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by kec 3y ago
In Diablo you click on things to increase your avatar power, eventually if you click on enough things your avatar power will have gone up enough you can complete the challenge of the day. There is skill in crafting a build, and some builds
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by kec 3y ago
That would have been relatively easy to spin if it happened right before IPO though “Look at the last quarter(s) growth in premium subscription fees and MRR!”
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by kec 3y ago
this is just a worse version of caffeinate which is more likely to leave you with a dead battery.
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by kec 3y ago
The reddit API terms are written to imply not allowing users to bring their own key. Given how antagonistic reddit has been to 3rd party apps during this one can assume they would make this explicit if anyone tried.
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by kec 3y ago
Twilio was always that way, the zeitgeist has just moved on from the unbridled optimism of the 2010's which masked it.
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by kec 3y ago
Largely done except when it can’t be due to noise / expense / reliability.
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by kec 3y ago
That would be why the FAA has a rule that there must always be at least two people in the cockpit if the door is closed. In the US when a pilot needs the rest room a flight attended will take the pilots place (and usually leave the door ope
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by kec 4y ago
Apple invented the PDA (even the term) with the Newton in 1992. Steve wasn't with the company at the time, but given the company wouldn't have existed without him it isn't really that much of a stretch to say they wouldn&#x27
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by kec 4y ago
Paxlovid apparently has interactions with a large number of relatively common medications, Molnupiravir does not (and one would hope it is only being used in cases where paxlovid is unavailable).
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by kec 4y ago
OnLive was 2009, PS Now was 2014, and Geforce Now launched in 2015. Stadia might have been well executed from a technical standpoint but AAA game streaming wasn't exactly a new and innovative idea in 2019.
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by kec 4y ago
That's a lot of extra weight for maybe 9-10kWHr of energy at most (assuming a full day of perfect summertime conditions)... One gallon of diesel fuel contains about 35kWHr of energy.
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by kec 4y ago
How? Reservoirs take up enormous amounts of land, are ecologically disruptive and increase flood risk, especially if the embankments are allowed to dry out during times of drought.
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by kec 4y ago
Environment variables can have a spooky action at a distance when inherited by subprocesses. For your example specifically though, there's no check against a variable you misspelled / neglected to specify which could be ever worse
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by kec 4y ago
Freezing property tax ends up being wealth redistribution from the entire rest of society to landlords as the article walks through. Second order effects also end up locking up the housing market as a whole and pushing prices ever higher ma
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by kec 4y ago
They're using a webfont with a ligature for !=.
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by kec 4y ago
While you're not wrong, doing this in the last 10 years either had you leaving a ton of money on the table, or diversifying into a highly correlated tech stock / tech driven fund.
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by kec 4y ago
> up to charging it so quickly the device oveheats (140w USB c charger into either phone) That isn't how USB-PD works / a problem with USB itself, The device being charged controls the rate of charge: Sinks (in this case, your
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by kec 4y ago
Well, it's held up for ~150 years in the form of our national parks just fine. That aside, the point here is that if something is being held for the common good, it should be held in common. "The Government" isn't a perf
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by kec 4y ago
If something is truly valuable to protect it should be done by the government (who can simply nope out of LVT for the plot) rather than some random jerk (or who's kids) that might change their mind.
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by kec 4y ago
CO2 makes up roughly 0.04% of the atmosphere. Handwaving, that means for every ton of carbon you remove you'd need to process at least 250 tons of air. To capture humanities current yearly output, you'd need to process over 7 Tril
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by kec 4y ago
Using the entitlements are enforced at runtime yes, but granting them in the first place is enforced at app review time. If an app asserts an entitlement the developer can't justify it will fail review.
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by kec 4y ago
How do you keep an application from taking an entitlement it shouldn't have (such as location or bluetooth access for fingerprinting) via code? Sandboxes can be enforced via entitlement checks in code, but the act of holding an entitle
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by kec 4y ago
P = V^2 * f, yes, but V and f are correlated. You can't increase f without also increasing V, hence: exponential scaling.
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by kec 4y ago
This isn't really true. Electric heating is as close to 100% efficient as is practical in the real world. I would also be shocked to learn that gas turbines at a power plant extract fewer watts per unit of gas than a simple (likely poo
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by kec 4y ago
I imagine similar things were said about burning oil and gas at one time. That aside I think the more pressing concern is the local environment, turning the area around your station into a brackish dead zone.
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by kec 4y ago
ICE vehicles aren't filled with fuel when shipped, and oil and gas both have to aerosolize in an oxygen rich environment before ignition is possible. Batteries just have to get hot, and that can occur from simple mechanical damage.
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by kec 4y ago
The disconnect isn't that energy usage is bad, it's that many folks view bitcoin as a waste with no economic value. Burned methane/negative priced reproducible energy/excess energy in general would be better spent on mor
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by kec 4y ago
Increased energy usage is increased energy usage. The underlying argument here is proof of working isn't actually burning this energy for any useful purpose and the excess clean energy production should be directly offsetting dirty ene
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by kec 4y ago
While this blog post is over the top, I think it is more charitably read as the real-engineer version of "your hobby project or 20 person startup is not a FAANG". Hobby projects or startups are not limited by their ability to scal
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by kec 5y ago
> [...]Even basic things like getting to your home folder with Finder is more trouble than it needs to be on a stock modern macOS install. They really go to lengths to hide it.[...] Open finder then cmd-shift-h or cmd-shift-g, "~&qu

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