leeoniya

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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   your comparison is pretty weak. WWII killed only 3% of the world's population - by far not the deadliest event in human history. dinosaurs were around for 165M years. humans have been around for 200k? and we've only been destroyin
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   it definitely will, after we're mostly extict.
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   from the author of Mithril ;)
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   i don't see anything there that accommodates bikes. and in either case it would not be an example of GP's point. if someone gave me a fork to eat soup with, then i would invent the spoon because the fork is inadequate for that p
5. 725.▲
   by leeoniya 5y ago

   pretty sure that extra path was carved for/by bicycles
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   > using React and a performance profile shows absolutely insane JS overhead (in React) when simply dragging a window. compare this to something like https://nextapps-de.github.io/winbox/ , and you start to wonder if
7. 727.▲
   by leeoniya 5y ago

   i've always wondered how this works, on antiques roadshow, etc. can't the manufacturers of the fakes simply take the course, learn the subtlties, and make better fakes?
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   by leeoniya 6y ago

   in my experience, every vendor we looked at who competes with salesforce is not interested in your business unless they are allowed to take over your entire backoffice. for example, we only wanted it for the CRM and order ingestion via manu
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   by leeoniya 6y ago

   > The Ship of Theseus is still the Ship of Theseus. you state this as if it's a settled fact (it isn't). If you take a Shakespeare novel and replace every word in it with another word, and then remove and add many chapters to i
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    i wonder how much of that original Kibana code remains today (my guess is not very much), and if it were originally AGPL, would a completely rewritten codebase still be subject to it?
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    yesterday i ran into the fact that gimp has zero support for non-destructive editing (e.g. adjustment layers) AFAIK, which makes it a non-starter for many many cases. https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gim
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    ah yes, his own submarine topic ;) http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    or if you have root, AdAway can patch your hosts file.
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    cool to see it using FossilSCM https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/timeline
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    also https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    "most people use equipment to listen to their music, while audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment" Opus 160kbps (VBR) :D
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    i dont follow. moving from cpu to gpu to fpga to asics (each a gain in efficiency) did not reduce electricity consumption, because it in effect accelerated the rate at which the hashing complexity was raised by the network, in effect negati
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    aka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    "hold my beer" -- CERN https://hackaday.com/2020/05/14/crunching-giant-data-from-th...
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    but "sugar-free" means it's sweet again
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    i'm waiting to try Alyx, cause i think the outlay for the hardware alone will be quite large. any insight into how compatible Valve's Index will be with non-valve games? i don't really wanna drop $2k-$3k to play a single titl
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    you're probably right. (typed from lineageos on unlocked snapdragon-based sony xz2c)
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    and they're super locked down, too. found out the hard way, expecting to flash lineageos onto my wife's sprint/us snapdragon-based S8 instead of the bootloader-unlocked european exynos model :( i told her to buy the sprint on
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    most things you quote do not apply to a society where you can reach 70 million people, effortlessly and immediately with 0 cost. 200 years ago there was no way to easily impersonate via a fake video, photo, or recording. wax seals were used
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    > we force companies not to discriminate based on Age, Sex, Religion, etc. none of these qualities pose a threat to others in our civilized society. however, spoken words have a direct influence on anyone who hears them. so there is in f
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    i wonder if his views would be the same if tens of thousands of people were chanting "hang chomsky" because they were convinced by "free speech" that he was a pedophile, through cheap and easy dissemination of photoshopp
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    i think it's reasonable that if you are planning violence, you should not be allowed to do it on a public platform, amplified to millions of people. do it in secret, like the good old days!
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    > This is a company deciding what should and shouldn't be censored. are you saying that platforms cannot choose what to moderate because of a right to free speech? that's nonsense. you want free speech, go outside with a bullho
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    the best statement i've encountered about this (besides survivorship bias) is, "ask a lottery winner how to get rich, and they'll tell you to play the lottery"
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    by leeoniya 6y ago

    for those who don't know, Fabian Giesen (@ryg of demoscene group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farbrausch ) works at RAD. his blog: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/ one of my favorites: https:/