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sigstoat
8y ago
zappa (for example!) lets you produce a more or less normal flask app that you can run locally, or deploy to lambda / apigw with one command. another command let’s you stream the output of the code as it runs on lambda. pretty sure sim
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sigstoat
8y ago
yes.
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sigstoat
8y ago
ugh, mars lost that atmosphere over millions and millions of years. if we can smack enough comets into it to accomplish anything in the first place, then the maintenance is trivial.
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sigstoat
8y ago
there are other, significantly more effective, greenhouse gases.
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sigstoat
8y ago
we might be saved because security cameras use those same LEDs and their near IR sensitivity for "night vision" purposes. if they filter it out, they don't have their "night vision" any more. (obviously twice as man
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sigstoat
8y ago
the patent expired last year. ebay could've had some version of it ready to roll out automatically within seconds of whatever expiration time was approved by the legal department. personally i've never used one click purchasing on
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sigstoat
8y ago
i suggest perusing the bibliography before you get your hopes up.
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sigstoat
8y ago
> but really nothing much has changed in those states the cash-only nature of the businesses (because of ongoing federal restrictions on banking for people engaged in activity the feds consider illegal) caused an ecosystem for cash handl
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sigstoat
8y ago
> It's almost certainly not going to be another tobacco, but it strikes me as impossible that smoking marijuana is harmless. it is known not to be harmless. it can cause cardiovascular issues. https://doi.org/10.1016
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sigstoat
8y ago
> > if enough people agree that I lied, you get a portion of the market fees > This creates a host of post-closing political incentives. You are no longer betting on an event outcome, but on a consensus process. even on scicast, wh
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sigstoat
8y ago
i'll take the "never use market orders outside of market hours" and extend it to "never use market orders". specify what you're willing to pay. it should also lessen any anxiety about people paying for your ord
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sigstoat
8y ago
> > You add more money to the system and where does it go? > Probably from rich person to rich person, but there's the hope tax money goes to actual services. At worst we're in the same position. no, the worst case is tha
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sigstoat
8y ago
> the possibility that someone can reboot the system to a new OS and read whatever was in RAM or physically pull the RAM out, keeping it cold with LN2, and stick it into devices designed for reading it all out.
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8y ago
> It's true that ultimately there aren't a whole lot of morally "good" things you can do with your compsci degree at the moment. uhhh. your bubble is astonishing. or your standards for "good" are unattainabl
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sigstoat
8y ago
tasers aren't considered "non lethal", they're "less lethal", because yeah, they kill people all the time. if somebody is advocating "non lethal" tools, and you start in on tasers, you're not eve
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sigstoat
8y ago
> Examples: The buzzer for restaurants, why can't it have a screen to display menu, or let your preorder? those things are dropped, lost, chewed on by children for 8 hours a day, etc. they've got to be as cheap as possible. als
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sigstoat
8y ago
> How do you think the national road network was built in the first place? part of the justification for building it was national defense.
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sigstoat
8y ago
$16 https://www.fs.com/products/65336.html
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sigstoat
8y ago
> I think Sirus only makes money off the folks who forget to cancel after the promotional period. It’s like $20 a month and I’ve forgot to do it my self for a couple months. they don't really have an ongoing per-customer costs, righ
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sigstoat
8y ago
maybe the panel does, but that doesn't much matter unless you're happy to make use of variable low voltage DC right there on the spot. it has to run through an inverter, and likely be stepped up, to go anywhere else. and both of t
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8y ago
> A lawyer is not allowed to stop learning about new laws; he would eventually be disbarred. haaah. the things people believe about lawyers. merely being bad at your job isn't nearly enough to actually be disbarred.
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8y ago
are roads not infrastructure? that transports food, and medicine?
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sigstoat
8y ago
> Well I wouldn't call an excavator automation exactly. go dig a trench by hand and get back to us.
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sigstoat
8y ago
if practicality is a concern at all, then you can get stm32's for about that which will have significantly more power than you'll be able to cram into a $5 FPGA, and the development environment will actually be pleasant. (or just
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sigstoat
8y ago
> Have you tried offering other things? as much as employers don't want to pay you more wages, they seem even _less_ inclined to offer anything that isn't wages. respect? pfff. sooner get another 4% out of most employers. insta
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sigstoat
8y ago
i felt like returning to half-duplex communications was enough of a non-starter to discount it as a possible suggestion.
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sigstoat
8y ago
pretty sure the expense in BiDi transceivers (which aren’t that expensive) comes from the WDM coupler, not the receiving element.
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8y ago
> Keep going with this and we will run out of places (in the USA) where it’s ok to live. plenty of places that don't see earthquakes, tornados, floods, hurricanes, or much of anything else. blizzards might sound apocalyptic to a flo
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8y ago
> It does make you wonder when AMD and Intel double the normal CPU socket from 95 watts to 180 watts or so. could they, and still expect to sell? it seems hard to tell the data center and supercomputing customers that they're going
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sigstoat
8y ago
seems like the interviews portion of glassdoor would support that? (caveats re trusting glassdoor, blah blah)
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