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by sfink 1y ago
It's even worse if you post things for free. At least if there's a dollar figure attached to it, even $10, you won't get a dozen randos claiming they'll be right by, they can't live without it, don't give it to
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by sfink 1y ago
> For some reason, I have yet to find a laptop Seems straightforward enough. Laptops are portable and contain things of personal value (configuration, if nothing else!). Or just might -- if you're dumping stuff because you don&#x2
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by sfink 1y ago
I hated, hated wearing my CPAP, even with nasal pillows instead of a facemask. It makes me feel inadequate as a human. Worse than eyeglasses. And for the first half year or so, it was awful to wear; I'd reach the morning and find I&#x2
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by sfink 1y ago
My humidifier broke years ago and I haven't bothered to replace my unit. It gives me a little extra space to sneak a few more things onto flights by stuffing them in the CPAP bag where the humidifier would go. (I don't remember wh
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by sfink 1y ago
One thing that I've found very helpful, and wish my doctor had mentioned: when putting on the CPAP (nasal pillows in my case), time turning it one with your breathing such that the machine first kicks in during an inhale. That's i
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by sfink 1y ago
Ouch, not a good look for a technical article. From the other responses, it sounds like "none of the above". It's more like a "polynomial curve" that is only sometimes quadratic. Is "polynomial curve" a th
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by sfink 1y ago
So superconductivity is a laminar flow of electron goop? Ok, it's different in that liquid flows through pipes and electrons flow through crystal lattices or whatever, so electrons go between and around the material while liquid is bou
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by sfink 1y ago
> One of the more convincing ways of doing this is looking at different charitable foundations and determining how much of each dollar you donate to them actually ends up being used to fix some problem and how much ends up being absorbed
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by sfink 1y ago
I agree that organ transplants are a net positive, and in fact are far less susceptible to unintended consequences (there's a pretty low limit to the number of organs and operations involved, for one.) I also think that gene repair is
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by sfink 1y ago
I mostly agree. Well: > This will require all the trappings of human coordination we've always had. It is also true to say that we've never had it as quickly as it has been needed, and neither is it done as well as it needs to
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by sfink 1y ago
There is a strong hunger for Gattaca. Heck, if parents could provide a trust fund for their kids in a way that their kids couldn't piss it away, they'd be all over it. (I'm sure this exists to varying degrees.) Look at what w
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by sfink 1y ago
Sure, the purpose was to illustrate a slippery slope, and curing autism is meant to be more obviously good than abolishing all forms of neurodivergence but less obviously good than fixing fatal hereditary diseases. I'm not going to cla
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by sfink 1y ago
If you can affect germline cells, then I don't see how it's not a slippery slope. (I'm not arguing against doing it, just that it is a slope and the slope is slippery.) No designer babies necessary. I'll steelman "f
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by sfink 1y ago
Careful with qualifiers there. I genuinely believe that vaccines can spread illness to the non-vaccinated, since it has happened many times and is well-documented. For example, it's why only the inactivated (aka "dead" virus)
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by sfink 1y ago
Or we could build a large vacuum chamber here on Earth and put a data center in it, if the goal is to make cooling as difficult as possible. "My data center is too hot! It's burning me!" "Put it in a giant thermos, then
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by sfink 1y ago
Yes. All CI is remaining in TaskCluster. Bugs are remaining in bugzilla, not GH issues. Code review is remaining in Phabricator (pre-Phorge fork), pushing in Lando (a custom layer). Some associated projects are using more GitHub stuff.
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by sfink 1y ago
Not yet at least. Currently both are still supported, it's just that the core repo is now in git syncing to hg rather than the other way around. But I think hg support is going away. We hg enthusiasts at Mozilla are mostly fleeing to J
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by sfink 1y ago
Bugzilla is still the bug tracker for Firefox. I know if no plans to change that. (Github issues are not being used for the Firefox repo.)
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by sfink 1y ago
Squash. But note that we don't use github PRs, we use Phabricator with support for stacks, so we're likely talking about somewhat different things. I'm talking about a forge that allows some sort of persistent reviewable unit
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by sfink 1y ago
At Mozilla, we review individual commits and do not squash them. This is probably true of anyone using one of the forges capable of handling patch stacks. ("Probably" because the shop may or may not review everything!) Once in a g
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by sfink 1y ago
Performance regressions often match all of those constraints, at least in an active project.
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by sfink 1y ago
I was Basic (on C64) -> assembly -> Pascal -> C, more or less. 0-based indexing wasn't too bad for me, except when it came to for loops. for (i=0; i<length; i++) I eventually just memorized that pattern, but stumbl
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by sfink 1y ago
We can't make proclamations like "we can't make proclamations that say 'this is bad!'" either. Of course there are people who prefer any conceivable style you might bring up. That doesn't mean there can&#x
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by sfink 1y ago
Incorrect. Making a chart in Sheets is mind-numbingly easy. The problem comes (as you describe in a later post) if you don't just want a chart, but instead want a particular chart for a particular purpose. Not some weirdo crazy pur
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by sfink 2y ago
Isn't the point of the web of trust that you can do something about the cousins/dudes out there? Once you discover that they sold out, even once, you sever them from the web. It doesn't matter if they took 20 years to succumb
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by sfink 2y ago
Membership in NP is a statement about how easy a problem is (specifically, that you can verify an answer in no worse than polynomial time). NP-hard is about how hard a problem is (at a minimum). I wonder if there would be less confusion o
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by sfink 2y ago
I agree. NP, NP-complete, and NP-hard are all talking about how long things take. If something is uncomputable, then how long it takes doesn't seem very relevant or interesting. "If Jimmy earns 5 cents a day and a watermelon costs
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by sfink 2y ago
I also use make -j for C++ with great success. And so I am also stuck with having to declare my functions in a separate file from where they're defined, and thus when stepping through code with a debugger or just a good source viewer t
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by sfink 2y ago
The article seemed to repeatedly suggest that any <h1> without a font size set would be a warning, but reading more closely I'm pretty sure it's only talking about <h1> nested within <section> etc. (So I believe
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by sfink 2y ago
"Impartial" to me implies avoiding any slant, and omitting anything that is biased in any particular direction. I don't think I want that. At least, not anymore; I used to consume lots of science-related news that would proba

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