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by jtolmar 4y ago
You'd also have to compare this against the download size of the protobuf library itself.
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by jtolmar 4y ago
Lovely little collection of sites like this, which showed up last time - https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple (I linked to the category that the scissors is filed under, but the collection is extensive)
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Companies that sell security systems want big stable government paychecks, but can't just bribe lawmakers, so they instead secure votes for pro-surveillance policies by getting "think of the children" style articles published
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I tried that before contacting them. So far their advice is just to try the same thing but longer, though.
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by jtolmar 4y ago
My Framework laptop suddenly stopped charging or booting. Hopefully it'll end up being one of these, if their support ever stops telling me to retry charging it for 24 hours.
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by jtolmar 4y ago
This is the right way to think about it. My only disagreement is that I'd do the local DB before the local service. A bunch of local versions of the service pointing at the production DB sounds like a time bomb. And it's definitel
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by jtolmar 4y ago
It's clearly a title font. If someone uses that as a body font, it's hopefully a shitpost.
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by jtolmar 4y ago
It's certainly better than it used to be, since there are more satellites, and a lot of work goes into doing well in these environments (I used to do the GPS integration for Google Maps). There are two big tricky parts about urban cany
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GPS assumes* light travels in a straight line, which it doesn't due to atmospheric effects and reflections off buildings. L5 is a second frequency from the same satellites, which is affected by these problems differently, so the chip c
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by jtolmar 4y ago
There's a few parts to it. javascript used to be awful. Using JQuery was more or less required to have a decent API and not have your entire app full of polyfills. Those days are behind us, but the precedent remains. Some javascript AP
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by jtolmar 4y ago
The new technology looks like it could threaten artists' livelihoods by replicating something about their work. The old legal framework for protecting artists' livelihoods from photocopiers etc was copyright. The goal of making su
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I'm impressed that running it on CPU only made it ~20x slower. How did you do it?
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The page is doing something strange on scroll, it's almost unbearable on Firefox mobile
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> So for example, I want to schedule a doctor’s appointment on my personal and have my other calendars mirror that time block, but scrub the details/make it generic. Super specific idea obviously Actually not that specific at all! I
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by jtolmar 4y ago
> 2. Mark it up 5x-10x. From the limited searching I did when I first noticed this, it seems to actually be a more or less flat $10 markup, regardless of whether that works out to 10x or 10%. Maybe some sort of fixed cost is involved?
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by jtolmar 4y ago
If you're a central planning committee trying to solve for the best outcome under physical constraints, nothing beats nuclear power and railroads. If you're living in an economic system where investment is primarily determined by
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I don't think there's a way to extend union-find to do what you want in the general case. You might have more luck starting with a minimum cut algorithm. For the specific case where you can identify some of your edges are more or
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by jtolmar 4y ago
Terraform Industries has a process for converting atmospheric CO2 and water into hydrocarbons (particularly "natural" gas), at the cost of a huge amount of electricity. Because solar panels keep getting cheaper and oil doesn'
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by jtolmar 4y ago
The union-find data structure / algorithm is useful and a lot of fun. The goal is a data structure where you can perform operations like "a and b are in the same set", "b and c are in the same set" and then get answ
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I copy/pasted the code examples, reformatted them so they'd work in a different language (javascript), and refactored it to write my own language instead of Lox. Then I did it again with a different destination language design, an
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The left was outside, the mountain face was basically a vertical line, and all the things we associate with "deeper" were found further and further to the right of that line. Some ways in you'd find an underground river (whic
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I ran a simple Markov chain text generator bot on 4chan for a while back in 2008, because I wanted to see if it could pass the Turing test on /b/. It could, and also derailed conversations quite a lot, so the technology is certain
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by jtolmar 4y ago
Most abstractions will accept one layer of ugly hacks for situations they were never meant to deal with. I'd recommend waiting until the second layer of hacks starts to form, then refactoring with what you've learned, since that s
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by jtolmar 4y ago
I think if you divided economists up into two groups, with A including all the economists with popular media platforms or who work in government policy, and with B including the rest, those stuck in academia writing papers that only other e
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by jtolmar 5y ago
> I would be interested in anyone posting what they think is an economically viable path to challenging Google. You only search whitelisted sites, which removes a lot of the SEO and blogspam from the results, and makes the index is wildl
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by jtolmar 5y ago
I've been working on one of these on and off for a while now! It'll eventually be up on gosayhito.com. I'll try to remind you when it's done, but you can also probably put the website in as a monthly thing to check on.
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by jtolmar 5y ago
Back when I was working on location for Google Maps navigation, we explicitly disabled the wifi-based location service, because it was less accurate, and occasionally started giving locations from several seconds ago. So to me it's kin
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GPS itself doesn't use much battery at all, nor do the calculations that use it. GPS-enabled apps use a lot of battery because they have to constantly wake up the device and enable the antenna, but that hardly matters for a navigation
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Of those, private property - the Marxist definition of it, at least - is mostly new. For anyone not familiar, that definition of "private property" is something like productive assets used by other people for the profit of the own
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by jtolmar 5y ago
If you check out something where people just ignore copyright, like fan fiction or ROM hacks, you'll find something that's not very hard to follow at all. Easier to follow than what particularly reboot-happy studios do with their

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