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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is probably a joke, but tbe halting problem is way overused and doesn't apply in situations where a non-Turing-complete computer is running a known (not arbitrary) program.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Indeed, all that efficiency is lost in the hot water and time you have to spend prewashing.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's not just about inbound connections, people also generally don't want to have their outbound devices clearly visible by counting unique IPs, or MAC addresses (and thus manufacturer) of devices sent out with every packet when M
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If foreign aid is more affordable than foreign intervention, it could be an effective way to reduce military spending.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The only ads I have ever heard are sponsored ads spots within the podcast itself (that you can fast forward through), never spotify ads. Is that what you're talking about? They try hard to make it sound like a sponsor spot. If the v
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by nitrogen 5y ago
People used to be better at dealing with "obvious distress." Seriously why is this argument worth 80+ comments? I agree with jacquesm -- HN (in this thread) has lost its way.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Unacceptability in the present isn't a reliable indicator either. For example, it is today socially unacceptable for me to be friends with most of my extended family because they are republicans. But that doesn't mean it's
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by nitrogen 5y ago
12ft (3.6 meters) of a single laundry soap nor a full shelf of one type of ketchup. This allows them to have smaller back rooms, fewer warehouse deliveries, and to restock only once a day.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This whole thread is a really good example of why not to judge the past by the standards of the present. There were ways of interacting that were just expected. At my first job, if you went on vacation, you expected to return to a pranked
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by nitrogen 5y ago
YouTube doesn't believe it's real, though I managed to screenshot it. I seem to recall reading that advertisers can outbid premium in the ad auction, in which case you will still see ads. Can anyone confirm?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've heard about some dynamic adds Spotify supposedly adds, that are usually not related to the podcast itself, but I've never encountered a single one like that. You probably have heard them. Old episodes of a podcast with ana
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is really not that hard: "Yesterday I looked for correlations between segfaults and hardware vendors. I did not find a correlation, and my deliverable for the day is narrowing the search space. Today I will set up a micro cluste
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Keeping a daily log of progress helps prove your research is original.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Kept indefinitely for future re-consumption. Are there any stories of this saving someone from a potential disaster? My experience has been that this only causes bugs, such as resending hundreds of thoudands of out-of-date emails.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There's still room for innovation in rapid-fire, affordable mitigations for extreme weather. Like levee-in-a-box, bridge-in-a-box, deployable temporary sea walls, etc. Also room to innovate in techniques for detecting and mitigating
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by nitrogen 5y ago
"Stop everything above this line on Maslow's pyramid because some people fall below the line" is not a solution to any of the problems faces by people below the line. It's like demanding that an astrophysicist cure AIDS
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by nitrogen 5y ago
there's no real positive benefit to society to frequent business flying I'm seeing a lot of communication and alignment issues because people can't get into one room and hash things out.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We ought to reject arguments that forced stasis is the solution any time changes introduce risk. We also ought to reject the idea that forced change is the solution.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I forgot about that book! It is indeed a good one, and second the recommendation to anyone who hasn't read it. Although if that's the one with the drum people, they're kind of weird and might be off-putting to some.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Once in a whole someone has to take on projects to try to explore the solution space and break out of local optima. It doesn't always work, but when it does, the gains are orders of magnitude. One example is the nascent reusable rock
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What would a computer look like if it were designed for a technically precocious girl?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This massively oversimplifies the state of technology and is unfairly dismissive of the significant productivity hit that some changes can inflict on the most loyal and experienced users.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Obviously it's not a first step toward certificates, but it is a first step away from "anyone can casually plug in a hidden Pi."
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Having a list of allowed MAC addresses, enforced per-port by a managed switch (or at least by the DHCP server and router), is a first step, though naturally it's easy to spoof a MAC address.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
One problem with this approach, even if it's true, is that when you combine overprosecution of victimless crimes with rampant victim-ful crime, everyone loses respect for the system.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Weren't both X11 and Windows originally vector-based (as in drawn using lines, rects, and fills) UIs, but everyone moved to pixmaps because the X11 protocol didn't support anything remotely SVG-like and client-side drawing was fas
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Sure, but as I quoted, "It's the "flexible stances, mixing traditions" part that is interesting here. Why don't we see more of that?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> > It's the "flexible stances, mixing traditions" part that is interesting here. Do you have any thoughts on this part?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Bodily autonomy applies to more than just vaccines.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There are a lot of comments saying that "avoiding ideology is an ideology" or "preferring individuals over groups is an ideology." These aren't very interesting observations, they don't match the contextual de

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