somedudetbh

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by somedudetbh 9mo ago
I get the point you're making but this specific example strikes me as so backwards that it's making me question the point being made in the post. In my experience, one of the most reliable heuristics for finding a place that makes
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by somedudetbh 2y ago
> A lot of the dam removal pressure is activist not scientific - people who have come to believe dams are evil because they aren’t natural Similarly, a lot of dam preservation pressure is reflexive reactionary thinking that if someone wa
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by somedudetbh 2y ago
"In a kind of a zen way, those born ultra-rich live perpetually in the moment. Since they understand very little about causality, they do not understand how events happen or things get made. They can be filled with mystical wonderment
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by somedudetbh 2y ago
What did you think I meant by "PDD/Temu"?
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by somedudetbh 2y ago
I don't know much about this space, but does anyone else think there's a non-zero chance that PDD/Temu is a massive fraud of some kind?
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
> Amazon S3 is the original cloud technology: it came out in 2006. "Objects" were popular at the time and S3 was labelled an "object store", but everyone really knows that S3 is for files. S3 Alternative theory: every
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
> Is this mainly a US myth perhaps? I have basically no physics education, but I was educated in the US. In my high school, where I took an ordinary, low-quality physics course (the one for weak students that didn't require calculus
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
ebikes, phantom power in audio equipment...
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
yesterday on my way to work i saw a guy in one of those huge pickup trucks cut a corner on a right turn, run over the concrete bike lane seperator, which was marked by a row of roughly three foot high reflector sticks (which he also mowed d
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
> but maybe AI mainstream adoption will take longer than we anticipate. Here's how the adoption of this technology is going to go (this is the way all AI technology adoption has gone for 60 years): 1) Papers will come out showing h
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by somedudetbh 3y ago
> And just a daily reminder that biometrics are usernames, they are not passwords. I think you should stop giving out this daily reminder. This meme has outlived its usefulness. Using face id to unlock a local key store to enable my devi
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
> unhedged duration risk, nor the moral hazard created by the bailout Just making sure I understand your point here, are you just against "banking"? Unhedged duration risk w/ LOLR backup is essentially "the banking bu
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
Go on ebay and by the "international" edition
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
It's so weird to me that "write programs that do one thing well" is constantly referred to as "The Unix Philosophy" by people who presumably use Unix? Maybe it's a philosophy like "Don't do sins"
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
yeah I have to figure out how to use the extra layers better, and then use it enough to get used to them I think. Printing out is a good tip, thanks.
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
For anyone else reading this thread- FWIW I bought a Moonlander a few months ago and I haven't been able to switch to it. It's missing just enough keys that I haven't been able to figure out a layout that seems good enough to
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
there should be a feature on hackernews where anything Derek Lowe writes on any platform is automatically sent to the front page.
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
A lot. for example: jainism, zen buddhism (shōjin ryōri), rastafarianism. There are also a lot of religious practices where the religious doctrine doesn't _require_ adherence to a vegan diet, but not eating animal products is considere
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
The person you're responding to isn't talking about internet service, they're talking about premium sports video packages like NFL Sunday Ticket. > I know this has come up before, but since the gulf in cost is so stark I t
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
WWI is actually one of the most interesting parts of the book. I read this book a long time ago so I'm probably remembering a lot of it wrong, but basically, by WWI, the decline already quite advanced, enough to be a cliche: the Gilded
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
If you're interested in answering the question "How, from their peak at around 1870, did this insanely wealthy and powerful group come to lose so much of their wealth and power over the next fifty years", I recommend _The Dec
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
oh yeah good call.
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
I keep catching myself thinking this too. In general, I think it's kind of an interesting heuristic to think about every so often: right now, putting aside practicalities like my current job or where I live, what looks like a cool plac
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
> many may be too young to remember but Eddie Lampert did this with Sears in the 80s and 90s Eddie Lampert didn't start ESL Investments until 1988 (and he was only 25 then). ESL didn't start destroying Sears / itself until
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
Based on the wide disagreement over whether or not this solves cache invalidation, this post provides strong evidence that the hardest bit is in fact naming things.
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by somedudetbh 4y ago
C++ _isn't_ RAII. RAII is a design pattern you can apply, leveraging C++ language features, in C++ in certain cases to avoid a certain class of bugs.
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by somedudetbh 5y ago
I actually do use vim (well, evil mode in Emacs), and I did set up a footswitch and did map it to esc. It was really annoying, for all the reasons OP mentioned. I guess I also didn't realize how much I vary my sitting/standing pos
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by somedudetbh 5y ago
"I don't have a large enough sample nor have I polled enough people to have high confidence that this works as a general algorithm but, for finding groups of world-class experts, what's worked for me is finding excellent mana
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by somedudetbh 5y ago
Not a historian but possible other weird thing: "(Bonus question: what did the U.S. give to China in exchange for its china?)" "(the answer to the question I posed above about what the U.S. traded to China in the 19th century
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by somedudetbh 5y ago
Of course, in the USA, outside of California, this is essentially what we do. We can argue about whether or not it's good, but its not unthinkable. Property taxes in most places (in the USA, the subject of the article) are linked to th

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