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by icambron 4y ago
I have a friend who works in nanotube manufacturing and they can do it at scale. My impression is that the industrial application of this stuff is just a lot of hard work and has progressed slowly.
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by icambron 4y ago
"Obtuse" is maybe not the word you were looking for. Opaque perhaps? This kind of destructuring syntax is common in many newish languages -- Rust, Clojure, newer flavors of JS, Typescript, etc -- and becomes second nature pretty q
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by icambron 4y ago
To elaborate this point a bit: the "lottery" concept requires you to believe there's like a queue of souls and they each get allocated to different bodies, and you're lucky you got a fancy one instead of a microscopic sh
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by icambron 4y ago
> This isn't gravitational repulsion. My layman’s understanding matches up with what you said, and my curiosity about this is what brought me to the comments. What I don’t get is that the author appears to be an astrophysicist who m
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by icambron 4y ago
This seems like a good argument for adjusting copyright law, but seems unhelpful in interpreting it. "This law isn't a good way to achieve the government's objectives" is not the same as "this law wasn't broken
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by icambron 4y ago
They may also just not know yet
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by icambron 4y ago
One of the likely factors in my gerd issues is being about 20 lbs overweight, so I wonder how this balances out.
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by icambron 4y ago
That’s just hand-waiving. Sure, they could have been lying to us and had some hyper-competent, complex reason that delayed us and then made up some malarkey about duty limits. But you don’t know either, and the explanation they presented
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by icambron 4y ago
Which information? That they belated realized they'd run out of duty hours and had to call in new crew, after the plane with the soon-to-expire crew had landed? They told us that while we waited at the gate, including updates about the
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by icambron 4y ago
I've told this story a few times, but maybe 10 years ago I had a cross-country JetBlue flight that was delayed perhaps 6 hours hours. It was a few days after a major storm. Like Southwest here, JetBlue didn't have much flex capaci
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by icambron 4y ago
The erosion of campus liberties at elite schools makes them worse places for everyone. And it's been happening at least since I went to school, from 2000-2004. It not only removes all the fun, it also infantilizes the students. College
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by icambron 4y ago
Oh I notice oddities all the time. Unusual word orders, preposition use, that sort of thing. As an example “I barely have experience of” is perfectly clear but not idiomatic, enough to tag you as likely non-native (compare to “I’ve barely e
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by icambron 4y ago
A lot of people I respect really like Tailwind, but I just don’t get it. Seems like you end up with walls of classes because you don’t name your compositions, and thus your design system doesn’t actually live anywhere. If you have a stand
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by icambron 4y ago
“Progress on addressing the massive crisis in electrical chargers” I’m glad to hear it!
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by icambron 4y ago
The article definitely conflates these ideas: 1. there are real truffles that in his opinion are much better than the artificial flavor (fair) 2. the food industry is deceptive about real vs artificial truffle flavor (fair) 3. the artificia
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by icambron 4y ago
The binary vs library thing seems like an oversimplification to me. I think it's more like: do you need callers to handle this error specifically? With a library the answer is "I don't know, better let them do it", so yo
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by icambron 4y ago
By that logic are we unfathomably wealthy because there are billions of planets out there teaming with resources? Do you think people 1000 years ago felt wealthy because of their natural resources and would feel that modern times are compar
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by icambron 4y ago
I don’t think this is arguable. A forest of unchopped trees is only ”wealth” in the sense that all the minerals on the Moon are. It’s really potential wealth — it becomes wealth when we extract the resources. That’s why they’re resources an
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by icambron 4y ago
I honestly don’t get it. I block ads because I don’t want to see them, because I find them annoying and distracting. I don’t need any other rationale. They’re being shown on my computer, which I control, so of course I make changes to it th
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by icambron 4y ago
The GTA game is set in NYC in all but name. I have played a lot of games set or partially set in NYC. It’s sort of the default “we need a big city”. Wikipedia has a list [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_v
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by icambron 4y ago
This is surely right. You wouldn’t use “necessarily” here to mean, like, “justifiably”. It means that it is a direct consequence of “moving too fast and cutting too many corners”, as opposed to an orthogonal safety lapse that can be shored
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by icambron 4y ago
This was me. I was too busy to read/watch anything, 12gb seemed right in the middle of the range, and I blindly pulled the trigger. Later found out I wasn’t quite buying what I thought I was. It’s shitty naming and I’m glad they’re fix
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by icambron 4y ago
In Luxon that is dt.startOf(“week”).plus({ days : 6 })
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by icambron 4y ago
I’d say a bug is behavior not intended by the contract’s author. Laws can have bugs too. What I do think is that you can’t really call it “forgery” or “stealing”, just like using a loophole in a law isn’t illegal.
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by icambron 4y ago
Is it possible that their editor provided ligatures but they didn't know about those and so assumed it was actually a character in the source?
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by icambron 4y ago
I’ve always had the opposite experience. When I am unable to type well I am massively less effective. This happened when switched from emacs to vim, or got a new keyboard with a weird layout, or broke my thumb, or, hell, anytime I use a pho
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by icambron 4y ago
This was my immediate reaction too. Would make my whole week.
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by icambron 4y ago
But you can't go about punishing him this way. If FIDE or Chess.com or whoever wanted to ban him from events for his past behavior--or players simply wanted to ostracize him by refusing to play in tournaments with him--they needed to h
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by icambron 4y ago
Yeah, this is mistaken. At my last job we deployed tons of c# on Linux. The .net ecosystem is a little complicated because of the slow convergence of its std library and runtime (.net core, .net standard, .net framework, .net), but as of a
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by icambron 4y ago
What a great interview! It's unusual that you read a business interview and find it this charming and interesting. I like the guy already.

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