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by kortex 3y ago
Going from hybrid - pre-covid, and hiring as such - to 100% onsite is an asshole move and should be called out as such. > apparent contradiction I don't understand what you mean. Where's the contradiction? OP saying "neve
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by kortex 3y ago
It's doubtful if you know even a basic bit of chemistry. Vulcanized rubber is a crosslinked thermoset polymer that is very difficult to break down, regardless of whether it is natural or synthetic in origin. It's going to produce
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by kortex 3y ago
> I love public transit but I don't know how to make everyone else love it By solving the following problems: - Waiting in the bitter cold / snow, or baking in the sun - Allow me to transport medium/large size dogs (most r
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by kortex 3y ago
Citation needed. The best source I could find (in 30s) suggests the WHO neither recommends no discourages drinking distilled water. https://svalbardi.com/blogs/water/distilled-safety A casual application of math t
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by kortex 3y ago
We need to move away from the term "monopoly" (which may not literally be a mono ) and towards anti-competitive.
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by kortex 3y ago
In my opinion, MacOS is just a nicer experience on the whole than (Ubuntu or Red Hat) Linux (I have limited experience with other distros, but they are all pretty comparable to the big distros at best. I only ever really had one goofy drive
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by kortex 3y ago
I go into more detail downthread, but my take is just like the Prison experiment, the takeaway isn't "humans are terrible", rather "humans will do what is expected of them". Even if the audience didn't know abo
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by kortex 3y ago
As a performance artist myself, I think there is definitely an aspect of "the audience should hurt me a little bit, or at the very least threaten harm". Why are people fascinated with fire breathers, motorcycle jumpers, escape a
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by kortex 3y ago
Maybe if the exogenous medical system didn't suck so bad, there would be less need to self-medicate. Also, "self-medicate" is such a disparaging term. Humans have been medicating outside of a clinical context for approximatel
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by kortex 3y ago
> if we just all take MDMA the increasingly fractured world will somehow re-unite. Seems like a strawman. No one (except for maybe that one spunyun wook at the festival whose life and identity revolves around entheogens and entactogens)
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by kortex 3y ago
> That's because having similar names does not make them similar in any way. Well yes, but actually no. Right answer, but the work to get there is a little off. MDMA is MethyleneDioxy MethAmphetamine. And MethAMPhetAmine is n-methyl
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by kortex 3y ago
> but like any powerful drug why would I not suspect something that floods your brain with serotonin would not end up in a situation where your brain anticipates the drug and creates an dependency situation where your brain does not prod
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by kortex 3y ago
Enlightening article. Indeed, the high comorbidity of substance abuse disorders with other developmental, behavioral, and/or executive function disorders, suggests that a lot of it stems directly from untreated congenital conditions. O
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by kortex 3y ago
> You’re not fungible and never were Sure as heck doesn't feel that way. And that's as a software developer with multiple college degrees and a decade of experience. The neurodivergence means I've always had to mask and be
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by kortex 3y ago
> Produce value for others, get paid So if a human is unable to produce value, they don't get (food/education/heathcare/<resource>)? That seems to be the implication. We in developed countries already have some
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by kortex 3y ago
Context for the unaware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
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by kortex 3y ago
No, but I imagine it's a bit easier to catch an unwanted proliferation of files vs unwanted proliferation of registry keys.
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by kortex 3y ago
> I think if someone went off and redesigned a global KV store for an OS they'd probably require authentication tokens for mutations, so your app would only be able to communicate with the subtrees of the store that it has permissio
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by kortex 3y ago
No, because the filesystem is one layer of abstraction lower than the registry. There's nothing with less bottleneck to the filesystem besides raw device access. The registry runs on top of the filesystem. If you wish to use the regist
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by kortex 3y ago
Those sound like exactly the use cases the registry should be used for. However in practice all kinds of state ends up in there that does not need to be accessed by anything other than the game process.
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by kortex 3y ago
It feels like the Windows Registry is one of those well-intentioned ideas that ended up being a tremendous mess in actual implementation. "Let's use a central database to store things that the OS, drivers, and UI need to access&qu
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by kortex 3y ago
The down would be separated by vacuum, which is even better of an insulator than air pockets. It's just that vacuum flasks are harder to manufacturer than bags of fluff. On the moon or in space you could get by with layers of reflectiv
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by kortex 3y ago
It's much easier to install a single static binary than to correctly set up and configure ssh in a safe way. If you need "one and done" file transfers without worrying about open port 22, key exchange, etc, this (or tools lik
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by kortex 3y ago
Yep. Also the main loop should cycle as fast as possible, and only execute the control loop as needed. Or really use a timer interrupt.
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by kortex 3y ago
> Deleted { deleted_at: DateTime<Utc> }, What does this look like under the hood (in memory)? Does the compiler automatically generate a struct/union? Does the value take up the same width regardless of state?
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by kortex 3y ago
Ah yes, the chaos monkey approach to plumbing. I buy it. The best time to have a leak is during or immediately after doing plumbing work. The worst time is when you are asleep, out of the house, or on vacation. Isn't it code nowadays t
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by kortex 3y ago
The problem is "config" means different things to different people. Some people see config as "the collection of runtime parameters" basically a bank of switches: Pyproject.toml is config. Others see any form of declarat
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by kortex 3y ago
XML is overwrought, YAML is a foot-bazooka, JSON lacks comments, TOML gets unwieldy with more than a few levels of nesting, EDN is neat but kind of obscure... Maybe we need a new configuration format... ducks Actually I think something in
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by kortex 3y ago
I've gotten bit by trailing commas enough times (both manual edits and writing generators) that I absolutely expect any reasonable syntax to tolerate them. It's just so much easier and more consistent to tolerate them.
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by kortex 3y ago
That definitely sounds like a loose connection, not an ECU problem. Usually it's a bad clamp on the battery terminal. Often it's the ground clamp in particular. The easiest diagnosis is to rotate the cables on the terminal several

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