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by mtsr 6y ago
Driving up the price of clean energy that could be used for other applications instead... I don't know the net social value of bitcoin or how to compare it to other applications, but it's fair to be critical of it, at least.
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by mtsr 6y ago
But you’re forgetting second order damage. What if somebody takes out a large enough fraction of power plants in the middle of winter? Or in the middle of a heat wave in Texas? Casualties could be rather significant if the plants can’t be r
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by mtsr 6y ago
Except Apple purposefully chooses to stay within a niche (of expensive laptops). So the vast majority of laptops will still ship with intel.
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by mtsr 6y ago
And this is why it’s not easy to use any of the cloud platforms parttime. They’re all full of these kinds of gotchas and your example is even a minor one since it really is quite clear from the documentation. There’s even a choice of Provis
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by mtsr 6y ago
My 18 year old central heating system already supports modulation. Surely these days most support it through some open control standard such as OpenTherm?
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by mtsr 6y ago
The biggest advantage to sleep/hibernate isn’t time to first work. It’s being able to resume exactly where you last were. I came from Linux laptops to MacBooks 6 years ago and that was such a big improvement. Not having to think about
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by mtsr 6y ago
That’s horrible, I hadn’t even looked at it like that. But it will actually work better with 3/4G because 5Gs range is so short and it would be easy to block with just a little tinfoil.
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by mtsr 6y ago
Shame this stops working with the next firmware update that switches your TV to DNS-over-HTTPS. Because then, just like google ads switching to the main google.com domain, you will have to choose to block either every service from your tv m
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by mtsr 6y ago
Your last point is particularly nice. If you happen to be blessed with good genes you’ll get cheaper insurance. But what about the people who will be rejected because of their genes?
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by mtsr 6y ago
In the current legal environment exported by the US, it might be better to have licensed patented technology. Otherwise one leaves opportunity for trolls to patent and sue companies in that space.
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by mtsr 6y ago
But you discount that some people might start feelings lots of big emotions while mentally understimulated such as when doing these kinds of chores. Please be careful when dismissing something you don't understand as laziness.
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by mtsr 6y ago
I'm not sure about this recommendation. It seems to be unscientific spiritual / new age 'negative energy' type stuff. If you like that, go for it. Otherwise, avoid.
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by mtsr 6y ago
Thing is procrastinators often get no work done until they get over their procrastination. So while they're probably not as productive as they feel at level of sleep deprevation and stress, it might still be a whole lot better than i
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by mtsr 6y ago
I'm not sure if you mean to, but you sound a bit dismissive. It seems exactly like the kind of habits complex emotional creatures like humans develop. And it's not nearly as bad a habit as some other stuff, like addiction etc, whi
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by mtsr 6y ago
Maybe something like devonthink? It’s not really clean slate every time, but it links notes automatically through use of word vectors and similarity.
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by mtsr 6y ago
Equal grades, but less relevant job experience, maybe.
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by mtsr 6y ago
After having used both Draw.io and PlantUML, I prefer the latter. Far easier to get consistent drawings from the whole team without fiddling. And updating the drawings later is also easier because the language is much better than Draw.io&#x
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by mtsr 6y ago
Skypjacks blog posts about all the design choices in making an ECS is great for understanding why EnTT works the way it does: https://skypjack.github.io/2019-02-14-ecs-baf-part-1/
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by mtsr 6y ago
Since you generally want to keep a set number of time steps the commonly used data structure for this is a ring buffer. No garbage and all you do is increment the index (with wraparound) every step. Not a lot of technical details, but this
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by mtsr 6y ago
What you argue here could probably be said about half the companies admitted to any YC batch, and still there are successes. Maybe the glass can be half full too?
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by mtsr 6y ago
Indeed. I always think to myself: if it’s worth coming to my door or cold-calling me there must be a pretty margin. And then they claim it’ll be so much cheaper than my well-researched current contract. Yeah, right. The only thing that will
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by mtsr 6y ago
Aren’t vSphere licenses a bit expensive for the average homelab? I personally went with a larger former workstation with more cores and RAM, because I expect to only ever have a single node, even if I’d love to have a full cluster.
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by mtsr 7y ago
I use a smallish independent provider in NL.
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by mtsr 7y ago
A monoclonal antibody (-mab) already existed in a lab in the Netherlands, because it had been developed for SARS and turned out to work for SARS-CoV-2. But it will take weeks before this can be industrialized, let alone approved.
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by mtsr 7y ago
It wasn’t always the case that teleconferencing providers could listen in. At least Skype was peer-to-peer originally. And only corporate firewalls and some bad providers would prevent it from working today. My email provider surely isn’t r
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by mtsr 7y ago
It’s a classic leaky abstraction, you will need that control at some point. And I say that as a heavy user of Docker and lighter user of Kubernetes.
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by mtsr 7y ago
Mean incubation period is 5.6 days (range 1-14). So while possible, it’s highly unlikely you got it 1 day after infection.
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by mtsr 7y ago
This is not going to be over in April or May, except maybe in the worst case scenario. The point of social distancing etc is flattening the curve and spreading the load on healthcare systems over a longer time. The only thing that might hel
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by mtsr 7y ago
Nevertheless health care outcomes on average are pretty good, if you look at things like life expectancy...
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by mtsr 7y ago
Cynical but probably true.

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