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by pieix 4y ago
For many, that gap is sufficiently filled by GitHub Pages.
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by pieix 4y ago
Discourse around climate change is about problems, not solutions.
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by pieix 4y ago
Who would mine those blocks? There has to be value in it for them. And there better be a lot of it — such a ledger would be an extremely appealing target for bad actors.
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by pieix 5y ago
On the Lorem Ipsum code blocks: in typesetting Lorem Ipsum exists to provide the shape of text without the content. This seems directly contrary to the goals of your examples. Nobody likes looking at Lorem Ipsum and nobody ever reads Lorem
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by pieix 5y ago
Why would they when the military is one of the biggest and most reliable funders of space technology?
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by pieix 5y ago
As somebody who found it far easier to give up nicotine than 4chan, I empathize.
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by pieix 5y ago
>However, the rocket component is not a necessity for putting an object into orbit, the company explains on its website: “Because kinetically launched satellites exit the atmosphere without a rocket, SpinLaunch enables a future in which
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by pieix 5y ago
SpinLaunch isn’t trying to throw payloads directly into orbit, just replace the first stage of a conventional 2-stage launcher. Their target exit velocity is ~2km/s which is equivalent to the staging velocity on a Falcon 9. They’ve rel
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by pieix 5y ago
A subculture is more similar in scale to human societies during the majority of those 100s of thousands of years of evolution than to the mega/giga scale of modern society.
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by pieix 5y ago
That’s great to hear, I’m one of the people who complained loudly about that unacceptable behavior. Guess I’ll be reinstalling.
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by pieix 5y ago
What else does it tell you?
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by pieix 5y ago
This sentiment echoes Socrates' famous position regarding the written word: >If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling thi
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by pieix 5y ago
This review is a fantastic reproduction of Melville's style in Moby-Dick. It must have been intentional, and tongue-in-cheek!
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by pieix 5y ago
The M1 Air not having fans is the real game changer for me. If you haven't used a laptop without fans you probably don't realize how good things could be.
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by pieix 5y ago
More than anything this article illustrates how inflated DeepMind's sense of self-importance is.
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by pieix 5y ago
This is fantastic. Seconding the comment that this isn't only for developers—optimizing all user experiences for ease of use has become an antipattern and what's needed is UX that optimizes for preserving the user's brainspac
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by pieix 6y ago
The data I have seen does not corroborate this — in fact exactly the opposite. According to [0] Sweden has 11,445 cases and 1,033 deaths (CFR: 9%) as of 6pm PT 4/14. For a population of 10.3 million [1], this is a confirmed infection r
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by pieix 6y ago
Perseverance is bringing two microphones [0] with it, one of which has the secondary purpose of recording minutes of ambient sound including rover and wind noise. [0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover
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by pieix 7y ago
Per CDC numbers [0], in the US the death rate of the flu for the 2018-19 season was roughly 0.1%, an order of magnitude lower than the number quoted above. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons
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by pieix 7y ago
This is exactly what GP meant by "blinders" — people (including children, the elderly, the disabled) should be free to engage in healthy, enjoyable, green recreational activities without fear of death by two ton tank.
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by pieix 7y ago
Could you provide a citation for the claim that European countries have had a hard time repatriating gold held in the US?
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by pieix 7y ago
It seems to me that this is the clear trend. MacOS is increasingly “mobilizing” and Microsoft has already moved to a Windows-as-a-Service [0]. The only sane desktop/workstation choice is Linux and the rift grows wider every year. As th
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by pieix 7y ago
Thank you for posting the exact wording of the bill. Which of these three clauses are not satisfied by drivers for a ridesharing company?
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by pieix 7y ago
In my experience business ethics courses encourage behavior that is a far cry from what the rest of us would consider ethical — effectively boiling down to “generating the most value for shareholders”.
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by pieix 7y ago
This is not really true; ‘w’ is one row up from the home row and is easily accessible with the middle or ring finger. An arrow key is a hand-shift or an awkward pinky stretch away. Vim keybindings were explicitly designed to be simpler than
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by pieix 7y ago
Do you mind elaborating a bit on your use case for PXE booting?
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by pieix 8y ago
The article goes on to elaborate on that statement, claiming that Docker as a container runtime is going to get elbowed out of the market by faster, safer, more feature-rich container runtimes.
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by pieix 8y ago
The circumference of Mars is 21,344km around the equator [0]. [0] https://www.universetoday.com/66605/circumference-of-mars/
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by pieix 8y ago
Unbelievable! In all of my searching and asking around for exactly this I was unable to find a suitable app. Thank you for sharing—and, to the author who may be browsing this, thank you for sticking up for us digital dinosaurs who refuse to
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by pieix 8y ago
Thanks for sharing! Thought provoking read and a good walk through how a society like Star Trek's 23rd-century Earth might arise.

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