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by tooltower 3y ago
Visa type is also a factor. F1 and H1B frequently get capped to just 1 year.
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by tooltower 3y ago
"Light trapped inside a magnetic crystal can strongly enhance its magneto-optical interactions." It's an interesting article, but bad title. The novelty isn't in trapping light, but in how this material's optical pr
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by tooltower 3y ago
I've actually thought about this. But there are cases when mergers can help customers. E.g. when a vertical merger happens, that can absorb some of the profit margins between a supplier and manufacturer. Ideally, regulators should anal
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Why Is GPS Free?(old.reddit.com)
90 points by tooltower 3y ago|74 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
This line of reasoning can also be used to argue that dictatorships are inevitable, and democracies would never survive against them. Dictators can mobilize vast resources for war, while democracies will suffer in internal conflicts. Our pr
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by tooltower 4y ago
You might be surprised by how much of the world uses nuclear power, and has done so for decades: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country Indeed, your argument about stability and infrastructure all app
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by tooltower 4y ago
I don't agree. If it was invented today, you'd have the same fear-mongering, the same lobbying from the coal industry. In addition, you'd also be lacking the decades of safety data that we can use to turn the tide.
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by tooltower 4y ago
The problem is perception. It has the word "nuclear" which, along with the mechanism, associates it with nuclear bombs. Not to mention, we react to large incidents with lots of fatality much more strongly than the same fatality sp
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by tooltower 4y ago
I have a very dumb question: why does the article use `find` with `printf` and depth specification, as opposed to the simpler `ls -a`? I'm assuming it has something to do with portability, but `ls -a` is already in POSIX. I'm a bi
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by tooltower 4y ago
The omniscient debugging in this article was new to me. Sounds like this could be quite useful. Does anyone here have experience using this?
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by tooltower 4y ago
I switched to vim in college, never went back. That was 20 years ago.
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by tooltower 4y ago
When you say "electrochemical CO2 reduction", can you expand a bit more into what that method is?
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NASA Confirms (1000 lbs) Meteoroid Entry(ares.jsc.nasa.gov)
13 points by tooltower 4y ago|2 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
This article says "subscriber-only content", yet I'm not a subscriber. How am I able to read this article?
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by tooltower 4y ago
Familiarity. The preferred syntax is the one that incurs the least cognitive load. Which in turn depends on what they are already familiar with.
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by tooltower 4y ago
The normal method for computing digits of pi is not O(n), so this could still be interesting. I think it's probably better to compare this with the BBP formula [1]. The commonly used algorithm for pi I think still takes O(n log^3 n) ti
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by tooltower 4y ago
The tone, which often shows an unwillingness to learn. The lack of humility. Confidently stating or broadcasting facts without acknowledging why others might disagree.
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by tooltower 4y ago
I have the hardcover version of this book. The photos and descriptions are just excuisite!
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by tooltower 4y ago
I edited the title a little to fit within character limits. Let me know if that's a problem.
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IC3 PSA: Brand Impression Using Search Engine Advertisement Services(ic3.gov)
1 points by tooltower 4y ago|1 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
Look, I agree with you. Increased attack surface scares me too. I'm just saying that line of argument doesn't persuade the maintainers or the users. We need to find a better way to protect ourselves. And turning off build flags is
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by tooltower 4y ago
Right, but that argument can be used to stop the inclusion of _any_ new large functionality in the kernel. Neither the Linux users nor the maintainers are currently interested in a feature-freeze of the kernel. If you want a micro-kernel, L
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Surface Pro 9 teardown reveals modular parts, Microsoft’s 2023 repair plans(arstechnica.com)
64 points by tooltower 4y ago|72 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
Another reason for using almost monospace: international languages. Many indic languages simply don't have good monospace fonts. It's not easy to design. They stick out in code, as a result. But I've always wondered if allowi
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Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve(techdirt.com)
21 points by tooltower 4y ago|12 comments
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by tooltower 4y ago
Yet when I'm working in a company, asking for my colleagues' salary is taboo. Either make everyone's salaries public, or ban employers from using full-market surveys. If I have to guess at the market rate from a few samples,
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by tooltower 4y ago
I will dispute this notion that volume of technical work is related to how famous someone is. Today, there are lots of people in opensource doing backbreaking work that we rely on, but whose name we don't even know. Indeed, fame is oft
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by tooltower 4y ago
Some call it a "tradition". Some call it "backwards compatibility".
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by tooltower 4y ago
It probably made more sense in the pre-web Internet, when not all domains were necessarily serving web traffic. Or had any obvious or standardized way of serving a "contact us" page.
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by tooltower 4y ago
In the past when I've used them, I usually started by listing all the nodes in a long list under a single root, not trying to organize them at all. I fought the urge to organize everything from the get go.

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