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by ptero 5y ago
While some market is there, making such a printer (hardware and firmware) would be non-trivial. Manufacturers did a lot of research to print well, and making even black and white printer of comparable quality may be very hard.
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by ptero 5y ago
The problem is that almost any positive statement can be shown to be objectively wrong. "F=m * a", "x^2 = -1 has no solutions", "light travels in straight lines", etc. There are always conditions under which th
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by ptero 5y ago
Google doesn't do anything with your information for this particular search shown to you. It can still be used to skew your other interactions with Google, it's partners and anyone else with whom Google decides to share the data
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by ptero 5y ago
One part commonly overlooked is "see and avoid". That is, under VFR, a pilot should look out the window and avoid hitting other things. Which, strange as it sounds, has been a sticking point for some drone flight approvals.
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by ptero 5y ago
Very interesting, thank you! I hope it gets enough participation for network effects to kick in.
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by ptero 5y ago
An open source network, either regional or wide area, would be a very big deal for many areas. Being 4G compatible is nice, but even if it uses a different band (e.g., less stringently controlled WiFi bands) a mesh network would enable a lo
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by ptero 5y ago
I just found this app and removed it. And I definitely did not opt into any kind of covid tracking earlier. This app seems to use Bluetooth to track potential violations of 6ft personal space and notify people if someone from that list late
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by ptero 5y ago
Academia is managed "somewhat" like industry, but only in parts. This can combine the worst of both worlds: captive employees (tenure tracks), large incompetent bureaucracy trying to do business but not skilled or pruned to do it
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by ptero 5y ago
I tried this, too and realized similar things. I then decided that I do not really care (at least not that much) about understanding which way each source wants to spin things. I instead want information about the world to form my own opini
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by ptero 5y ago
nethack, angband, tome -- I spent long hours playing each of those. I was copying my macros (hit closest monster with the main attack spell; hit previous monster with same spell; rest until fully recharged; forgot the fourth main one) on a
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by ptero 5y ago
For expensive stuff I almost never go with Amazon now: too many counterfeit / fly by night sellers. For "prosumer" items a store that serves professionals is likely to watch their suppliers very carefully and have customer-fr
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by ptero 5y ago
Please enlighten me. Ideally, not with a "whataboutism" label, but with a description of why it fits here.
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by ptero 5y ago
What about forcing the plane of the Bolivian president to land in 2013; what that justified? Lukashenko is doing what "international community" did then -- trying to catch an inconvenient person that the state cannot legally reach
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by ptero 5y ago
The only risk is that one exercises the options, but by the time one sells the shares (which they got as the result of exercising options), the price of the stock falls below the strike price. To avoid this risk, do a quick sell after exerc
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by ptero 5y ago
My grandfather lived into his 90s and as far as I know never "exercised". But during a lot of his life he split firewood and worked 8-hour shifts at a factory (before walking home for an hour or so) and did a lot of other things t
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by ptero 5y ago
Prohibiting those who hold outlandish views from expressing them usually backfires in the end. If those who hold them argue rationally -- that is, without resorting to aggression or flashmob tactics I think they should be allowed to argue t
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by ptero 6y ago
> Could you elaborate a bit on your second point. Looking at opposing views can help bridge the gap and encourage reasonable compromises. But in order to achieve this, the presentation need to be rational and (as much as possible) non-
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by ptero 6y ago
This is a noble goal, but when I clicked on the website a few times (admittedly, only looked at about 10 articles) I ended up with a very "left" view. I do not think it is skewed by personal views -- you could see clearly who is c
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by ptero 6y ago
It is not common, but "a year to value" is not rare either. Some projects (SW/HW interfaces; many multidisciplinary efforts, like biomedical software) take a while to fully get into. I am not talking about someone not doing a
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by ptero 6y ago
You are right that the poster you replied to makes many assumptions. But I think his post is still very valuable to others: I have seen smart people shoot themselves in the foot doing just what was described and that advice is a good thing
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by ptero 6y ago
I suspect regulation (or fear of impending one) is the likely culprit; but again, not sure. Re: size -- I was including regular fiat currencies, not just digitals.
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by ptero 6y ago
Not impossible, but IMO highly unlikely: stocks, especially smaller ones can be way more volatile than any currency with over 1T market value. And you can still buy those on margin.
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by ptero 6y ago
Fixing the system is hard while harassing a troll is a lot easier. This might lead to avoiding fixing the system altogether -- once people realize how hard it us, both technically and politically, they might stop at beating the troll soluti
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by ptero 6y ago
The patent system, at least in the US, is broken and supports many actions, like patent trolling, that only benefit such vermin. Rather than trying to make life harder for such trolls we should focus on fixing the patent system. My 2c.
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by ptero 6y ago
Do you expect fully remote positions after covid? Your career page seems to list onsite positions only.
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by ptero 6y ago
Mine too. They then emailed those to all graders (not just profs) to make grading simpler.
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by ptero 6y ago
I think the fear and the expectation (based on extensive previous experience) is that this technology, regardless of it's stated purpose, will be used to eke out a few extra seconds of efficiency from human drivers. Which will likely l
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by ptero 6y ago
> Every day I have to parse some new type of text file and Perl is great for that. Everyone else I work with are also in the same age range and everyone already knows Perl. You nailed it, but this cuts both ways: as the folks who used to
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by ptero 6y ago
This seems absolutely unrealistic to me. Can you find a precedent? A single precedent of the company suing an engineer (individual contributor, not a manager) for quality of work after he left? I think if they tried they would have been lau
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by ptero 6y ago
That isn't the failure of the business; backup failure is a screwup of the IT, which I think is not that uncommon. But the fact that after this event the management did not get it fixed (and requested that IT demo it, three times, with

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