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by stouset 16d ago
Again, you sound absolutely hysterical. This isn’t on all the time. It’s on in 15 second increments and clearly chimes when enabled. This is literally just the equivalent of saying “one sec while I get a pen to write this down” and then tak
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by stouset 16d ago
It makes a chime when enabled and only stays on for 15 second increments. The degree to which people are going apeshit over this is absolutely absurd. People need to get a grip.
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by stouset 17d ago
How utterly depressing.
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by stouset 17d ago
If we’re going there, cars are a leading cause of death and the leading cause of death for children and young adults. That said, the masses have had noise cancelling earbuds for years at this point and while there definitely are cases o
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by stouset 17d ago
I'm reminded of a quote: "the best camera is the one you have on you." People ditched their digital cameras en masse when smartphones became popular. Not because the smartphone cameras were better, but because they were conv
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by stouset 17d ago
The AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, HomePod, MacBook Neo, and AirTag are also all devices that have had well-received (if not always breakout) 1st-gen releases.
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by stouset 18d ago
I’m way more often than not on the side of refactoring but there’s risks on both ends with a mission-critical service like this. Neither side is zero risk, the choice is about which option will result in fewer and less severe outages.
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by stouset 18d ago
Again? There is authoritarianism currently .
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by stouset 18d ago
While I think the goal of Prop 13 is laudable, a few reforms would cut some of the biggest downsides: it should be be for primary residences, where the named owner is the primary resident. This would eliminate the tax break for commercial p
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by stouset 21d ago
256-bit ECC on the other hand is frequently performed by 4-wide 64-bit operations with a little extra accounting.
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by stouset 21d ago
RSA might be fine mathematically but as a production cryptosystem it’s an unmitigated disaster by modern standards. Compared to elliptic curves, it is comically easy to build an RSA implementation which is catastrophically broken. Both the
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by stouset 22d ago
No, but I do believe that the people who actually own these lands almost universally think that the government unnecessarily interferes with their ability to make small improvements that don’t meaningfully impact wildlife. I agree with
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by stouset 22d ago
This is the opposite of a useful perspective. Someone, definitionally, owns all the privately held land in the US. Large landowners in rural areas are on average more politically connected and wield more political power in their communities
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by stouset 22d ago
The two meanings are not synonymous. One can certainly destroy land through improving or developing it, one can also do improve it responsibly and minimally. Building one or two small permanent structures on many acres of forest is not dest
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by stouset 23d ago
Then you get people (understandably) upset that just about any work they want to do to improve their own private land needs to involve the EPA and/or a local wildlife commission.
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by stouset 23d ago
You are missing the point entirely. Nobody is saying right now that they’re sure this is happening. We have a seemingly very fine-tuned universe that warrants explanation. This is such an explanation, and one that is not only curiously simp
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by stouset 23d ago
It's actually not taking a lot of speculative ideas at all. It's taking one hypothesis (universal reproduction) and noticing that if it has one interesting feature (slight variation in parameters), you automatically and essentiall
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by stouset 23d ago
As a counterpoint, I am self-studying physics while relearning the calculus and math I took in undergrad. AI has been immensely valuable, but I suspect only so because I am intrinsically motivated to learn this material. When I make error
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by stouset 23d ago
And when it all goes to shit, they can just use that as evidence that mail-in voting shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place. It is the same tired but sadly effective Republican playbook: take a mostly functioning if imperfect system
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by stouset 24d ago
Our observations are much more consistent with a form of dark matter which does not self-interact, or which does so incredibly weakly. Don’t ask me how or why, but this is essentially the universal (pun intended) consensus amongst cosmologi
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by stouset 24d ago
Yep. Publishing like this gives a heads up to those operating similar observatories to keep an eye out for similar events. And it gives a nudge to theorists that might help them start looking in a more fruitful direction, appropriately cave
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by stouset 24d ago
I loved the staging area in git. That was the biggest thing that held me back from adopting jj for a long time, thinking it was a huge step backwards. It wasn’t. I was wrong. The staging area is just a commit like any other, only due to g
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by stouset 24d ago
The ability to rebase, reorder, and squash like this only really makes sense with jj’s autorebasing IMO. With git, if you do this, everything after is left orphaned. Even if you have a GUI that does this for you, now rebase conflicts become
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by stouset 24d ago
FWIW, most of the time I don’t even bother naming my branches. ‘jj git push -C` even handles naming for me when I want to make a PR, but that’s mostly the only time I bother. When I do need to advance a branch name, `jj bookmark advance` is
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by stouset 24d ago
It’s fundamentally no different than doing the same resolution in git. The main advantages are that you can do the changes piecemeal, in any order, at any time, and by jumping around in the commit history however you need or want to. Someti
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by stouset 24d ago
And you can deal with them in any order, bit by bit, or by adjusting things in earlier commits. I no longer fear rebase conflicts.
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by stouset 24d ago
I honestly kind of think your experience is in favor of the GP’s assessment.
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by stouset 27d ago
The ads they accept are basically just classifieds for high-level positions in NGOs. I turned off anblocking and see zero ads on the site.
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by stouset 27d ago
The world thinks it has time left, but it doesn’t. Seems accurate to me.
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by stouset 27d ago
This entirely depends on the underlying problem. All I’m saying is that having a set of functions that must be called in a specific order is often a code smell. Forcing them to be called in the right order improves the ergonomics, but doesn

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