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by swalsh 5y ago
What number is "we don't have conclusive evidence for either, but there is more evidence for lab leak then there is for zoonotic" Suspicious behavior is not an indication towards one or the other. There are negative effects
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by swalsh 5y ago
It's not the hardware that make it expensive, its the beans. Really good coffee is expensive. There are gems at cheaper price points, but its hard to find, and they're usually temporary.
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by swalsh 5y ago
Okay, it's not true... now.... but it's super fucked up that it was still true literally less than a year ago. So as an indicator that our systems incentives are completely messed up. It's still valid. The system hasn&#x27
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by swalsh 6y ago
I'm a paying subscriber to Adobe, but i'd stop if someone created a product that was 80% as good, but worked on Linux.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I really think this is the answer. I think a lot about the fall out of the firing/accepted resignation of the AI ethics employee at Google. Based on anonomouys accounts from people talking about having worked with her, It seemed like
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by swalsh 6y ago
It's a small development board (similar to Arduino but based on the STM32F103C8T6) It's often blue so people often call it the "blue pill"
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by swalsh 6y ago
I was looking yesterday, the STM32 chip used in the typically $5 blue pill now goes for $16 a piece.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I find it concerning how few companies exist to do this work. I really hope Intel's new foundry business is successful.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I call it "source available"
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by swalsh 6y ago
This seems like a great use case. I have a refurbished 1U server I use, but the fans on that thing are sooo loud.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I recently had a need for one (installation of Octoprint), but then realized the one I had in a drawer was too old to work. So I ended up having to purchase a new one anyways.
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by swalsh 6y ago
> Thirty minutes after leaving the recruiter is on the phone to me, screaming at me I once refused to let a recruiter send my resume to this company because I thought the company was slimey (it looked like they used SEO to trick people w
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by swalsh 6y ago
I'm a really visual person, so I love making diagrams to explain my ideas. Unfortuantely I can't "think" while i'm typing. In fact, I can't really think while I'm in front of a computer. I usually draw
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by swalsh 6y ago
I have a son enrolled in boston public schools. I live in a gentrifying part of town. When I go to the prarent meetings the principal (who is an absoutely AMAZING women easily putting in 80 hour weeks) had to fight tooth and nail for fund
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by swalsh 6y ago
You can see it in the source: https://github.com/system76/launch/blob/master/pcb/launch-bo... I think it is a ATmega32U4-MU
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by swalsh 6y ago
The Model M really was the pinnacle of keyboards.
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by swalsh 6y ago
It goes beyond resumes. Our criminal justice system also uses AI to make judgement decisions. I understand the need to eliminate bias from systems (though I question how much bias is actually being eliminated via these systems) but the ne
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by swalsh 6y ago
10 years ago I was so excited and optimistic about the future technology was going to bring us. As that future comes closer it's quickly becoming quite clear that this entire industry is bringing us a giant dystopian future. Tech com
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by swalsh 6y ago
Anyone know how this works with React? The old version has a wrapper, but it's pretty crude.
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by swalsh 6y ago
That technology is being developed... but I can also tell you from experience playing multiplayer VR games, you can convey a lot of emotion simply using hand motions.
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by swalsh 6y ago
60 hz in VR feels disorienting. I recently upgraded my video card to an RTX 3090, which allowed me to finally go from 90hz to 120hz using my Index. It was incredible how much the experience improved. I used to have a vive, and when I fir
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by swalsh 6y ago
> upscaling and rendering tricks. Just a note, Nvidia DLSS 2.0 is so good, that it doesn't really even matter if it's "just a trick". I wouldn't discount upscaling via AI.
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by swalsh 6y ago
It really does depend on the app, I was once playing the game Hotdogs Horseshoes and Handgrenades. It has this western level which is wide open. But I really hated it, it felt really isolated. The echos only made things worse. But Onward
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by swalsh 6y ago
It was never going to happen. Look at the volume of shares that have been trading. There has been ample opportunity to cover any shorts. The conditions to force a squeeze never existed. Furthermore, has anyone actually demonstrated Melvi
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by swalsh 6y ago
The theater this is in might be one of the best places to see a movie. I fondly remember the first night the Star Trek movie was shown. Every time a major character was introduced the crowd went wild. When they told us to turn our phones
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by swalsh 6y ago
I've worked from home for almost 5 years, and it's been mostly good. But there are some things I've started to realize I've lost and I REALLY want them back. Since every interaction is "intentional" I don&#x2
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by swalsh 6y ago
The last experience I had with Amazon customer service was so bad I decided to stop using them as much as is physically possible. If your situation does not fit in a simple bucket, they will force it into one even if its bad for them and y
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by swalsh 6y ago
Intel is behind at the moment, but it's hardly in a downward spiral.
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by swalsh 6y ago
There's a lot of metadata not being caputred by MetaData which would be insanely useful for a lot of purposes. It would be kind of neat if a lot more of that was captured... and if SO answers had more programatic access.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I loved every story in that book, it is also one of my top 10 favorite books.

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