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by nitrogen 5y ago
environmental activism. My physics teacher in high school was a retired naval nuclear engineer/tech/something. He blamed Jane Fonda (the actress) for a huge portion of the anti-nuclear activism that basically entrenched the pow
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Part of that was variations in displays. Cheap laptop LCDs especially crush white levels and black levels if not viewed from exactly the right angle.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Well, when people complain about a growing wealth divide, and those who are doing okay financially say that childhood access to public libraries and documentaries made them who they are, shouldn't those things receive funding?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Even if someone's never heard of idempotence, it's enlightening if you can get them to discover it for themselves by asking questions like, "What happens if this request gets sent twice due to a network issue?"
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by nitrogen 5y ago
certification authority which is independent, very reputable and unbiased That is a big ask. There have been many attempts at CS-adjacent certifications, some of them government sponsored, but none of them find widespread use. The one
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Indeed. It seems that it's useful to have descriptive patterns to understand what people are already doing. But then the hype cycle kicks in, and people treat them as prescriptive patterns. MVC, Agile, Design Patterns, monoliths
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you just want to vent go talk to a therapist, don't waste precious bytes. Nobody holds comments they agree with to this high of a bar. You are being way too harsh, and this borders on personal attack. One of the ways modern socie
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Depending on how much soaked into concrete and other materials, couldn't there still be outgassing?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The solution is precisely the opposite: dial down energy use (from all sources - industry, consumerism, travel etc) in the parts that consume too much. The solution to the risk of societal decline is to force society to decline? No. The
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Some of them did. The first solar panel I ever saw in person had a BP logo on it. But big ships turn very slowly.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not one of these says anything about HEC being discontinued: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hdmi+with+ethernet Can you name a manufacturer of devices or chips that has committed to never implementing Ethernet over HDMI? The sam
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I do know people who have run daycares in their homes.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That doesn't mean such jobs shouldn't exist. Also, some of these jobs pay enough to hire a nanny, at least for those two weeks.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That's selection bias. You never hear from them because they weren't famous enough to hear from. I know someone who modeled/acted a couple of times as a kid, not remotely famous, and yeah, it wasn't good for them. But
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The technology is not why the Apple system is unwanted. It's just extra fuel for the fire. This system is unwanted because it puts a spy literally in your house and in your hands. It's bad enough that cloud everything blurs the
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That's the intent, and it's still in the latest HDMI spec, so I think those threads about HEC being dead were premature. I haven't used it myself.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
When a company is large enough[0], it's probably not unreasonable to start thinking of it as a municipality, or even a small country. There are probably people who live in my city who I wouldn't like, there are probably policies
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's definitely real. A/V receivers are the typical devices to support HEC, so you can run one Ethernet cable to the receiver and use a smart TV with the HDMI audio return channel, with one HDMI cable.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Monitors also generally don't come in 60"+ sizes, or if they do, they don't have HDR or other modern video display technologies.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Has that been resolved yet? I'm really curious what advice he gives based on that experience.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
In Brood War it was "press Alt-F4 to download faster" when someone wanted to boot the slow user on a dial-up modem.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Judging from the number of views machining videos get on YouTube, I suspect at least machining will have a chance of growing big again, under the name of "making".
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by nitrogen 5y ago
My problem is the use of my own device to run the scan. It's a waste of system resources. I'll restate what I posted on another thread about this [0]. There should be a clear, bright line here. ---- In all these threads everyon
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Wouldn't the reverse reading make more sense, that the mosquitoes were creating a blood bath? And when did colorful metaphors become anathema?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Even within the same ethnicity, there are myriad reasons why someone might not be confident that they recognize someone else, or that if they do, an unprompted greeting would be welcome.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Would integration into Danish society be worse if immigrant communities formed insular enclaves? I can see a rational reason to encourage cultural intermixing, so that different cultural groups have to be aware of and support each other.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
US state-run colleges and universities usually offer night classes as well, but they are just as expensive as day classes.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
regardless of whether or not the shipment arrives: on time, damaged, or at all Weren't extremely generous provisions like that offered by the US government last year in order to jumpstart vaccine development and production ASAP?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Indeed, there are plenty of people who "believe in science" and trust authority figures, who believe in various forms of woo. We can do better than guilt by association. It's a very weak argument, and turns more people away
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Did the club members have to install an app, or were you able to get the data some other way?

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