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by ralusek 4y ago
In the absence of SpaceX,"worth" was basically defined as "how important tax payers find this vs what it costs." Now we actually have a market framework capable of answering this question. Assuming Starship works, then t
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by ralusek 4y ago
We needed to evolve bigger brains in order to raise the floor of dumbness brought on by throwing back a few with the boys.
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by ralusek 4y ago
The main thing I want from Deno is per dependency sandboxing. They let you enable file system or internet access for the whole project, but that's basically useless in most of my usecases. If I could whitelist the couple of dependencie
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by ralusek 4y ago
It's mental how much has left CA for Texas. Not just people, but companies. Tesla, HP, Oracle, Charles Schwab, about 60 headquarter moves out of CA per year for the last few years.
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by ralusek 4y ago
My experience with GeForce Now is that despite having fiber internet and WiFi 6, games are still unplayably laggy. I also wasn't able to play Cities Skylines, because none of my Steam Workshop mods would install.
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by ralusek 4y ago
Virtuous regardless? What does that even mean? To go with the quintessential virtue signaling example: If someone says "black lives matter," what are people meant to make of that? I know the snarky response is to say that it means
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by ralusek 4y ago
Virtue signaling is typically used to mean one of a few things. These are my own rough definitions: "Saying virtuous sounding things without any intention of acting in accordance with those virtues." (I don't think that'
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by ralusek 4y ago
I think what you're talking about would be random numbers with a poor distribution, which is important to distinguish from random numbers with poor unpredictability.
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by ralusek 4y ago
Besides exercise I'm here yet again to evangelize sunlight. Getting 15-30 minutes of direct sunlight in my garden per day has changed my life. Impossible to overstate how much better I feel.
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by ralusek 4y ago
That's not what fascism is. Fascism is hyper nationalism where everything is done in service of the nation state. Private entities only exist insofar as they are extensions of the state. What you're describing here is more like a
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by ralusek 4y ago
I think that the only way for large companies to stay cool is to remain private.
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by ralusek 4y ago
Please just support PWAs.
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by ralusek 4y ago
I think access to debt unlocks the true value of a thing. You tell me what this is worth without constraining it to what you have in your pocket. However, what things like housing and medicine have shown us are that wholly free markets aren
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by ralusek 4y ago
I recently tested as having borderline high cholesterol. Entering the world of nutritional literature right now is a complete nightmare, you can find a study validating basically whatever diet you want. This seems to be the scientific conse
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by ralusek 4y ago
I only watched the first 2 min or so, but the idea is that the bubble pops and the noise or air from the pop interacts with a pan flute. Would that make the closest instrument analog a mini organ? It's funny to think of the same idea a
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by ralusek 4y ago
Just to be clear, this seems to suggest that Supabase the company/product is SOC compliant, not that any product/service that you build on Supabase is automatically SOC compliant. Is that correct?
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by ralusek 4y ago
People didn't leave RDBMS for NoSQL because they wanted to get rid of RDBMS features, they did it because they couldn't scale their applications on single instances anymore. So they had to give up transactions and foreign keys and
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by ralusek 4y ago
The Jeep community sounds wild
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npm downloads the dependencies that you install.
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by ralusek 4y ago
https://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/nodejs Tensorflow JS running on GPU/CUDA in Node.
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by ralusek 4y ago
Node has such an easier ecosystem than python IMO. I really hope the move of ML from python to JS continues.
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by ralusek 4y ago
> If you look at these groups, you should see that many immigrants from Asia were already well off enough to immigrate, so in some sense mid-to-upper class of their societies. There are actually many reasons why immigrants cannot be dire
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by ralusek 4y ago
There is almost nothing that bothers me more than the control of information. At least with this issue, however, the reasoning as to why data is being manipulated is so abundantly clear that there is actually virtually no loss of informatio
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by ralusek 4y ago
Indians definitely still have certain specific hygiene practices that Westerners don't. Anybody who has worked at a large tech company will have taken note of the tooth brushes in the bathrooms. I found this to be very confusing at fir
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by ralusek 4y ago
My informal definition of racism is "utilizes race as a parameter in a decision making process."
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by ralusek 4y ago
> has shown us that the USA already does stuff like this. Ya, you're right, China isn't known to collect or do much with population data. China and the US officially regard each other as adversaries. The CCP outright declares t
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by ralusek 4y ago
I've noticed this with Google, too. Particularly when searching for things in the past, it's like they adamantly don't want 3+ months ago to exist. I now have to archive news articles and the like because I know that I'm
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by ralusek 4y ago
Do you have your full server code run in a cloud function, and let the function handle routing based on inputs? Or do you have a function per behavior?
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No, surely a system in which duties and resources are distributed along the lines of "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" will absolutely not encourage people to maximize needs while minimizing ab
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Normalcy bias.

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