retzkek

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by retzkek 5y ago
Sure, that's fair, I suppose I was specifically thinking of US-flavored capitalism, which is undoubtedly its own beast.
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There's at least one group that likes drug ads: the advertising industry. High-dollar clients with long commercials (to fit in all their required disclaimers), and they're probably the ones with the connections to the appropriate
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I was actually leaning the other way: probably easier to scratch out a subsistence living than to try to make a consistent profit.
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> I can see how it can be a lot less stressful if you're your own boss and are financially secure. I highly recommend "Clarkson's Farm" on Amazon Prime, it's an interesting look at someone trying out the farm lif
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It's probably important to be precise about what type of farming - commercial vs subsistence - while acknowledging that many farmers fall somewhere in the middle. I think you're describing the former, while this article is more ab
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Sure, the wealthy will be able to move and adapt, consuming an increasingly large share of the dwindling resources to maintain their comfortable lifestyle. Meanwhile the poor and then the middle class will be left to fend for themselves, or
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by retzkek 5y ago
Climate change is also going to make the world increasingly less pleasant to live in over the next couple decades, directly (weather, flooding, drought, famine, etc) and indirectly (instability, social unrest, war). Unless you can extend yo
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by retzkek 5y ago
> If Chess.com or LiChess were to do something like that I would immediately stop this project, as the main idea here is quantity and those guys can't be beat when it comes to that. I meant it as a rhetorical question, but that&#x27
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by retzkek 5y ago
I shouldn't but... Ke2 Edit: So now that I've looked at TFA, this is a neat idea, but I'm not sold on the format. Is the idea to just say "I'll be at location X at Y:00 with my board, see you there!" and hope s
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by retzkek 5y ago
Inspired, I presume, by those awesome ray-traced animations from the early oughts? I had started sketching ideas on how to make that a reality (pneumatics and magnets mainly) but never got beyond concept. Specifically this one: https:&#x2F
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The worst case considered at the time was an uncontrolled chain-reaction annihilating the planet. It was calculated to be impossible, but it still weighed on the minds of many scientists involved, even well into the hydrogen bomb era. http
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by retzkek 5y ago
It would be interesting to see if you could incorporate a radio module like a DRA818U/V [1] and provide short-distance voice over MURS (VHF), FRS/GMRS (UHF), or similar bands. [1] http://dorji.com/products.php?Cate
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by retzkek 5y ago
> While many users would at first glance conclude that the "arrow" on the topmost button is an indicator that this is the currently selected button, it is used to indicate that this is a "special" (a.k.a. inconsistent
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by retzkek 5y ago
To elaborate on this, dashboards are where you go when you get an alert, to answer questions like: - how widespread is it? - who's impacted? - is the alert the root cause, or just a symptom? Dashboards should tell a story, not just be
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by retzkek 5y ago
Honestly Loki and Promtail are so easy to setup, and jump into not just tailing and searching but incorporating logs into Grafana dashboards (you are using Grafana already to monitor host and service metrics, right?), that they make sense t
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by retzkek 5y ago
> sequoia trees who's seeds only germinate after a fire. Maybe trees are the real elves - naturally long lives, incredible technology/magic that we barely understand, if we see it at all (e.g. mycorrhizal networks between trees
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by retzkek 5y ago
Also note that the constants (HALF, LIMITS, C3/2, C5/2, C1/2, etc) are defined in another source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/a135...
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by retzkek 5y ago
The examples are about heat transfer, because it is an intuitive concept for most people, but as the article explains Poisson's Equation and these methods can be applied to a broad range of problems.
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From the article you linked: "There is a rare alternative definition for the bus factor, namely: the number of people who are indispensable for the project. In other words, it is the minimum number of people who are a single point of f
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by retzkek 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out. It's too bad the older translations aren't as good, I love that so much classical work is available for free, which greatly increases the accessibility of it. Some people w
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Note that both the collected Dialogues (letters) of Seneca and Discourses of Epictetus are available from Standard Ebooks for free. I can't speak to the quality of the translations, but as far as e-books go they are always fantastic pr
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by retzkek 5y ago
> I just want to browse the web Do you run an ad blocker? If so you mean you want to browse the web ad-free, as many people do. The crypto stuff you don't understand is the killer feature for Brave. Instead of seeing ads everywhere,
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by retzkek 5y ago
But they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Police
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It's not so much that the food molecules are different, but the amounts that ultimately makes something "unhealthy." It's right there in the first paragraph: > high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt diets Much like how the a
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by retzkek 5y ago
Thanks for sharing, I love these types of stories. Really makes me pine for the "old" days, and wonder if there's a parallel universe where technology took a very different route such that languages like APL, Lisp, and Smallt
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by retzkek 5y ago
Isn't that the point, though? He was able to live leisurely, and pursue whatever interested him, which helped him be successful. This is a main argument for UBI - how many people who currently have to work sub-optimal jobs just to surv
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by retzkek 5y ago
it's not the large things that send a man to a madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of _small_ tragedies that send a man to the madhouse... not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps
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by retzkek 5y ago
I've had to take the MMPI [1] for an employer before. About 500 true/false questions to screen for mental health disorders. Some of the questions seem quite outlandish but taken as a whole make sense. [1] https://en.wik
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by retzkek 5y ago
> Chia absolutely destroys consumer SSDs. If they are used to produce many orders of magnitude more plots than could fit on them. His point is you don't need SSDs to plot, and can reasonably make them directly on the spinning HDD on
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If the plot were smaller there's the risk that someone could calculate plots "on the fly" within the 30-second claim window, thus reducing Chia to proof-of-work (or even breaking it entirely? the "green" paper [1] i

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