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by leoedin 3y ago
The problem with this argument, when talking about space, is that precedent is often so extremely conservative and over-engineered that there's likely to be a huge middle ground between "good enough" and what NASA did in the
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by leoedin 3y ago
The article shows a great example of how to implement a state machine with internal delays (do something, wait for a defined time, do something else), which is very useful in a driver or embedded context where you often just have to wait fo
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by leoedin 3y ago
Schizophrenia commonly starts showing symptoms in the mid to late twenties - so while the two may be linked it's also likely that schizophrenia onset happens to be the age that many people start seriously taking drugs.
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by leoedin 3y ago
This seems like a good use case for some sort of spam filtering. Maybe the web is that big, but what percentage of it is data someone will ever care about? I wonder if you could make a good-enough search with agressive filtering of pages be
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by leoedin 3y ago
The interest rate at the time of buying is actually fairly irrelevant. What matters is the total lifetime cost of housing. Even though interest rates were high, purchase costs were much lower in terms of multiples of income. It's prett
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by leoedin 3y ago
UK cities definitely have this problem. We also have local pubs which don't play music and have lots of soft furnishings, but go into any pub or bar in the city on a Thursday evening and you will have to shout. Go anywhere "trendy
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by leoedin 3y ago
Well, yes, you have missed out. Clearly you're choosing to miss out because you don't think it's worth it - but that doesn't change the fact you're missing out.
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by leoedin 3y ago
This pretty much sums it up. I doubt it's some special boomer mentality as much as a "people" mentality. People are fairly selfish and don't want to reduce their quality of life. What's shifted over the last few dec
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by leoedin 3y ago
It's an interesting observation. I'm part of a few UK and Canadian regional subreddits, and the topics of conversation are often very similar. House prices are too high, we need to build more, the government is favouring boomers,
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by leoedin 3y ago
A brushless motor controller is basically a DAC anyway - so no need for separate components. A brushless motor is essentially 3 large inductors. They act as a filter to PWM drive signals, which means that the resultant current is fairly con
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by leoedin 3y ago
Strikes in European countries can be very inconvenient. I work with a mix of British, French and Belgians, and trying to coordinate visiting one another without a rail strike in one of those countries has been very challenging in the last y
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From my point of view, he's right. Virtual meetings with more than 3 participants make back-and-forth discussions very hard. Interruptions aren't always negative - they're part of a natural conversation. In a situation where
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Yeah, it's not nearly as clear cut as someone running their own forum. It's almost irrelevant that someone happened to register /r/politics or r/worldnews first - those are categories of discussion, and so their siz
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by leoedin 3y ago
> Some humans are better than others at saying things that are correct, and at saying things with appropriately calibrated confidence. That's true - which is why we have constructed a society with endless selection processes. Starti
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by leoedin 3y ago
It's interesting seeing this situation play out across different subreddits. There seems to be 2 kinds of subreddits - the "category" kind (simple, descriptive name) and the "community" kind (have a defined purpose,
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by leoedin 3y ago
Yeah, I just don't get how "sitting in a 5 foot diameter tube for 24 hours looking through a tiny window" is exploring. You didn't make the project happen in any meaningful way - you're just a passenger. Seems like
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by leoedin 3y ago
That's a good point. Trying to attain milestones because of some absorbed societal pressure is a recipe for unhappiness. But that's not really what this article says. If they had someone who said "I thought I needed kids, the
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by leoedin 3y ago
Some of these examples are great - a pattern I see so much with my parent's generation is that they get locked into the same pattern of life. The same group of people, the same routines and the same hobbies for decades. I think that it
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by leoedin 3y ago
Using a locally different sentence structure isn't a lack of fluency, it's just a different dialect. Here in the UK every region speaks English differently. Sure, there's a kind of "standard" English spoken on TV, b
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by leoedin 3y ago
You're not "switching to French", you're saying a word in English which happens to have a French root.
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by leoedin 3y ago
I think the point of the parent comment is that, although English is full of borrowed words and phrases, you're not switching to speaking French/German/Latin while saying them. You're still speaking English, it's ju
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by leoedin 3y ago
To some extent I agree with you, but I don't think this is a good example. These types of "computers" are pretty simple electronics. All the complexity lives inside the "System on chip" - the engineer then picks a f
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by leoedin 3y ago
I just don't think it's realistic to completely remove risk of other people's actions while driving down a high speed road. You can't slow down to a crawl every time a vehicle is at the side of the road, or turning acros
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by leoedin 3y ago
How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Surely the only way that can work is if new customers keep arriving - if they ever stop gaining customers then the money stops flowing, and you'd better hope they didn't spend it al
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by leoedin 3y ago
Yeah, I don't even care if owning a house is financially worse than renting. It's mine! There's no landlord who decides to inspect it, or evict me. The cost of the mortgage is subject to a pre-determined process, and I can fi
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by leoedin 3y ago
Lots of people commuting to the city centre isn't a US thing. Paris and London are the same - and I'm sure other cities I haven't experienced. It's a big city thing.
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by leoedin 3y ago
This is a really great idea! I spent a few hours playing around with it today, as I've been looking for a low-boilerplate way to quickly interact with a relational database. I've got a whole load of tables with relationships defin
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by leoedin 3y ago
Yeah, the reality is literally the opposite. Low volume products have to cost a lot since fixed costs dominate. High volume consumer products have razor thin margins. They cost a lot because the processes to build them cost a lot, not becau
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by leoedin 3y ago
Seems to be from the early 2000s, although not dated. Can anyone with knowledge on PKI shine light on if it's still relevant? Has much changed in the last 20 years?
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by leoedin 3y ago
The 5 star thing is true. I've had a few colleagues who (in a metaphorical sense) always give 5 stars. It's actually quite infuriating - everything is good, so nothing can be better. It's much better to have a frank and criti

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