mattgrice

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by mattgrice 1y ago
it had its own CPU which made it more expensive and much slower than Wozniak's drive for Apple.
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by mattgrice 1y ago
Well, OK but none of this is based on faulty intelligence as you mean it. Faulty intelligence maybe in the sense that their brains are broken and that is a very different thing.
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by mattgrice 1y ago
Hydroponics is great at growing plants that are great at growing in hydroponics. Generally that is short-lived annuals.
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by mattgrice 1y ago
No there isn't. The first even slightly aggressive antitrust action in 25 years convinced silicon valley elites to sell out their friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
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by mattgrice 2y ago
A tab I have had open for a while no longer loads: https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/features/feature.php Nothing linked under web tools here: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-res
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by mattgrice 2y ago
LOL .NET was absolutely chock full of ex-Borland people. They laid off just a ton of people in some late 90s pre-dotcom downturn. Indiscriminately I assume because a lot of them went on to be very prominent at MS and especially in .NET.
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by mattgrice 2y ago
Let's be honest here, there was a long period of negotiation that spanned the Reagan - Clinton admins as well as approval from congress required. Everyone said it was a golden opportunity to open up a huge new market for US goods. I
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by mattgrice 2y ago
I am quite certain that nobody ever claimed that banning 6-PPD was enough. I get your sentiment, it's totally not enough. Especially since it hasn't been banned, and to the extent progress has been made, it looks like they are s
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by mattgrice 2y ago
Its been 4 years since this was known, 8-10 since it was known that something in road runoff was fatal specifically to coho salmon. And basically nothing has been done. Sure tire companies or whatever are working on a fix. If I was &quot
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by mattgrice 2y ago
Wow. Against my better judgment I will keep to the rules of this site and assume that was a good faith question. Rust is already a good systems language and is getting adoption. D is a great c++-alike already and for 20 (?) years. There i
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by mattgrice 2y ago
That seems a very elegant solution to the problem of fair income taxes. Just don't tax income, that way you can't have a disparity in income tax. What should we tax instead? Capital seems to me a viable choice. It would be a lo
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by mattgrice 2y ago
john deere cab windows have been curved since at least 1975 with the sound-gard cab
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by mattgrice 2y ago
I feel like Amiga was never really alive in the US. I never knew anyone who owned one, or a 520st. Schools were almost exclusively Apple IIe, later some IIgs before Mac SE and LC. And of course PC. IIgs was more comparable to a Commodor
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by mattgrice 2y ago
It is very nice to see US-targeted media use F. All climate related news seems to use C and I'd bet that 95%+ of Americans don't know 2 degrees C = 3.6 degrees F. So most Americans are underestimating the effects of climate chan
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by mattgrice 2y ago
yen an pound are at historic lows vs dollar. Dollar vs euro is at historic average. Let me guess, you'an Austrian/freshwater econ fan. Know theres a problem and what it is before you see the patient.
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by mattgrice 2y ago
companies in top or even middle tier don't do this. saying you work for a faang+ is an important part of compensation even if benefits and salary are the same (they aren't).
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by mattgrice 2y ago
No it's not. At a very conservative estimate, solar produces >10 more net energy per acre than corn used for ethanol. If anything this will free up farmland to be MORE productive.
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by mattgrice 2y ago
Last I knew, my intern mentor at MS claims to have never sold a share since he started in the mid-90s. I haven't talked to him in a while but if he really did keep stacking up MSFT for 30 years he'd be easily worth $62M. I don&#
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by mattgrice 3y ago
I do not think so. What would it be about? Just like Carson correctly predicted indiscriminate use of DDT would lead to resistance, the corporate 'immune system' has evolved to shut down stuff like this much more effectively.
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by mattgrice 3y ago
It's not 1950, everyone on this site has a 1+ GFLOP machine so there's no need to squash a bunch of independent variables down to one dimension or as you call it "set aside race." Unless you're not a hacker, that i
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by mattgrice 3y ago
In Seattle, in the densest parts of the city are glass towers that certainly have filtered HVAC, and the poorest parts of the city are relatively low-density areas near the port (particulates from diesel trucks and ships), the cement plant,
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by mattgrice 3y ago
I can't imagine it's cheaper to do terrestrial search for methane leaks unless your goal is to only find the methane sources you are incentivized to find, and the cost of the satellite gets amortized over thousands of sources and
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by mattgrice 3y ago
Not only CAN you cross-breed them, they do it by themselves, and generally just end up being wild-type, which is what you see all over California. Just a kind of spindly plant with no elaborate leaves or flower clusters, greenish yellow f
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by mattgrice 3y ago
Useful comment. Unfortunately M or MUMPS is still in active use at EPIC, etc. Far too many good grads of midwest schools get sucked into working for EPIC or the insurance mines in Des Moines, Omaha, etc. UW Madison, UIUC, and Michigan ar
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by mattgrice 3y ago
Never trust an ag startup that's not near UC Davis, Salinas, Waginenigen NL, UIUC, Cornell, or Iowa State. I grew up on a farm, my parents still farm, and if anyone wants to be an ag-tech VC feel free to hire me but I'll give you
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by mattgrice 3y ago
It's all ash trees that are at risk. The pest is the emerald ash borer. Emerald refers to the color of the beetle. It's emerald ash_borer, not emerald_ash borer.
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by mattgrice 3y ago
change has only ever been bad for GA. GA is now just a really expensive sport for old people who bought their planes 40 years ago when Beechcraft ran ads in National Geographic. Of course they are going to be resistant to change, and po
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by mattgrice 3y ago
It's understandable that swedish language sources don't know this, but the English word for 'strikebreakers' is 'scabs.'
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by mattgrice 3y ago
Good to see there is still some competition because I am getting the same vibe off Kindle that I got from Ballmer-era MS software. "We won, draw down the team and put it in maintenance mode." In particular, the iPad app has bugs
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by mattgrice 3y ago
riscv is just an instruction set. in a lot of ways its not as nice as AArch64 or x64. I don't see a strong impediment to having a world-class riscv processor, but it hasn't happened yet and the only reason to pick riscv vs arm is

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