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by macksd 5y ago
I'm glad you have a plan - but I hope they leave you in peace!
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by macksd 5y ago
My house has a non-potable water supply used for irrigation, and is in fact required by the town to. I know the same is true in some parts of Utah and probably other places. In such cases, also requiring toilets to be supplied by the non-po
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They explain: "Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles"." Right or wrong, I wouldn't be too surprised if they got a nastygram from NVIDIA's legal department at some
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by macksd 5y ago
Narcissism probably isn't the right word for me to be using here. It was on my mind because of this comment, where there happens to be more discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920152 . And it happen
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by macksd 5y ago
>> In 1995, 2% of schizophrenia diagnoses in the country were associated with cannabis use disorder. In 2000, it increased to around 4%. Since 2010, that figure increased to 8%, the study found. Worded that way, causation isn't t
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by macksd 5y ago
>> More than half a century later, Grissom’s name has faded from memory... Grissom deserves recognition not as an unlucky footnote but as a genuine hero. He was also very personally involved in the design for Project Gemini, which cer
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by macksd 5y ago
I agree with most of your points. But if you'll excuse an economic analogy, I think one of the reasons why you don't see "market dynamics"-like forces causing change here is that you don't really know what a company
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The first one is absolutely problematic, and I've been personally negatively affected by other people's non-competes a couple of times, but there's some nuance there, I think. I would like to live in a world where companies i
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> They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to", and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all? I feel like I'm yelling at a brick wall
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I think at this point we're reading too much into specific units to compare very distinct things. The point of the analogy either way is the compounding effect of seemingly small things repeated.
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As others have mentioned, the energy density is a big deal because those planes' fuel accounts for A LOT of their take-off weight. To both illustrate this and point out another potential problem: when a fully fueled heavy, long-haul &#
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Does everyone interpret the question as something that's headed towards being so depressed you're unable to work? Or would a lot of people interpret "I feel somewhat burnt out" as "I would enjoy a vacation and not n
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by macksd 5y ago
Not that I think the credit-reporting system in the US is sane or fair, but one of the factors that may go into one's score is the amount of credit you have available to you (i.e. a reflection of how much other lenders have already dec
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by macksd 5y ago
If the recitation of GPL code required Copilot to be GPL licensed, then that would be incompatible with other licenses. If the copyright is held by someone else, you're simply not the one who can ultimately decide the terms under which
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by macksd 5y ago
Now if I understand correctly, unless someone inherits a private key of his, his bitcoins are effectively dead now, right? I wonder how this will impact the economics of cryptocurrencies over time: I'm starting to see more and more rem
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by macksd 5y ago
This was my thought. A popular open source project will get a lot of wannabes who just want their name on something and file issues from random code analyzers, etc. I've looked at CVEs that don't have a good solution and decided t
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by macksd 5y ago
It makes sense if you think you're likely to have to defend the decision in court. For instance, I've worked on a team where a guy was fired for performance reasons that were obvious to all of us, but he sued and claimed it was di
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by macksd 5y ago
Honestly that movie is a lot of why I got into math and engineering. Jim Lovell was undeniably a badass but I watched that movie and thought the heroes were the ones reading telemetry off a computer screen and using their slide rule to figu
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by macksd 5y ago
My point was more that the class was just plain garbage and that's the most objective measure of how terrible it was that I can think of. There were people repeatedly and absent-mindedly pointing rifles at the person next to them. You
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by macksd 5y ago
And such measures can be pretty useless and only amount to rent-seeking. I did hunter education in Colorado with the Makhaira group. Some students were unable to hit an 8.5x11 sheet of paper with a .22 bolt-action rifle at a distance of 5 y
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by macksd 5y ago
It's not quite the same, but I can think of a lot of meetings where I've been pinged (or I've done the pinging) to follow-up in another Zoom with someone immediately after a larger meeting and discuss HOW to actually do the W
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by macksd 5y ago
> This is a completely rational reaction of people who feel they're being unfairly demonized as a group That also explains the public backlash against police in the first place, doesn't it? We can't keep speaking with this
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah, this seems like an even weaker connection than disibributing a GNU/Linux-based VM or Docker image with a non-GPL/LGPL application in it.
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> Dealing with USCIS/ICE/EOIR/State is akin to bureaucratic hacking. Anticipating what the Government agencies want to see and hear in your petition is their exploit. Unfortunately this is very true of many other areas of
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>> For the most part, they don't. I'm not quite sure if it's an issue of incentives or culture. Classic example of "good is the enemy of best".
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I've heard quite a few stories like this, and anecdata though it may be, I find it very intriguing. How WOULD we know? There seems to me to be a pretty consistent timeline: confirmed cases and rampant spread in other countries, the fir
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by macksd 5y ago
No, hospitals absolutely share a lot of the blame for problems like this. Even WITH insurance, I've been burned so many times that I ask a lot of questions in an attempt to prevent problems and surprises. I get asked to sign forms ackn
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by macksd 5y ago
I do not (AFAIK) suffer from ADHD, but having been in therapy for a while for other issues I had a similar concern at one point: I had a bunch of problems I wanted to talk about, I thought my therapist was missing the obvious and following
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by macksd 5y ago
I have similar observations, and your suggested explanations seem reasonable but I have nothing but anecdata either way. I have known a lot of people in tech in the US from whom I've gotten the distinct impression they are formally dia
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>> the Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts, and over time that all would have collided and annihilated, leaving the cosmos a very empty place. Obviously that didn’t happen Why do we expect the Big Bang

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