rpearl

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by rpearl 3y ago
But that's not why the protest is happening...?
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by rpearl 3y ago
I respect using that stuff for a while (my amp is about 12 years old but I'm upgrading this year). Stick with what you have if it sounds good to you, but I do feel the need to point out two things: There have been significant improveme
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by rpearl 3y ago
If you've got enough keys that it matters you probably want to use a `Map` instead of an object? Maps are faster to write and read is approximately the same.
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by rpearl 4y ago
No, fillibusters are a matter of procedure now. Nobody's standing up there talking to perform a fillibuster anymore. From https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/filibustering-in-the-mod... "When a Senator signal
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by rpearl 4y ago
At least some companies have board approval of transfers. Less common but not exactly weird
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by rpearl 4y ago
I think c a n y o u r e a d t h i s e a s i l y i d i d n t t h i n k s o e i t h e r n o b o d y w r i t e s l i k e t h i s i n e n g l i s h might get the feeling across a bit better?
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by rpearl 4y ago
The point of writing an essay is not to learn how to produce an essay. It's to learn analytical thinking, research, and argument skills.
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by rpearl 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... in which "top tech companies" (including Apple and Google) were successfully sued for trying to push down salaries.
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by rpearl 4y ago
Then I guess he should stop engaging in class war, shouldn't he
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by rpearl 4y ago
There are heat pump water heaters (I have one; AO Smith HPTU-50N). More expensive up front vs tankless but a lot more efficient.
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by rpearl 4y ago
> the trick is to describe the algo in enough detail so that there is no room for misinterpretation We could create a syntactically unambiguous form of textual representation of instructions. We could call such a piece of text something
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by rpearl 4y ago
how exactly do you propose finding the political will necessary to amend it?
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by rpearl 4y ago
Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu is a remake of red/blue
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by rpearl 4y ago
Your fundamental experiences as a human are already augmented by technologies so deeply integrated that our brains have changed to accommodate for them. For example: writing and speech. What makes you think that "cyborg" means &qu
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by rpearl 5y ago
Most of San Francisco can be served by Wave (cable). Sonic also has a large presence in San Francisco as well. Over in Oakland I am paying $40/mo to Sonic for 10Gbps (though I only have equipment to route at 1Gbps at the moment)
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by rpearl 5y ago
> antigen tests aren't going to show covid until a couple days after symptoms start (typically) This is false? It was definitely false pre-Omicron and my understanding is that it's still false. https://www.medrxiv.
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by rpearl 5y ago
cool, cool. it's from HHMI and is a talk on multiple published works but okay. thanks for taking the time to process literally any of the information I am trying to communicate rather than just surface level cues from random words. it
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by rpearl 5y ago
did you read the rest of my comment? or were you just keyword scanning? your question doesn't really follow from anything I said
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by rpearl 5y ago
> Boosters for last year’s virus makes less sense. The antibodies elicited in response to the booster, 6 months later, are different and more diverse in their neutralization capabilities than the ones elicited in response to the first sh
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by rpearl 5y ago
A software engineer is not paid to sit in front of a computer and that's only a small slice of the work.
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by rpearl 5y ago
experiences and emotions are relevant evidence which can change your beliefs
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by rpearl 5y ago
Carnegie Mellon
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by rpearl 5y ago
We did this first semester freshman year at my school in a single lecture in a 100 level "concepts of mathematics" course. I get that there's a certain amount of "it's hard to wrap your head around infinity" bu
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by rpearl 5y ago
This very much disagrees with you: https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/AAUP-2021-SurveyApp... A sampling of average overall salaries for professors: - UC Berkeley (ie bay area): $214,300 - UCLA: $234,2
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by rpearl 5y ago
Studying nuclear engineering should be worthwhile. Studying power system engineering was. Blockchains aren't.
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by rpearl 5y ago
The article they cite ( https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/People-are-leavi... ) for claiming 10% of SF left is kind of misleading; 8 of the top 15 places they went to are _also_ in the bay area, and all bu
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by rpearl 5y ago
Because doing this as an NFT is utterly nonsensical. The NFT is involved for absolutely no reason. The only results of involving an NFT are (1) legitimizing a ridiculous scam and (2) causing extra environmental damage alongside the donation
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by rpearl 6y ago
In principal, viral vector vaccines are technically transmissible, though I do not think we have demonstrated actual transmission anywhere. The J&J vaccine is a viral vector vaccine. The mRNA COVID vaccines are not; with those, the vacc
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by rpearl 6y ago
when we build a new feature, it's gated by a flag controlled by the server. The app version with the feature is distributed well in advance of the intended rollout. So, we can't even put the new feature in the change log for the u
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by rpearl 6y ago
To be clear I (the original poster in this thread) have lived without a car in the bay area for almost a decade, and I don't Uber anywhere. NYC is definitely more walkable--and just as expensive. Boston is about as walkable, I think (I

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