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by mokus 6y ago
If this is true then that’s a sign that we are measuring the wrong things when we talk about “the economy”. If something is good for the economy but bad for people, then fuck the economy. Find a new way to measure it that better aligned wi
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by mokus 6y ago
Or when AI starts producing improved AI algorithms.
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by mokus 6y ago
It’s infuriating how true this seems to be. Especially in politics, so many big-name news sites across the entire political spectrum seem to consistently run stories that collapse instantly when checked. How on earth do they still exist wit
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by mokus 6y ago
Exactly! If a site gives me useful info and leads me to more, the site is much more likely to be the FIRST place I look for similar stuff next time. Otherwise they go on a mental blacklist and I never click on the links to that site in th
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by mokus 6y ago
I have mixed feelings here. On one hand, more hardware makers supporting Linux is good. On the other, I don’t really feel like I want the kind of pre-installed “support” software Lenovo has given Windows to come to Linux.
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by mokus 6y ago
UHS-I did add a dual-edge mode at 50MHz, but SD never got up to the 8 bits MMC supports (also at about 50 MHz, so UHS-I should be roughly half the speed of high-end MMC). UHS-II went to LVDS instead, which despite using fewer lanes can supp
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by mokus 6y ago
Yeah, as far as I can tell the carriers want me to want it because it’s better for them. But they have so far failed to convince me that it does anything better than LTE for me . All the sales pitches are about either lower cost to network
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by mokus 7y ago
By far the most common I run into (even for code started in 2020) - “I dunno, I just typed ‘python’ and used that”
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by mokus 7y ago
Unfortunately we have no Amazon catalog to switch back to.
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by mokus 7y ago
Lincoln used marshal law during the civil war and even that was deemed unconstitutional in some areas. As long as there are functioning civil courts, marshal law is not considered justified, as I understand it.
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by mokus 7y ago
Something like that should come with a massive political cost - maybe after the crisis, all sitting politicians become ineligible for re-election on the basis that they shouldn’t have let it come to that point in the first place.
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by mokus 7y ago
I had recently seen a claim that among the first 5 US cases, some had been apparent community spread, but searching back now I can’t find any substantiation for that claim. So yeah, looks like my assumptions here were wrong. Sorry. Using th
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by mokus 7y ago
Why start today? There were 5 cases confirmed in the US as of Jan 25, 50 days ago, at least some of which appeared to be community transmission. Applying this math for the US as a whole with the 10x initial factor gives 5 * 10 * 2^(50/
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by mokus 7y ago
To look at it the other direction, 5.8 g/km times 75,000 km means they have to somehow produce 435 kg of pollution per set of tires. Without some more explanation (are they building some kind of model to extrapolate to the entire suppl
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by mokus 7y ago
Is it that hard to imaging people just like something that you don’t? Especially in food, where different people demonstrably have different neurological responses to he chemicals that touch their tongues. I for one loved lobster long befor
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by mokus 7y ago
Paying facebook’s users for facebook’s spy network isn’t quite the right [dis]incentive though. I don’t use Facebook but they still pay others to spy on me. Those others should have to pay me for the spying they do on me.
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by mokus 7y ago
Just a few months ago I bought a comet lake laptop that shipped with coreboot, so I have no idea what you’re talking about here.
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by mokus 7y ago
And somehow the user is the one that might get banned in this scenario?
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by mokus 7y ago
I found so much of math I had learned previously in the “it’s weird but this works if you take it on faith” sense was suddenly blatantly obvious after learning some abstract algebra. I wish I had learned that stuff way earlier. In the case
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by mokus 7y ago
Can’t you just load that when they click it?
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by mokus 7y ago
In reality, yes - for purpose of illustration, I was thinking of idealized planets acting as point masses.
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by mokus 7y ago
I think this is correct, and that a good illustration is planetary orbits - 2 bodies alone can never collide if they didn’t start out in intersecting trajectories. They need a third to perturb their movements or they will just keep orbiting
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by mokus 7y ago
Maybe it’s petty but I kind of like the idea of it being a morass of 50 different privacy laws so that a company has to tiptoe through a global minefield to sell data about me.
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by mokus 7y ago
For that matter, do you trust the courts not to misuse that access themselves? Or sell government keys for hundreds of millions plus free emigration for their entire family to wherever they want? Because I have a feeling the going rate woul
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by mokus 7y ago
It sailed with Turing completeness! At least, the popular interpretation of the phrase that ignores the word “obvious” did.
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by mokus 7y ago
Speculation here, but from the article’s description I suspect these are too high in magnitude (they would likely saturate the sensors) and not the right “mode” or frequency. The LIGO method is looking for very small fluctuations in a more
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by mokus 7y ago
being (sustainably) fast and producing quality code often go hand in hand. If management doesn’t know Cowboy Chris generates most of the debugging time, that’s a management problem. A good management team is aware of which people are fast i
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by mokus 7y ago
I do work on embedded systems and it works there too. Much better in any kind of project though is if you can get a management team that actually sees the value in it. I still consider it pretty much mandatory to build core system improvem
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by mokus 7y ago
Whether consent is legally required or not, as a user I want that service, whatever it is, to not work until I consent to the exposure of my personal data. Given that it apparently has something to do with DRM, I would be disabling the serv
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by mokus 7y ago
And iPods as well since they switched from FireWire, another open standard.

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