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by smolder 3y ago
I think it might loosely mean network socket, as in a connection to an end user. But not literal TCP sockets, as users arent 1:1 with those.
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think your bacteria on a slide analogy makes much sense. A thin 3D space is still not 2D. A bacterium also doesn't have any comprehension or concept of anything, so of course it doesn't have a concept of 3D space. Und
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by smolder 3y ago
What interest does NASA have in cover-ups or destruction of evidence? I can't imagine any reason for them to be dishonest about not finding evidence of aliens which is based in reality as opposed to paranoid nonsense.
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by smolder 3y ago
I do realize that "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" I'm likewise very aware that that's a factor in people's defense of the status quo.
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by smolder 3y ago
Old school liquid thermometers demonstrate this beautifully.
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by smolder 3y ago
Sounds like you're talking about anti-latency arbitrage mechanisms, which aren't a new subject. The book Flash Boys talked about IEX, an exchange set up in Canada with an enforced minimum latency via propagation delay, just by hav
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by smolder 3y ago
I highly doubt anyone with a legit license to use the IP would be making a Show HN post of this nature based on AI generated artwork, and with a gmail address for a contact.
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by smolder 3y ago
Chompsky makes a biting critique of the US military-industrial complex. It's a great book that I recommend everyone sink their teeth into at some point.
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by smolder 3y ago
The state university I grew up near in NYS was serviced by a private bus system for more than a decade. I don't remember much about it other than the busses being painted blue and being full of college students.
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by smolder 3y ago
It seems you're talking about different senses of spreading. Geography versus economic structures.
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by smolder 3y ago
Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier? Do your ears hang low?
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by smolder 3y ago
I wonder if this is what Nancy Pelosi's husband actually bought all his NVDA in preparation for, way back then. Their prices have been shit for consumers since then, but it's still been good for them.
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by smolder 3y ago
You couldn't hit DENY ALL? I'd like to remind everyone talking about GDPR that cookie banners aren't even necessary under GDPR if you simply do not use tracking cookies on your website.
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by smolder 3y ago
Apathy was the starting condition, not a result of people fretting about climate change.
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by smolder 3y ago
It's not.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Very tangential. Yeah, sorry. > if a trans woman is talking about how a cute guy she was talking to at a bar stalked her and tried to beat her after she mentioned that she is trans, and someone chooses that moment to say that it&#x2
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by smolder 3y ago
Tangential, but, nowadays there are many digital spaces where saying "its not ok to hate cis white men" will get you a chorus of people saying "yes it is", followed by the boot.
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by smolder 3y ago
> They're not "... apparently special costs". Yes, they are. > They're taxes that local governments are charging their residents, using Comcast as a bill collector. Uh huh. But that's effectively the same as j
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by smolder 3y ago
Normally when a business has costs, they recoup them by charging an amount for their services that can pay their costs and leave them some margin. ISP around the US advertise one price and then tack on these... apparently special costs as s
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by smolder 3y ago
You might surprised how a good teacher could inspire hope in teenagers over this, contrary to all the other signals that indicate doom and gloom in their futures. Global warming was already weighing on me in my teens when I'm in my 30s
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by smolder 3y ago
I want to know where all the Webmaster roles have gone, personally.
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by smolder 3y ago
I filed that one under "text to speech or spellcheck mishap" after pondering a bit, myself.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Python > fast This is only true if you are relying mainly on compiled extensions to do the performance-critical work. Unassisted raw python is super slow compared to Go or Rust.
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm not in support of war. Don't try to straw man me as a Putin supporter. This is just baiting me into an argument about "who is worse" when that's irrelevant to what I said. To be clear, I'd much rather live
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by smolder 3y ago
They don't just "hate the west" because it distracts their citizens from domestic issues. That's ridiculous. They are resisting the global hegemony in defense of their autonomy. Just like we don't sign up to be slav
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by smolder 3y ago
> What's the phrase... letting perfect be the enemy of good I don't think this applies. When it comes to privacy of its citizens, there is no 'good' in the anglosphere. In the US we have a constitutional amendment spe
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by smolder 3y ago
There are a lot of grifters out there wasting peoples money spent with good intentions, which is really frustrating. Sometimes it's not even a grift, just incompetence will lead to poor ROI, because contractors lack the skills to be ef
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm going to take a rosier view of prescriptivists and say they are a necessary part of the speaking/writing public, doing the valuable work of fighting entropic forces to prevent making our language dumb. They don't always n
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by smolder 3y ago
Language devolves just as it evolves. We (the grand we) regularly introduce ambiguity --words and meanings with no useful purpose, or that are worse than useless. I'm not really weighing in on the appropriateness of the use "grok
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by smolder 3y ago
One example I can think of is Discord profile pictures and background artwork, custom emoji for their "servers", etc.

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