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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Everybody jumped into technology for fat paychecks long before 2010
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I suspect if Office Online Server was a significant revenue source, they would keep it up. Instead: Remember that storing files in the cloud is highly commoditized, especially by Non-Microsoft companies. The APIs to hook cloud storage int
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A critical part of figuring out how to have people retire younger is making sure that taxes don't perpetuate a welfare state. Keep in mind that, if you live in the US, right now our increasing national debt funds social security, with
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> 1. If they are competent programmers. 2. Whether they will be productive at your company/project. > His opinion is that the second question is much harder to answer, and he doesn't know how to reliably do it, and whether t
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> So many people hit retirement age and they simply cannot stop working In my case, I view retirement as being "financially independent" where someone doesn't have to work in order to obtain food, shelter, and health care.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I think it's more practical to work at lowering the retirement age. UBI has a lot of complications, but instead figuring out how to have people retire at 55, then 45, then 35, then 25, can get you close to that direction while ignoring
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I don't think it has to be either-or. I suspect wearables will be cheaper than augmented rooms, so they will probably "win" in the sense that mobile phones outnumber desktop computers. That being said, I suspect the experienc
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I used the F12 debugger to find the websocket, and then I blocked the cursorparty domain.
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That's not appropriate. People buy those drives to do whatever the ^#$^#$ they want to do with them. Backblaze's service may or may not be an effective replacement for what people wanted the drives for.
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And don't forget that, with ethernet, every device needs its own run of cable, its own port at the router, ect, ect. Normal power cables support multiple devices.
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Is POE really relevant in the consumer space? All of my laptops get power and wired data through their USB C port. Does it make more sense to just send data over USB C? For example, my Chromecast gets power and wired ethernet through its US
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
My Chromecast uses USB C for its network. I got a power brick (official Chromecast) that also takes an ethernet cable and then provides a wired ethernet connection. That being said, a quick Google search for "poe usbc" yields some
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Years ago I worked for a company where customers started seeing other customers' data. The cause was a bad hire decided to do a live debugging session in the production environment. (I stress bad hire because after I interviewed them,
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I don't want that kind of flicker, though. I just want the image to look good: > I want a deinterlacer that can figure out how to make the (cough) best image possible so deinterlacing artifacts aren't noticeable. > I want so
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When I used to go to McCoy stadium in the 1990s, their were signs all over the stadium commemorating the game. They even had the score printed on cups.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
"drinking a can of <5% ABV beer ... per inning" is binge drinking: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking#Definitions > the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> With enough lines, enough brightness, and a high-enough refresh rate, it may become possible have a display that can artificially emulate the features of a CRT -- including phosphor persistence and blooming and focus issues and power s
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Doubtful: 1: Methane leaves the atmosphere a lot faster than Co2 2: The methane is a result of breaking down food where the carbon was captured from the air by the plants that were the source of the food. 3: (And I'll let you figure ou
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Sometimes, all we want to do is shout "CRTs were magic, bro, just trust me!" I certainly feel that way when watching interlaced video. There's far too much bad deinterlacing out there. One of the biggest problems that
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> The video timing in the NES is non-standard - it both generates 341 pixels, making 227 1/3 subcarrier cycles per scanline, and always generates 262 scanlines. This causes the TV to draw the fields on top of each other, resulting i
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
When I played NES and SNES as a kid, the resolution was so low that I only saw pixels. (Edit: I saw whole pixels when using the RF switch.) To this day, when I go back and play those games on modern consoles I just can't use CRT emulat
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> While an electric vehicle is ideal for shorter trips in urban areas with moderate temperatures, they aren’t as effective as traditional cars for long-distance travel or when the temperature is very high or very low On long trips, I plu
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> rather than blocking the bad guys, we'd tag the incoming traffic > had circumstantial evidence that the attacker was a service contracted by one of our competitors > we'd have been much happier ... to offer an API throu
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IMO: It's good to know how to manipulate the DOM directly. Any complicated web app will always hit some kind of corner case where you need to bypass your framework and manipulate an element. For example, the spinner that you see on ht
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
You miss the point: I'm referring to cases where you pass pointers from one language into another. In that case, because GC is opt-in, it's the wrong approach for managing whatever you're passing into the non-Rust language. I
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I've always wondered if I could file some kind of freedom of information act request to get the IRS's opinion of what my taxes should be; and/or to get the source code to the IRS's program to calculate what their opinion
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Think about it this way: Unless you are using malloc; and/or you don't need to do anything when the pointer is freed, (the pointer doesn't reference anything else that needs to be freed or released,) there's no way that
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The thing I don't understand is why anyone would pass a pointer to a GC'ed object into a 3rd party library (that's in a different language) and expect the GC to track the pointer there? Passing memory into code that uses a di
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Having acknowledged that pointers can be 'disguised' as integers, it is then inevitable that Alloy must be a conservative GC C# / dotnet don't have this issue. The few times I've needed a raw pointer to an obje
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Oh no, I'm directly criticizing C/C++/Java/C#: The heavyweight framework (and startup cost) that comes with Java and C# makes them challenging for widely-adopted lightweight command-line tools. (Although I love C# as a l

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