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by smaddox 6y ago
I'm going to guess this guy doesn't have any dogs :-D
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by smaddox 6y ago
Not just in game development. If you have a function that is only called once, it shouldn't be a function yet. Make it a function when you have a second or third use for it. Then, and only then, you will know what the parameters should
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by smaddox 6y ago
Until reading your comment, I didn't know that was what Antifa was short for. That's probably why they don't use the full name.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Giving money directly to businesses (especially hedge funds and banks) is a mistake which will have terrible consequences. If we need stimulus to stave off a debt deflation spirals we should give money directly to people. It could be struct
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by smaddox 6y ago
It seems like you're suggesting mainstream news sources are somehow different? Personally I prefer the explicit bias of individuals on Twitter, than the implicit bias of mainstream news sources.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Personally, I think Stephen Wolfram and his colleagues are on the right track on that one: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
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by smaddox 6y ago
Or, from another perspective, what makes one think that forced confinement and ostracisation does not qualify as sufficient "consequences"? In a fundamental sense, this is the greatest punishment that can be given to a human being
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by smaddox 6y ago
Other stories with villans of great depth: - the Ender's Game Series - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (a fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky) Anyone else have recommendations?
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by smaddox 6y ago
> We do have problem coordinate between teams that share the same hall and the same boss So perhaps proximity is not the issue?
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by smaddox 6y ago
> Sure the US economy can not stay depressed for 20 years... Are familiar with Japan's history over the last few decades?
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by smaddox 6y ago
What unwinding? The Fed's balance sheet is never going down substantially. How much did it unwind in the past decade?
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by smaddox 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a dream.
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Brilliant! I've been wanting to do something like this because of how disappointing the commercial options are. Any chance you could share your design details? Even something as simple as a GitHub repo with a Readme and any design file
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by smaddox 6y ago
This is an interesting approach, but I suspect it won't work as intended. After reading "How to Have Impossible Conversations" (which was recommended by someone on HN a few weeks back), I've come to understand that the t
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by smaddox 6y ago
It seems like the blog post answers your question pretty thoroughly. The Hyperdrive index and the protocol are tuned for this use case, making it scale to being able to host a Wikipedia clone. BitTorrent FS + SQlite are not tuned for this u
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by smaddox 6y ago
One person's rights/freedoms are another person's responsibility. There can be no freedom without responsibility. Regulation is legally enforced responsibility.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Unfortunately, even talking and breathing generates micro-droplets that remain airborne for hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2azcn7MqOU
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by smaddox 6y ago
Does posting it in a public channel really help solve that problem, though? With a powerful enough search method, maybe. But does Slack search qualify?
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by smaddox 6y ago
> People largely have their mind made up about it about the covid because it's more of a religion now than anything else. Well, I'm glad we can agree on something.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Perhaps I should have said there is no evidence that I am aware of that supports that viewpoint. Instead, there is evidence that asymptomatic people can transmit the virus. No symptoms does not mean no virus.
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by smaddox 6y ago
If this were an academic journal, I would. But this is a casual web forum.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Due to NDA, I can't talk about specifics, but a fab is basically a bunch of small chemical plants in the same (giant) room. There are all sorts of dangerous chemicals in use, but there are multiple layers of safety equipment and protoc
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by smaddox 6y ago
There are multiple lines of evidence that suggest airborne transmission is the primary form of transmission. For example: https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/125372588101882675...
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by smaddox 6y ago
The evidence does not support this viewpoint. Also, things are complicated by the evidence that the worst symptoms are caused by cytokine storm, i.e. an auto-immune response.
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by smaddox 6y ago
I worked at Intel in a fab for 2 years. The culture is extremely safety conscious, if not safety obsessed. The moto is Safety, Quality, Output, in that order. In my experience, Intel strives to create an environment in which workers are saf
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by smaddox 6y ago
Gotcha. That still seems a bit low for where I live, assuming 18% efficient panels. Roughly 5kW.hr/m^2 averaged over the year, so 5000/24*0.18 = 37.5 W/m^2. And of course solar thermal in the desert can do quite a bit better
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by smaddox 6y ago
That first link ( https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/tempest.pdf ) is absolutely fascinating.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Do you have a source for 13W/m^2? That looks about an order of magnitude low to me.
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by smaddox 7y ago
Frankly, fairness is irrelevant. There's nothing fair about the distribution of wealth. There is a natural tendancy for the wealthy to grow more wealthy, and the poor to grow more poor. Hence the power-law distribution of wealth observ
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by smaddox 7y ago
Perhaps it would be better to assume (until clear otherwise) that everyone has good intentions, but a different persp ctive? Then we can try to work together, as partners, to understand each other's perspective and position, rather tha

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