kempbellt

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by kempbellt 5y ago
"Windows good, you can't change my mind!" doesn't add anything of value to the conversation, especially for people who aren't dead-set either way. If you swear by windows, you probably have good reasons. People who
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I set up a LAN box for my parents on a computer that my dad received for free. It came with Windows 10 on it, but wasn't very powerful - company's old hardware. After several...frustrating... hours of trying to talk them through
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by kempbellt 5y ago
This is definitely true for some games, and Early Access is increasingly popular, but for others, QA and testing is definitely a part of the development process. I interviewed at a game company a few years ago where one of my daily tasks wo
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by kempbellt 5y ago
This is likely why "Game Tester" is an actual job, or at least used to be. 14 year old me didn't believe it was a real thing... "Early Access" seems to be the more popular route now. People are happy to pay to tes
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by kempbellt 5y ago
> The GDPR however does require explicit consent. I think you missed my point. I not asking about what the law says. I'm asking why a person willfully choosing to visit a site is not considered a form of consent, since it requires a
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Sensitive topic, so I feel the need to state that I am not trying to troll by saying this: I do not see this argument as idiocy. Many stores have signs out front stating, "If you enter this building, you accept that you are being filme
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I don't know exactly how Tesla's safety systems are designed, but this is my guess. Collision detection systems (radar) are accurately not detecting an impending collision because the lights are not actually on a collision cours
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I'm curious what the issue is here that seems unsolved? It's unconventionally displaying what it is recognizing, but the car isn't doing anything janky. The car is properly recognizing traffic lights pretty darned well, consi
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I used to play console games a lot, but when I got laid off from a job I pawned my Xbox. Haven't regretted it even for a minute, and I sleep more... PC games are tough because I built my PC for everything - VR, mining, development, etc
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Definitely. I don't mind paying taxes (for the most part) because their purpose makes sense in a lot of cases, but I hate doing taxes. A single W2 salary is so much simpler. Taxes are automatically deducted and I don't have to t
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by kempbellt 5y ago
When I used to have a multi-monitor dev environment, I did accidentally paste a password into Slack (left screen) and not Chrome (right screen). Immediately deleted the chat message and had to cycle the password. This is the only issue I&#x
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Napkin math. Longest run I've seen (posted in another comment above) starting in NW Montana: https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-113.26136901231438... 5570 km (3461 miles) Rivers fluctuate between 3 to 15 mph on
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Strength training for your fingers. Might make you good at rock climbing if you're an avid typist.
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I'll bite... Because, if you are a company that uses AWS at scale (deploying literally thousands of resources at a time), you care more about meeting demand and getting resources to spec, than you do about the cost of an individual e
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by kempbellt 5y ago
They are popular, efficient, and usually affordable - if not cheaper than many competing outlets, but I do not see them as a monopoly by definition. Amazon has made it more convenient to use their services than their competition in many way
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by kempbellt 5y ago
> "How much energy can we get out of a plot of land of a given size?" I don't believe this is an answerable question in this format. The size of a plot says nothing of land topography, nor the average wind currents for any
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Nailing job interviews and having the technical skills to do the job require completely different skillsets. If you start interviewing with companies, expect to fail, and fail a lot. Learning mannerisms of people and how to get along with t
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by kempbellt 6y ago
"Fuck" is used here almost as frequently as it is in the book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck I made it about two pages into that book before I stopped giving a fuck about reading it. I made it to the first headline before
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Ironically, I would argue that just about everything that happens is an objective event, but any and every interpretation/understanding of causality is itself, subjective. In the hypothetical scenario the objective reality is: A pede
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Also dipped my toes into Satisfactory this winter - after spending over 2,000 hours in Factorio. Games like these challenge your ability to manage complex systems. Remembering which parts of your system processes which data (aka, "mate
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Affirmative action biasedly lifts up minorities over others. It looks noble on the surface, but realistically creates more of the same problem. When I applied to college, I (and all of my friends), knew that ticking any non-white ethnicity
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> Repeating this same line is just harmful noise More like a strong disclaimer worth repeating for newcomers in the space. These stories have come up several times over the years on HN and it is worth reiterating: It is very risky if y
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Besides the rare "OMG! This is AMAZING!", people who are upset by something are much more likely to make noise than people who are content with it. It's just how we are wired. Odds are, no changes you make will completely sil
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> Honestly don’t know if you’re trolling or just old. No need to be ageist. It's a fair perspective. There is a quality of independence and agency that comes from being able to purchase things with cash. Ironically, your weed tran
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by kempbellt 6y ago
I'm enjoying the idea that launching a violent invasion of the store still counts as "paying" in this scenario.
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Most modern "phone home" trackers utilize cell networks to send updates on their current location. I'm not sure if Tesla's are designed to operate on foreign networks, but once they are off the network, they can't p
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Depends... Are we running in a simulation that has a specific FPS target cap, or is that the "hardware limit"? Maybe the universe will discretely lower the resolution of rocks on Mars to increase FPS for localized users on Earth t
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Thought: Put PV inside the "safety zone" to increase output and use "unusable" space.
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Feels like a super odd edge-case where someone accidentally overpays a loan exactly in the amount that is due in total, but I agree. It's a fair assumption.
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by kempbellt 6y ago
For an unintentional payment , I agree. For an accidental overpayment , an argument could be made that the payer has a legal claim to a refund of the overpaid amount. If you take out a $200,000 home loan with $200 minimum payments and a

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