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by samtho 4y ago
Tangential, but does “copyright strikes” system on YouTube feels horrifically dystopian to anyone else? In one way, it reads, “if you break the law enough, we’ll disable your account. Naughty naughty!” But then when you look at how the syst
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by samtho 4y ago
Standards exist for a reason. Almost all rolling stock in the US and much of the world is set to this gauge because it was good compromise. By using a nonstandard gauge, they have forever limited themselves to completely custom rolling stoc
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by samtho 4y ago
I don’t think the goal is to be totally sustainable indefinitely, if I ran a micro-SaaS product, I would fully expect a bigger player to add that feature one day. The goal, IMO seems to be to get something working and generating ARR with as
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by samtho 4y ago
I think they were just making a point that this relationship between Vitamin D and good health is correlative rather than causal, i.e people who had higher levels of Vitamin D were healthy because natural production of Vitamin D is common i
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by samtho 4y ago
With the exception of high-storage/bandwidth websites like video hosting platforms, bandwidth scales linear relative to audience/reach so the high cost is a justifiable expense. We haven’t seen a race to the bottom with bandwidth
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by samtho 4y ago
There is some amount of non-trivial work that goes into keeping the lights on for a large and popular project such as this. I imagine the $12k/yr goes to paying for his time and availability to manage this setup with a small portion of
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by samtho 4y ago
Tertiary sources (e.g. encyclopedias) are inherently this way regardless of whether or not it is editable by nearly anyone. One of the strengths in Wikipedia is crowd sourcing and a strong editorial culture that, for example, enforces citin
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by samtho 4y ago
One reason is so you can covert value into a stable asset during market downturns.
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by samtho 4y ago
Yeah, we have small claims where this sort of matter is settled. It’s very inexpensive in most places to file a claim and you don’t need an attorney/solicitor.
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Node.js 18 core ‘node:test’ module(nodejs.org)
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by samtho 4y ago
First, pretty much everything in the lite-hobby space is done with microcontrollers, Arduino being the most mature ecosystem. Arduino is a really fancy wrapper/standard around the AVR ATMegas, I would start here. Arduino is an Open Sou
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by samtho 4y ago
I’m afraid my knowledge is very limited on this and I’m not confident enough to even give an educated guess.
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by samtho 4y ago
You described how my ADHD presents to the letter, down to the rewarding aspect of what I call being “in flow” or what you said about thinking/searching about a topic. I also have a sleep disorder that my Adderall helps treat in tandem
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by samtho 4y ago
> I'm not sure how many people on amphetamine you've seen but it's a group not generally known for the quality of life they enjoy. I’m betting you may know more people who take amphetamine in therapeutic doses than you thi
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by samtho 5y ago
SMUD does operate HV lines into the Sierras as part of the Upper American River Project consisting of 11 dams and eight power generating facilities. It’s capable of powering most of Sacramento in a pinch but is typically used only when they
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by samtho 5y ago
The power loss is definitely on the higher side (> 20%) but if we were to run DC within the home, we’d probably be better off using 48v. Higher voltage means resistance matters less and conductors can be smaller (less current) but still
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by samtho 5y ago
I don’t think anyone reasonable is actively arguing to delist Tylenol as OTC, rather we shouldn’t be so restrictive on these medications that can actually really help people. In addition we should be giving people resources for discontinuin
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by samtho 5y ago
Why can you go to the store and buy rubbing alcohol to drink? It’s primary ingredient is just ethanol. The FDA literally mandates that the ethanol is not able to be safely consumed and is cut with poison that is not easily separated from et
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by samtho 5y ago
> Maybe a social network that prioritizes high-quality content rather than fresh content. High-quality content (in terms of being e.g. persuasive & informative) may have a better chance of creating positive change than one's typ
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by samtho 5y ago
I’ve looked at one or two frameworks (that I cannot even recall now) and they all seemed to over complicates thing. I’m not smart (or educated on the specifics of) enough to invent complicated trading algos, so why not just make it simple,
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by samtho 5y ago
I was using a smaller exchange’s API but now I use alpaca.markets. I wrote the program in Node.js that just runs a callback function every N second interval and decides if it’s a good time to buy, sell, or do nothing. My best advice to gett
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by samtho 5y ago
That’s kind of a strange example. Fixing things that provide existential hazards is always a priority, not to mention that the scope of the damn did not change with the repairs (the dam did not get taller, wider, etc). There was no reason f
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by samtho 5y ago
The wild fluctuations in price, even if the average stays the same, is what enables returns here, not the rise of value over time. I have a bot that trade on the highs and lows of the day, and it can make an absurd amount of money. Also, bu
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by samtho 5y ago
I worked on a digital signage product back in the early 2010s that used OpenCV to track consumers using facial data. Those front facing sensors are cameras.
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by samtho 5y ago
I saw this company (Cooler Screens) pop up on a job board and I really really did not get it. What problem is being solved by replacing a clear panel with a tv screen only to have to track inventory using shoddy computer vision? Are they tr
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by samtho 5y ago
I’m assuming you had the privilege of knowing your biological family, in which case it can be difficult to fully understand one’s motivation behind attempting to locate them. “Anonymous” sperm and egg donors that are able to be found and co
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by samtho 5y ago
I’m not sure who the audience is supposed to be. This feels like something a non-technical manager will read and suddenly feel empowered to make technical implementation decisions. It even comes with a handy acronym (ADDR) that can slip its
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by samtho 5y ago
My MK6 GTI M/T was totaled right after the pandemic started but before the used car market blew up. It took me a year to find a suitable replacement, but I was not budging on my requirement of an MK6 GTI (Oddly enough, my partner and I
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by samtho 5y ago
> I'm not sure I understand the insistence on figuring out [...] who exactly your biological father is. The importance of this is different for everyone in this situation and weighs on everyone different. When if you looked into a m
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by samtho 5y ago
This is just a red herring argument. It is possible to be grateful to exist but resentful to how it came to happen.

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