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by sowbug 1y ago
The study used a pen and touchscreen for the writing case, so this comment is a tangent. But there's a lot to be said for the memory-palace effect of physically placing words in a specific place on a specific piece of paper in a physic
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by sowbug 2y ago
I've only visited NYC, but I think if I lived there I wouldn't want to drive a car at all. The public transportation and walkability are excellent. Is my impression a common misunderstanding?
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by sowbug 2y ago
The direct impact of an individual vehicle is small. Collectively, they justify further investments in infrastructure and research, eventually addressing more needs.
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by sowbug 2y ago
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by sowbug 2y ago
The movie The King of Kong is a good intro to the sordid side of the world of competitive arcade gaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong
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by sowbug 2y ago
"Wait, did they just say batteries can start fires?"
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by sowbug 2y ago
I didn't downvote, but your comment is fairly deep in a subthread about a different topic, so it's out of place.
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by sowbug 2y ago
It works with FLAC; in fact, that's preferred, because you want to start with the best available quality.
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by sowbug 2y ago
I steer clear of Apple products, but I've still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio ( https://dj.studio/ ), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly p
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by sowbug 2y ago
Your argument would be more effective if you had linked to a source showing that Google had discontinued at least one GCP product. I count zero on that page. (If you think "Google Cloud IoT Core" or "Google Cloud Prediction A
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by sowbug 2y ago
I bet you can even accomplish some of this retroactively with the right group of friends. The question "What did you do this weekend?" can be answered in so many levels of detail.
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by sowbug 2y ago
You might also be able to avoid the subjective acceleration of time that happens to many of us as we age.
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Weight-loss drugs aren't just slimming waists. They're shifting the economy(wsj.com)
1 points by sowbug 2y ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 2y ago
If you're buying from China, you'll be paying the Trump Sales Tax. And if you try to ship directly from China yourself, you'll pay administrative fees to whoever handles the actual tax payment for you. For a few moments in ea
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by sowbug 2y ago
You appear to appreciate the value of direct feedback. I hope you appreciate this direct feedback. You could have made your point more effectively if you'd said something like "your math is correct, but it's important to keep
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by sowbug 2y ago
And except for planes that don't or can't follow rules or instructions. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_New_York_City_Cirrus_SR20...
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by sowbug 2y ago
A flight plan doesn't have much to do with permission to fly somewhere. It's more about ATC not being surprised if an aircraft shows up in a given airspace, and search & rescue noticing if an aircraft doesn't show up at i
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by sowbug 2y ago
IPC latency is typically measured in nanoseconds.
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by sowbug 2y ago
In college, I took a computer architecture course that briefly went into CPU microcode. The fake CPU we studied divided opcodes into bit fields where a certain bit caused a certain primitive operation, like maybe triggering an adder. From t
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by sowbug 2y ago
As the post says, Vanguard also missed out on Internet funds in the 1990s, and they're OK with that. I am, too. Nobody puts their money in Vanguard to jump on the latest thing (or in the case of Bitcoin, the latest 16-year-old thing).
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by sowbug 2y ago
Or destroy the cash in public.
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by sowbug 2y ago
It's similar to Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo Mail hypothetically allowing a new user to adopt an abandoned email address. Most email services don't allow this for this very reason.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Also ask the name of someone I need to meet. This helps find the load-bearing people who are sometimes invisible on the org chart.
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by sowbug 2y ago
A good compromise might be renting or reselling the more expensive version when you're done. I often forget about the ongoing costs of keeping a tool that I don't use all that frequently once the initial batch of work is done.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Similarly, Kevin Kelly says "Buying tools? Start with buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones that you use a lot. If you wind up using something as a tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford." ht
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by sowbug 2y ago
I didn't look at the competition. I knew the Dexcom brand because my friends have had good experiences with the G series, so the Stelo was an easy impulse purchase. I'm neither diabetic nor prediabetic, so I'm not a good repr
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by sowbug 2y ago
Slightly OT, but just last night I finished a 15-day Dexcom Stelo CGM session. If you can afford the $99, I highly recommend it. There is a world of difference between an intellectual understanding of blood glucose and actually witnessing y
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by sowbug 2y ago
That (anti)feature is called attestation, and it really does exist for the sole purpose of letting websites lock users into Big Tech ecosystems. The FIDO spec for security keys supports attestation as well. It makes sense; an enterprise m
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by sowbug 2y ago
Simon has mentioned in multiple articles how cool it is to use 64GB DRAM for GPU tasks on his MacBook. I agree it's cool, but I don't understand why it is remarkable. Is Apple doing something special with DRAM that other hardware
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Researchers Revert Cancer Cells into Normal Cells(iflscience.com)
6 points by sowbug 2y ago|1 comments

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