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by mcbits 7y ago
The main issue for single-member LLCs in the US is to actually operate it as a separate entity. Don't share assets, accounts, etc. Don't personally guarantee debt unless you absolutely have to (and then you'll be liable for t
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by mcbits 7y ago
150,000 is solidly in the realm where SQLite tested faster than the filesystems in the link above, although their files were only a few kilobytes. It's almost certainly different (worse) for multi-megabyte files. But what I've bee
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by mcbits 7y ago
How many files are you talking about? That's the relevant variable, not the amount of data or whether it's text, tabular or relational data, images, audio, etc. E.g. you can copy a single 10 GB file to another drive faster than 1
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by mcbits 7y ago
Well, I certainly agree about benchmarking versus other options, especially if I/O proves to be a bottleneck. The other option above was not a single CSV or JSON-structured file, but millions of small files stored on the filesystem (wi
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by mcbits 7y ago
For future reference, next time you need to store millions of related small files, it might be worth checking if SQLite is an option instead of using the filesystem: https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html Performance asid
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by mcbits 7y ago
What I gather from the article, if "a few million" means $3 million, is that we've been paying 60 people $50,000 apiece for a few weeks of meetings each summer. Without knowing the value of the output of those meetings - only
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by mcbits 7y ago
For things like electronics components, I used to see a lot more sellers located in China who were presumably effectively drop shipping from AliExpress. Now it's almost all pre-imported goods with fulfillment by Amazon. The difference
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by mcbits 7y ago
No, the nature of the value that people see in them is not identical to flowers.
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by mcbits 7y ago
Perhaps something like AdaBoost could find matches using a weak classifier on hundreds of low-resolution images (a few seconds of video) at different angles, assuming you can put together a similar data set for training... basically trading
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by mcbits 7y ago
It's not just the naming. It's the very existence of accessor methods/properties that are the anti-pattern, or at least code smell. At a minimum, they're as smelly as exposing the object's internal state to external
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by mcbits 7y ago
It claims to be a GUI library in modern C++, not (necessarily) a modern GUI library in C++.
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by mcbits 7y ago
Uber drivers are also recording everything I say and do (not think, but that was hyperbole), so the question is whether I want to ride in such a machine with or without some human trying to interact with me. It depends on whether the human
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by mcbits 8y ago
> Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with Nature or nurture? If nurture, then it's at least highly plausible that their prison systems have something to do with it. Recidivism is also much lower.
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by mcbits 8y ago
I found a more compelling example: "ophthalmic" "bitx" What surprised me most is that there actually exist pages containing both of those terms! But it's also including results with just one or the other, and at lea
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by mcbits 8y ago
"thraed ripper" Maybe not the most compelling example, but I think it's usually with really blatant misspellings that Google will second guess my quoted terms, which can be annoying if I'm actually looking for the misspe
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by mcbits 8y ago
I don't think anyone would get in trouble for job titles like "computer doctor" or "network protocol lawyer". Practicing medicine or practicing law (or in some cases, practicing as an engineer) without the required
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by mcbits 8y ago
Are people also predisposed to believing that people are predisposed to some belief without actually investigating the belief or understanding why people might be predisposed to it?
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by mcbits 8y ago
I'm used to a 14" laptop + 21" monitor (resolution doesn't matter), which together occupy maybe 20% of my field of view while using them. If I could take the same quantity of information and arrange it arbitrarily in my
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by mcbits 8y ago
Can't speak for everyone, but I sure do.
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by mcbits 8y ago
64 billion bytes at 2,000 per second is 32 million seconds, or 1 year to scan the entire contents of RAM once. Obviously data and processes are going to bounce around in that year, so just peeking randomly and naively at your RAM, the chanc
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by mcbits 8y ago
Are they really OK with it or are they just legally powerless to stop it? That is the question.
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by mcbits 8y ago
There are (heavily used) PCs with those specs in that price range on eBay, but they'd be pretty hard to mount on a quadcopter or whatever.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Merging fields for display doesn't preclude sorting by the merged fields, which may or may not be trivial depending on the UI libraries being used. But if the user wants to sort by state, it's worth finding out why. Is it so they
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by mcbits 8y ago
Almost every prerecorded interview would carry the disclaimer, rendering it meaningless. Though it would be fun to see "fake reaction" every time they splice in footage of the interviewer nodding, smiling, scowling, etc.
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by mcbits 8y ago
> time machine Wow! How much was the replacement cost for that?
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by mcbits 8y ago
> Look what we did on reddit -- we allowed users to make almost any CSS they want, and look at the beautiful creations that have come from that (like all the sports reddits). The main reason I have a reddit account is so I can turn off c
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by mcbits 8y ago
I searched "GPU" and almost all of the top results were people doing weird/unusual things with the GPU: terminal emulator, Postgres query acceleration, stripped down HTML engine, APL compiler, etc. A search of "Direct3D&
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by mcbits 8y ago
Yes, irrelevant, because the article is simply describing how to combine a sphere+bumps+noise to look like an explosion. Your project seems to be interesting in its own way, but I don't see why you'd juxtapose it with this tutoria
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by mcbits 8y ago
They could carry a set of battery packs on the roof and a pair of drones acting as scouts, one flying ahead with cameras and lidar for 10 minutes while the other one returns to swap out its battery.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Different in such a way that people who pride themselves on binging on junk food because they're all grown up and you can't tell them what to do will be tricked into eating healthy anyway.

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