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by jnwatson 2y ago
It was in a comment by darkerside.
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Faster than climate change is development. The addition of impermeable surfaces like parking lots and buildings upstream causes more water to get to you. Development happens faster than the flood maps get redrawn.
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Lack of housing, drug problems, and mental illness are not independent variables. A few months on the streets can push sober folks towards getting high, not to mention hurt one's sanity.
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Dark Castle, released on Macintosh in 1986, had ASDF movement and mouse for aiming.
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The lowest risk choice for an unbounded time horizon is simply to short the stock. You can do this in a normal brokerage margin account.
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Only if you're long. There are plenty of unlimited risk options strategies.
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Dust allergies are extremely common these days but you can't have an (IgE mediated) allergy to asbestos or smog. Generally the immune system reacts to biological substances. We're vastly more sterile from a germ perspective. Th
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Trezor is another dependency you have to trust. I actually have the skills to evaluate such a device if I had a few weeks of spare time. Expecting the average joe to have that ability is folly. We have a system of laws and contracts and enf
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Rule number 1 of laser safety is "do not look into beam with remaining eye".
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We're already there. The fact that we didn't see civilization collapse is evidence that there is a ton of infrastructure not running Windows and Crowdstrike.
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They have sunset third party kext files. That means if the kern crashes, it is Apple's fault. I once did a little MacOS driver development and had a kext signing key. It was an unforgiving, poorly-documented environment. Good riddanc
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This assumes there are no calls to random functions from C extensions. Still, I would have started with the above.
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I had lower back problems from running until I found a stretch that immediately fixed it. It was debilitating. The solution was the simple butterfly stretch. Even 20 seconds resolves my lower back pain. YMMV.
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It isn't just an "algorithm" in the computer science sense. It is property managers reporting a bunch of information that is then fed into an algorithm. Selling the algorithm should be fine. The information sharing is the pa
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It was a particularly bad time to make that mistake.
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Capitalism is a system that needs to be within operating parameters to function. Prevention of monopolies and cartels is an important part of those operating parameters.
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It is absolutely used and designed for secure boot. There are now simpler mechanisms to accomplish the same thing, but if you want remote attestation, you need a TPM.
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Isotretinoin and benzoyl peroxide are not remotely similar drugs. They have completely different mechanisms of action. That they both treat acne is essentially a coincidence.
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The article has some great points but has an unfortunate title that has lead to an argument the author isn't making. The cryptographic details about preventing confused deputy are excellent and worth studying.
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There's a huge difference between failing Calculus and failing Algebra. Calculus is not required for most degrees. Algebra is required for almost all.
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Or be less competent and accidentally destroy humanity. Both seem possible with imagined future AI-enabled weapons systems.
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One could make the argument that low interest rates suppressed the housing supply crisis. Housing prices around me is up 25% since 2021 and show no signs of slowing down. Interest rates aren't high by historical terms. They are about .
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The AES instruction thing has already been done in MeowHash. Not sure how it compares. https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash
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And the solution to solving world hunger is to grow more food.
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Generative content in games has been around at least since Nethack? "AI" in games has been around since Pong.
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Had a candidate copy and paste the answer wholesale.
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Tenant protection rules do not increase housing. They do the opposite.
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Harvey Mudd will cost $93K this upcoming year. Virginia Tech will cost $41K (in state). It is tough to justify a 2.3x difference in price.
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The author makes good points about trends, but they are mostly super-long term. In the US, it will take at least a decade before the backlog in housing is resolved, and that's with lots of YIMBY support.
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OLED is by far the best type of monitor for text. New OLEDs have about the same burn-in risk as old CRTs. I use a 43 inch LG C3 TV. It is "smart", but at least the smarts are slightly useful, in that I have automations that contro

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