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by tshaddox 2y ago
In American English "apartment" almost always refers to a single residence in a large building. The large building is often called an "apartment building." The phrase "the vast majority of apartments don't have
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Or grocery store checkout, where there is an individual dollar amount associated with every single item in your cart and calculating the total amount due requires knowing the entire contents of the cart.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I’m pretty sure highways already have enough actual surveillance cameras that the marginal threat of surveillance from toll-collecting hardware is tiny.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Surely “profit versus resiliency” is solely a matter of time preference.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Worth noting that this is not a new phenomenon. Pretty much every model gets a full redesign every 6 years or so, and a “mid-generation refresh” every 3 years or so.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I think there are more viable alternatives now than there were a few years ago, which makes it a lot easier to choose an alternative even if the negative brand association with Elon is only a small effect. Of course, when the viable alterna
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It exists in the same sense that "pie attack culture" exists. Some people certainly have been pied in the face, so how could you deny that "pie attack culture" exists?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I haven't read The Mind's I, but I rather enjoyed GEB when I read it in college. I didn't realize it was considered a book "no one actually reads." My sense has been quite the opposite!
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by tshaddox 2y ago
For what it's worth, "The Mind's I" is on the list, which was edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
They’ve got: 1) your social connections as of your last usage of the account 2) your behavior profile from all across the web 3) potential ongoing new information about you based on the activity of your social connections
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Also: - video games and related computer graphics development - data scientist/data engineer - desktop enterprise apps (granted, these are increasing going web-based)
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Is there a legitimate reason for collectors to value an authentic card more than a counterfeit card?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
My bank opens at 9am. My pharmacy opens at 8am. The corner cafe opens at 7:30 but is completely closed on Wednesdays. This "complexity," if you want to call it that, requires very little cognitive load, and certainly doesn'
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Jevons paradox doesn't really suggest anything by itself. Jevons paradox is something that occurs in some instances of increased efficiency, but not all. I suppose the important question here is "What is the price elasticity of de
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Does Stripe's API qualify? It has URLs which are verbs, e.g. GET /v1/customers/search POST /v1/payouts/:id/cancel POST /v1/disputes/:id/close
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Any non-trivial REST API is also going to have responses which embed lists of related resources. If your REST API doesn't have a mechanism for each request to specify which related resources get included, you'll also be wasting re
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Presumably authoritarian regimes only execute/imprison/exile dissidents if they think it's necessary to eliminate opposition. An authoritarian regime which does not think there's much of a threat to opposition probably w
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It's worth nothing that type checking can also verify things that cannot reasonably be verified by tests. Things like exhaustiveness checking ("you handled every possible value of this enum") or, even simpler "you didn&#
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> If you value societal order above all else, then you want extremely horrific punishments for crimes, you want near-absolute certainty that you'll be punished for criminal acts, and you want capture and trial to be swift, so that p
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I'd say UFO mania is more intense and more mainstream than ever. Still no remotely compelling physical evidence, of course.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Do what now? An entirely black OLED screen is certainly going to reflect less of the room’s light than a sheet of white paper. An OLED screen displaying white at 10% of its maximum brightness is also likely going to be less bright than a sh
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by tshaddox 2y ago
True, but the results would likely still be useful, particularly when choosing colors for web sites which will be displayed on the same distribution of screens.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> It is unusual for something red to really be the brightest color in a natural scene unless the red is something self-luminous like an LED in a dark night. Right. Just the extremely common cases where humans deliberately use red lights
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> Cyberpunk 2077 does this. Go from a dark place in the game to bright sunlight and, for a moment, the screen becomes blinding, then adjusts. Or, very famously 20 years ago in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, which was released as a tech demo fo
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> My furnace produces 0.9W of heat for every 1W of energy input. I assume you mean that 10% of the energy immediately escapes your house?
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Indeed everyone needs to be compensated somehow regardless of what they enjoy doing or are capable of doing.
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by tshaddox 2y ago
> A better analogy would be possible if we had Star Trek replicators: replicating a full Steam Deck. Well, we literally invented Star Trek replicators for information, and we've seen what happened. If we had Star Trek replicators pe
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by tshaddox 2y ago
I think "Xbox 4" coming after "Xbox 360" would have been the cleanest break. It would have been fine. Or heck, jump straight to "Xbox 5" if they really think the number in the name is the main point of comparis
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by tshaddox 2y ago
Or "Switch Advance."
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by tshaddox 2y ago
It's fascinating how the Switch can be such a different device for different people. I bought my Switch in 2022 and it has remained exclusively docked under my TV since then. I have yet to even conceive of a scenario in which I would w

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