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by surfpel 4y ago
Culture moves both ways. I would rather American companies not get so comfortable with blatant censorship. While we do still have some degree of censorship (and a whole lot pf privacy violation), it’s still generally seen as a taboo and not
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by surfpel 4y ago
> …banning or censoring users based on "viewpoint,"… There are many offenses that are not strictly viewpoint. Unruly behavior could be one of those.
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by surfpel 4y ago
Microelectronic Circuits by Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith Signals and Systems by Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky
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by surfpel 4y ago
This comment is ignorant of a lot of things. > That's a very bold stroke, especially since most of human history is unwritten and not well understood. You don’t need written records to determine the broad strokes of early human diet
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by surfpel 4y ago
I see lots of comments claiming it is or is not 'about race' or 'red vs blue'. Does anyone have any sources at all to back up either of those claims?
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by surfpel 4y ago
> something new they are adding is suggesting the entire routine you are trying to write But that’s only for simple cases where a person could easily predict the next few words, like business communications that stick to a cultural scrip
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by surfpel 4y ago
Given than GPT-3 could create narratives, it would probably be too suggestive. Much more simple prediction models for writing (ie: not coding) are used in a few places. Google Docs has a pretty good one.
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by surfpel 4y ago
Here's a podcast they did on the Embedded FM podcast: https://embedded.fm/episodes/419
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by surfpel 4y ago
I’ve had this happen with an Amazon vendor drop shipping another Amazon product. They were able to do this because the original product wasn’t listed in the correct department and couldn’t be found easily.
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by surfpel 4y ago
So TL;DR: you produce a mailing list software, and someone used it to spam 88 HN users
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by surfpel 4y ago
Then does this mean you don’t get recharged after any vacation near a cell tower? > loosing true wildernesses I’m seriously wondering how people living in the wilderness will feel about this point?
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by surfpel 4y ago
You’re also missing the forest for the trees because you’re not seeing the real issue. What you’re describing is really just the core concept of any market. The issue is that we’re seriously restricting growth and innovation in favor of usi
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by surfpel 4y ago
You’re missing the forest for the trees.
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Thank you so much for this beautiful insight. I just purchased a 100 sqft plot of land in the Alaskan wilderness where I will hire 20 employees and start a manufacturing business... oh wait, that's ridiculous. Your argument contributes
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by surfpel 4y ago
Maybe you could log the same things that trackers do and creep them out by it somehow. Kids especially have a harder time truly comprehending things that don’t come with some emotional weight.
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I'm not suggesting any particular solution, but I am suggesting that it could become easier over time with different quality of life improvements. I gave examples of products, but it could easily be changes in other aspects of work. Li
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by surfpel 4y ago
It could slide the other way as well. American working culture could get more sustainable over time as we learn to adjust and life becomes more convenient. For example, what kind of impact on productivity do conveniences like instant coffee
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by surfpel 4y ago
> ...USB controller chip alone is about $1... That's for official parts and at lower quantities I presume. Knock off chips are often pennies, especially at scale. When I buy chips for side projects, I often just source them from eba
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by surfpel 4y ago
$1 per drive for how much storage? I’m sure these don’t even need a single Gig. Probably could get lots of super cheap ones during liquidation events or salvage operations and what not.
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by surfpel 4y ago
Wow. I expected that it would install a keylogger or something, but this is so low tech that I'm both impressed and disappointed. Impressed because it's (a) so elaborate for what it is, (b) it's cheaper than procuring an actu
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by surfpel 4y ago
> have a weak understanding of economics Economists hardly understand the economy, so I’d say they’re in good company… Jokes aside, demanding better treatment of workers and onshoring of jobs doesn’t seem as insane as people here are mak
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by surfpel 4y ago
> There is a lot of dishonesty around Westerners complaining about foreign cheap labor. This is a strawman. You're conflating different groups of people with different interests. Some people complain about labor conditions, some peo
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by surfpel 4y ago
Not that I’ve seen, but at this point my targeted ads are all industrial products.
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For most people, you'll have to take it to the mechanic and it'll cost you an arm and a leg... wait that sounds familiar...
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by surfpel 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the twitter UI, does this put things in the correct order? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1427137725119959046.html In response to this thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/
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by surfpel 4y ago
Carbon steel builds the same coating but isn’t all that heavy. > hard to clean if you get anything stuck to it Easy fix, just don’t get anything stuck to it. If you learn how to use these correctly, this becomes essentially a non issue.
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by surfpel 4y ago
These pans are only not nonstick if used incorrectly. Carbon steel is often used in professional kitchens which develops a nonstick coating called “seasoning”. And if stainless is hot enough, it’s also not very prone to sticking.
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by surfpel 4y ago
Health issues aside, speaking as someone who uses only carbon steel and stainless steel cookware, I still wouldn’t recommend it for most people. It’s a lot of work just to maintain and learn how to work with these pans. That being said, I
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by surfpel 4y ago
There’s probably more nuance to it in reality. Sometimes yogurt goes bad before the expiration date, which would be on the lower end of the probable expiration duration bell curve. So given the myriad of different factors*, where along the
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Or who has the highest h-index. Highest number of comments N with at least N karma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

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