selimnairb

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by selimnairb 5y ago
Countries like Australia and France seem to have figured out the non-tipping thing. What makes us so special that it won’t work here?
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Have the ChiaCoin miners heard of Optane?
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I work on a 25-year-old research hydrology model written in C. My M1 Mac mini runs the model about 68% faster than my 2019 i9 MacBook Pro. Definitely thinking of trading that in once a 64GB M1-based system is available.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
If only he could have managed to get the ship wedged sideways in the Suez Canal. They would’ve helped him our real quick.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Right the US has rule of law for businesses. What about poor people? Not so much. See: civil asset forfeiture, being jailed for petty fines you can’t afford to pay, insane fees used by low-tax jurisdictions to fund their courts.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Have you heard of New England? Lots of educated people in small towns, and want to be there.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
“People haven’t been transacting in crypto basically at all” Exactly. When I did a deep dive on crypto currency a few years ago I wondered, what can the transaction rate be for proof of work schemes. Turned out it was less than a dozen per
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Reminds of the stretched VW bus that a former hippy landlord of mine had. It was made from two buses, the front of one and the back of the other cut off, welded together. It was great for hauling kayaks in the back. I think the two constitu
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by selimnairb 6y ago
At some point, there is an irreducible amount of complexity. At that point, adding things like over-wrought frameworks to “make things easier” for the developer ends up pushing the complexity around, like an air bubble trapped under a scree
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by selimnairb 6y ago
I guess my point is that by including government payments in calculation of income inequality they are legitimizing the use of government payments to reduce inequality.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
I don’t have access to the full article. However, from what I read, this seems like a tacit argument in favor of UBI.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
And depending on your use case, you may not need to implement growing the hash table, or deletions, making it even simpler/less daunting to implement in C (since this avoids a lot of the memory management parts of the job).
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by selimnairb 6y ago
If you could pump a lot of water at high pressure and release it just off the bank where the boat is stuck you might be able to scour away the underbank while at the same time creating a slightly higher hydraulic head, kind of a standing wa
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by selimnairb 6y ago
All of these JavaScript frameworks are recreating native runtimes on top of “standard” JavaScript engines. It seems wrong to me to tailor a JavaScript engine to a particular framework. Ideally the goal would be to move native framework-less
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Tell me again how it’s cheaper to keep crappy legacy systems running rather than upgrading?
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by selimnairb 6y ago
There is probably a generation or two of work to retrofit housing across the US for energy efficiency, which can also address comfort, and health (indoor air quality). This is something that can only be accomplished using a government progr
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Part of the problem is that research positions tend to be for Ph.D. students and post-docs who cost less than permanent research scientists. This is good in the short term for the individual grant, but has the side effect that to continue r
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Is this a joke?
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Can anyone explain what utility, to the real economy, that short selling stocks provides? Practically speaking, why is shorting useful? What problems in the financial system does it solve. Asking in earnest.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Hopefully exFAT implementations will get more robust. At least with the macOS implementation, it has always been prone to reporting corruption when devices are not ejected properly. I can usually fix it by running check disk or whatever on
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by selimnairb 6y ago
So they just need $900?
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by selimnairb 6y ago
So it’s a chicken-cooled CPU/GPU?
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by selimnairb 6y ago
"Hey let's make developers do two very different jobs, development, and operations. We'll call it DevOps. We'll save money. Everything will be fine."
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Convoluted market-based drivel. We need some degree of command and control to achieve climate security. Markets are too inefficient.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Cool. I always wanted to boot from a SCSI scanner with the OS being stored on a series of paper print outs.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
I guess I am just too cheap to pony up for an unlimited plan. I never stream video over the cellular connection, and rarely stream audio. I don’t see this changing unless unlimited plans get cheaper. I currently have fiber to the home for l
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by selimnairb 6y ago
It just seems like the entire industry is desperate for us to give a shit about 5G. I don't, sorry. To me this is similar to the 4K and 8K HDR TV craze. I don't plan on ever owning an 80" TV. At 30-40" 1080p looks great
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by selimnairb 6y ago
I disagree. The aircraft carrier sized trackpads of the recent MBPs continues to register errant clicks for me. They are just way too big.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
Don’t people write and listen to entire albums anymore? When I listen to music, I almost always listen to entire albums, not individual songs.
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by selimnairb 6y ago
They learned the lesson of the Cube so well, they created the 2013 Mac Pro.

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