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by saulrh 2y ago
> 1) How would wiring to you processor work? My (relatively limited) experience is that this is what really makes wearable projects obnoxious. Even if you have a chip with a tiny footprint, you either put it on a breakout board that isn
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by saulrh 2y ago
Even when you're in a major international market like the United States it's frequently the case that books are nearly unobtainable, especially if they're older or limited printings of specialist material. Sometimes I'll
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by saulrh 2y ago
Unconditional basic income. Grants for the arts. Stipends. Unconditional basic income. Sponsorships. Unconditional basic income. Donations. Maybe even unconditional basic income. Look, no artistic endeavor needs to make a billion dollars. E
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by saulrh 2y ago
So, I intentionally refrained from recommending any specific works for "novel perspective", and I'll hold to that: There are just too many different angles for me to cover, my recommendations would be relatively low-quality i
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by saulrh 2y ago
Other people are covering the big names, so I'll throw in a suggestion in completely the opposite direction: Large portions of the fanfiction and online amateur fiction community, even in English, are international. Even the Western au
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by saulrh 2y ago
If funding pharmaceutical research is a common public interest, then it should be funded the way all common public interests should be: taxes. Taxes pay for the weather predictions that make modern agriculture possible. Taxes pay for the ba
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by saulrh 2y ago
If you're calling a B average at a nationally-ranked EE/CS program, plus an internship, "insufficient", then, bluntly, their behavior is probably an attempt to escape from the pressure that your expectations put them und
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by saulrh 2y ago
I meant precisely what I said. Tracking NiCads to the standards of the NPT would presumably be impossible. If your standard is "keep it out of the food supply", though, I guarantee that there's a little bit of NiCad in that h
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by saulrh 2y ago
Not dangerous unless broken up and ingested, but need to be kept out of the food chain. No worse than a NiCad in that respect. Probably better, if anything, since it's so much easier to detect and track.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Extracting the key definition: These additional references were only in the metadata, distorting citation counts and giving certain authors an unfair advantage. Papers with metadata that doesn't match the contents of the pap
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by saulrh 2y ago
You can put any android TV into dumb mode ("Basic TV") during setup, which disables many-most of the smart features without affecting core display functionality: https://support.google.com/googletv/answer&#x2F
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by saulrh 2y ago
The founders I've known were already wealthy when they decided to do a startup. They aren't at risk because even if the startup falls through without making a cent they have enough money in their bank account to withdraw $200k&#x2
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by saulrh 2y ago
There were a couple "not prod" environments, but they were either replicated directly from prod or so poorly maintained that they were unusable (empty tables, wrong schemas, off by multiple DB major versions, etc), no middle groun
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by saulrh 2y ago
> HIPAA my left foot. That was my experience as well - training documentation for fresh college grads (i.e. me) directed new engineers to just... send SQL queries to production to learn. There was a process for gaining permissions, there
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by saulrh 2y ago
https://www.noisebridge.net/images/9/91/Jne5_4_r02.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bach-y-Rita are probably what you're looking for.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Yeah. If you ever thought it was annoying to have to spend two hours on the phone to get Comcast to cancel your internet, imagine how much it would suck to try to do that with a sign language interpreter sitting next to you, or with text-to
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by saulrh 2y ago
> there is no way to verify that it works in the way that it does Since we're specifically talking about Signal, I think that it's worth mentioning that Signal is uniquely predictable here. They published their entire cryptosys
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by saulrh 2y ago
This is absolutely the case - in software, accessibility features are in many cases identical to power user and engineering quality features. Color-theme support is necessary functionality for color vision deficiency modes, labels and tags
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by saulrh 2y ago
Does anyone know what "fraud details" are? Is this just ("just", I say) the answers to security questions, or is this, like, your mother's maiden name and every address you've ever lived at and all the other st
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by saulrh 2y ago
> In a lot of cases it would involve tossing an incomplete bunch of code over > the wall with few instructions about actually using it. Which is > probably not what the recipients had in mind. Minecraft modders deobfuscate and deco
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by saulrh 2y ago
You're exercising your cognition. It's no surprise that the acute effects include exhaustion. The long term effects are you have stronger cognition.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Huh, that's a clever twist on reservoir sampling. Neat.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Having built tools to organize and drive human curation, human review only means that you get different errors and different people get fired as scapegoats. When you're doing content moderation, rather than simple data curation, you do
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by saulrh 2y ago
COVID is still an order of magnitude more immediately deadly than the usual influenza strain. Furthermore, influenza basically either kills you or it doesn't; COVID continues to have a horrible habit of leaving young and perfectly heal
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by saulrh 2y ago
Which is why you need high-quality and large-scale data on the relationship between income and internet usage and the relationship between income and happiness so you can chain those together and subtract the whole thing out. Yes, error bar
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by saulrh 2y ago
The benefits of SSO kick in way faster than you'd think, in some cases before you even have a company, much less revenue. I could easily see a Hackerspace wanting SSO, for example, and adding an SSO tax of fifty dollars a month would d
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by saulrh 2y ago
Minecraft has a mod called ComputerCraft, which adds lua-powered computers to the game. They can read various state from the world, like redstone levels and chest contents, and move things between chests and set redstone outputs and play so
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by saulrh 2y ago
The EPA. OSHA and per-state equivalents. The part of the FDA that inspects production lines. The FSIS. The NTSB. The USCSB. Essentially every individual city, municipal area, and state has its own health inspection service that shuts down u
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by saulrh 2y ago
You absolutely can measure that, in the same way that you measure that manufacturers are producing cars that don't emit nitrogen oxides above regulated limits or that manufacturers aren't dumping cadmium into nearby rivers or that
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by saulrh 2y ago
Yeah. Don't complain about regulation existing. Complain about regulations being controlled by private equity. Complain about private equity existing. Complain about capitalism. Not about the existence of government.

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