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Litestream is a library that allows you to easily create backups. You can probably just do analytics queries on the backup data. https://litestream.io/
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> Ok, so when is the US going to become part of the west? I'm from Africa. Here "the west" is an expression refering to europe and the US and/or advanced democratic countries. I thought it was a common expression, I a
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> Our industry is still full of sexism and racism. Im curious what people like you want. If you look at the rest of the world, the west seems like it is decades ahead with this sort of stuff than anyone else in the world. And social chan
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> Amazon A/B tests just about everything Are they testing for the UI's that confuse customers the most? \s
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> ...giving nothing in return Patent law is there, because creating original work is costly and can take years in engineering and scientific fields. The patents are there to give a time-window for the people who made the investments to m
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Masimo made investments into R&D. They payed salaries to researchers to create new products and got awarded a patent for that investment. If the employees knew they were onto something big, they should've started a company or negot
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IMO the reason C++ isn't a general purpose programming language is due to memory management. Many many many applications can be built without having to worry about the garbage collector and the productivity gains of using a GC language
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Nvidia GPU's are really your only choice. There is no framework as mature as CUDA and nvidia has been making the fastest hardware for decades. They know their stuff when it comes to architecture, so its unlikely that the hot new thing
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But we are not haggling over the price. apple has control over an enormous portion of the market. I can't haggle because the big guy controls everything. And saying apples cut pays for more services is just hilarious. we are forced to
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5% Royalty past $1m for using the most high tech game engine in the world is a totally reasonable price. Just like 3% for using payment services is totally reasonable. But 30% for using a distribution service is just absurd. The only reason
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> Having users pay recurring would also incentivize car makers to keep investing in updating their software... Please no. I don't want fancy software that hides essential features 4 layers deep and stops working when the internet is
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Repairing electronics is not fun. Ask any undergraduate that spent hours looking for broken op-amps and bad solder joints. I don't think its the same class of repairability as old cars.
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When solving for the wave equation, the substitution made for J is sigma * E. So defined in terms of the E field and some conductivity constant. When solving the wave equation, there is no mention of charge density, everything is fields. Th
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Unfortunately the explanation to your question is something that takes years of education to understand and even then, most people just come out understanding some parts. The best I can do on an internet forum is tell you that the analogy i
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The problem with this analogy is that pressure waves can only travel in a medium. The pressure wave exists because the particles in the medium bump against eachother to propagate energy so the analogy gives people the impression that electr
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> Canonically, electric current results from the collective movement of electrons, each carrying one indivisible chunk of electric charge. But the dead steadiness of Chen’s current implied that it wasn’t made of units at all. It was like
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> Additionally, saying that children and adults should be wholly responsible for this is like saying the Chinese and not the British should be responsible for their opium addiction (see Opium War) and that homeless in San Francisco shoul
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If there are more people, there are more person-hours in the world that can be used to produce things.
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The available API's on the web are very questionable. Feross has a web security lecture series on youtube where he showed off the following abomination. Enter at own risk. https://theannoyingsite.com/
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No, in this case it is docker. Last I remembered, docker on macs run in a VM
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For some the hairloss comes in the 20s
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I get what you are saying. I was just thinking about the stochastic parrot analogy for consciousness, but I see your comment is more about there not being special sauce to conciousness. But hey, the fact that such behaviour can emerge from
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> emergent property of complex-but-deterministic actions and reactions I think you mean non-deterministic. The last century of physics was dominated by work showing how deterministic systems emerged from non-deterministic foundations. It
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The fact that the market for cars is shifting in the direction of gargantuan pieces of metal is what finally convinced me there is nothing that can be done about global warming. Forget pedestrians, if everyone is starting to drive around in
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The dopamine rewards you get from the two are similar.
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it's not about gambling. The dopamine rewards you get from the two are similar.
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If you prefer learning by doing, I recommend rustlings. Its a bunch of small exercises that roughly follow the content of the main rust book. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
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The author addresses this in the text. He claims the wealthy have the time (And I will add access to resources like the internet and books) to spend on learning esoteric knowledge. From my N=1 experience, that seems to be true. I don't
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> If you do so much IPC that you have to design your language around it you're probably doing it wrong... I'm gonna have to disagree with this. Often when languages add features to their core, it allows for a very different (an
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"A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay He said that in a video "nornal considered harmful" that you can find on Youtube[1]. He talks about it at 34:29 [1] https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?

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