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   by showerst 5y ago

   This is cool! As someone who's into fine dining, a few thoughts/tips for people starting out: 1. Don't go into a michelin level restaurant expecting "well it's expensive so it should be what I normally eat but bette
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   by showerst 5y ago

   If they do it stealthily, when videos show up on tiktok of javelins taking out tanks, the Russians can say "see! It's all more western imperialism!". If they do it publicly, they avoid that and send a strong message that they
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   by showerst 5y ago

   While I can't imagine the difficulty of being blind, I'm right there with you on the cars front! It's just that with scooters we're introducing something new, and unlike with cars it would be technologically reasonable t
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   by showerst 5y ago

   This is my _exact_ experience, I end up having to move at least two a week to get our stroller past, and they are a huge pain when my wheelchair-bound mother visits. I consider myself a law abiding person but have been sorely tempted to loa
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   by showerst 5y ago

   I only know them because I shop at huckberry, but maybe they're just winging it =). It seems like Toms makes espadrilles for men that were popular for a hot minute there.
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   by showerst 5y ago

   Guy here -- I vaguely recognized most of the fabrics, but I've bought plenty of couches and never shopped for a fabric by name, I just find a nice looking thing and flip through the swatches book until I find one I like. The only one t
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   by showerst 5y ago

   I'd hazard a guess that it's related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution -- which also coincided with the meteoric rise of conservative talk radio and creative use of CSPAN.
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   by showerst 5y ago

   They're not reading every constituent message, many reps get thousands of messages a day. But they're seeing aggregated reports. If a rep suddenly starts getting a thousand messages a day all supporting/opposing issue X, that
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   by showerst 5y ago

   I know at the federal level, pretty much all the reps/senators see compiled reports of all constituent comms, broken down by (issue / stance / method / volume). Either way your message is "just" making it up to
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Integza's channel is fun, but he repeatedly does dangerous things. Please don't use him as a learning resource. There's a great tech ingredients series on homemade rockets and motors -- https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Seconding this -- the comments on machining and electronics videos tend to be great, comments on gaming videos are usually just jokes. This makes intuitive sense to me; different viewer bases who want to see different things.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I was thinking in terms of ancient Greece like the GP mentioned. That said, Romans invented and pioneered concrete, but they didn't really understand how or why it worked, it was just centuries of excellent trial and error. They also h
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    by showerst 5y ago

    There's a bunch of youtube channels with various takes on "starting from scratch". It seems like a mix of things that are very hard to bootstrap (metal being a big one!), and things that were more coincidental (lathes, saddle
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    by showerst 5y ago

    It may be the opposite -- if you live in a city with amazon fresh, the prices are about the same as the grocery store. Various amazon sales/credits (and cashback from an amazon credit card) usually offset the delivery price. If you liv
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Thanks so much!
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Any particular favorite book or course recommendations for learning about vintage (or current) IC design? I’m not looking to go into the field, just programmer who thinks being able to puzzle out things like die shots is really cool.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    If you’re into lasers, Les’ YouTube channel is a goldmine.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    There's a long weird history of this; the bottom line is that interest groups on all political sides hate it: 1. The ACLU-style left fear it will lead to more pervasive, easier surveillance, and more "papers please" style che
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    by showerst 5y ago

    My wish list is a little more pedestrian: 1. High level like python, but strongly typed 2. "normal" c style syntax 3. First class support for "green thread" style concurrency, like erlang 4. First class support for dataf
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I think the deal breaker is "without retooling". For one thing there's a lot of steps involved in photomask -> repeat. If your masks are all built for a smaller wafer size, or a different focal length setup or physical pro
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I do the same thing; really nice for those things you just can’t put behind a VPN for one reason or another.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    For cryptography, “the code book” by Simon Singh is an awesome similar intro/history.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Not trying to be facetious — who lets you make a down payment with a check? I’ve worked with title companies (though only in 2 US states) and never seen a closing that wasn’t wire based.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by showerst 5y ago

    While both are clearly important, if we only have so many hours in the day I'd rather a high school student have a grasp on basic stats than basic formal proofs. As a data point of one (heh there's that stats again...) my two high
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    by showerst 5y ago

    Can you imagine how much money a cure for baldness is worth? Rest assured if it was simple modern pharma would’ve done it.
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I know a few people on the commercial side have experimented with automated summarization, but it never out-competes the summaries provided by hand by the Government, and any mistakes will get you ridiculed by customers. There's a bun
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    by showerst 5y ago

    That's all available, fairly easily. At the federal level it's at congress.gov, including redlines for (some) amendments and versions. To be fair not every single amendment vote is available, but that's a quirk of how the leg
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I co-founded a company in this space, although not focusing on summarization, and not targeted at normal citizens. > I want to watch what congresses law/executive orders do. I don't want to read the laws, or how they work, or
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    by showerst 5y ago

    I've been considering one of these for Christmas; how is it for reading PDFs? Do you read any tech ebooks or textbooks? I'm a little concerned about page cropping and rednering latency.