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by jimmar 5y ago
They don't think they can make electric super cars in 14 years? They have plenty of notice. On a side note, John Carmack was on Joe Rogan's podcast and talked about supercharging his Ferraris. In the same podcast, Carmack said he
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by jimmar 5y ago
Referring to the original link, I don't think the Pixar way it to tell stories using pablum and/or obfuscation. I agree with what I think is your point--the product matters most. If your product truly is great, it should be easier
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by jimmar 5y ago
> How can we fix that? It doesn't need fixing. If you can't tell a compelling story to potential investors, how are you going to tell a story to your customers?
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by jimmar 5y ago
I read "No. 4"--Simplest Cases. This is just like how I remember calculus from high school--a bunch of rules that I memorized but had not idea how to apply to real-world scenarios. It's all about x, dx, y, dy, etc. Maybe it&#
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by jimmar 5y ago
I have an old OnePlus phone that still works fine, but it won't work with AT&T's network changes. I called and AT&T said I could get an iPhone SE for free, but when the contracts came for me to confirm, there was no mentio
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by jimmar 5y ago
This would help me tremendously. I don't code frequently--a few times a month at best. I find myself having to google syntax constantly to write basic programs. If I want to write a simple python command line program that parses input,
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by jimmar 5y ago
I don't distrust https://www.password-hashing.net/ , but I have a hard time gauging its credibility. Why should I trust the results of its password hashing competition?
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by jimmar 5y ago
Who first coined "Internet in a box?" When I saw the title, I thought back fondly to 1994 when my dad came home with a package of software called "Internet in a box" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by jimmar 5y ago
> How does one measure happiness? Psychologists can’t use a ruler or a microscope, so they invent an arbitrary scale. The author makes it sound like you just pull a scale out of your ass. There are processes that researchers must follow
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by jimmar 5y ago
For making global policy, the Lancet study is great. It's not the perfect study for determining an individual's risk factors. I looked at that Lancet study in detail trying to determine how much risk alcohol consumption poses to m
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by jimmar 5y ago
Institutional review boards are notorious for making sure that all of the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed on the myriad of forms they require, but without actually understanding the nature of the research they are approving
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by jimmar 5y ago
WinGet was announced less than a year ago and is still in preview. The main critiques in the article fault WinGet for lacking features that are under development. I would also love to have WinGet working fine yesterday, but it seems like Mi
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by jimmar 6y ago
I'm in academia at a university. I'm part of a union and I hate it. Union meetings are mostly members nitpicking minor contract issues and complaining about being underpaid. The union's purported main goal is to protect free
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by jimmar 6y ago
The quote, "All models are wrong, but some are useful" comes to mind. The OSI model is useful but far from perfect. But you'd be doing students a disservice if you don't teach them about it at a minimum because the OSI m
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by jimmar 6y ago
I'd read that WireGuard was supposed to be easier to implement because it supports fewer distinct crypto protocols and has fewer features overall compared to OpenVPN. But now this code is being pulled. Was it just a rushed implementati
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by jimmar 6y ago
I decided to enable IPv6 on my home network two days ago. My ISP said that "most service areas" and "most devices" they deployed supported IPv6 without giving any way to verify if my service area or modem supported IPv6.
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by jimmar 6y ago
I have one of these for killing black flies that wander into my house. It's not the most efficient way to kill flies I've found, but it's definitely the most satisfying.
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by jimmar 6y ago
LastPass has failed to launch on my mobile phone too many times recently for me to trust it. This change to their service is the impetus I needed to finally switch.
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by jimmar 6y ago
I closed some of my positions in these volatile stocks at a small loss because I had no faith that the people in charge would actually let people buy and sell the stocks they wanted to. I didn't lose much, but it feels bad knowing that
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by jimmar 6y ago
Yep. Then nxnxnxnxnxnxnxnxnxnx.
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by jimmar 6y ago
Trump has been a gift for Twitter as far as platform usage goes. In a sense, banning him is biting that hand that feeds it. They can say that they're really upset with Trump, but as a for-profit company, the sad reality is that they ne
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by jimmar 6y ago
1. WiFi price/performance does not exceed wired connections. Real-world WiFi performance typically falls well below the advertised maximum. You're much more likely to get the advertised maximum with a wired connection. WiFi gets m
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by jimmar 6y ago
Before I even knew what AMP was, I saw the lightning bolt next to search results and I quickly realized that the lightning bolt mean that the site would load fast on my phone. I loved it. So many modern sites are hostile to usability, that
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by jimmar 6y ago
> "stories of substance such as police violence were actively suppressed by the state through intimidation." Maybe we're thinking of different events, but there was a tremendous amount of news coverage about police violenc
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by jimmar 6y ago
Maybe I'm too libertarian-leaning, but doesn't the author of the article have the option of NOT driving for Uber? If California is truly one of the wealthiest economies, the author should be able to find a different line of work.
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I live in a midwest city with a population around 25,000. We won't see 5G for a long, long time. We need signal that goes farther, not faster. 4G is still being rolled out to more rural areas. 5G is a feature I'd rather not pay fo
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by jimmar 6y ago
I agree that universities should do more to control costs. I'll push back just a bit that trimming all "fat" would make universities better. Where I am, the "fat" proposed for trimming is support for study abroad, m
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by jimmar 6y ago
I'm a professor at a regional university. Not a big name school, but we have about 5,000 students. We would be bankrupt if we told students we'd only be offering classes online this fall because students, by an overwhelming majori
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by jimmar 6y ago
Have any smart people in tech come up with a solution that would satisfy the 4th amendment while preserving secure communications? It seems that to lawmakers, tech people are proclaiming that they've done such a good job building secu
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The developers say it's the fastest, but does anybody have a link to benchmarks?

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