mihaic

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by mihaic 5y ago
You're probably right, but I'm not sure we've hit the peak yet. What I can't understand if why people can't accept that some periods actually are worse, and it's not a matter of preference. The fact that the mu
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by mihaic 5y ago
As someone that never goes in debt and would never use Affirm, I still realize these types of services will impact me. Just like with high cashback credit cards, they have large merchant comissions, that in the end have to be covered from t
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by mihaic 5y ago
I've only skimmed the article, but this is one of the time I'm reminded of Pascal's words: "Please excuse this long letter, I did not have time to write a shorter one". It feels like a few more edits could have real
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by mihaic 5y ago
Thank you, I think you've won the argument.
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by mihaic 5y ago
While in general I find that speedreading is mostly for poor content, since our speed of information comprehension is slower than any reading, this seems to be the most effective implementation I've come across. It might help the websi
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by mihaic 5y ago
Like the original comment, I feel like we're talking past one another. Of course I think we should strive to be what we teach our children. Maybe you didn't like my use of "indoctrination", as you see it having a negativ
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by mihaic 5y ago
These contradictory discussions have always been out in the open, as otherwise the course of action for society would be clear and just need execution. With people speaking past one another, I don't think it's been as dysfunctiona
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by mihaic 5y ago
The article mentions help being available, but what really does it recommend if you do have long-covid? Everyone knows vaccines and masks help, but there seems to be remarkably little being studied about dietary habits/supplements&#x2F
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by mihaic 5y ago
I have used x265 fairly easily to encode a 4K Bluray. None of the AV1 options seem to have the required performance (both quality and encoding speed) and ease of use.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Sure, but I meant that hardware support is implemented if vendors are forced to support something -- such as user downloaded files. Netflix will serve both av1, h265 and h264, so my TV doesn't have to implement av1 support.
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by mihaic 5y ago
What I think the AV1 initiative neglects as a way of spreading their tech would be giving away a great open implementation of an encoder. x265 and x264 spread their respective codecs all over the internet through pirated content, which forc
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by mihaic 5y ago
I do not work at Google, but I speculate that this is a case of software architecture leading the product: For fast results and scalability Google will just DNS-redirect you to the closest servers, and those servers are configured to a spec
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by mihaic 5y ago
I once had to reverse engineer a geo IP database file from their source code, and I saw they were using a segment tree to map IP ranges to a location.
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by mihaic 5y ago
For every question, it's the positive that should be answered (like Russell asked how do we know there isn't a teapot floating in space somewhere between Jupier and Mars). Why should we monetize any side project? Why should we not
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by mihaic 5y ago
That was my initial point actually: a lot of these tradeoffs happen accidentally since for instance you have to write a custom component to do something basic as changing the background color of a select options. If more powerful browser co
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by mihaic 5y ago
I'd actually put the blame here on browsers, and how limited the default inputs are. There are too many needlessly reimplemented components, but anyone that has ever needed to style a <select> to make it look in line with any mod
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by mihaic 5y ago
Thank you. I don't think I was the only one that had reached Wordle fatigue. Hoping not to overgeneralize, but it's a bit sad seeing so many bright minds engaged in dissecting and remixing something so plain, just because it'
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by mihaic 5y ago
Sorry if sarcasm doesn't travel over the internet, but are you saying that the correlation between high pay and competence is weak at best? Either way, given how both US parties spend on the presidential election more than Amazon on Lo
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by mihaic 5y ago
I wouldn't have any issue with giving the president a salary of 10 million/year. We as a society really need to do a better job to put our most qualified individuals in running society instead of having them optimize ad revenue.
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by mihaic 5y ago
It is a bit hazy, yes. For me having a total order relationship is one of the intrinsic properties of intuitive numbers. Complexes don't have that, but reals do, so I'm sure if you meant you can put them in the slot, but you'
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by mihaic 5y ago
My big problem with imaginary numbers has always been their classification as "numbers" and not some other higher level structure with its own name. We don't call a matrix a number, even if it can be used in equations for ins
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by mihaic 5y ago
Anna Karenina would be my recommendation. I had a lower oppinion on novels in general before reading this, but Tolstoy is just phenomenal with his characters. It made me realize how great books should help improve your empathy towards other
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by mihaic 5y ago
Is there a particular version you'd recommend? I tried an online one a long time ago, yet found it hard to read and gave up.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Huh, it's rare that I started reading this message in disagreement, and while finishing it I ended up saying to myself "Yeah, maybe they were on to something, could be." Thanks, I guess.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Does anyone know how old the toys that launched a propeller from a stick-spiral are? I used to play around with these as a kid, and was fascinated how low tech they could be and still fly.
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by mihaic 5y ago
The questions now is where are people from that wouldn't answer this? I'm sure the lurker factor is different per location.
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by mihaic 5y ago
I often realize that I'm caught in a conversation where we don't use the same terms/concepts. The hard part becomes getting the other person to slow down and actually explain their basic premise. People can get defensive no m
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by mihaic 5y ago
Most of those stupid/illegal things are not that stupid in a world without cars, the environment for which we evolved. And it's true that young children don't have a choice, but their parent do it for them and assume responsa
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by mihaic 5y ago
Completely agree, you pretty much nailed it that pedestrians are the textbook example on externalities. I don't unfortunately see them getting a lobby group anytime soon though.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Even though the topic is ventures into dinner-party controversy territory, I can only see most of the choices as universally straightforward (favoring humans compared to pets, and favoring children or adults in their prime to the elderly) -

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