samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
Defeatist thinking is not what we need to actually solve problems.
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by samtho 3y ago
Even looking west, people don’t commute outside of their mega region. IMHO what the California High Speed Rail got wrong was their ambitious attempt to build the main line from SF to LA where they should have stated in the North by connecti
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by samtho 3y ago
I agree, if I’m driving my car for a single leg of the journey, then my “origin” is where my private vehicle is parked.
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by samtho 3y ago
Given the clear nature of GPT to simply spew things that sound “right”, why is a technically proficient organization such as this one jumping headfirst into integrating this with their products where it is clear that is not yet up to this
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m personally conflicted about these. On one hand, having launched products before, it’s difficult to get those first reviews because even if the public perception of reviews is poor, they still hold a lot of weight in terms purchasing dec
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by samtho 3y ago
I agree that there are problems, specifically when an ideology dominates an industry in a given locale. For single employee behavior, a company should have a code of conduct or expectation of some degree of professionalism because they are
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by samtho 3y ago
She had every right to refuse business to anyone for any reason as a business owner, regardless of the quality of her reasoning. People also have the right to refuse to use her business and go to a competitor who would likely be happy to se
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by samtho 3y ago
I feel like the problem here is that we do not have an effective way to match products with consumers who may find it useful without bad actors gaming the system. Companies with a modest marketing budget try to be as targeted as possible wi
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by samtho 3y ago
There are designated floodplains such as the Yolo bypass that water is able to be diverted to all along the rivers.
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by samtho 3y ago
I live in Sacramento, there is some context the author may not have been aware of. First off, hydrology and specifically excess water management in the valley is often geared toward irrigation and replenishing ground water. We have areas th
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by samtho 3y ago
You’re correct that soft drink providers have no horse in this race as they are mere consumers of sweetening agents, and the their product output depends on customer demand. It would hardly make much difference to them if 90% of consumers s
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by samtho 3y ago
Big Aspartame does not exist in a vacuum, however. The sugar industry is arguably bigger, more powerful, and has even more budget to fund motivated research. I don’t trust Big Aspartame to prove to is that it is safe, but I put my full fait
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by samtho 3y ago
To expand on point number 3, the sugar industry is one of the most notorious at utilizing motivated research to its own benefit. If aspartame had even slightest chance of causing illness or cancer, you could bet on the inevitable, unrelenti
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by samtho 3y ago
This reads like an article from /r/ABoringDystopia that showcases, among other things, technology that was suppose to improve people’s lives is actively weaponized against them. What worries about this from a consumer level is tha
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by samtho 3y ago
Further, it seems like these highly integrated “app platforms as a service” have been the primary type of dev tool that VCs are drawn too given the complete vendor lock in they provide/demand. It worked for squarespace, wix, Shopify, e
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by samtho 3y ago
The 20th century started on Jan 1, 2001. Because there was no year 0 (1 AD/CE started immediately after BC/E), 1/1/0001 was the beginning of the first century which ended on the last day of 100 CE, exactly one hundred ye
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by samtho 3y ago
The Ethernet featherwing was tricky to get working in isolation, I can’t remmeber exactly what is was, but I recall there being some workaround in their Device OS firmware that is (or at least at the time was) open source. The mesh network
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by samtho 3y ago
This tech is really cool, but as they mentioned, they have not tested this with a moving satellite. Because any antenna would need to be localized on a satellite for transmission, you’re going to be stuck with having to maintain (likely) ex
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by samtho 3y ago
Particle uses (used?) thread for its local mesh network stuff. When I worked there, one complaint that was commonly fielded was it’s presence on the already crowded ISM band (2.4ghz) and that it has a very limited range. Zigbee suffers from
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by samtho 3y ago
When I worked for Particle, I acquired a lot of Xenons - a gen 3 device in their lineup, all of which are based around the nRF52, that is no longer supported. They provided a path to turn it into a nRF52 dev kit, which I started doing immed
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by samtho 3y ago
My issue is less with dardevil climbers being offended and more to do with the dilution of the word “suicidal” which is a term that most sensible people would aged should remain free if hyperbole, disparagement, and overprescription. The ar
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by samtho 3y ago
Do you wear a helmet everything you’re in situation where you might hurt your head? If you lived in a world were people wore a helmet every time they drove a motor vehicle, but you were okay without, you may agree that there are benefits, b
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by samtho 3y ago
He had a different risk tolerance and definition of safety. I would not agree that he made wise choice, but there is a difference between wanton recklessness and literally suicidal.
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by samtho 3y ago
They never said climbing (specifically free soloing) was the only way to do this, it just so happened that this guy gravitated towards that. It’s a pretty well established fact that physical activity or mentally stimulating activity of cert
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by samtho 3y ago
That’s a real disparaging view. It’s pretty clear that he intended to survive all of his climbs.
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by samtho 3y ago
> They are largely unsophisticated on financial and business matters so do not know how much to ask for, how to maximally leverage a breach as a first party (i.e. do not know how to use say investment bank deal details to do effective tr
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by samtho 3y ago
I kind of thought this would be a blog post style breakdown, walking the reader through the various concepts of CoAP via packet capture and exploration. That’s not to say it isn’t useful, because this is a great starting point for someone l
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by samtho 3y ago
> Analyzing an opinion piece through the lens of previously expressed opinion pieces is anything but an ad hominem attack. The problem is that original poster did not provide any actual analysis or reason to support their assertion as th
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by samtho 3y ago
This is rather unkind, but I think you are aware of this. Opinion pieces, by definition, will be full of the author’s bias based on their experience up until the point when the article was written. We all go through the journey of life at o
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by samtho 3y ago
This is very prevalent in the US with regards to building codes especially. The laws themselves are technically not locked behind lock and key, but they directly reference them. This shouldn’t be allowed, for which I agree that if they (a g

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