gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> multichannel sound through the 1-bit speaker—basically, playing chords. Ahem, that's polyphonic sound, not multichannel sound. Multichannel sound is playback through multiple speakers.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
Religion is very closely tied to social support structures: You can only "make one up" if the people who you are close with go along with you.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
I didn't find the joke funny at all. I've only driven through a few times, and everyone I know from the state has fond memories.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
The Spartan keeps smelling worse and worse as the article goes on: First, it points out that the ads came out before the thing was even built: I know there's good reasons for companies to gauge interest before investing in a product; o
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
FYI: This isn't a browser-only thing. All platforms (Windows, Mac, ios, android) typically have a single-threaded UI.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
Pedantic response: In C#, I find "binary serialization" much easier to program with than JSON. Then again, the resulting blobs require specialized tooling to read, and they're very hard to work with in other programming langu
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
You're missing the point: Why are your config files so complicated that you need SQLite? I've shipped a product that used SQLite, and we actively removed configuration from SQLite. It was a lot easier to diagnose issues when confi
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
I don't agree with "readable," though. For a simple set of key-values, yes. Once you get into complicated structures, other file formats express the semantics much better.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
It's not about the money, it's about time. Requiring an app to do things often is more time consuming (and unpleasant) than doing it without the app. Other times, the app is so poorly written that it's not worth using. Once t
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
A week ago, a medical office that I had an appointment at kept pestering me to fill out their intake form online. (Multiple, multiple texts.) I got there the next day, and when they asked me to do the form, I rolled my eyes and said, "
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> Just in my toilet, I’m supposed to have an app for the seat, an app for the flush and one for the ventilation. Is this a joke? Are there really toilets that require a smartphone to flush?
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> Why do so many tools have JSON config files‽ 1: Because JSON is a very easy serialization format to work with. I suspect these tools all have configuration classes / objects that are deserialized straight from the config file. 2:
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
It's not an article. It's the video with the transcript below.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
I think it's cool that there's still unconfirmed hypothesizes, and still unexplained phenomena in the science that's investigating these hypothesizes. I hope this turns into a real discovery about something; but even if it&#x
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
Sadly, the way people vote is more complicated than you might believe. Trump is the symptom of malfunctioning system that doesn't give people good options in the ballot box.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> Hardcoded feature flags ... start with a simple JSON file Any configuration read out of a JSON file is not hardcoded. Hardcoded means you need to recompile to change it. (And yes, hardcoded, as in flags set with #define or equivalent,
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> It all smells fishy Because for some, an "ADHD" is like playing up a symptom to get "Medical Marijuana." It makes it hard to differentiate between people who have a legitimate need for treatment, and people who just
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
Or, when the context is right, just ask, "hey, did you ever get diagnosed as ADD?" I once had a close friend ask if I had [other syndrome], and my answer was "I have all the symptoms but don't care to seek a diagnosis.&q
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
A camera that looks at the stars / sun and a very accurate clock... Or one of the many methods described in TFA.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
But, don't forget that Jobs frequented his biological father's restaurant and tipped well. His biological father knew Steve as a customer and didn't learn the truth until after Steve's death.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
For those who want to criticize Tim Cook / Apple for working with Trump: I suggest reading "Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family". It's an autobiographical account from Miep G
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
That's a technicality
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
I think we need to adjust copyright to balance market needs and preservation needs. AI works best when we can strike a balance between the needs of the creator to get compensated and the need of the general public to use content in ways the
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> Even if stuff is written down you have to know where to look. That's one of the things I love about AI: It's excellent at figuring out where to look, because it can digest so many documents so much faster than a person.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
IE, a quickly applied patch that failed.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
It's also a good practice when taking a new job, especially if someone is a contractor and changes gigs every few months or years. I've found that, when I start a job, I have to rely on smells like this to know what kind of mess (
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
To summarize for people who TLDR: 14 freezers failed at the same time. They are all internet-controlled, and failed at the same time as a disclosure about a vulnerability . They all failed by turning on the defrost cycle and heating food.
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
They are charging down that path because vulnerabilities that effect the refrigerators were disclosed the same day as 14 refrigerators failed in an absurd way. They all turned on the defrost cycle and heated the food. The problem is the a
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
I honestly have a vision of a database of .md files that fully describes an application in human-readable, (ok, engineer-readable), text. Making a change is committing a change to the human-readable text, and then AI comes and figures out t
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by gwbas1c 1mo ago
> I can collect my recycling, pop solar panels on my roof and be the most carbon footprint conscious person and it wouldn't move the needle an atom's width. The more people who do that, the faster the needle moves. You create e

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