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by rpmisms 3y ago
I accomplished this at about his age using Scratch, cannot recommend it highly enough.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I'm from WNY, I was forged in the snow. Nearly every problem people have driving in snow is a skill issue, the rest is hills. Subaru does do a very good job with the symmetrical AWD, letting you feel overconfident and forget that you h
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by rpmisms 3y ago
During the part of my life when I lived in an intensely snowy climate, I never had a vehicle with four-wheel drive, and never had any issues. Four-wheel drive is a crutch to get you into situations your brakes can't get you out of.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Because Apple is a rare non-shittified company and people are apt to let them do whatever they want, in fear of upsetting the balance that keeps Apple products pleasant to use.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
This is a fair point, but I would note that physical distribution exists for the consoles, which necessitates an alternative marketplace — the used market.
576.
by rpmisms 3y ago
To be pedantic, that wasn't an insinuation, it was an accusation. I also believe it is a false accusation, since Apple has many happy customers and employees on HN, but he is within the letter of the law.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Usually those exist for a single contract length, and after that you are free to engage however you'd like. That's essentially a headhunting fee and is valid. That arrangement existing in perpetuity is immoral, and that's wha
578.
by rpmisms 3y ago
That's not quite true, if the user clicked that link in the last 7 days, Apple wants a cut. That's still ridiculous, and it's still an external platform .
579.
by rpmisms 3y ago
There is simply no way around the fact that Apple demanding a cut of sales on an external platform is ridiculous. Steam does not do this. Google does not do this. This would be absolutely absurd for anyone else in any market to do, and this
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Celery has nice texture, not nice flavor.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
A lot of it is sales-side, but so many good tools could literally be a single page with a form, not multi-minute flows. Everything is a sales pitch, not useful.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I don't know the actual numbers on that, but I do know that stationary storage lasts much longer than e.g. EV batteries, since there are no weight restrictions, so they're cycled more gently, temps are better, they can be kept in
583.
by rpmisms 3y ago
The Pentagon even built a supercomputer using PS3s as compute cores.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I love when chip people pipe up on HN, because it reminds me that we absolutely do magic with silicon and most of us don't think twice about it.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Start thinking about how data moves. This is the simple first-principles trick that lets me understand things. What data is moving where? How is it moving? If you want to get better at using technology, not just understanding it, I can give
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I would recommend reading up on FDR's tenure before casting stones.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Absinthe absolutely hits differently, if it has the correct thujone levels. I get mine smuggled in, the stuff you can buy in the US is not made right.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Alternatively, alcohol in low doses is healthy. Humans have been drinking alcohol for most of recorded history, it stands to reason that we'd have developed some sort of tolerance/affinity for it.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I kill animals to eat. I have zero moral qualms about taking lesser life to feed myself, and my primary goal is the animal's quality of life and painlessness of death. I guarantee you that I kill fewer animals than you.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Here's a paper on cultures that practice persistence hunting in the modern age: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/508695
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I actually love the community notes on ads. Really good stuff.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I've killed the majority of my own meat this past year. That was one cow, two sheep, two deer, and a few dozen rabbits. An acre of soy takes orders of magnitudes more carnage.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
We also frequently kill each other, we've just abstracted/outsourced the process here in the West. Computers also simply abstract or outsource verbally communicating and thinking. Vegans also outsource killing animals to the farme
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by rpmisms 3y ago
We call them hunter-gatherers. What were they hunting, tofurkey? Edit to respond to edit: Yep! Persistence hunting (and tool use in combination) was our huge advantage over literally every animal. We're the apex predator through unconv
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I'd imagine having more muscle mass makes creatine and taurine (for easy examples) more needed, so more craved.
596.
by rpmisms 3y ago
But cavemen did eat meat. We know this.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
I think hallucinations would be less worrisome, since words and their meanings are collectively probably the strongest suit for ChatGPT.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
It's excellent for building vocab and reinforcing basics. Expecting any more from it is silly.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
Instead of fines, it should be forced price reductions.
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by rpmisms 3y ago
No, he has a much better safety record.

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