foobarian

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by foobarian 5mo ago
I suppose it makes sense, back then you wouldn't think there would be an existing supply chain of companies like Mopar just waiting for a car manufacturer to spin up and start buying their stuff
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Not sure if OP meant literally sell, or just rebalance out of stocks. TBH I've been considering sliding over to all bonds for a time, since there is no tax event if funds stay in the account. But the numbers don't seem that high
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by foobarian 5mo ago
TBH I don't know where that meme came from, it's something they used to harp on in Yugoslav schools before the breakup. But as a concept it certainly exists and I will beg your forgiveness for mixing it up with the history of soc
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by foobarian 5mo ago
You know, you know how communism was supposed to be this nirvana where a central authority would collect all the information and dictate all operations for the good of the people? I.e. centrally planned economy? And in practice it didn&#x27
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by foobarian 5mo ago
It's been my favorite key mapping ever since playing Renegade on Spectrum 128k :-)
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by foobarian 5mo ago
I think things really went off a cliff after around 2012 once phones and internet got good, and social media cranked up the algo games.
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Nononono ZXMK
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be great if we had a simulator like the MIT violin simulator [1] but for cooking ingredients! Then you don't have to throw out pounds of perfectly good ingredients just because broccoli doesn't go with Nutella. [1
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by foobarian 5mo ago
I have a hard time believing that that weak an acid can have a noticeable effect vs just the extra cooking time. Sorry for being a skeptic :-) Most of the time I deal with beef either it's the particular chunk of meat I bought that da
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Yes there are all those arguments. But it's a lot more work for still a pitiful amount of money. Then on top of that after COVID dealer gave me $5k tradein for an Ecoboost car with a leaking cylinder wall, check engine light, missing p
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Once upon a time I had a car, a daily driver. I kept it clean, vacuum/wash/polish with crazy waxes and the works. Stressed out about people riding with dirty shoes, drinks, etc., and when I asked myself why, the usual self-justifi
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> ~ $650k USD So is this what it takes to get nice physical buttons these days?!?
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by foobarian 5mo ago
The outside looks like one of the Mustangs from the 90s with the round brake lights. Meh
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> I think we've seen this play out before with other tech companies where discounting early use ends up entrenching demand and allowing the company to build larger and more efficient infrastructure. We've also seen failures who
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by foobarian 5mo ago
I thought Gnutella was a bit more like Freenet than Napster, iirc only the bootstrap was centralized.
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Lol. It's like Linus but crunchier
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Tbh that is a pretty vague statement. Could be 0.01% more and it would still be technically correct. Could be doubling the number of non-helpful ads in the meantime
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by foobarian 5mo ago
And let's not forget the OG Progress Quest! [1] [1] https://progressquest.com/play/
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by foobarian 5mo ago
A research professor typically graduates dozens of PhD students. Perhaps there was a post-war bootstrapping period where every one of those students got a tenured position somewhere, and in turn also trained dozens of PhD students; but it&#
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by foobarian 5mo ago
That's just it - move in just the right spot where reflections combine in the right way, and it might be enough to get a ping. So the tracking would still be there just less reliable, with an unknown level of degradation. In the end
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by foobarian 5mo ago
You would be surprised how leaky RF can be and how hard to completely suppress. There is a reason things like anechoic chambers and test labs are very expensive.
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Think on the bright side, at least you didn't spend 10000 BTC to buy pizza... speaking of which, Bitcoin Pizza Day coming up in just over a week! https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-glossary/what-is-bitco...
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Heh when I came to this country I was overjoyed to see that they had a "Big & Tall" store. Until I realized they actually meant the conjunction there...
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Thpoilerth!
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by foobarian 5mo ago
I was wondering how good their noise cancelation would be for night-time sleeping, how effective would you say it is?
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> Me not wearing a seatbelt means I risk getting splattered. Not you, or anyone else. Except who pays for your million-dollar reconstructive surgery and rehab? I don't suppose you will cover that out of pocket to avoid burdening yo
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Yeah I grew up with it too. Also the smell of cigarettes and coffee typical of so many communist government offices brings back pleasant memories.
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> understanding it from writing it On the surface it sounds weird - why would this be? Possibly because building a system is not a one-shot step, but a process of many iterations, each of which involves experiments in production, and gai
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Violin/other strings tuners tend to have this mode for orchestra uses with many people next to you also making sounds.
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> have to understand everything, because if you don't do it in the "Rust way", it often won't compile I confess I haven't dug into it much yet, but this reminds me of how Haskell was. By the time you got a progr

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