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by sidpatil 3y ago
This is known as a Veblen good . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> There is another problem that wasn't covered in the article. The 10+ years of stability leads to behaviors and outcomes that remind me of the long-lived SSL certificate problem. Updating is done so infrequently that the "how?
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> So maybe the browser should intentionally slow things down when using the device-specific previews to mimic real-world behavior, instead of just changing the window size? :) I pulled up Chromium's DevTools and I do see settings fo
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by sidpatil 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230616185239/https://pboyd.io/...
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by sidpatil 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "multi-dimensional" states. Is it something that statecharts [1] can help with? [1] https://statecharts.dev/
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by sidpatil 3y ago
If you like using wired telephones but don't want to pay landline rates, you have a few options: - Use an analog telephony adapter (ATA) to connect your telephone to a SIP VoIP service. There are plenty of providers, and service is dir
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> That is, lightning itself heats up the air which makes the lightning more powerful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway
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by sidpatil 3y ago
If you have a spare Android phone with enough storage, and can configure it to mount as a USB mass storage device, maybe you can install an FTP server/Syncthing client/etc. on it, use that to manage the music remotely, and plug it
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> Likewise, we began to "load" stuff, not "up" or "down", but to the "side". In the early or mid 2000s, I remember using a file hosting service which advertised sideloading as a feature — by that,
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by sidpatil 3y ago
Julia's Unitful package is one of my favorites. https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl Tangentially related, LaTeX's siunitx package makes typesetting units a joy. Is there similar functionality availabl
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by sidpatil 3y ago
Mouse Without Borders sounds a lot like Barrier [1]. [1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> It’s also surprising to me as I assumed that it was expensive to repair potholes and require special equipment and machines. This makes me think that any unpatched potholes are just a logistic issue since the cost is all labor and coor
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by sidpatil 3y ago
They don't want to deanonymize themselves.
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by sidpatil 3y ago
> It never made sense to me to use hydrocarbon solvents in a food application I get your point, but isn't this kind of a broad statement? After all, ethanol is a hydrocarbon solvent, and it's been used in food applications for
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by sidpatil 3y ago
This is what I thought they meant when they mentioned "in-memory compute".
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Why is it called digital? Marketing.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
That would collide with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
IIRC tmpfs already does that, by swapping to disk.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
You might enjoy this video (specific to Doom , but that game uses a lot of those sounds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgFpss0YFE Many of those very familiar sounds have their origin in Sound Ideas' The General Se
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by sidpatil 4y ago
https://youtu.be/67sfZfreOrU
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by sidpatil 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/993/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
How are these laws enforced outside of Switzerland?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Using DuckDB or SQLite's CSV/JSON support gets you the best of both worlds (minus indices) DuckDB automatically creates indexes for all general-purpose columns. However, they're not persisted. https://duckdb.o
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The US DoD recently migrated some of their COBOL systems to AWS GovCloud. One of the steps was automated translation of COBOL to Java. https://tsri.com/news-blog/u-s-department-of-defense-mainfra...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Wubi [1] did something similar for Ubuntu, if I recall correctly. For live booting, there's Ventoy [2], which boots directly from ISOs. Very convenient. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software) [2] https
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> If you specified units for the variables, you could identify mistakes in your equations and functions very quickly. For example, if you wanted meters, but you got m^(2/3), it was usually obvious where in the equation something wen
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Some languages feature support for this. F# has it built-in and refers to it as units of measure . Julia has it available as a package named Unitful.jl .
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Instead, we should take some lessons from the past and this time around we can proactively ameliorate the worst aspects of the ongoing changes. That doesn't sound like passivity or helplessness to me.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
"Dialysis? What is this, the Dark Ages?"
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Culture eats processes for lunch. Damn, that's a good way of putting it.

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