rprospero

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by rprospero 3y ago
As someone who has been regularly transferring money between the US and UK for nearly a decade, using standard banking means has always been faster and cheaper for me than any of the crypto solutions that I've been presented.
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by rprospero 3y ago
I oddly miss the 3D printing hype train. My favourite was the various plans to replace restaurants with 3D printed meals. - Point out that most 3D printing is plastic? Recieve a derisive link to a journal article where some beleagured pos
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by rprospero 3y ago
I spent a couple of months working with a tool along those lines. Unfortunately, it's one of those issues where it won't work specifically without the galactic emperor mandating these tools under pain of death. A colleague using
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by rprospero 3y ago
> Apple is not likely to sell USB non-conforming cables. I remember Apple intentionally selling non-USB conforming cables for the keyboard on the early iMacs. There was a little notch in the USB cable which meant that it couldn't p
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by rprospero 3y ago
Also worth mentioning that Catullus[1] recorded performing oral hygiene with both water and... let's say ammonia. [1] http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e39.htm
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by rprospero 3y ago
As a physicist, I know that "quantum", "magnets", and "crystals" are all common heuristics for identifying pseudo-science. On the other hand, my thesis involved all three and I've had frustrating experien
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by rprospero 3y ago
Met Alex and played with Tidal Cycles a few years back. It was an mind bending experience and I need to find more time to go back to tidal again.
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by rprospero 3y ago
From my reading of it, it does have what you're looking for. Specifically, while there are "no destructors", you are required to call a function to consume the value. Failing to consume the value is a compile time error. Y
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by rprospero 3y ago
As a slight counterpoint, Bells Labs was selling Nike Missiles before the shoe company ever existed. I imagine that they’d be in a good place legally to continue that brand name.
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by rprospero 3y ago
I am at the max salary band for my position. His position can admit a higher salary band. After a few years, he’ll have a track record proving his competence in the new position and can apply to be raised to a higher band. I believe the th
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by rprospero 3y ago
Hi! I’m a senior engineer getting $53k in annual salary. Everyone in my department is making the same, my boss included (government job, so I know the salaries). Also, it’s a government job, so obviously zero stock. Anyway, just letting
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by rprospero 3y ago
I apologise for misinterpreting your comment. I did delete my Twitter account under Dorsey's tenure as I became more aware of his behaviour and policies, so I believe that my point still stands.
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by rprospero 3y ago
Whataboutism is constantly employed by individuals more concerned about their "side" winning than concerns about actually solving problems. It is rarely a question asked in good faith, but rather a thinly veiled accusation of hyp
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by rprospero 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation about the microcode. Many years ago, someone was explaining to me that Lisp machines were Lisp “all the way down”. There were no layers that you couldn’t reprogram with Lisp. When pressed for details, he clai
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by rprospero 3y ago
As a counterpoint, I knew a physics prof that would drop any grad students who got above a B average, since it meant the student had bad time management. Bad time management being defined by spending more tine outside the lab than strictly
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by rprospero 3y ago
As a counter-point, I remember people making the same argument when Google announced Chrome. Browsers would always be a battle between two contenders and it would be better for Google to focus on helping Firefox in its fight against Intern
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by rprospero 3y ago
It’s that last step I’ve never understood. I get that some guy in Iceland has excess power generation and can use that to mine bitcoin. I can then buy those bitcoins from him. However, I’ve never heard an explanation for how I then recov
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by rprospero 3y ago
You can do it with two bags. Place one piece of each colour, except for pawns, in bag A. Place the pawns and remaining pieces in bag B. There’s ten unique piece in bag A and bag B produces colour with equal probability, so there are twen
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by rprospero 3y ago
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question properly, but versions 6.2 through 6.5 are available here. https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/ You can find a more local mirror
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by rprospero 3y ago
Was that "Value City Furniture's Third Annual Going Out of Business Sale"? I remember those from my childhood, though I understand that one of those finally stuck.
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by rprospero 3y ago
I also remember another variant on the shipping practice back when there used to be other auction sites competing with eBay. It was standard practice for the site to take a percentage of the sale price, but some sites didn't include t
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by rprospero 3y ago
My experience with php style forums has been that the communities frown upon bumping and necroposting. Rediscovering and commenting on an old thread is usually met with profanity from the forum regulars. If bumping creates a better social
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by rprospero 3y ago
Here's a personal example from work: We're performing atomistic simulations. The first edition of the code stored each atom on the heap and had a vector full of pointers to the individual atoms. Obviously this would obliterate t
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by rprospero 3y ago
I see your point about a student attempting to pass the exam, studying the incorrect material, and failing the course. However, I see that situation as morally equivalent to the following scenario: Sam has been having trouble understanding
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by rprospero 3y ago
> This is a Stack Overflow problem only. Were this only to be true. I first encountered this issue on a coding forum before StackOverflow even existed. Though the term XY problem hadn't been coined yet, there was a regular poster
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by rprospero 3y ago
I'm a bit of a film buff and I agree with you on the slow pace of older films being a problem. I'm not opposed to a slow film (Skinamarink has a glacial pace and is amazing), but I many films from the 70's will simply wast
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by rprospero 3y ago
Again, I would assume that UberEats and DoorDash have been paid to install all of those third party libraries, so it still feels like a lateral move to install my local pizza app instead. The only argument I see at the moment against the b
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by rprospero 3y ago
I'm curious how you had such great luck with Gnus IMAP. I'm a Gnus user myself, but I had to switch to local Maildir because I couldn't get a workable experience with the IMAP configuration. Specifically, Gnus would freeze
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by rprospero 3y ago
If my entire message can be condensed into a few bullet points that could be fed into ChatGPT, wouldn't it be an insult to my audience's time to provide them with anything but that very list of bullet points? This is exactly the t
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by rprospero 3y ago
Nintendo was taken to court and forced to pay out over anti-competitive business practices. Granted, the specific charge was price fixing and the settlement of sending coupons to consumers was ridiculous, but I could imagine an FTC that wa

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