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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Fair point, but private organizations would at least have a financial incentive to give accurate numbers since that's they're business Private organizations will quickly start providing numbers that their customers want t
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by phkahler 1y ago
In the US if you don't own your home free and clear this is likely the case.
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by phkahler 1y ago
It would be cool to have a USB C connector that goes through the PCB so total height is that of the connector and not board+connector. Like this one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5180?srsltid=AfmBOopEIapZEq... But
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by phkahler 1y ago
A symmetric wing will not produce lift a zero angle of attack. But tilted up it will. The distance over the top will also increase, as measured from the point where the surface is perpendicular to the velocity vector. That said, yeah the eq
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Did people not realize they can save their 2fa token and just use that with a new authenticator? What's 2fa token? Is that an AI thing? AI uses tokens. Or a crypto thing? Do you need one of them "nonfungible" tokens?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Lithium-6 if I recall correctly was the preferred isotope (for the brain, not this study). I don't recall why.
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by phkahler 1y ago
12 bit color would have been great. In the old days 4 bits for each of RGB, or even packing 2 pixels per byte. Today 12 bit per channel would be awesome, although high end cameras seem to be at 14 (which doesn't fit bytes well either).
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> And yes, most of the small optimizations are patented, something that I’ve come to understand isn’t viewed very favorably by most. Codecs are like infrastructure not products. From cameras to servers to iPhones, they all have to us
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> That's unnecessarily harsh. Patent pools exist to promote collaboration in a world with aggressive IP legislation, they are an answer to a specific environment and they incentivize participants to share their IP at a reasonabl
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by phkahler 1y ago
Good points! I was going to say I think 12 bits would have been a nice choice, but yeah optimizing for circuits is kind of important.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> What most users are experiencing today is an aggressively non-free non-open zero-privacy rent-seeking software environment that is enabled by open source under the hood. This seems contrary to the stated goals of free software. Tha
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> been posted 4 times and users tend to flag things they dont think will incite curious or interesting conversation. Fair point. I doubt there would be anything meaningful in the comments.
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by phkahler 1y ago
@dang why is this flagged?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Wayback doesn't seem to have the version with those sections deleted. Somebody must have reverted the changes before they got a snapshot.
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by phkahler 1y ago
It doesn't need to say what cannot modify the constitution. It says what is required to modify it.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I'll put it rather bluntly: present-day open source is largely free labor for SaaS companies. I've used Free Software and Open Source over 20 years and have never paid a SaaS company a dime. OTOH the most valuable softwar
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by phkahler 1y ago
I'm looking at GTK here. Don't get me wrong, I like GTK and think it should be the preferred choice of GUI toolkit for many reasons. However, I have the same complaints a lot of people do about constant change and API compatibil
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by phkahler 1y ago
Well you should be able to sue them for the profits they made selling your app. If it's "only $10,000" and not worth it then OK, but what if they're making 10x or more that amount?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates. That just occurred to me the other day. Our unfettered business focused economy is self des
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by phkahler 1y ago
Trade deficits are bad. See Greece a while back.
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by phkahler 1y ago
If they're not complying with your license terms, sue them. If they are then I guess you missed the boat on money.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Well China has been forcing tech transfer for 30 years now.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Does it really matter? Does TSMC have a choice either way? Sure. Go home and make chips. Pass the tarrif costs on to customers. Would US customers have a choice?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> doing a favour for the US government also potentially buys protection for TSMC and Taiwan from China. Plus the immediate tariff relief. They already built fabs in the US. The thing about protection money is the bully keeps asking f
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by phkahler 1y ago
On the surface, buying 49 percent of Intel wouldn't infuse the company with any capital. It would just bail out investors.
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by phkahler 1y ago
But can we use it to create movies one scene at a time?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Can we stop paying those fees for companies to expand broadband since it's not needed any more?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Accounting is still not checked off. Has anyone done integrations with FLOSS software like GnuCash?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I don’t think ai interviews warrant gun violence. What about gun violence against the machine? ;-)
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by phkahler 1y ago
One that I hate is GM cars that turn on the "reverse" lights in parking lots when the car isn't even turned on, or sometimes when there isn't even a person in the car. I'm sure someone wanted to turn those on as a

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