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by sjwright 6y ago
The greatest risk vector for your free speech rights is to misunderstand them, falsely claim that they’re absolute and have your society collapse.
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by sjwright 7y ago
But still I would imagine that such antibodies would be exponentially more valuable in the earliest moments of life, where it’s likely that the newborn fist comes into contact with the mother’s fecal material and all of the bacteria living
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by sjwright 7y ago
> About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion James Taylor Quarter just dropped a new album which is getting a lot of repeat plays here. Also the most recent (2
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by sjwright 7y ago
So if you want to unionise Whole Foods, start in the areas of highest diversity and compensation.
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by sjwright 7y ago
It wasn't a silly question, and it didn't dismiss the possibility of it being not enough. It's correct and reasonable to say that it's extremely unusual to need disk transfer speeds in excess of 100 Gbps in any standar
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by sjwright 7y ago
My understanding is that the macOS font renderer uses limited hinting for small pixel sizes. Of course retina displays mean most normal on-screen text is rendered at 16px or larger, so it's increasingly rare for hinting to matter.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I have the same impulse to want to virtualise my router. I’ve repeatedly agonised over this but keep coming back to the decision that as cool as it would be, so long as internet uptime matters, the router probably needs to be separate hardw
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by sjwright 7y ago
Indeed it would be no mere trifle to run a city in the middle of a dessert.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Surely that’s obvious. Is there a non-obvious point you were trying to make?
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by sjwright 7y ago
Plasmas were worse than CRTs for burn in.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The impractical aspect to that idea is that it would mean creating a new accessories variant. Keeping the same physical dimensions as a previous phone means compatible cases are already available from hundreds of accessory makers.
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by sjwright 7y ago
You might be being sarcastic, but you’re not wrong. If the POTUS commented on hacker news, they’d hit the media just as surely as any tweet.
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by sjwright 7y ago
In their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The ESP32-S2 is best thought of as a spiritual successor to the ESP8266. If you need Bluetooth, I’m pretty sure the ESP32 is still being produced.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Because it’s simply too slow for dual core to be useful. Few people will bother investing programming resources to extract maximal benefit out of those dual cores when faster single cores are dirt cheap.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The curated model stops working the moment that there's any way to get around it, because enough developers will do what they think is in their best interest rather than the customer's. Anyway, the option for customers to "ma
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by sjwright 7y ago
The ESP32 is a lot better in many ways, but it suffers a bit from version 2 syndrome. The decision to go dual-core in particular. Personally I'm looking forward to the ESP32-S2 coming in quantity.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I don't understand this reply—it doesn't disagree with anything I said. If Tolkien publishes intentional changes, they are some form of canon, even if it's of the "Han shot first" variety. Tolkien changing the words
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by sjwright 7y ago
I have great difficulty maintaining a consistent signature, even when having to sign multiple times on the same page at the same time. A mediocre forger could probably do a better job replicating my signature than I can—if they could find a
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by sjwright 7y ago
If it's your own signature, by definition it cannot be a forgery.
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by sjwright 7y ago
It’s a discount offer, I don’t think it actually elides tax payment. According to the URL you cited: “B&H will collect and remit state sales tax in accordance with state sales tax laws and regulations. So, customers do pay required sal
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by sjwright 7y ago
I don’t agree. Canonical status is bestowed by the artist/author, not the publisher, and certainly not a republisher. If Lord of the Rings is republished with page 527 arbitrarily missing, that omission doesn’t become canon.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Wow really? I remember looking at their prices 5–10 years ago and thinking they seemed a bit inflated.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The Jetbrains model needs a simple, catchy name so that more companies can be inspired to choose it. Perpetual subscription?
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by sjwright 7y ago
I agree but for different reasons. It reminds us that art isn’t permanent. Also, we need some attrition to make way for new art. Don’t get me wrong, most new art is hilariously terrible, but a tiny amount of it isn’t.
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by sjwright 7y ago
What free will? There’s only one timeline, only one past, only one future. The only difference between the past and the future is we think we can see the past. The universe is clearly deterministic. Our brains just do an astonishingly good
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by sjwright 7y ago
I feel like your post is intended to be sarcasm, but it’s hard to tell because most sincere people don’t tend to say things that are particularly comprehensible.
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by sjwright 7y ago
To me that all sounds like amateur fantasy fiction writing. The thing that made me is now judging me? I don’t understand how such cheap parlour trick logic appeals to anyone. If I write a complex computer program and it doesn’t do what I wa
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by sjwright 7y ago
Requiring priests to be celibate is basically asking them to self-select based on how much normative heterosexual relationships appeal to them.
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by sjwright 7y ago
True—but that's far less of a problem, because it rarely occurs unexpectedly and under a time crunch. Diffing two docker images to determine the differences between builds would be far less onerous than attempting to diff a new deploym

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