mabbo

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by mabbo 3y ago
I think the point is that we live in either a universe where X is possible or a universe where X is not possible. What we don't know is which we exist in.
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by mabbo 3y ago
This is one of those lines that sounds like it came from a book of quotations, but I can't seem to find any source beyond this post.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Setting aside whether this is even feasible, did anyone else notice that the map being used here is at least 12 years out of date? South Sudan is a full UN member, recognized as an independent country since 2011. The map shows lines running
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by mabbo 3y ago
Many years ago, as an undergrad, I was telling a grad student friend how I'd been learning about the Selection algorithm- it lets you pick the Kth largest element from an unsorted list in linear time, which is pretty neat. I said &qu
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by mabbo 3y ago
> Exactly how the rest of the world feels about this is not necessarily relevant, though. Google owns the world's most popular web browser, the world's largest advertising network, the world's biggest search engine, the wo
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by mabbo 3y ago
Common thing is Phoenix. It's just harder for planes to take off when the ground is at such high temperatures.
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by mabbo 3y ago
Before I ever visited Phoenix, I'd hear people say something that I did not understand: "yeah but it's a dry heat". So what if it's dry, it's still an oven, right? But I went there for work a few times. In th
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's a simple tragedy of the commons. Except the commons is the entire planet. I do not believe democratic governments would ever be willing to take the needed steps to slow growth sufficiently to save the planet- they'd be voted
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by mabbo 3y ago
> Donations can be made in Kevin's memory to The National Pancreas Foundation https://pancreasfoundation.org/ or The Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/ > These are two causes of great impo
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by mabbo 3y ago
Did this cost you money personally, or just inconvenience you?
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by mabbo 3y ago
> Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants. That's kind of insane. Over 30% of white students at Harvard would have been rejected if not for th
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by mabbo 3y ago
There's two problems I have with this answer. First: we do not know that the lethality would have been without lockdowns. We didn't (often) see hospitals turning people away. The lockdowns succeeded in preventing that. But more im
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by mabbo 3y ago
> Whereas lockdowns in the Covid-19 case might have contributed to a lengthening of the crisis by delaying herd immunity The point of the lockdown was not to entirely stop the spread- that was obviously not happening. It was to slow the
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by mabbo 3y ago
It's hyperbolic and not a totally fair comparison, but reading this, I had to go find and reread "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
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by mabbo 3y ago
I'm in a similar boat. 12 years experience as a dev, was previously making pretty darned good money for Canada. Laid off on early May. Starting a job on Wednesday that pays 60% of my old TC. It's tough times out there. That said,
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by mabbo 3y ago
An even better solution, imho, is that rules should be automated. New rules are added, and the automation adds rule override comments to every existing violation - which also lets you track them. When you need to rush code out that needs to
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by mabbo 3y ago
Thank you, I had a brain fart and meant Gbit.
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by mabbo 3y ago
I own my condo but have this exact issue. There are 1Gb Cat5 cables inside the cement walls and I cannot replace them if they ever break, nor upgrade them. Already this is a problem as I have 1.Gbit internet. Edit: I am silly and wrote Mbit
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by mabbo 3y ago
Presuming that such a civilization did exist, another important point as to why there are no artifacts found could be that they aren't on the surface anymore. Plates shift and subduct. Huge sections of land suddenly (geologically speak
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by mabbo 3y ago
The goal of fines is meant to be to discourage specific problematic behaviours, like parking where it would cause problems for the fire department. When the goal becomes to cause the behaviour more often so that your can collect more fine
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by mabbo 3y ago
A simpler explanation of 'greedflation' is simply that the lack of actual competition by market leaders in most consumer goods markets has lead to massive profits and higher prices, without increased wages. "Greed, for lack o
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by mabbo 3y ago
Their founder, Leonard Lee, was a super nice guy that my parents had the fortune of meeting a few times. He opened a medical device design firm next door to my mother's office and was always a nice neighbor. It's such a breath of
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by mabbo 3y ago
I feel like quantum computing is one of those technologies that is going to be a lot of hype and excitement by researchers, but no real applications and no real impact to the general public. ... Until the day that it does. And then, a lot o
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by mabbo 3y ago
The author used up so much of github's resources that it impacted other users. 22 million commits is probably enough that something started to hit a linear or n-log-n scaling function, setting off an alarm on some metric. Yeah, you g
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by mabbo 3y ago
How hard would it be to modify this to work with ISO-8601, the international time stamp format? In the most common case, you'd have something like 2023-07-02T15:46:00Z possibly with a ".123" been the last "0" and &q
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by mabbo 3y ago
Just like with Stack Overflow, you don't just blindly copy and paste what it gives you. You read it, try to understand it, and then - this is key - ask ChatGPT more questions about it. Your mileage may vary, but I've found it very
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by mabbo 3y ago
I recommend trying to use ChatGPT anytime you were going to use StackOverflow or Google. Just try it and see what the results are. You may be surprised how good they are. And if you weren't planning on using SO or Google, then you don&
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by mabbo 3y ago
Another way that a global cdn helps is that your HTTPS negotiation takes place closer by. There are (in http 1.1 at least) many back and forth steps to negotiating the HTTPS connection, the encryption key, etc. A global cdn into a cloud ser
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by mabbo 3y ago
Putting this into perspective, my Honda Civic has a 50L[0] gas tank. 0- when it reports that there's 0km left in the tank, I can only fill it up by 40L, so is it really a 50L tank? Hard to say.
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by mabbo 3y ago
I wholeheartedly appreciate your response. Make no mistake, I'm a hippie leftist even by Canadian standards. My argument is one I like to use with more right wing friend who oppose immigration.

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