magic_smoke_ee

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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Misalignment of interests is the core error of reasoning the traditional employee makes in offering up unquestioning faith and loyalty to a random corporation run by strangers; that greedy incompetence will somehow give them enduring securi
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
It's working "perfectly" for the benefit of around a million heartless, horrible people based on the exploitation of a few million others. > New York Times investigative journalist Hannah Dreier has interviewed more than 1
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Doubling-down on idiocracy and civilizational decline because there's money in it.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
There's a massive (old) list of them in Horowitz & Hill TAOE 3e Table 8.3a p. 522. I'm sure you can just go to Digikey or Octopart and do a parameter search for high-voltage, low-noise, BJT-input op-amps too. If one wanted to
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
1. The graph doesn't work on desktop. It keeps endlessly animating in the data values flyover at a given point. 2. Congestion pricing, more generally, is ivory tower social engineering (economic discrimination like toll lanes) and a di
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Step 1. Don't mislead or make promises you can't keep to investors because you're basically "married" to them. It sounds like someone wanted to have it both ways after signing a convertible note with a promise that
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
If only imps were transformed into tux- and monocle-wearing patrons.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
In today's stupefied America, it wouldn't be safe because the police will be called and the police escalate things into unnecessary violence. In the 60's through 80's it would've been fine, but not now.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
id Anthology might be cheating because it was a collector's set, but here it is: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Id_Anthology
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
In recent times, I found 2 troublesome issues: one was network-side and another was client-side. 1. Google/Nest WiFi mesh APs being "too close" to each other (30 ft / 10 m), causing a periodic backhaul mesh collapse. The
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Well, actually, that's untrue. Carbonylhemoglobin formation due to metabolic and environmental CO, and subsequent breakdown releases CO. There are, in fact, CO breath analyzers. Smokers and smoke inhalation patients have much higher le
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
First step. Get some therapy.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
There are additional, multiple, overlapping and competing pressures: - Commercial real-estate owners pressure on tenant corporations to utilize buildings, which then pass it on to their employees - Pressure to use their owned real-estate -
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
The "like" metric is dumbed-down to self-amplifying popularity that hovers around meaninglessness. It would be more valuable to weight things based who else you respect also rate a particular item.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Apples (dynamic language) vs. oranges (static languages). Python's gradual typing approach solved this problem similarly to TypeScript, which is the right way to do it: https://peps.python.org/pep-0483/
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
I can't use any of the kerbalspaceprogram.com domains because of improper discrimination against IPv6 clients triggered by CloudFlare. Error 1015 Ray ID: .... • xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx UTC You are being rate limited What happ
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Ah the Erable HP48G/X. It helped me through AP Calculus BC, SAT-I (math section), and college physics and math for an EE/CS undergrad degree. I remember using the HP 48's overpowered IR LED and ability to share apps to get th
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Actors immediately made me think of Pony. https://www.ponylang.io
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Oh dang. One neat side-effect of increasingly-powerful storm energy from climate change. I only surfed one time at Cowell Beach through Club Ed. It was fun and stood up the first time out because their instruction was really good. A chick f
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
The fallacy many people fall for is that low quality impression and cheaper and good value do not necessarily all correlate positively. Instead, can we not strive for excellence in all things as a matter of pride?
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Ask any Japanese mechanical pencil manufacturer: it is possible commoditize excellence via mastery through refinement and then uniformity by making zillions the same way.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Sigh Rhetorically: What's the point of pride or doing anything in life if you're not going to try to make something (eventually, objectively) excellent?
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
I don't understand the change of the default block parameter name. It's already _1, _2, etc. Why create yet another, backward-incompatible way? And still, they doom march forward with the fragmentation of rbs and sorbet/tapio
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
After 40, getting hired has a similar to propensity to making friends. Ageism is a subtle, pervasive bias. When I was 20, I looked about 13 and everyone wanted to hire me.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
There's always going into management.. become an SRM today! ;o)
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
I don't know who they were or who they were targeting. I only remember their #TeamTrees annoying nonsense from 2019 and the popular Youtubers who fell all over themselves trying to celebrate this greenwashing nonsense without using the
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
For light, I'd have one or more glass or glass block domes on top. I kind of like the idea of the conjoined egg-shaped rooms, but not the practicality of cylindrically- or compound-rounded walls.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
I grew-up in a stucco-clad (like concrete, about 3/4" or 20 mm thick) tract home in California. Replacing a termite-damaged sill joist was insanely laborious just cutting through a little bit of stucco. Now imagine a building that
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Don't you think I thought of that? 1. The reputation and business license of my local compounding pharmacy is on the line, so they cannot afford to sell anything fake. 2. Buying from China is likely fake crap, with fake purity tests. W
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
There's still ambiguity there that doesn't specify private persons individually, because it appears to read as "the people" collectively as part of a regulated militia, not as private persons. The 2a wasn't written

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