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by guntars 5y ago
So you'd rather choose privacy invading ads just because it's technically not a paywall? I'll take microtransactions every time. In fact, I'll argue that the current state of the internet can be directly attributed to co
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by guntars 5y ago
To the proponents of the "efficient, regulated, centralized financial systems" I want to ask - why can't I pay $0.10 to a random paywalled site to access a single article?
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by guntars 5y ago
> Rather, it has seemed to me that rural folks live closer to nature than urban folks, and have often had firsthand experience that mother nature tends to be nasty and brutish. That's an interesting interpretation. To me, what'
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by guntars 5y ago
Intentions can be very nebulous. We are not always aware of why we’re doing something and tend to come up with explanations after the fact. These can even change over time. Ultimately we can only guess at what happens in other people’s mind
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by guntars 5y ago
Raising a family in NYC on $40k is what poverty looks like, not wealth.
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by guntars 5y ago
Which makes for fun issues like there's no standard way to display a filename in Unix. A system that's, you know, all about files.
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by guntars 5y ago
Try browsing the IPFS example "website". I opens for me under a few hundred milliseconds. ipfs cat /ipfs/QmQPeNsJPyVWPFDVHb77w8G42Fvo15z4bG2X8D2GhfbSXc/readme
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by guntars 5y ago
You don't think this is worth the money, assuming no scientific value? https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/9... Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborator
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by guntars 5y ago
Yet there's a fantastic PR and public value. The resolution is also only 1024x1024.
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by guntars 5y ago
The customer is paying for it either way. Do you want liability insurance on your critical software project? Sure! But it'll just balloon the already ridiculous costs and a fraction of that money will maybe be spent on educating the en
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by guntars 5y ago
Clogging up hospitals and traumatizing the healthcare workers. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be all for lifting all restrictions and letting it rip.
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by guntars 5y ago
That's not what I took from that comment, but there's another by the same poster that I can't see so maybe that's what they were suggesting there. Obviously, I'd personally vote against any such plan, but the issue
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by guntars 5y ago
It’s just a fact - people are bad for biodiversity. I don’t think anyone can argue against it. What that implies is kind of dependent on your values, like you said, but it doesn’t mean we can’t discuss it and need to erase all such comments
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by guntars 5y ago
We can only speculate, but my guess is some combination of “didn’t feel the need to” and “the code responsible for this is nested 6 layers deep between 3 different frameworks”.
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by guntars 5y ago
Just tried it again. I have 70GB available. Got on the hotspot, started the download, unplugged the laptop, waited for it to go to sleep, woke it up - same result. I had to accept the EULAs again and it started to download from about 50mb.
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by guntars 5y ago
Well, yes, they think they're saying something which reveals a lot more to you and you know to avoid this company. I also like to ask myself - who would be attracted by such a job posting and would I want to work with them?
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by guntars 5y ago
The other day I tried to update my Macbook over a personal hotspot and it happily downloaded about 2GB before the computer went to sleep and I was greeted with a "Whoopsie, failed to download the update, try again" message when I
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by guntars 5y ago
Yeah, like a mail box, but you have one at multiple addresses in most cities.
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by guntars 5y ago
A bit of both. V8 can and will optimize away closures if they can be inlined or they're unused, but it has the additional wrinkle that it's a JIT compiler and we regularly throw megabytes of compressed Javascript at it all while t
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by guntars 5y ago
A word of caution - using functional programming principles in a language that is not optimized for it can result in awful performance. In JavaScript, whenever you create a closure it’s a heap allocation. If you’re doing that in a tight loo
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by guntars 5y ago
Not sure I follow. A reasonable framework would stream both the incoming request as well as the response. If the WASM module wants to read the whole thing into memory, it's free to do so, but you could have it process the request piece
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by guntars 5y ago
Wonder why they wouldn't pass in the whole request on stdin? That would also mean that instances could be pre-started in anticipation of a request and not just when one is already waiting.
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by guntars 5y ago
You're right, I should have said "solvable" instead. Maybe some people wouldn't react so poorly to the comment. The point was that dumping the combustion products into the atmosphere and as a result reducing the total ma
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by guntars 5y ago
Easy, the battery bank is a separate drone ship that can be detached at any time. In fact, you could have booster electric aircraft to help the planes reach cruising altitude and then return to the same airport it left from to do it again.
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by guntars 5y ago
Also as a web developer, agreed, but unfortunately it’s like spam. I’d never buy fake sunglasses or penis enlargement pills from some email that appeared in my inbox, but the fact that I still get these means it’s profitable. As long as dar
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by guntars 5y ago
That's funny, I just wrote about the exact same idea! I literally had not heard about it until now, but clearly many people have had the thought. Do you know of anyone actually attempting to build one, toy scale or otherwise?
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by guntars 5y ago
Also there’s nothing that says a jet engine needs to use jet fuel. You could use electric heaters to heat the air, because ultimately it is a heat engine and it doesn’t care where the heat comes from. Surely, if you took an existing jet eng
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by guntars 5y ago
Please visit r/HermanCainAward to see a representative sample of people objecting to said “forced medical procedure” and their arguments why.
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by guntars 5y ago
How do you reconcile the effect overpopulation has on this planet that said kids are going to inherit with the personal choice of having them? Climate change, plastic and chemical pollution, deforestation and subsequent erosion, factory far
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by guntars 5y ago
It never even occurred to me that there are people who think not having kids is selfish, but I guess it makes sense - we are all protagonists in our own stories.

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