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by peatmoss 4y ago
At some point I’ll stop falling for the click-bait. No emacs is a good portion of the reason my iPad Air collects dust. I wanted something portable to do my most critical work functions when traveling. I love the portability, and it support
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Oh yeah, I was pissed at the time. I held off playing HL2 for years because of it. I think I remember reading about a Steam easter egg where it accepted your old Half-Life box set codes. I tried it, and was pleasantly surprised. I bought
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by peatmoss 4y ago
The average car sits around doing nothing except depreciate in value > 90% of the time. We spend enormous amounts on our cars. The opportunity frontier here is huge. This doesn't solve society's demand for mobility at peak trav
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Many formerly-polluted environments are used to produce food after bioremediation. Farming oysters that are then not used for human consumption until the environment can support farmed oysters that are fit for human consumption is possible.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I buy the foodborne illness argument, but I'm not sure I agree with where they're going with overharvest and pollution. Pollution is certainly bad FOR oysters, but synthetic oysters neither mitigate pollution, nor does reduced oys
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by peatmoss 4y ago
If these can be made more cheaply / improve geographic distribution for landlocked people who want fresh oysters, those are real wins. Especially if cheap foyster takeout is used as a substitute for more ecologically intensive goods li
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'm delighted to see any and all advances on technologies that satiate our desire for meat without the ecological impact of meat. That said, oysters are probably the meat least in need of a plant based substitute. Oysters don't re
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Lab-grown wood: a potential game changer for forestry and forest products (2021)(fs.usda.gov)
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I think the potential for lab-grown construction materials is underrated. Bamboo in its natural form is kind of a challenge. As achow’s comment points out, it’s hard to reconstitute into other forms that retain bamboo’s desirable properties
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Our TCL Roku TV is slow as molasses to turn on and do stuff. Since we solely use it with an Apple TV device, I'd LOVE firmware that simply booted fast and allowed me to switch between inputs.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Wow, I can’t unsee this now. I guess I can thank you for some regular humor in my life as I go walking now.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Not having any particular domain experience here, I've idly wondered whether or not there's any role for neural net models in translating code for other architectures. We have giant corpuses of source code, compiled x86_64 binarie
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Condorcet has arguably worse features: 1. Even harder to explain to the average voter than RCV 2. Greater likelihood of nobody winning / needing to conduct new election I am of the belief that RCV is not great, but that it is significa
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Wedge issues have really split us irrationally. Group A tells scary bedtime stories to their children using caricatures of an average Group B position as a way to maintain in-group discipline. What seems to be new now, is that Group B has t
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by peatmoss 4y ago
It sounds like you may be more familiar with that effort than I am. In my interactions with SI (and others like NARA), my takeaway is that these people are ridiculously smart. We try to be helpful cloud experts where formats and access patt
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Do you have anything online about your VR exhibit design app? This sounds really cool! Our team wasn't involved in the Smithsonian API portion—we really focus on the bulk access pattern, mostly via object storage (e.g. S3). That is, we
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This is really fantastic to see in the wild on HN. In my day job, I’m part of the team that sponsors (i.e. covers hosting costs for) this and a number of other really interesting datasets. https://registry.opendata.aws/smith
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Yeah, I can confirm hardware keyboards have supported Dvorak layouts in iOS since ages ago. This change is only for on screen, which I am apparently a weirdo for preferring dvorak. It was one of the things that stuck in my craw most when sw
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I do, and I missed being able swipe on ios after moving to dvorak. It does take some getting used to, even for a dvorak typist, but in my subjective experience, I find the dvorak swiping accuracy to be better. I’ve read the reasoned argumen
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by peatmoss 4y ago
> What ends up happening is they generally just destroy the living space in a variety of ways. Citation very much needed here. This certainly does happen. But, I don’t believe this the general (i.e. typical) outcome. From what I unders
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by peatmoss 4y ago
> Actually giving homes to the homeless would probably be cheaper than whatever we are doing now, even taking into account the mental illness and drug-abuse problems that factor into this. This point is worth reiterating. Homelessness ca
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I can’t help but think that incentivizing a one-way exit door ends up being worse for the US on balance. It incentivizes brain drain of Americans who just wanted some overseas experience and found themselves making decent money. When expats
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by peatmoss 4y ago
It's not just the ads, control, and trust though. It's also about software performance. Holy mackerel my TCL Roku-infested TV is slow. I just want it to turn on and switch to HDMI input. The software apparently feels a strong need
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Assessment of what constitutes good reasoning is somewhat dependent on having a lot of prerequisite knowledge. It’s hard, because I think public debate is healthy generally, and I think that some valid discussion was quashed. At the same ti
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I hated learning cursive in elementary school, was terrible at it unless writing very slowly, and purged it from my skillset as soon as I was allowed to type assignments. And it wasn’t hard to convince teachers to let me type assignments, b
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Westboro was heckling at funerals for (and attended by) private citizens. The monarchs are public figures. I could imagine some hypothetical reasonable person seeing a difference based on this.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Framing out a house with construction lumber is “open source” too. Vastly simpler and cheaper than lock-together blocks made out of relatively complex materials like sheet goods. In a pinch, you can fell trees and process them with hand too
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This article is a painful reminder of the demise of the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, where one used to be able to play with an actual Parc Alto :-(
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Too bad we used productivity gains to consume more rather than give us more leisure time. I think if I had Tim Bray flexibility, I’d be willing to do take nothing but bicycle touring vacations.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This is my favorite take. For me, desert landscapes prove fascinating. The unnatural geometric forms set against the mountains and desert and blue sky sounds utterly unreal. Everyone here going off about how they don’t “get” this—well, neit

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