guidoism

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by guidoism 3y ago
Honestly an array isn’t really the worst… for smallish files on modern processors. Sequential memcpy is pretty dang fast and pointer indirection can be slow. Just sayin’
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by guidoism 3y ago
Apparently it has already happened https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/2... TL/DR: batteries are cheaper than paying an electrical to upgrade a 120 line to 240.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I honestly can’t imagine a future where we don’t have robots tending to each individual plant coming out of the ground like that one plant is the most important thing in the world. We currently treat an entire field as one uniform thing bec
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by guidoism 3y ago
This is exactly what I do. I call it my “Homeowner’s Operating Manual” and it’s based on the idea of an individual aircraft’s POH. It’s all there. Everything I’ve done to the house.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I own several devices that won’t work with a C-to-C cable. Somehow something gets confused. You need to use a C-to-A cable and if you have a computer that only has C ports like me, then you need to use an A-to-C dongle. What a mess.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’ve been wondering the same but maybe we only have these examples because the only successful attempts to forcefully take power away from the capitalists has been by authoritarians.
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by guidoism 3y ago
That “idle capital” is pretty central to the Ben Graham way of doing things. You keep it around waiting for a great investment. Weird things happen like when silver crashed in price for a couple of days in 2020.
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by guidoism 3y ago
The author has Chrome and Electron apps. Not sure this is normal usage. Grandma doesn’t use anything but what comes with the Mac. It’s fascinating how we all try to extrapolate assuming our usage is the norm. I do the same. But we all have
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by guidoism 3y ago
I can't use wget from homebrew anymore on my computer because of some weird shared library crap but I can download this universal binary and it just works. Whaaaaat!?! So so so awesome.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I wonder how the neglecters/abusers stay hidden. We are in a state that doesn’t even require notification. As far as the school district is concerned our kids don’t exist. But the medical system definitely knows them. I guess the negle
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by guidoism 3y ago
It does have a cost. But maybe the cost isn’t worth it sometimes. I’ll take the 4K screen please. I’m willing to pay for those pixels. But animations for no reason other than to make it seem like waiting for something is less of a chore? No
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by guidoism 3y ago
Going to assume you mean foldable phones. A lot of people want small phones so they can be used one-handed. One cannot reach every part of a folding screen with one hand.
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by guidoism 3y ago
The US’s cars also emit a huge percentage of the world’s greenhouse gases so solving that problem is kinda important.
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by guidoism 3y ago
100% agree. But…. how do we get there? A LOT of people in the US living in very (gross) spread-out areas where there is horrible pedestrian infrastructure. The infrastructure that does exist seems like it was put in place to mock those with
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by guidoism 3y ago
ICE are to EV as HDs are to SSDs. My intuition is that because there’s a floor to the cost of HDs (I think at some point it was around $35) and no practical floor to SSDs, there might be a similar story with cars. I know it’s really a bad a
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by guidoism 3y ago
I honestly thought the original pitch had to do with self-driving trucks because in my mind how could it not.
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by guidoism 3y ago
People named Guido not being able to create an account because apparently my name is also a racial slur in some part of the world where I do not live.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Totally don’t want to pick on you but this kind of thinking makes me really wish we could fork the universe right before giving the meds and compare the results of both universes. Ugh. Stupid physics.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I wonder if you only need to be able to verify a small portion. The stuff that deals with passwords and encryption and transferring money between bank accounts and sending and editing secure messages. I’m not sure I care if the code that he
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’ve read phonetic English and it’s really hard at first but you eventually get the hang of it. Are you proposing that people just write out whatever they say in IPA and force the interpretation on the reader like we do with spoken language
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by guidoism 3y ago
Wait, isn't long 32 bits, long long is 64 bits.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Reasonable assumption but in this case I was able to be flexible enough. The problem was my child not sleeping more than a couple hours at a time and our stupid adherence to the "baby should sleep in a different rule" in the US.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m fairly confident that the lack of sleep during my first child’s first two years permanently altered my brain in way that has seriously affected my ability to do my job. I think there is research to back my claim that sleep can change yo
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by guidoism 3y ago
I agree. A lot of languages have settled on those same names or something similar. We don’t live in a world with a single word size anymore so carrying bit length in the name is critical, and so is keeping identifier names short. His trade
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by guidoism 3y ago
My elderly mother-in-law is pretty good about the scams but the part that I can’t understand is that she treats every land line phone call as the highest priority thing in the house. She will drop everything to answer the phone.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I've been hoping somebody would do that. I have a only half-joking business idea to build high-quality physical controls for all of the crap touchscreen shit being forced upon us. High-end ovens for example rarely now include physical
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by guidoism 3y ago
Delco! I now live in one of those small factory towns in Indiana. It’s fascinating to me how so many little towns in the Midwest existed just to make one small part for Detroit.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Hmm, maybe…? I think there’s a difference in people who are thinking the power and abilities and differences come from the hardware and those who think it’s the software. Now clearly the hardware is different too. But I think the whole “ap
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by guidoism 3y ago
Kodachrome slides look unreal to modern eyes. My grandfather was a pretty decent amateur photographer so pretty much all of my mom’s childhood in the 1950s is captured in color. We scanned them in and my friends don’t believe that the color
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by guidoism 3y ago
It was Amazon and The NY Times for me. It was a long time ago so I don’t remember specifics but man, it really changed my perception of journalism.

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