hunson_abadeer

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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I've been using DeleteMe. It generally works well, with two caveats: 1. They seem to largely rely on automated or semi-automated workflows, and that sometimes breaks down. For me, they removed ~95% of the stuff, but I could still find
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers. That's not even true within the ARM ecosystem itself. The chips from Infineon are not source-code compatible with STM, STM is not compatible with Microchip, Microchip is not
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
It feels like you're making a bad-faith argument here. You can implement 'yes' in a straightforward way in a couple lines of C, too. main(int argc, char** argv) { while (1) { if (argc > 1) for (int i
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
While I'm sure the FCC has an end game of actually mandating these labels, the vast majority of IoT devices are not exposed to the internet and just aren't a major attack vector in most environments. How much money and time needs
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
It's really no different than people who pay more than they need to for a car or a home. It's some combination of it being a status symbol and an "I can afford it and it's fun" kind of a deal. There is a variety of
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the "hit by lightning" territory. It's very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this is a v
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh the &
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Facilities and real estate are among the most significant expenses for any tech company in a prime location such as Seattle or SFBA. If remote work turned out to work flawlessly, there would be a huge financial incentive to shed all that. I
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I Can Eat Glass was definitely a thing, but in the late 1990s or perhaps very early 2000s. Sites such as knowyourmeme.com don't go nearly as far back.
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
High-performance STM32 chips have been in short supply since 2019, with backorder times in the range of years. There's a reason why you don't see a whole lot of hobby boards using them today. So, as a hobbyist, I wouldn't be
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I know a bunch of ex-Googlers who spent 8+ years with the company, and what cracks me up is that they all have some version of this "how the mighty have fallen" story, but it's always relative to their tenure dates. Some reme
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Yes. There's plenty of rodents in urban and suburban areas, but above all, cats have an inborn instinct to murder small critters for fun, and don't need to be taught that. Rodents are their strong preference, but if bored, they wi
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> People are listening to white noise podcasts when regular white noise is available at a cheaper licensing cost. There is something incredibly surreal about this statement.
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
This is precisely what put me off in these discussions. Not the idea that we might have found a room-temperature superconductor - that part was exciting. It's the part where people confidently talked about its applications without real
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Does this include line employees who worked at Google or Facebook or Microsoft if the company is found liable for doing something sketchy? The sums sure are substantial. You can argue they know their employer was no angel, too. OK to claw b
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I'm not aware of any laws in the US or in Europe that generically prevent "phoning home". There are laws that limit your ability to collect certain types of sensitive information without some quasi-meaningful user consent, bu
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I think it's easy to come up with such delineation after the fact, but OP was looking for a more comforting answer. By the sound of it, they just didn't like the implications of the initial diagnosis. It wasn't about facts
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> You can thank Mel Gibson and industry lobbying Why do we always need a boogeyman? Melatonin appears nearly harmless. Isn't it strange that we've grown so accustomed to so many things being restricted that we're taken aba
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> People do it all the time and to far greater extremes. A mortgage to buy a house to raise a family at 30 instead of waiting until 60 is also a form of consumption smoothing. I wasn't advocating against risk-taking. I was advocatin
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I mean no disrespect, but this reads a bit like an over-confident take of a person who never went through a financial calamity. A bit like leveraged house-flippers of 2006. The value of your margin loan collateral can plunge suddenly. The r
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Mandatory? Unless I'm seriously out of the loop, I don't think there are mandatory annual wellness checks in the US?
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
I think the argument rings hollow to me mostly because it's not that Harvard has to charge this much. I'm sure they could be providing the same quality of education for 1/5th the price. In fact, with the endowments many of
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Yeah, it would be sad for Harvard to get unaffordable.
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. I've heard this repeated nearly verbatim in a couple of places, and it's such a puzzling framing. Why was this practice any less
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Right, but that voltage modulation scheme can be distorted by the changing electrical characteristics of your car. Again, imagine a diesel heater kicking in, or windshield wipers, or some other variable load (phone charging)... you can have
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Sugar alcohols are abundant in nature and have been a part of our diets for pretty much all recorded history. They are well-understood and probably don't warrant the kind of intensive inquiry that is appropriate for a completely novel
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
It's actually not that black and white. Wood dust is linked to a statistically significant increase in the occurrence of a very rare nasal cancer. But the thing is, in woodworkers and in the general population alike, it's still a
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
Sugar alcohols such as xylitol and sorbitol are very unlikely to be harmful. That said, they aren't drop-in replacements. Xylitol cools down when it dissolves, so it gives some candy their trademark "cool" feeling, but it&#x2
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
There's a lot of people remarking about this not being novel or the grant being too high, but I'd make two other critiques. First, what happens if the electrical characteristics of your vehicle change in some way? New vs old batte
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by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
> there is a non zero risk with taking something like this that should be discussed with a doctor first, IMO. This costs money in the US. And it costs time and effort everywhere in the world, with doctors frequently using this as a hook

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