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GNU Units(gnu.org)
6 points by sigstoat 3y ago|1 comments
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by sigstoat 3y ago
gnu units can do that You have: .5 * (10 m/s^2) * (15 s)^2 You want: Definition: 1125 m You have: sqrt((6.673E-11 N*m^2/kg^2) * (5.98E24 kg) / (6780 km)) You want: Definition: 7671.783 m /
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> plough ahead with a mic/speaker in the middle of the room and the remote guys become second class citizens, not being able to hear half the room. there’s really no excuse not to have a decent conference phone in meeting rooms. i’v
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Isn't this why companies have employees with different levels of experience? this runs into another common mistake businesses make: putting people onto a task because they're available, not because they're suited to it (
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> the golden goose offing itself they'd give it some icon indistinguishable from the rest of the google apps, forget about it, and then turn it off in a few years.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> But as the device is in the attacker's hands, even a good power supply could be compromised by replacing or removing capacitors that are used to smooth out the power rails. slightly improving the argument, while keeping the device
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their p
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> If the manufacturer's still making a part, you should be able to order it straight from them. there's a hell of a jump between "right to repair" and "manufacturer has to have SKUs for every subassembly in all o
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Your HTML is, quite literally, a degenerate form of an API. i look forward to the folks making this argument telling their boss “it’s ok the HTML is an API that’s all we need to provide” come on, nobody believes this when they’re not t
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by sigstoat 3y ago
there are also small companies which deliver the same service, if that appeals. i've been using mailroute.net for delivery and spam prevention for a small business for years.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
seems to be popular to believe that offering consumers a choice that might not be great for them is immoral and should be banned.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> the worst part is that there's somebody in a GCP office somewhere that might secretly believe that I'm actually a cryptobro. you're probably safe on that front, it isn't like the GCP folks are paying any attention t
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by sigstoat 3y ago
if you’re rich enough you just pay somebody else to run the errand or drive you around in an even larger vehicle. stop freaking out about rich people being able to get something nice. they can already afford nice things. look at the overall
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by sigstoat 3y ago
what’s the point of even typing such silliness? you just said “confiscate the property of everyone on the _planet_ who has ever had a retirement account” you might as well propose “we should just snap our fingers and wish really hard for ut
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> It really locks you in the AWS ecosystem the bar for being "locked in" seems to drop further every day.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i had a client who was burning… $10k? maybe $20k per month largely on nodes for EKS when they had no paying customers and ~zero load. (they had fully “production” sized clusters in all of their environments, and they had a slew of weird not
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by sigstoat 3y ago
what sorts of errors do you think a lawyer should be able to make without risking disbarment?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
the back half of the sub missing wasn’t what tipped you off that it wasn’t real?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> What do you think? Why? asking if someone’s post was written by gpt is just a new way of being rude that internet mods haven’t yet had the balls to ban people for.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
are citizens obligated to keep themselves informed of anything? what should we continue to permit when it might have some sort of negative consequence for the underinformed?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
there’s a difference between being an expert and knowing what sorts of questions will sniff out bullshit.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
"extensions to the protocol" do you need the whole thing designed in a comment? the original context was to decompose subreddits into their own decentralized and separately hosted things. so: dump spam into some hidden pseudo-grou
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Reports to Texas Prison(wsj.com)
1 points by sigstoat 3y ago|1 comments
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by sigstoat 3y ago
somebody was asking in a thread the other day about some open protocol for forums/subreddits/whatever that different people could host, that could be fronted by independent clients. well, there you go, NNTP still exists. write som
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> while Reddit users get less than nothing those poor bastards, all chained to their computers, joylessly creating content for their overlords.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> 50Hz is within the range of most LFO circuits (Low Frequency Oscillators) of the kind used for modular synthesisers and guitar effect pedals. i don't think those are designed for long-term frequency stability, either. not at the &
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by sigstoat 3y ago
this is the same crowd that is angry because openai has “open” in their name, but isn’t “open”.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
the hallucination issue was a separate clause. the court does not think that so swearing will fix hallucinations.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
this guy needs his own lawyer. being a witness (expert or otherwise) in case doesn't mean the lawyers who want you to testify are _your_ lawyers. these sorts of subpoenas can sometimes be whittled down with only a little bit of effort.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
people are nuts about southern accents: i had a manager (not my manager but one of his peers) actively mocking me for having a southern accent after finding i’d grown up in the south. weird thing, though, my accent (since everyone has one)

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