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by smaddox 7y ago
> yep, at least until we get aneutronic fusion going with direct schema of electricity generation bypassing the heat engines, the fusion on Earth has no chances of competing with the most of the existing and especially solar/wind en
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by smaddox 7y ago
> As a parent your primary duty is the safety and well-being of your child. That comes first, lessons second. That's a false dichotomy. When you over-protect your children, you deprive them of the life lessons that will keep them sa
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by smaddox 7y ago
No need for a lock for such synchronization between a loading thread and a rendering thread, though, when you can use an atomic pointer or ready flag. Maybe a lazy GUI framework could use a mutex timout, though.
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by smaddox 7y ago
My point is that the conclusion is specious.
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by smaddox 7y ago
[Sugar is already a known cause of obesity]( https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM ). The food being processed is irrelevant other than the important observation that processed foods tend to have lots of added sugar.
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by smaddox 7y ago
I don't see how it would be cheaper to send a human to the Moon to retrieve samples than it would be to send a robot.
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by smaddox 7y ago
As far as I can tell, the primary purpose of manned space missions is to redirecting taxes to congressional districts and defense contractors. The secondary purpose might be to inspire interest in STEM, but it seems much less successful at
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by smaddox 7y ago
> Most in this space are nonprofits but we are a business. We take a 20% fee on each subscription. This allows us to hire talented engineers, invest in marketing, and raise capital. Non-profits can do all of those things, too... Why not
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by smaddox 7y ago
Do the authors have a draft pdf available?
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by smaddox 7y ago
The housing market is not really what drives the economy. It is where a massive amount of credit has been funnelled in the last few decades, though. We do need to change how our macro-economy functions, but unfortunately politicians and mos
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by smaddox 8y ago
So would doing it with humans... They're so pesky with all their whiny "I need a pressure vessel, oxygen, water, and food to live!" nonsense.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Are you aware of Steve Keen's work? https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen He and his colleagues have developed a simulink-like application for stock-flow consistent modeling of the macroeconomy. And he's had some
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by smaddox 8y ago
I've learned a tremendous amount about how to be a better friend by reading "Daring Greatly", "The Science of Trust", and "12 Rules for Life", as well as from how my friends and family have helped me when
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yup. Unfortunately the OS itself is rapidly degrading.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Does this do minimal updates, or does it rerender the whole window every frame? And does it use old-school stateful components, or new-school "reactive" components?
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by smaddox 8y ago
This is so mind-boggling stupid... We deserve whatever happens next for allowing this crap to keep happening... I'm sick to my stomach reading about this...
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by smaddox 8y ago
Flourescent lights need much higher frequency. They're typically >= 22 kHz.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Last I checked, Elm uses parser combinators and is hailed as having among the best error messages...
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by smaddox 8y ago
Reading these books and changing your perspective is by no means a cure-all for depression. For me, it's been a necessary catalyst for taking the actions necessary to combat feelings of depression, though. And it has dramatically red
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by smaddox 8y ago
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown revolutionized my understanding of anxiety, guilt, shame, vulnerability, courage and trust. For most of my life, I could not distinguish between the feeling of anxiety and the feelings of guilt, shame, and vuln
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by smaddox 8y ago
A more complete analysis requires taking into account that epigenetics can allow such traits to be deactivated in most individuals and that humans are an extremely social species. These details combine to make natural selection of such comp
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by smaddox 8y ago
I used to think like this. Then I read "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson and "Daring Greatly" by Brene Brown a few times, and I realized I was making an implicit choice to see the world that way, and that it is a co
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by smaddox 8y ago
> Hamming believed that great scientists knew the important problems. I doubt it. I’d call it hubris. Or perhaps causality is just reversed. Perhaps it is the very scientists who happened to choose the important problems to work on that
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by smaddox 8y ago
Exactly! Apache 2 may protect users of Swift from suits for use of Swift itself, but it does not protect everyone else from suits for use of the concept elsewhere.
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by smaddox 8y ago
This is actually a great idea, as long as the government makes clear the plan to do this, and gives banks et al time to adjust.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Privatization of natural monopolies cannot work, period. Why anyone would think otherwise is beyond comprehension. At least when government-run utilities screw up, you can vote to change things. The only option when it's a private comp
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by smaddox 8y ago
Oh, nice! I did not realize tuple constructors implemented `FnOnce`! Thanks for the tip!
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by smaddox 8y ago
You should try using `map_err` and the `?` operator, with your own error enum defined using the `failure_derive` crate, for example: foo().map_err(|e| MyError::FooError(e))? .bar().map_err(|e| MyError::BarError(e))?;
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by smaddox 8y ago
GM foods are arguably no more dangerous than any massively engineered foods we've been eating for decades/centuries. Direct gene modification is more like using a scalpel rather than a 2x4. Still potentially dangerous, but far mor
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by smaddox 8y ago
With a sufficiently isolated vacuum flask containing the tender and with an optical opening only large enough to view the moon, you wouldn't even need to concentrate the scattered light from the moon. The temperature of the inside of t

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