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by modriano 3y ago
But here, where people are already working from home, saying these already-working people are violating the "return-to-work" order is just fundamentally disrespectful of the work people were already doing. It makes sense why those
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by modriano 3y ago
The main silicon valley business model (over at least my profession life) follows this rough pattern: 0) get enough money to start stage 1, 1) make product, 2) build userbase, 3) monetize (investors, bootstrap, acquisition, however) After
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by modriano 3y ago
Rather odd that MSFT invests $13B into a partnership with OpenAI, integrates OpenAI's most popular product into several MSFT products (bing, GitHub copilot, etc), and then the OpenAI-hosted ChatGPT (which is now in competition with MSF
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by modriano 3y ago
Yeah, I figure it would take at least 10-15 years to significantly increase the number of daily bike trips in a city (like in NYC, where there were ~170k daily bike trips in 2005 up to ~510k in 2018 [0]). The most magical part of Copenhagen
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by modriano 3y ago
Growing up in Detroit (a city built for 2M people with only 0.62M today, and with a natural affection for cars), I used to think cars were obviously right and only contrarian hippies, crust punks, and ultramarathoners would assert bikes are
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by modriano 3y ago
Yeah, that's essentially the right way (I use conda envs, but venvs are probably fine too). Have one env for running the Jupyter Lab/Notebook server (install jupyter, jupyter widgets, nbextensions, etc into this env) and then crea
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by modriano 3y ago
The Jupyter Notebook interface/server just opens singular notebooks (i.e. one notebook per browser tab). Jupyter Lab is an IDE where you can open notebooks, files, terminals, etc all in one interface. Additionally, you can easily adjus
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by modriano 3y ago
Just look at some of the things the sick freaks in the government collect data on through their massive data harvesting apparatus [0]. But in all seriousness, you should know it is actually possible to use data towards good aims. Policy mak
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by modriano 3y ago
The Henry Ford quote is based on the premise that most people lack the technical knowledge and problem understanding needed to develop visionary solutions, and would just try to give you what they think is best for you (a faster horse, a cl
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by modriano 3y ago
I've been fully spoiled by PCPartPicker [0], which just invisibly filters out parts that aren't compatible with the components already selected for a build. The idea of having to manually keep track of every compatibility check at
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by modriano 3y ago
It diminishes the horror of slavery to assert that LGBT people experience anything remotely comparable. There are no restrictions on travel for LGBT people (much less restrictions that vary by county based on one election cycle). No one is
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by modriano 3y ago
Looking back on my statement in your quote, I concede; it is literally incorrect. We are absolutely willing to spend the cost to make programs that generate skilled HumInt operators, attract or ensnare local sources, and maintain intel alli
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by modriano 3y ago
People don't value all amenities equally, and as people age, their personal amenity-valuations change, often in stepwise ways. For example, prior to having a school-aged child, an individual might value good-elementary-school-access ve
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by modriano 3y ago
The US is in an extremely lucky geographical position; we're protected on the east and west by oceans, we only have one neighbor each to the north and south, and both of those neighbors are friendly. But as a result, we don't real
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by modriano 3y ago
I don't follow. This decision doesn't stop the Mexican or Canadian governments from searching the phones of people going from the US to Mexico or Canada. It stops US CBP agents from searching the phones of people entering the US.
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by modriano 3y ago
I have learned a tremendous amount about Linux and DNS and general computing from Julia Evans' zines and her blog. She's also a big fan of "programming playgrounds" [0] or interactive teaching tools. [0] https:/&#x
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by modriano 3y ago
Well, the founding fathers intended for the First Amendment to apply only to acts of Congress, and maybe not even then (for example, just six years after ratifying the Bill of Rights, founding father and second President John Adams signed t
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by modriano 3y ago
Sure, we can record light/sound/voltage/physical signals to more durable media, and we can distribute copies of those recordings, but the value isn't in the media used to record the signal; the value is in the desirabili
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by modriano 3y ago
> How does it encourage public access? The artist is dead for 70 years when it becomes public domain How could an author afford to write if selling a single copy of their work gives the buyer the ability to legally copy the work and dist
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by modriano 3y ago
I think the root of the problem is that we set erroneously low prices for some behaviors. Actuaries should be able to figure out reasonable values for the probability of some costly outcome (e.g., a massive, uncontrollable wild fire) given
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by modriano 3y ago
I came across an excellent permaculture YouTuber (who is also a professor at Oregon State (I think) and is incredible at drawing diagrams) [0]. Incidentally, based on his videos on the power of plants to filter out things as toxic as heavy
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by modriano 3y ago
Not OP and not OP's project, but I saw a fantastic automated hydroponic project on YT a few years back that is very similar. YT: [0] Blog Post [1] GitHub for the environmental control system [2] [0] https://www.youtube.com&#
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by modriano 3y ago
If we're showing our favorite novel clock implementations, here's a mechanical seven-segment display clock [0] that is just entrancing to watch. [0] https://hackaday.com/2022/10/09/flip-segment-digit
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by modriano 4y ago
People can't copyright a style or a vibe or inspiration, so it's not steelmanning to jump from * "Can you point to examples of any small creators who would be better off if they had no legal copyright over their works?"
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by modriano 4y ago
The mesh would have to be so fine that you wouldn't be able to see the screen (unless you were inside the "cage").
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by modriano 4y ago
I've heard of the trope of the "starving artist", but mainly in the context of the art world Vincent Van Gogh and his contemporaries lived in. I do not have any data to corroborate it as a true representation of any significa
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by modriano 4y ago
> Unless you know a bevy of small creators now living in mansions in Beverly Hills? Per a google search, it seems that mainly very famous actors, actresses, and generally people who've contributed significantly to our culture live i
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by modriano 4y ago
>For copyright owned by individuals, why should a creator's children and grandchildren (and great-grandchildren?) be allowed to continue to profit off their ancestor's work, depriving the commons of history and culture? If the
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by modriano 4y ago
> The people with enough disposable income to buy your book or software along with dozens of other copyright protected works they may purchase in a year aren't (generally) the same people who spend hours scouring IA or torrent sites
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by modriano 4y ago
That sounds more like an implementation/enforcement problem than of the concept of IP. If [ 1) disputes were decided on the merits and 2) costs of dispute resolution were 2.a) deferred until decision-time,

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