neetdeth

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by neetdeth 6y ago
This is only tangentially related to the current administration. Onshoring manufacturing has been a supposed policy goal of the President since 2016, and that hasn’t amounted to squat. The tectonic shift is that it has suddenly become a pri
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by neetdeth 6y ago
It is, but I also understand where the author is coming from. OpenGL 3.2/3.3 with the introduction of the Core Profile is where I remember the OpenGL API getting seriously more ergonomic - no screwing around with GLEW to load extension
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by neetdeth 6y ago
> might want to optimize for people who want to stay long term, adopt their values, become part of the social fabric... Why would they want that? Perhaps the best part about Westerners, and why they get privileged treatment at the border
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by neetdeth 6y ago
So, what?
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by neetdeth 6y ago
Another salient difference: Reiser killed a person. Yarvin wrote a blog.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I think so. How many people fall ill as a result of attending any given large conference? Probably hundreds -- but conference organizers have never been considered liable for this. If the coronavirus phenomenon shifts liability in the popul
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Ok, that's actually a lot more interesting than I was giving them credit for. I assumed they were just overwhelming the LPF or exploiting some side lobe to create aliasing in the audible range, but that's discussed in section 2. A
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by neetdeth 7y ago
From the paper linked: "For the above idea to work with unmodified off-the-shelf microphones, two assumptions need validation. (1) The diaphragm of the microphone should exhibit some sensitivity at the high-end frequencies (> 30kHz)
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Turning up the exposure on the screen does not do what you think it does. With a line-scan X-ray, the bag is well out of the beam path by the time the operator sees the image. But it's probably coming in through a 12 or 16-bit ADC, so
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Not having children is assumed not to be a final choice. But in many cases, it is. The more I learn about correlations between genetic disorders and parent age (including the age of the father), the more I feel I have been deceived about th
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by neetdeth 7y ago
More generally, this problem is called Optical Camera Communication (OCC). One of the more interesting things you can do is to exploit the rolling shutter readout method of consumer CMOS sensors to recover information with a high temporal r
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by neetdeth 7y ago
"You need antagonists, and most of those are government/institution related, but by defining yourself in opposition to them, you in-effect leave the middle class. E.g. cease to identify as someone those institutions ostensibly ser
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by neetdeth 7y ago
You don’t have any single non-degraded copy but you do have billions of degraded copies. Assuming errors are non-correlated, one ought to be able to reconstruct the original sequence given enough of them. The idea would be to use some far-f
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I thought the whole point was to have an open-source, hackable device from top to bottom. It's a red flag when you have multiple areas you're trying to differentiate in with one product. Sometimes you can hit two birds with one el
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by neetdeth 7y ago
The point is this: With the CRA, the idea that business owners have freedom of association is officially dead. They must provide service to whomever the government compels them to. I think the majority of HNers: - Don't like it when pr
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by neetdeth 7y ago
They can put up any sign they like, but that hasn't been true since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Poland and Turkey are both NATO allies. That should count for a bit more than being incidental pawns for CIA / State Dept. interventionism, no? In fact, the reputation of those latter arms of our government is so deep in the dumpster a
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by neetdeth 7y ago
How about Erik Scott? [1] Or Daniel Shaver? [2] These are just two incidents that immediately spring to mind to counter your cherry picking. White people are not free from the danger of being shot by police. In fact, there is evidence [3]
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I'm guessing most candidates don't have a lot of open source contributions, and "more open source" is one of the standard lines when they don't want to really explain why they passed on hiring. Don't read too m
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by neetdeth 7y ago
It doesn't make sense because it's so often butchered. Here's the real quote from Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." So, t
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I've always figured that if you do this, it will be assumed that you are trying to dodge negative discrimination and will be treated the same as a White/Asian person.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I am only claiming that you are an organism that was created by sexual reproduction, and that your current state of being is a result of genetics and environment. Surely this does not require evidence. We don't seem to get wrapped up i
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I prefer to think in terms of nations. There is no such thing as a sovereign individual. Unless you refer to the Libertarian cranks hassling cops on YouTube. In practice, nations can restrict people from moving if they choose to. Perhaps
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by neetdeth 7y ago
The "birth lottery" is a metaphysical construct. There is no such lottery, in which souls are assigned at random to bodies. Each human being is a rooted thing with a multigenerational history which is (in the typical case) deliber
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Veering a bit off topic here, but I somewhat recently used MJPEG for a "live preview" type of application and found support on the browser side to cause no end of frustration. Details escape me now, but some browsers could never b
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by neetdeth 7y ago
My first question was how this compares to Quorn[1], a product already on the market from Marlow Foods in the UK. It's also a single cell protein and I personally think their chicken-like products are quite good. Google lead me to a pr
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by neetdeth 7y ago
It touched a nerve with engineers because nobody listens to engineers and they’re getting completely sick of it. Engineers are paid to work things out on paper and determine whether something will work or not. Bridges, airplanes, power di
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I'm not, actually. My own father was one of those three hours a day dittoheads. It's easy to identify propaganda in microcosm, it's harder to see the same thing writ large. I find that most white collar suburbanites I meet ha
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by neetdeth 7y ago
You're not wrong at all. The major point of departure between the two is the role of government and the welfare state - Soros being more of a social democrat and the Kochs doctrinaire libertarians. Now that US politics are going throug
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by neetdeth 7y ago
All I have to say about that is if you think everyone's being indoctrinated except you, you're probably wrong.

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