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by juancn 3y ago
Military expenditure is more about being ready "just in case" than actually using the things you buy and showing of to others so they don't mess with you.
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by juancn 3y ago
It's a statistical phenomenon. It's pareto inequality. Check this video, specially the "trading game" simulation (about 5:24 into it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMBdRfbk6A
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by juancn 3y ago
https://mathaudio.com/room-eq.htm
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by juancn 3y ago
It's the quintessential hard problem solving strategy. It works on many hard disciplines, and it boils down to two steps: 1- Obsess 2- Let Go Step two is the hardest one, but it's the most fruitful one and you really have to let g
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by juancn 3y ago
It feels so 80's... the motion is so weird and unnatural, not like Boston Dynamics where it feels like they built a weird animal instead.
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by juancn 3y ago
This is probably a good explainer: https://transputer.net/fbooks/tarch/tarch.html TLDR: basically build a computer by connecting a bunch of small computers with memory and compute together (what we would call a SO
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by juancn 3y ago
We should submit to %0.002 of the world's population magical thinking, stop all moon base projects since people may die on the moon and "desecrate" it! /s Seriously, why do we still have religions?
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by juancn 3y ago
They seem to be replacing the right CTRL key rather than adding a new one.
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by juancn 3y ago
I had that problem and used an old remote's visible light filter and some glue to block the led light of the TV in my bedroom.
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by juancn 3y ago
LUA for me has a vintage feel to it. Like REXX or TCL. I find it a bit difficult to write, but that's probably lack of experience with it. I normally use it for customizing something that forces me into using it, so I don't really
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by juancn 3y ago
Just Gen Z? Sex that doesn't add to the plot detracts from the plot. Older generations had a hard time getting porn, so sex sold in stories, but with porn and erotica wildly available, a good, interesting story is much more compelling.
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by juancn 3y ago
I got confused about the name "ipê" (first time I hear it, my Portuguese is basic at most), it's also known as "lapacho" in Argentina, "tajy" in Paraguay and "araguaney" in Venezuela.
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by juancn 3y ago
90% is the distraction of smart phones, streaming, etc... we used to do shit because we were bored as f*k. There's nothing else to do? Well I might as well: - do my taxes - mow the lawn - do a batch of laundry ... etc. Abundant enterta
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by juancn 3y ago
They balance the existential financial risk vs the trust and consider it's worth to sacrifice some trust. They may or may not be right, time will tell.
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by juancn 3y ago
It pains me to think of the energy expenditure being used just to see if two addresses are the same.
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by juancn 3y ago
The US psychology school tends to be very pavlovian in the way they apply therapy. It's prescriptive rather than empathic (do this vs helping you re-position your views of yourself). My guess is probably due to cost. Other schools of t
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by juancn 3y ago
Newsflash: Canadian government desperate to be able to control the narrative on the next election. Joking aside, this is "Succession" style bullcrap. They're scratching big news backs so they scratch back on the next election
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by juancn 3y ago
Most people don't give a damn wether the driver is open source or not. First of all they care if it works well enough. The biggest draw of open source is the "free as in beer" part (gratis), relatively few people care about t
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by juancn 3y ago
Next step, we make an open source loadable module with a small virtual machine that loads blobs from user mode. It will only run blobs signed by a private key owned by NVIDIA, the public key is part of the open source module. Or we create a
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by juancn 3y ago
You're right, I must have (seriously) messed some decimal. (50e12 bytes / (400e6 (bytes/second))) = 125000 seconds ~= 35 hours ~= 1.45 days
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by juancn 3y ago
All this lawyer-ese detracts from making Linux useful. It's a pity that so much effort is spent on some fundamentalist view of open source.
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by juancn 3y ago
Regulate the fees and be done with it. They're effective monopolies.
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by juancn 3y ago
> The TS1170 drive operates at 400MBps raw throughput Am I reading this right? At that throughput it would take about a year to fill a compressed tape (assuming 3:1 ratio is achievable). Or is there some parallelism involved? (i.e. many
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by juancn 3y ago
"Find a local bike shop that will let you try out several electric bikes" where I live no shop is going to let you try one. Not even a regular bike, you want to try? Buy it. Heck, you normally can't even get a test drive when
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by juancn 3y ago
Well... duhh... (sorry, couldn't resist) Engineering is essentially applied science. One of the first things you should have learned is how to find and read papers and keep up with the science you base your discipline on. All that logi
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by juancn 3y ago
We're not that unique, if a lot of people like something, there's a fairly good chance that we will like it, and the converse is true also. When the offer exceeds the available time and resources to consume/experience somet
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by juancn 3y ago
Yes, mostly... sometimes a profitable company needs to grow faster than it can organically to capture enough of the market and you need outside investment. Maybe taking debt is the right idea, sometimes it's not. It's not common a
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by juancn 3y ago
It's the drive maybe? I mean, when you're like this, you can't help it. The deep dives are driven by curiosity rather than by projects necessarily.
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by juancn 3y ago
Also, sometimes currencies require timestamps. You don't represent money as (<currency>, <decimal amount>), you may want to store it as (<currency>, <decimal amount>, <timestamp>) to be able to apply the c
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by juancn 3y ago
You mean inflation adjusted profits? Profit margins adjusted for inflation will likely be about the same. The issue with inflation is one of expectation (trust me, I'm an experienced Argentinian) and usually government triggered a long

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