neetdeth

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by neetdeth 7y ago
You've listed a lot of technologies that people have used to create successful products with long life-cycles. In particular C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Qt, OOP... if anything is notably missing from your dumpster it's probably Adob
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Money does seem to be the only way to get even a hint of policy change from Washington, but the trend line of public opinion is opposite of what you suggest. Until around 1995, immigration restriction was overwhelmingly mainstream in the Un
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by neetdeth 7y ago
I found the preprint somewhat confusing with its talk of approximate residuals and "pushing" pixels. Let me propose another way to think of this and someone can tell me if I'm off base. Disclaimer, I haven't read the sou
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by neetdeth 7y ago
The Dayton shooter was not a white supremacist. He was Antifa affiliated.
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That's not how controlling for a variable works. You don't "rule out people" - the question you need to answer is whether a college education makes people more successful than would be predicted by IQ alone, and if so, b
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by neetdeth 7y ago
If you don't control for IQ, the observation is useless.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Twitter screenshots? "Container celebrities" ? What the hell is this? It sounds like a bunch of people who based their technology decisions on social media buzz instead of well-defined requirements are now running into operationa
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Or they can't take up that job because they don't have the credentials because they didn't pursue education in the field because education in America is expensive, and there is no market incentive to do so because everyone kn
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by neetdeth 7y ago
See also: the Power Mac G4 Cube
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by neetdeth 7y ago
So this seems to be the thread for the malcontents. I was recommended this book enthusiastically and dropped it after only a few chapters. My issue with it is basically this: Harari's original insights and opinions are only mildly inte
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by neetdeth 7y ago
The third definition of community from dictionary.com: a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society w
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Why label literally any button? Just number them all, and if a pilot can't remember that button F81 means "gear down" well that's user error. Hitting a function button is not "typing" in any real sense anyway,
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Rust was created by/for systems programmers who are in exactly that situation - where performance and control are not optional - and thus have been stuck writing C++ for decades. Although C++ has evolved over the years, there are pai
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by neetdeth 7y ago
It does, but the ability to evacuate material straight out of a hole is very limited. Some are designed for side milling only, others can do plunge cuts but it's mainly done to expose a new "shelf" so that the bulk of the mat
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Right, that's the idea I was trying to express. Don't expect anything good to happen if you try to plunge a ball end mill straight down into the material. The thought was only that a large-radius ball would be able to approximate
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by neetdeth 7y ago
With a ball end mill, theoretically. Not that it's a good idea - you need to be able to actually evacuate material from the surface you're cutting, and milling is different than drilling in this respect. But I imagine you could co
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Very common example: Focusing lenses in front of smartphone camera flash LEDs.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Their reputation for fast prototyping was established before type inference became a widely available language feature. Duck typing is also a minor win for "do what I mean" generics - you never have to worry about the type specifi
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Coincidentally, I just had to do the same procedure for a LIFX BR30 smart bulb this morning. To be fair, I doubt the timing is actually that critical, and it's more easily summarized as "turn it on and off five times." Not th
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Polarization imaging [1] could probably do it. Granted, the sensors are expensive and lower resolution than one might like. Another way is to measure surface specularity. Use one or more IR spotlights at different angles to the surface and
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by neetdeth 7y ago
It should unsettle you. Power in a democracy is obtained through the manufacture of consent. SF has been reluctant to take the reigns of power away from NYC, but it's finally happening. Strap in everybody.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Did you deliberately drop BLM from the list because of the 2016 Dallas shooting? Who's trolling whom?
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by neetdeth 7y ago
This is all a very interesting thought experiment, but you're supposing some attempt at logical consistency which will surely not be made. What this announcement actually means is that YouTube is going to become more politically active
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by neetdeth 7y ago
They could take a Mac Pro and just chop it in half to create the product so many people want. 1 MPX module. 6 DIMM slots. 700 watt power supply. One 10Gb Ethernet port. Supports up to 12 cores. Shrink the case somewhat in two dimensions and
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Personally I think Curt Yarvin had a decent idea about how to handle this type of thing with Urbit. Of course Urbit itself is terminally esoteric and nigh unusable, but here are the principles: “Urbit will do everything possible to help you
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Wouldn't the obvious solution be to multiplex cars at each station? They could have twenty Teslas at each location for passenger pickup/drop-off, only entering the launch queue when all occupants are seated and restrained.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Report in person to an issuing authority for biometric authentication. Have them issue a new one and blacklist the old public key.
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Try some of the products from Ripple Foods. Whatever their process is, it works - taste is very smooth and neutral. The chocolate premix shake is very close to dairy for me. As far as iron content goes, it looks like the RDA is around 10 mg
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by neetdeth 7y ago
Clearly, people are living there to pursue their careers. Many can't stand it for long and leave after a few years. I know some of these people. There is no excuse for a city with the per-capita wealth of San Francisco to suck as bad a
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by neetdeth 7y ago
That's a tough one - considering the blurry definition of "grocery item", they'll end up with a lot of frustrated customers who find they need a premium upgrade for the privilege of buying from Amazon. For example, you c

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