mabbo

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by mabbo 3y ago
I've been playing with that. It's really hard to get right. My end goal is to have a nice picture I can frame and put on the wall in my home, but then if anyone asks for the wifi password I tell them to take a photo of it with the
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by mabbo 3y ago
Honestly, that's part of why I took the pay cut. I only applied to jobs that were remote, because I love the lifestyle. The job I wound up with wanted me hybrid, but I negotiated for remote. I've got a young kid, and that time I&#
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by mabbo 3y ago
That I can survive being laid off. That emotionally, it won't crush me to find out my company decided I was in the 20% that wasn't needed anymore. That financially, my family can get by if I spend 11 weeks unemployed. That I can a
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by mabbo 3y ago
> The first house to be 3D printed from raw styles heets Okay, this is excellent comedy.
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by mabbo 3y ago
I'm sure they are. But Amazon has a multi year lead. Amazon took a gamble on server ARM chips. Not a bad or blind gamble, but they had no idea if their customers would take to them at all. I'm sure if they hadn't, we'd a
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by mabbo 3y ago
The title of this post is related to the last sentence of the abstract, and least interesting part of the paper. Let's not sensationalize good research for the sake of trying to get upvotes. This isn't reddit.
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by mabbo 3y ago
You don't need to patch the errors found during the initial R&D. The patch was made before the hardware was ever sold. What's left are the attack vectors that Intel's greatest minds didn't discover.
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by mabbo 3y ago
That's how patents work though. That's the whole deal. Private entities invest in research and development. If they find something incredible, they release the full details to the world of what they found, and in return we give th
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by mabbo 3y ago
In my recent job offer negotiations, I made mostly-remote a key factor. They wanted me. I didn't want to commute an hour each way every day when I could spend that time with my toddler instead. I didn't give an ultimatum as much a
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by mabbo 3y ago
The hardest part of cooking is often the mental load of "what am I going to eat?". Infinite choices. To pick one is to deny all the rest. What do I even have? What could I make that's worth eating? At the start of the pandemi
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by mabbo 3y ago
I had a different take on Asimov, in that his future was so far fetched and ahead that it seemed like just a different form of fantasy. Too much was hand waved away or just ignored that it might as well have been about magic. I still enjoye
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by mabbo 3y ago
Derek Lowe's take is, as usual, reasonable and factual. And even he is really optimistic and happy about this result! We need some good news these days.
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by mabbo 3y ago
They worked the same year 15 times, or maybe the same two months 90 times.
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by mabbo 3y ago
There is though. It's 2023 and today companies will quite happily lay you off the moment you aren't profitable to them. This fictional person made it all the way to retirement and good for him. But the guy who followed this strate
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by mabbo 3y ago
One of the reasons we can't build a practical fusion reactor is that we need to make very powerful electromagnets. Doing so requires a lot of electricity going through big circular circuits. Doing that without a superconductor creates
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by mabbo 3y ago
I don't disagree that they can cause problems. But there are a lot of ways to mitigate the problems. Biologists can tell you what kinds of locations are good beaver spots - so we shouldn't just build a road too close without some
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by mabbo 3y ago
Beaver dams are a serious factor in flood prevention that we mostly removed from our world. A pond behind a small dam will swell up and hold water when it rains, slowly releasing the water downstream over time. Thousands of such dams add up
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by mabbo 3y ago
A few reasons. First and foremost: I had lost all will to work hard at all . Between mental health struggles and video game addiction as a means to cope with it, I just wasn't mentally up to the effort needed. I put in the bare minimu
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by mabbo 3y ago
Whether or not it's truly what they claim it is, it does seem the scientists believe what they are claiming. No one spends this much effort trying to get their name associated with a discovery that they know is a fraud.
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by mabbo 3y ago
This is interesting. I take a high absorption magnesium pill daily. I'm not sure what the full reasons are but it seems to improve my sleep apnea and mood (though the mood may be from sleeping better). But alcohol always seems to count
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by mabbo 3y ago
> effectively just a highway patrol, at least in Southern Ontario There's that one pair of overpasses on the 401 that the Woodstock police setup as a giant speed trap machine like every other weekend in the summer. Part of me is imp
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by mabbo 3y ago
Yes, that's the point.
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by mabbo 3y ago
My brother is law is a British police officer. He laughs at how much effort we spend in the US and Canada policing traffic. "We just have cameras. They do the same work for free." His job is to investigate violent and serious crim
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by mabbo 3y ago
> The school does offer an option to skip a grade in math, but the pass rate is a mere 10% I ran into trouble with this as a kid. They put me ahead a grade in math in grade 2 because I could handle it and the class was a 2/3 split (
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by mabbo 3y ago
The concept that Roman Concrete was somehow better is a strange idea. First: 99% of Roman concrete has long since turned to dust. Through no intent of it's creators, that stuff did not last. But the 1% that did last has two important q
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by mabbo 3y ago
> If Rome hadn’t collapsed, they might, within a matter of centuries, have advanced to the stage of industrialization. But they would have done it by skipping the Dark Ages The very notion of "the Dark Ages" has long been debun
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by mabbo 3y ago
They sort of do though. Cars, for the most part, follow the road and the direction they're already going. They (usually) signal if they're about to make changes. And to be safe, we've built an arrangement that they only trave
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's just such a miniscule amount of power. Do you want to know why you don't see power dams below a certain size and height? Because gravitational potential energy is not very much. And I say this as someone who gets more excited
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by mabbo 3y ago
You know I think I converted powers of two and powers of ten interchangeably in my calculations. You're very likely correct.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Even at a billion requests per second, 128 bit UUIDs shouldn't collide for something like a billion years. And that's if you're going completely random and not taking care to try to reduce collisions.

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