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by nbadg 1y ago
As far as I'm aware, the proposed mechanisms for this have to do with the distance to the focus point -- in other words, the fact that the display is close, not that it's a display. The virtual distance to the display, and hence y
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by nbadg 1y ago
Chain link fence is a really clever solution!
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by nbadg 1y ago
Hail protection nets are a COTS product. Full stop. Properly-designed nets are exceptionally strong; that's why we make "bulletproof" vests out of them (that's all they are, just a fiber net with a very tight weave). Jus
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by nbadg 1y ago
I agree with your implicit point that the key question is probably cost effectiveness compared with insurance. However, in the context of the OP, insurance premiums in hail-prone regions was listed as a prime reason why single-axis-tracking
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by nbadg 1y ago
Compelling analysis. But if hail damage is the primary concern, tracking seems like an X/Y solution. What about eg anti hail netting that can be rolled out when the weather forecast predicts hail? It seems to me like a middle ground mi
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by nbadg 1y ago
I often wonder if the answer to the Fermi paradox isn't just as extremely banal as "turns out that interstellar exploration just isn't economically viable". I think it's entirely plausible that advanced economies ar
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by nbadg 2y ago
Also, even if they work as desired, if they're ever compromised [1], you're permanently unable to use that form of authentication, or permanently vulnerable to services that use and/or require it. [1] https://en.wi
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by nbadg 2y ago
Very much agree in terms of the best strategy being simply to start a plain-jane Kapitalgesellschaft, probably either UG or GmbH, and go from there. It is indeed possible to have a so-called "kein-Mann GmbH" where the company has
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by nbadg 2y ago
Control is maybe the wrong word here. GmbHs are required to have one or more natural persons as a Geschäftsführer, which would presumably just stay the founders, so they would retain control of the GmbH. The holding Stiftung would then impo
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by nbadg 2y ago
For context, I live in Germany and am familiar with the landscape here. Also, I would not equate a 501(c)3 to a gGmbH; gGmbH is more like a B Corp (at least in some of the states that allow it; corporate law differs from state to state in t
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by nbadg 2y ago
Something I don't really understand, maybe you have thoughts: is there a benefit to gGmbH over the company being a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Stiftung?
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by nbadg 2y ago
Exactly correct, and excellent real-world example!
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by nbadg 2y ago
Re: liability: definitely an issue. Might be the kind of thing that can only really be done in cooperation with eg ICMEC. That being said, it might be possible to get to "better than nothing" with transfer learning, by training a
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by nbadg 2y ago
Follow-up question: what work has been done on client-side moderation? I know this gets dangerously close to the kind of content scanning that eg apple has tried (to very detrimental results), but hear me out: I really think this is a prere
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by nbadg 2y ago
Also, there's no way to delete your account, or remove your email. Which is not just frustrating -- it's flatly against GDPR, CCPA, etc etc. I relatively recently was looking for a new job, so I was curious to see how well my own
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by nbadg 2y ago
That sounds very similar to the German system (I'm a US-born German permanent resident, hence familiarity with both systems). I'd be curious to see some kind of sociological studies about risk aversion amongst criminal prosecutors
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by nbadg 2y ago
People in this thread keep talking about "reasonable doubt", which is the standard of proof in the US criminal justice system (vs "preponderence of the evidence" in the civil system), but that standard only applies to a
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by nbadg 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the Swedish justice system, so it's still a little unclear exactly what you're referring to. But if you mean a true private prosecution [1], these aren't so much "unheard of" in the US as
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by nbadg 2y ago
> just as they are in the US. This is incorrect. Far from unheard of, the civil justice system in the US is, in fact, frequently used as a secondary route of recourse by private persons, regardless of the existence or outcome of a crimin
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by nbadg 2y ago
Not to take away from your broader point (that different data types are appropriate in different scenarios), but: > Python chooses to provide (3) because Python is slow anyway so why not at least provide the least surprising container gi
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by nbadg 2y ago
I think whether or not this makes sense on the client-side is up for debate. Alternatively, though, SVGs in ``<svg>`` elements could just, yknow, retain their stylability. (is there a reason they don't? this has been a long-runni
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by nbadg 2y ago
I'm... confused. Being able to intercept and modify syscalls is a neat trick, but why is it applicable here? In python you generally have two kinds of randomness: cryptographically-secure randomness, and pseudorandomness. The general r
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by nbadg 2y ago
Not really -- in practice that would imply that ``for`` needs to freeze the value of ``locals`` during every iteration, which doesn't make sense to me. This is definitely a python gotcha. In fact, it's literally one of the canonic
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by nbadg 2y ago
Yes. The usual way to do this is to bind them as defaults to an argument, for example: def loop(): for number in range(10): def func_w_closure(_num=number): return _num yield func_w_cl
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by nbadg 2y ago
> Europe is a big region I'm aware, particularly given that I live there. Post-tax, post-essentials income comparisons are absurdly complicated and always depend on the individual. For example, dual-income families in Germany can ti
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by nbadg 2y ago
Canada is much more immigration-friendly than the US. It also has a program to green-light and fast-track immigration for all H1B holders in the US, though for calendar year 2024 the cap of 10k visas has already been reached. But my underst
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by nbadg 2y ago
I disagree on both counts. I think the fundamental question here is "how easily can you construct (write or generate) a parser that matches your intent?". And to answer that question, I think you have to look at the entire process
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by nbadg 3y ago
The thing is, most of the time, you can actually have both. You just have to spend the time to build systems that way. To use the example from the article: spreadsheets could use strongly-typed columns, but guess the column type automatic
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by nbadg 3y ago
Thanks! That's super helpful!
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by nbadg 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't tree sitter already used by a bunch of stuff? Last I heard, github was moving all of their syntax highlighting to it, and a bunch of editors support it. Are they just dealing with the se

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