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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I use my ipad pro as a laptop replacement. It works better than I expected except for a few quirks around keyboard support in apps like safari and aws workspaces which are irritating enough to make coding bear impossible. But in many ways i
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I'm barely nearsighted, really just use glasses so that I can read presentations in meetings... and yeah, my eyes have become significantly more sensitive to both light and change rapid changes in light.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
What makes you think it's even possible to master a single language without learning others? My experience tells me that monoglots reach false maxima because there experience isn't broad enough to realize that there are other maxi
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
The argument for me around solar was more that I expect fossil fuels to become vastly more expensive in the lifetime of the panels. I agree the risk profile is wrong, so I offloaded the risk to SolarCity for this iteration (25 years), but i
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
It’s edge cases like this that make me wonder about the whole concept of nations. It makes citizens sound like property / cattle. “I believe my cow pooped on your lawn. I demand the right to inspect your lawn for my cows poop to retrie
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
Yeah, the resins before they’re cured are pretty gnarly. But the filament based plastics are usually fine. There is some questions around melting ABS in a home environment. The volume of gasses released are almost certainly below danger lev
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
After building my own printer from parts and realizing how hard it is to make something that can follow gcode accurately, repeatedly and quickly I’m still left wondering “How good is this hand?” Most of the stuff I’ve printed or built has e
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
yeah. I was low carb for 18 months. I got down to 220 and felt really good except... I really wanted carbohydrates a lot. Even though I wasn't hungry. The first week or so was really hard. Close to no carbohydrates and all I could thin
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
Strong forecasts with Spectre still around seems very optimistic. Can AMD or Intel release another generation of chips with Spectre vulnerabilities? Do we think they're going to have a solution to Spectre within a year? Can x86 survive
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. It wasn't if the software functioned the way that we wanted (is the business logic correct), so much as did it have the effect on the business that we wanted. The criteria would have been something a long th
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
We barely crossed paths, but in the couple of interactions we had he changed my engineering for the better. In particular, he demanded that all features have measurable success criteria and if they didn't happen he pulled the feature f
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
Whats the ideal here? 1. Doctors 2. Foreign combatants 3. Police 4. Motorists 5. Other I can see how all of those groups perform tasks that might result in the death of strangers unavoidably. Doctors are the only ones who I’d actually pay t
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
One of OpenBSDs sweet spots is turning old hardware into useful, secure, reliable, network infrastructure. i386 might not be as popular as it was on 'normal' OS, but I wouldn't be surprised if OpenBSD had a lot of people stil
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
As I see it, most sites don't need the hardware they're allocated. If you want to sleep on the weekend, you need at least two and probably three servers. That is almost certainly in the realms of 10x what most applications actuall
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by tsmarsh 9y ago
Java is slow compared to C/C++ and Fortran and comparable with SBCL / Rust. But it is fast compared to Python, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby. It's the rise of these languages that confuses me. They somehow got away with the '
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by tsmarsh 10y ago
Wouldn't be the first time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
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by tsmarsh 10y ago
Prefer or know? Despite being taught functional programming, I didn't get it until I learned Clojure. If my first language had been a Scheme instead of Basic / Java I probably would have preferred functional languages. Now functio
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by tsmarsh 10y ago
Why doesn't a monitor fill your needs?
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by tsmarsh 10y ago
Again, anecdote, science of 1... but that can't be universally the case because of me. I'm Gen X (1979), grew up playing in dirt, house filled with dogs and cats. Ate a fair amount of things, apart from the things I was allergic t
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by tsmarsh 10y ago
I shudder to think what my pay would be if we calculated it as $/token
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
I can't say I had exactly the same experience. My 20s seemed to drag, my 30s? My 30s are flying by. Between moving continents, establishing myself in a new market, getting married, buy a house, having kids. I feel like I've blinke
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
It's really only cities that have a generation problem, and it's mostly American cities that combine city living with car ownership. The electric cars problems are mostly magnified by American urbanites. Boston is no exception. It
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
This is a much easier problem to solve. You can put solar wind on apartments and you can run outlets to the street. It just involves cooperation and a little group altruism. So... OK I see your point. It could be done, with right incentives
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
Who's to say that the power I generate during the day isn't being used to charge my car. The grid is also a pretty useful battery. It really doesn't take that long to charge the car after the commute. In winter, chances are t
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
I have an electric car, a leaf. I also have solar power from Solar City. I live in sunny MA, where in the winter we average 15kWh generated to the summer we average 50kWh. My commute is 60 miles per day which is around 6-8kW depending in tr
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
Oh, you must be an alien. My species, humanity, has been displaying the corpses of criminals for the entirity of its existence and continues to create paintings, songs and movies about it. The question is more "Is it art, or is it porn
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
Support PGP already!
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
It is frustrating the the language of MA 'right to repair' doesn't extend to devices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Right_to_Repai...
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
Specialist hardware, supported by specialist network engineers should be the smart choice. It invariably leads to a monoculture. If you buy Cisco and a Cisco specialist, you'll be buying Cisco for as long as the specialist is employed,
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by tsmarsh 11y ago
Then ban cash. Either we're for anonymous currency or we're not.

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