation will be
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by fludlight 6y ago
Emacs user for 20+ years here. I have written a nontrivial amount of elisp. I like emacs; and, yet, I still sometimes get confused by the difference between a window, a frame, and a buffer. Sometimes I encounter a phrase like “frame buffe
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by fludlight 6y ago
Corona would have ruined the coffee side of the business, so you probably dodged a bullet.
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by fludlight 6y ago
What's your local storage setup?
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by fludlight 6y ago
Human induced evolution is happening with wild salmon. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352430/
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by fludlight 6y ago
Can you ELI5 what a music producer does? Was he also a writer or is writing part of producing? What is placement?
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by fludlight 6y ago
It's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.
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by fludlight 6y ago
Robots won't accidentally infect you with disease, which is a big worry these days.
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by fludlight 6y ago
> I was warned to stay away from packages on the beach Ah, the infamous square grouper.
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by fludlight 6y ago
More info on the water company: https://institute.jpmorganchase.com/about/our-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Company https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.230
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by fludlight 6y ago
How, exactly, does one “empty” a person?
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by fludlight 6y ago
Haha, I was thinking about paying users with >100k followers, not the platform, to mention the soap tangentially or have the ice cream in-frame in a picture supposedly about relaxing. I'm surprised the platforms haven't rolled
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by fludlight 6y ago
Fox News has been the target of an ad boycott every year or two for the past decade. They did not lead to any meaningful change. Every time they get rid of the most egregious hosts and replace them with new ones. The new ones start out mo
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by fludlight 6y ago
Does Unilever really need to run ads on Facebook? They sell soap and ice cream[1]. That budget would be better spent on product placement with influencers on some type of image/video centric site like Instagram, Snap, TikTok, etc. Ed
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by fludlight 6y ago
What’s a HENRY?
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by fludlight 6y ago
Zoom’s engineering team is based in the PRC. This opens them up to pressure from the dictatorship which has made large scale industrial espionage a public policy goal. Somebody is listening, and likely transcribing, every call at organizati
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by fludlight 6y ago
Early versions of Youtube nailed this. The video would frequently pause, degrade, or glitch due to buffering delays but the audio would continue to play. This made all the difference in user perception: youtube felt smooth. Other stream
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by fludlight 6y ago
Here's a picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_TelePresence#/media/File...
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by fludlight 6y ago
How does a red light help as a reference time? Does the light log every time it changes or is it for visual synchronization with other nearby cameras?
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by fludlight 6y ago
The database you described has existed for a while. It's called social media. People voluntarily post their minute-frequency gps location, workplace, political and religious leanings, sexual preferences, views on current events, and an
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by fludlight 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but a few years back there was a group that gained access to PRNewswire’s servers and was able to read announcements of earnings, mergers, etc earlier than the public. PRNewswire had a scheduled announcement function tha
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by fludlight 6y ago
Paramedics and police are at opposite ends of the union representation spectrum. Paramedics have no union and are thus treated like livestock. The police have the strongest unions in America and are thus largely untouchable.

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