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by qppo 6y ago
Critical mass of the audience, most likely. Early to mid 20s overlaps when people are most willing and able to form their musical and artistic identities as consumers of content. It's pretty rare to see people older than their mid 20s
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by qppo 6y ago
The wiki article kind of undersells how effective a zero crossing detector can be.
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by qppo 6y ago
Amazon won't be pushed into supporting more government surveillance, they will be paid to do it. That's one purpose of these lucrative contracts that traditional defense contractors can't fulfill.
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by qppo 6y ago
JEDI has been headline news on CNBC for the last year. DARPA has numerous highly public initiatives and partnerships with SV darlings. Working with the DoD is almost never a secret, it just isn't sexy. The government didn't create
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by qppo 6y ago
That's essentially how a jet engine works but replacing the combustion chambers with electric heaters - and it sounds really expensive in terms of power consumption. An alternative is a kind of plasma propulsion engine called a VASIMR
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by qppo 6y ago
I think the only way to do that (in principle) would be to make an electric jet engine and power it wirelessly, which becomes less efficient and powerful the further from the transmitting array and thinner the atmosphere before replacing th
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by qppo 6y ago
I guess it's not clear cut if this comes down to whether or not vertical integration is beneficial to consumers in this case. The courts aren't going to decide this case based on who is fighting for "the little guy" but
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by qppo 6y ago
Capability based security models should solve that without perf loss, it's just unfortunate they aren't widespread or useful enough yet. And not to discount your threat model which is a bit hyperbolic, but in applications where yo
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by qppo 6y ago
This just cements my belief that the abstraction presented by system allocators is insufficient for modern applications. This shouldn't be done (or necessary) in userspace.
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by qppo 6y ago
I dont think it would help at all for compiled languages actually. The reason that they distribute source instead of binaries is mostly due to feature flags and conditional compilation. Seems a bit off track too. WASM is a very lossy compil
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by qppo 6y ago
No, it's true of both continuous and discrete time/domain Fourier. Convolution in time is multiplication in frequency, and vice versa. You don't need to prove this with limits directly, just use the definition of the convolut
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by qppo 6y ago
I'm no constitutional scholar but I don't think the IRS is constitutionally prohibited from sending me a filled out tax form and asking me if it's correct.
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by qppo 6y ago
It's the wrong question too. Why do we have to file a tax return at all? Shouldn't the government be filing a tax return with us instead? Same answer of course.
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by qppo 6y ago
It's a normal and rational human emotion to feel anger or annoyance at differential treatment for no fault of your own, whether that boils over as "resentment" is a function of your own emotional maturity in my opinion. But t
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by qppo 6y ago
I mean ultimately it comes from functional analysis and differential equations (not signal processing). It's a binary operator on functions that yields a third function. It has a lot of useful properties and equivalences, like that it
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by qppo 6y ago
Sounds a bit like the "systemic failures" that brought down the housing market in 2008. It's always been a surprise to me how much money is flowing from ads and how any business can be so reliant on it, since this makes it so
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by qppo 6y ago
Have you tried CLion or VS Code?
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by qppo 6y ago
I'd argue it's significantly more complex because you don't have access to the C++ AST, templates are ultimately non-hygienic macros, their results are invisible to both developer and user, and potential errors are inscrutabl
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by qppo 6y ago
No one disputes that meta programming is useful. What is disputed is C++ templates being a "good" way to meta program. I certainly understand metaprogramming, but navigating very dense C++ templates is one of the most complicated
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by qppo 6y ago
It's not horribly uncommon to see 20A rated breakers connected to standard 3 prong sockets and people to have gear with these connectors. Interesting sidenote, I can tell you at least one NFL and two college football stadiums require t
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by qppo 6y ago
The point of the wealth tax is not to secure funding for "good things" but to intentionally sabotage the accumulation of wealth.
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by qppo 6y ago
It would help to be concrete with your examples to highlight what you think is missing from the standard library, since most of the time I see this commentary it's something absurd like an http server. The only thing I can think of is
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by qppo 6y ago
Because tech has monopolies over specific markets (or duopolies) engaged in anti-competitive practices that harm business and consumers while being comically unregulated. Banking, credit, and defense all have a pretty good balance of compet
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by qppo 6y ago
edit: I can't read, ignore my gripes on github actions. Gitlab is the best!
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by qppo 6y ago
It's been awhile since I did work that required (super fun) export controls training sessions but I really don't think this is accurate. For certain the sanctions apply to all government and non-government entities in Iran with ex
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by qppo 6y ago
How do you verify the chip on a schematic is the chip on the device you purchase?
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by qppo 6y ago
To be honest it probably comes down to being a non trivial problem to get it to be perceptually seamless and a rare enough event that people don't have the incentive to fix it. Most people aren't plugging/unplugging monitors
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by qppo 6y ago
It's hard to get closer to it as a voter when we don't have anyone to vote for who isn't bought and paid for by Super PACs funded by insurance companies. It's tantamount to bribery and the only reason we aren't pros
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by qppo 6y ago
That's the beauty of medicare for all, you can still buy insurance on the private market if you want to. For what it's worth, Medicare itself already does a pretty good job being the single largest insurance provider in the United
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by qppo 6y ago
to get super meta, one could say that the opposite is true: arithmetic requires categories

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