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by macksd 6y ago
> Man, we have very different lifestyles. Are you a serial killer? :) It wasn't an emergency, but I've certainly wanted to use my phone recently while outside shoveling after a blizzard, with hands that are simultaneously cold,
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by macksd 6y ago
I think this is what they're getting at: >> The scientists are not recommending DIY treatments though. People who are experiencing any worrying toothache should still see a dentist, they stress. I don't think that's a l
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by macksd 6y ago
My preferences aren't religious-strong, but I have enough of a preference that I installed KDE Plasma on Pop! OS instead of the Gnome-base default. And I've struggled to get the network manager working in KDE which has been a nuis
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by macksd 6y ago
I think the point of the person to whom you're replying is that it being solved doesn't mean it was as easy as it now looks. When we see it done and we see the methods are not all that novel, we are biased to think that. But the f
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by macksd 6y ago
I thought it was more connected with the recent spree of discussion about replacing C (and GCC) with Rust (and LLVM) in GNU/Linux. A few weeks back this semed to start with a dependency on a Rust compiler by the Python cryptography mod
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by macksd 6y ago
I definitely want an open-source phone for all the reasons you mentioned, but I absolutely also want a Linux phone. I'd love to live in a world where BSD or Minix became The Thing™, but since it didn't I basically live and breath
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by macksd 6y ago
7) Project estimation
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by macksd 6y ago
Anytime you're doing a lot of floating-point math, the imprecision can bite you in non-intuitive ways. But you can mitigate that by fixing the order of operations to minimize error. I suppose one other specific example of a similar con
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by macksd 6y ago
If it's an article about research, you can always find the original paper or at least the abstract: https://thehumananimalbond.com/publication-media/ . I usually find the news articles about them don't have mu
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by macksd 6y ago
This spat is news to me. What's going on?
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by macksd 6y ago
Especially in a post-COVID world where home offices are more common and possibly with even less travel, I think battery life is quite overrated for many people. I have a Serval Workstation (i.e. high-power laptop) from System76 and absolute
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by macksd 6y ago
Is that a true story, and would that really have impacted Black Monday?
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by macksd 6y ago
I'm actually curious if the physical device looks any more innocent in Netflix's future policies than straight-up credential sharing. It's still coming from a new IP.
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by macksd 6y ago
The number wouldn't go up to $1200 - most of your family would get by just fine without Netflix because it simply isn't worth what it costs to them. The needle will move on Netflix's revenue and subscriber count, and their c
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by macksd 6y ago
You can resell it to another speculator. Which I don't like, but isn't so different from a cryptocurrency that is never actually used for trade.
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by macksd 6y ago
Emotional context is easily lost over text. Adding an emoji at the end helps makes it more explicit when you're employing irony, sarcasm, or when expressing a genuine emotion like sadness.
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by macksd 6y ago
A reference to https://xkcd.com/378/ , for those wondering.
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by macksd 6y ago
Oh for sure. I'm don't think I'd want to give up today situation. The ability to discover new music, get so much of it on demand, podcasts, etc. Just wonderful. I suppose I just appreciate, as a hacker, the very flexible abst
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by macksd 6y ago
I suppose my family was equipped ahead of it's time in 1990. By 2000 I think we had perhaps fallen behind :)
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by macksd 6y ago
I hope we all appreciate the "hackability" of cassette tapes. Even as a young kid I was able to use the family Hi-Fi to record my own cassettes where I could mix together sounds from a microphone, vinyl, CDs, the radio, etc. Liter
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by macksd 6y ago
Correct. In a related concept, I had a professor that explained it as a combination of electron flow in one direction, and "hole" [1] flow in the other. Either way of looking at it is valid. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by macksd 6y ago
Imaginary numbers are also continuous, are they not?
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by macksd 6y ago
One of the things that the recent Python cryptography debate has highlighted to me is how much we depend on this distribution of libraries like this. In that case, it's normal to just automatically get updates from a product and then o
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by macksd 6y ago
I think making a change like this warrants a major version bump. It won't eliminate all the surprise for everyone, and I do have sympathy for the people who did go out of their way to talk about this on the mailing list and then surpri
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by macksd 6y ago
I agree - I don't feel picked on :D I guess my point is that it's overly dismissive to say "no free work for companies on niche architectures" when projects backed by the same company were a bit blind-sided by this and a
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by macksd 6y ago
This is definitely the most reasonable case I've heard made from this argument, and it's changed my stance on the issue. That said, I feel the cryptography project handled this poorly. I encountered the issue when one day, install
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by macksd 6y ago
Love this concept and hope this does well or something like it becomes a de facto standard. There's an explosion of software using GPUs. In the DL space alone, PyTorch and TensorFlow and many frameworks that compete with them, plug-in
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by macksd 6y ago
Yeah Google warns you when you enable Incognito mode that it's about Chrome won't store, and specifically says website's can still track you. I think the complaint is that in this case, Google wrote the code that is commonly
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by macksd 6y ago
I'm very intrigued by that list. Any recommendations on where to read technical, internal details?
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by macksd 6y ago
In what sense were previous heart transplants not dead? Would they only use hearts that were kept pumping right up until they were surgically removed from the donor? I thought they were previously transported on ice, and assumed their mus

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