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by kd5bjo 8y ago
‘toomuchtodo is supporting an alternate solution: taking measures to reduce the rate at which solar installers fall of of roofs.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier at least is designed for well-temperament, which isn’t the same as equal temperament
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> Where are you getting this? My imagination, mostly. Note the policy being referred to in that sentence is meant to be a hypothetical one that was never actually proposed, which shifts liability without any of the safeguards. The seco
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
When I got serious about this stuff, the best decision I made was to focus on performance measures instead of body composition ones. I’m still overweight (but not nearly as much as I once was), but people don’t generally treat me like it b
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> doomsday hyp(e), ... Calm down. As an aside, my original reply to you was simply trying to correct your statement “HN does not organize large amounts of copyright-protected works” by means of a counter-example. I think you may be read
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> What's the scary remedy for a copyright holder if they already provided a license to publish the published content? The core problem this law is trying to address is that website users are, en masse, contributing content to websit
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Only that, the comments section alone on HN is pretty straightforwardly “organis(ing) and promot(ing) [...] copyright-protected works uploaded by (its) users”, and so whether or not it falls under the scope of this section (1) hinges only
908.
by kd5bjo 8y ago
Many of the comments on HN are substantive enough to be covered by copyright, and modern copyright law protects everything protectable whether there’s a copyright notice or not.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I ran across one the other day where the options were yes, and yes worded a little bit differently
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Well, it should be noted that appreciation only matters in this equation in the case of a sale. The idea of moving in order to liquidate assets isn’t something palatable to me, so I treated my home purchase like any other product: I bought
911.
by kd5bjo 8y ago
Housing debt is a little special because you have an obligation to provide yourself and your family shelter, so your best alternative is rent instead of going without or delaying the purchase until you can save enough money to buy it free a
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
In 1969, there was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/...
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Truncating a string to fit in a fixed-size storage field is probably the most common reason to split at a particular byte position. If you’re throwing data away anyway, you probably don’t care too much about the little bit of corruption. G
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
That’s part of the reason I move everything out of my carry-around book daily: it’s the most physically vulnerable part of the system, so I want to minimize the damage that losing it would cause.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Living in the moment doesn’t mean you never work on improving yourself or the world, it means giving into that nagging feeling you describe and then later, giving in to the nagging feeling that you just want to stop for a while.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I’ve been using a new system for the past few weeks, so I don’t know how well it will stick: I carry a small spiral-bound memo book with me all the time for short-term notes. In the case of random thoughts, it’s generally just a title. Eve
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
As a corollary, your brain tends to imagine things towards the happy end of the probability space. Choosing the uncertain path means you’re comparing against a reasonably accurate alternative instead of an imagined utopia.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I get mistaken for somebody with authority all the time. What happens when a lay member of the public offers medical advice, and the recipient mistakes them for a doctor despite having made no claims to that title?
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
When I was in college, the local robotics club had an annual barbecue with several oscilloscopes in attendance. Definitely one of the best events every summer.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Buybacks only return money to shareholders who choose to sell. Instead of distributing the company’s profits proportionally to its owners, it becomes a game of chicken as each investor has to decide when they should get out.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
If giving unrestricted database file access is “living on the edge,” maybe https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html should be updated to reflect that?
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I suspect 'inimino is referring to Euclid's "Elements" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21076/21076-h/21076-h.htm
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I can think of a few different eras that will likely have different insights: * Foundations, before any computer was feasible to build: Newton, Boole, Babbage * Early computing, when everything was custom-built: Alan Turing, Vannevar Bush,
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Until recently, the most common vehicle I saw being used as a taxi was a Ford Crown Victoria -- a large standard sedan with an aftermarket partition between the front and back seats.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Like any monoculture, markets based on a monopoly are brittle. It takes time for courts to process complaints or for new companies to get started; if the only entity serving a market changes its behavior for any reason, it can shock the ent
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
You can use smaller, more targeted libraries so that the changes you need to review are actually relevant to your project.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Not forever. This all started with the death of Atari, which was commonly blamed on poor-quality 3rd-party games ruining their reputation with consumers. I haven't looked into the history enough to judge whether this perception is acc
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
It should be (slightly) faster, since you don't need to interact with the email a second time -- instead of writing an email to yourself, write it to 5pm@fut.io and it'll get sent back to you at that time.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Yes, but one person repeatedly having a good response to a thing is good evidence that thing is helpful to that person. While it's good for society to find and recommend things that are beneficial to most people, we shouldn't prev
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
In general, a startup is a business that doesn't yet have a stable customer base or business model. What you're describing is a "tech startup", and the modifier often gets dropped in the tech press, for obvious reasons.

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