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by praptak 2y ago
I was promised customer satisfaction because better products win in the market so I'm just thinking out loud about the discrepancy.
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by praptak 2y ago
Great products loved by customers don't seem to be what the free market rewards. It's almost looks like customer passion is an inefficiency which the market tends to eliminate and not as an accident but rather as a general rule. C
483.
by praptak 2y ago
I think that isFourtyTwo is free.
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by praptak 2y ago
Attach debugger (ptrace), call setsockopt?
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by praptak 2y ago
There was no error correction on ZX Spectrum, the protocol was very simple. IIRC a square wave with next bit encoded as timing of next edge, the last byte was XOR of the whole stream serving as error detection.
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by praptak 2y ago
It should be possible to capture using a sound card.
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by praptak 2y ago
> you have one infrastructure maintained by a national operator Yeah I know this model but here the one infrastructure is the service.
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by praptak 2y ago
I'm not pretending I know the best policy. I'm just saying that privatisation is marketed without the regulation part. If you start with a government that cannot run sewers and then expect the same government to be competent in re
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by praptak 2y ago
> if that happens without competitors It does almost by definition. Sewers are a natural monopoly, it's physically infeasible to switch providers.
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by praptak 2y ago
Bristow attributes blame to “massive underinvestment by private water companies who’ve failed to do their duty.” UK water services were privatized in 1989. Welcome to the free market, where actions of rational agents produce the optimal r
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by praptak 2y ago
It's kind of the opposite. The cesspits that predated the sewer system were relatively friendlier to waterways. See this article on how changing to pipes caused the great Dutch stink: https://www.archaeology.org/issues&
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by praptak 2y ago
Also it's not mosquitos' fault that deadly pathogens hop on the ride.
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by praptak 2y ago
Doesn't work as a response to "this was robbed from my grandfather, you should give it back because benefitting from crime is generally bad".
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The Cybertruck's failure is now complete(mashable.com)
14 points by praptak 3y ago|4 comments
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by praptak 3y ago
I think Christopher Alexander still has the best answers as to why the contemporary buildings suck. Lack of ornament and boring shapes are just the tip.
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by praptak 3y ago
Maybe some signals just bypass the part of the brain which deals with well defined facts. I read somewhere about a construction foreman (HN comment maybe?) who gained the respect of the crew by having an unusually good hit rate in finding p
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by praptak 3y ago
I meant the "Marxism was about 19th century factory workers, I'm middle class so it doesn't apply to me" line of thinking.
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by praptak 3y ago
"Medicine used to be a meaningful pursuit. Now it has become a tiresome industry. The joy, purpose and meaning of medicine has been codified, sterilised, protocolised, industrialised and regimented. Doctors are caught in a web of busi
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by praptak 3y ago
Disappointingly, it's not a magnet that attracts cows.
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by praptak 3y ago
There's another rabbit hole which Musl seems to have skipped. Using `syscall` directly is not all there is to calling system functions on Linux. The "better behaved" way is to call vDSO. It's a magic mini-library which t
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by praptak 3y ago
Hmm, this mechanism can only add more bone to existing bone, right? So how do the first bone cells know to start becoming bone?
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by praptak 3y ago
That's not very different from Berkeley (everything is God's mind). Also we cannot even tell for sure if other people are conscious.
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by praptak 3y ago
I'd start the definition at "varied function and varied input data". Not necessarily branch instructions, the function can be much simpler. So no, music boxes have no input data.
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by praptak 3y ago
Water spin has been debunked, the Coriolis force is just too weak to have any noticeable effect over the minor non-symmetries of the vessel and random currents in the water
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by praptak 3y ago
Effects of meditation are there regardless of the religious context. Although you are right in that the deeper stages (say as described in "The Mind Illuminated") may not make much sense without at least some spiritual foundation.
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by praptak 3y ago
Well "Wayland no worky" for me, it breaks keyboard input in Firefox on Ubuntu, so I'd say a pretty basic use case. Not the time to switch for me, sorry.
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by praptak 3y ago
"Most cats were considered working animals, and were expected to rid houses and barns of mice and rats" Cats don't generally hunt rats[0]. Before modern pest control the working animal to kill rats was a dog: https:/&
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by praptak 3y ago
I don't believe this falls into Eureka moment category. This is adding an operation into a codebase which already implements a similar operation. The problem is also not "fluency in C" because they require it for day to day w
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by praptak 3y ago
Worse, because codegolfing the entire codebase is undesirable.
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by praptak 3y ago
The largest impact is sometimes asking simple questions (how are you going to handle X?) which leads to not building something. When this something hasn't ever had a chance to work, you saved the whole cost of trying to build it. Thi

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