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by stult 4y ago
I think there is a mismatch between the types of web content that the general public most interacts with and the types of web content which tend to have lots of development resources devoted to them. The ratio of SWEs to users is much, much
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by stult 4y ago
I think the big mismatch here is that romantic desirability is largely determined not by someone's subconscious assessment of their future happiness with a potential partner but rather their perception that the potential partner would
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by stult 4y ago
We don't have that phrase in English but it translates very clearly. Interestingly, your description of Orban's behavior exactly matches a somewhat famous game theoretic analysis of international leaders' behavior called &quo
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by stult 4y ago
I mentioned cannons as the absolute worst case option in case US air-to-air missiles suffer from the same issues as Russian SAMs appear to, and from the perspective of extant US capabilities that could be adapted and rapidly fielded for imm
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by stult 4y ago
It's a very solvable problem though. At least for countries other than Russia, which might not be technically nimble enough to adapt mid-conflict and under a strong sanctions regime. S-300s/S-400s/Buks and the somewhat rarer
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by stult 4y ago
> I'd have to imagine it's more cost effective (in terms of kilograms of high explosive on target per dollar) to make some GPS-guided or laser-guided mortars The problem is scale. No one in the private sector makes or needs mor
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by stult 4y ago
Yes indeed, many of us do. Nearly everyone I've ever dated gets mad at me at some point because I can't keep cookies in the house or I will eat them all. You are far from alone, and in fact I suspect the overwhelming majority of p
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by stult 4y ago
That is such an absurdly specific but accurate description. I used to manage a site that had a lot of geospatial elements, including various custom maps and obscure (outside of the GIS world) data formats like geotiffs or KML or DTED or the
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by stult 4y ago
Cool new business model, harassment as a service. We‘ll get your info off google for the low low price of $1.99 per fake death threat
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by stult 4y ago
Faces are helpful for communicating around emotionally nuanced issues, which is usually not part of routine communications. So if it's a potentially emotionally charged conversation, maybe that should be the signal it's time to re
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by stult 4y ago
I’ve had a very similar experience and my solution was to incrementally move into more and more math intensive jobs, starting from regular old SWE working on a web app to working on an aerospace-related web app that involved lots of physics
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by stult 4y ago
There was just an article from deepmind on HN about this topic the other day[1], but basically IIRC it argues that all of the LLMs are horrendously compute inefficient, which means there’s a ton of room to improve them. So those models will
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by stult 5y ago
This touches on the controversy that sparked Coase's Theory of the Firm. He proposed the idea that firms exist to reduce transaction costs as an explanation for why capitalist firms look like mini-soviets internally, with highly centra
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by stult 5y ago
It’s a distinction without a difference. For human purposes, nukes can effectively destroy us completely. We don’t need to also physically rip the planet apart and destroy all the single celled organisms to ruin the planet for ourselves.
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by stult 5y ago
Surpass in destructive power doesn’t mean much since we can already destroy all life on the planet with nukes. That’s what makes the doomsday weapon in Dr. Strangelove so ironic and funny. But if a new weapon type that at least approximates
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by stult 5y ago
I don’t think any of the irreplaceable uses of plastics are really major contributors to the problem. eg if syringes were the only plastic item around, this would not be an issue simply because there aren’t that many syringes and they aren’
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by stult 5y ago
I am guessing this point is totally unnecessary based on how overall well-informed your comment was, but in case you weren’t aware, it is frequently helpful to run a wifi analyzer of some sort to figure out which channels are heavily utiliz
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by stult 5y ago
It’s the lack of notifications and an inbox showing new replies to your comments. I miss 90% of the replies to my comments until it’s way too late to reply in turn.
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by stult 5y ago
The earliest that sunrise happens in the continental US is around 5AM during DST, so the earliest it would go is 4AM. That is in the extreme north of the country (excluding Alaska, which I'd say is not worth including in the conversati
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by stult 5y ago
Yeah, this is what makes me mad about this debate. Permanent DST proponents talk about how they like having daylight at the end of the day after work. Well, weigh that mild preference against the very real physiological harm it causes. They
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by stult 5y ago
That doesn’t really make sense. It wouldn’t necessarily or even likely have crashed at its destination as it should have returned to base once it reached those coordinates and completed its mission. And even if it were programmed to loiter
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by stult 5y ago
Assuming this is all true, I wonder if this is how wild dolphins feel when they have an encounter with friendly human beings? It almost feels like playful behavior. Like the UAPs are flying alongside the fighters the way we might swim with
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by stult 5y ago
Doesn't work on hard mode, which forces you to use previously guessed letters
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by stult 5y ago
Probably mutual TLS. There is a whole completely unofficial website that just walks people through debugging issues with CAC authentication…
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by stult 5y ago
> We deny people waiting for organ transplants medical treatment regularly. there simply aren't enough organs to go around. Yeah. There is no shortage of pig organs which is kinda the whole point. Rationing limited care is different
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by stult 5y ago
Seems pretty damn simple to me. If you wouldn’t put someone to death for a crime, you shouldn’t deny them medical care in a manner that will kill them for the same crime. It’s functionally and legally the same as putting them to death. With
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by stult 5y ago
> I wonder why those events took a while to appear in the urea price? They didn't. The futures price started climbing in September. https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/JC*1
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by stult 5y ago
IIRC you can install the guac site as a PWA in your browser and sometimes the browser then allows more keyboard events to bubble up from the OS to the javascript layer where guac lives. Doesn't fix everything, but it can help.
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by stult 5y ago
Yes. And many corporate and government networks deny list all traffic on ports other than 80/443, so RDP just is not an option in many cases. VDI over HTTPS also means users don't need a separately installed RDP client and can jus
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by stult 5y ago
It ensures separation of concerns is at least minimally applied in order to support two separate presentation layers (GUI & CLI). CLIs are also much more testable in general, so usually it’s easier to write e2e tests if a CLI is present

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