selimnairb

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by selimnairb 6y ago
I am jealous of people who have time to do things like this.
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by selimnairb 7y ago
I stopped reading when he said, “eh, cancer’s not so bad” and “rich people don’t die from cancer anymore, so we shouldn’t worry about.”
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by selimnairb 7y ago
Just wait until Apple releases a Mac mini powered by an A-series CPU. If I had to bet, I’d say this will be the first Arm Mac they will release. This way developers can easily buy one for porting their apps before A-series-based MacBooks
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by selimnairb 7y ago
No shit.
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by selimnairb 7y ago
This is why we need single payer and to abolish/greatly diminish private insurance. Hospitals and insurance companies continuously demonstrate the failed state of the healthcare market. Market-based healthcare will always be unworkab
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by selimnairb 7y ago
In another sense, doesn’t the existence of long-term negative interest rates suggest that some people/institutions have more money than they can productively use? If so, this would seem to be a pretty clear argument for wealth re-dist
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Can this method be used to extract speech by people who subvocalize, that is, where auditory processing is going on in the absense of speech by another? Also, this confirms to me that we are merely, or at least mostly, made of electrified
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by selimnairb 8y ago
I’d like to think that this situation could be improved by restricting flows of capital across borders for residential property purchase, and by not allowing domestic vulture capital/private equity firms to buy residential properties.
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Just learn Emacs.
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Why run x86 Linux binaries? Wouldn’t it be easier and more efficient to run ARM binaries? Then you’d only need syscall translation, no? I guess you would also need a thuniking layer to handle binary format/ABI differences. But that
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by selimnairb 8y ago
My first reaction to the new MacBook Airs was, gee I could use that to replace my 15” 2015 MBP. I’ve been wanting a machine with TouchID, but I don’t like the touch bar and like a physical escape key. With cloud work becoming more prevale
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Yes, pessimistic file locking is a fatal design flaw in Windows. Where did they get this idea, VMS? What problems is it meant to solve? Unixen seem to get along fine without it.
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by selimnairb 8y ago
I have tons of nostalgia for DOS having first used it in 1992. However, as soon as I used Linux in 1994, it was instantly apparent how backward and hard to use DOS was compared to Unix-like systems. With hardware like Raspberry Pis, not s
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Yes. We should tax billionaires out of existence. This level of wealth and power accumulation is as unseemly as it is dangerous to our democracy and economy.
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by selimnairb 8y ago
Unless we stop burning fossil carbon, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere to create fuels that we will then burn makes zero sense, in terms of mitigating climate change; even if we used solar energy to do this, there would be no net decrea
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by selimnairb 8y ago
At least in commercial buildings in humid climates, building air is cooled by industrial chillers to lower humidty to acceptable levels (chiefly to inhibit mold growth I think), then the air is heated for comfort. So it would actually use
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by selimnairb 9y ago
Is it possible that a rise in geospatial applications is partly a driver of Postgres’s rise in popularity? PostGIS seems to be the best option for storing geospatial data in an RDBMS (open source or otherwise).
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by selimnairb 9y ago
Agreed, there needs to be some discussion (a few sentences at least) of what might be use cases for IPFS.
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by selimnairb 9y ago
Anyone know if this supports PostGIS extensions?
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by selimnairb 11y ago
Many Indians already have backup battery systems because the grid, even in big cities, is so unreliable. This may make the switch to solar less burdensome, at least cognitively, if not practically.
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by selimnairb 11y ago
Many Indians already have backup battery systems because the grid, even in big cities, is so unreliable. This may make the switch to solar less burdensome, at least from a cogmitive point of view.