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by perardi 5y ago
Every HN thread brings up the cost overruns, and I just…OK, smart guy, you come up with a reasonable estimate of shooting a telescope into a very distant orbit and then cooling it to 12 degrees above absolute zero.
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by perardi 5y ago
“Being a large app with multiple ways to do almost everything, Illustrator also has multiple methods to export SVGs.” Bravo for phrasing that neutrally, because I see at least 4 ways to export SVGs, and I have no idea what Adobe actually
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by perardi 5y ago
“They have to emulate most software.” Well that is simply not true. https://isapplesiliconready.com Notably, MS Office and Adobe’s stuff is compiled for ARM.
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by perardi 5y ago
It was a long time ago, but this game immediately popped into mind when I saw “NES” and “shovelware”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_II_(NES_video_gam... I am sure I shoveled a lot of garbage that I rented
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by perardi 5y ago
Ew…yeah, it sure does, doesn’t it? https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=ht... This extensive article goes into the full details of the case. And, from the description in this journal article, the t
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by perardi 5y ago
Even if that was really a law, which it isn’t… …what if they board believes they are maximizing shareholder value in the medium or long term? What if they sincerely believe Musk would be a fickle CEO, and would make changes to the platform
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by perardi 5y ago
Yup, from experience, you can give the same dose from the same batch of a hallucinogenic drug to people who are broadly similar in terms of age and overall mental health, and you can get a real wild range of results. (Except maybe ketamine
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by perardi 5y ago
You know what? Not that crazy of an idea. Amazon is a weirdly plausible competitor to Google. They have a surprisingly robust ad business, and obviously AWS. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/amazon-has-a-31-bil
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by perardi 5y ago
His campaign was much more about electoral reform than copyright reform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_2016_president... Which is broadly more important than copyright reform…and broadly Americans don’t
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by perardi 5y ago
Haha, yeah, fair point.
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by perardi 5y ago
Well…maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#Mental_changes_an... The extent of the changes were known to be hugely exaggerated by charlatans at the time, and, his personality seemingly returned to something
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by perardi 5y ago
I’m sorry, but, to be succinct about that study: lol Go and read the 3 patient studies they describe. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645297/ Not only was there not a control group, the 3 pati
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by perardi 5y ago
38 here, and really started to make headway with my spectrum issues in my early 30s. And I think you are absolutely onto something about having “analog” activities. I started playing sports in my 30s (oh god my joints) , and learning to mo
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by perardi 5y ago
To slap down my lived experience: gay and on the spectrum. And the spectrum part is definitely a disorder. It’s a deep-down and profound inability to connect . We are a fundamentally social species, to a fundamental inability to get social
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by perardi 5y ago
I mean, how would I know? …but yes. I first had it at a circuit party in 2019. And someone had some this summer as well. I am fairly confident the stuff I had contained a non-trivial amount of 2C-B. I have (what I believe to be) had actua
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by perardi 5y ago
Yeah, I'm skeptical as well. 2C-B should cause wild fractals, especially with your eyes closed. There’s stuff out there that the kids call “Tuci” or “Tusi”, in the form of a pink powder. That is 100% not 2C-B. It’s a mixture of 2C-B, k
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by perardi 5y ago
Mephedrone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephedrone
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by perardi 5y ago
I’m skeptical the regulations will ever get rolled back, because it’s just so trivially easy to get spooked by the idea of making meth, but as mentioned in this article, I don’t think pseudoephedrine would become a significant source of m
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by perardi 5y ago
Yes, the highway robbery of it, that’s my point. That is a huge percentage of the base price of TurboTax, and it is in no way less convenient than paying with a credit card, and they hide that fee down in the blah blah text.
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by perardi 5y ago
That is, in fact, Grover Norquist’s position. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
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by perardi 5y ago
I know, I know, there’s so many dark patterns in TurboTax that it’s cliche to point them out… …but man, this was a particularly egregious example I came across this year. https://imgur.com/ojpLvRW You can pay for TurboTax u
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by perardi 5y ago
I mean, I would’t know, because it’s illegal. But theoretically, maybe… Yes, it is quite available, as is 1P-LSD, which is a pro-drug for LSD. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1P-LSD ) Just get to know yourself someone in
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by perardi 5y ago
Oh god, I can remember how awkward I was. You’d think the hits to the head in rugby and the drugs would erase some of those memories, but nope.
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by perardi 5y ago
Absurd amounts of chicken breast. (Illini Media?)
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by perardi 5y ago
Practice. Practice practice practice. Which sounds daunting, but… …now, I realize it’s unfair to map physical appearance to awkwardness, but…let’s take a look at me in 2008 versus 2021. https://imgur.com/7sR0qKt Can you inf
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by perardi 5y ago
“The housing stock, a range of villas and cottages, is, by today’s standards, compact and tasteful”… https://www.latitudemargaritaville.com/community-gallery-day... You know what? They kinda are. The gables are a bit much
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by perardi 5y ago
Haha, it would be a shock if it didn’t. That whole “black body radiation” thing. And we are imaging the Earth in infrared. Well, infrared from non-geologic sources, but oh man are we sure imaging in infrared. https://en.wikipedia
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by perardi 5y ago
About what I expected. I’ve only tried editing Nikon Z7 RAW files on an iPad Pro, and I honestly don’t remember which generation of Pro. It was OK, but not stellar. The file size, oof, yeah. That’s a good point. My lossless compression RAW
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by perardi 5y ago
I know we don’t say “disruption” any longer, as it’s a phrase co-opted by hucksters trying to sell ad tech…but the camera manufacturers got disrupted. Because of what you said right here. They kept trying to appease their highest-end client
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by perardi 5y ago
That’s…extremely debatable that a phone produces better colors. For my particular weird niche of photography: there is no way a phone is going to get anywhere near the richness of tone and color I get in very low light. https:/&#x2F

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