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by ufmace 4y ago
Or rather, they correctly determined that their opponents were totalitarians who fully intend to use their support for liberty to destroy them, and are acting accordingly. This is kind of like finding someone who supports non-violence, phys
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by ufmace 4y ago
Since when is there pollution inside homes from gas stoves? How have all of the millions of gas stove users been cooking multiple meals with them on a daily basis and nobody noticed this supposed pollution?
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by ufmace 4y ago
Yeah but by the time you do all that, you probably would have been better off just building a new submarine from scratch
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by ufmace 4y ago
The issue I have with such studies is they focus on "gun-related injuries or deaths". Has any study ever shown an overall decrease in deaths or injuries from any type of gun control legislation?
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by ufmace 4y ago
We should remember the reason why it was created - to replace decisions for approvals on loans, mortgages, apartment rentals etc being made by low-level individuals for a variety of arbitrary reasons. Many places made such decisions based o
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by ufmace 4y ago
The benefit of web searches, and trouble with LLMs, is you can see the site that an answer is on and judge the credibility based on that. If I see that the answer is on Reddit ELI5, then I know that there's no assurance about how accur
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by ufmace 4y ago
Reminds me of an apartment complex I used to live at that had a really long walk from where my place was to the dumpster. I'd put anything that was significantly awkward to carry in my car for the trip. I knew a few people who moved al
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by ufmace 4y ago
> Exhibit A of why not to take your day job too seriously. Be professional — but that’s as far as it goes. +1 on this. His #1 is exactly why you should not let work, and especially work social events, become the "primary shaper of y
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by ufmace 4y ago
Anecdotally, that's not my experience with Windows these days at all. I've never had the whole system freeze up on my Win10 desktop. Never noticed a slowdown or app that can't be killed, and never done a reformat or rebuild.
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by ufmace 4y ago
Remote work is fine in some circumstances. One of the circumstances where it is definitely not fine is in designing, manufacturing, and testing high-precision aerospace hardware. You aren't gonna put a 5-axis CNC mill in your garage.
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by ufmace 4y ago
"Funding" isn't really a good answer IMO. I don't know a ton about Fusion research specifically, but NASA is horrifically inefficient with money compared to private competitors. Giving them more money won't magicall
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by ufmace 4y ago
I agree with this - I always found the single ! in conditionals to be too easy for your eyes to slide past and miss. Using `unless` makes it jump out harder that you're only doing the thing if the condition is `false`.
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by ufmace 4y ago
B52 seems a little overpriced. I'd think you'd want something like a C-47/DC-3 - enough room to walk around in, shower, cook, etc, but hopefully not too crazy expensive to operate.
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by ufmace 4y ago
This fascinating article goes into more detail on the reasons why: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... They correctly dismissed it as a curiosity because it was far too inefficient
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by ufmace 4y ago
The strange thing about the thumb drive world - I can remember getting my first one in the early 2000s, capacity of 4MB or so I think. The odd part is I have no clue what brand it was, where I got it from, or how I heard that they existed.
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by ufmace 4y ago
I understand both sides, but it feels like the ad world has been in a race to the bottom for a long time. I wouldn't really mind a few simple static banner ads here and there. But it seems like every site with ads has stuck dozens of t
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by ufmace 4y ago
I was rather dissuaded from trying to keep it working on any of my servers when, after much head-scratching and wrangling, I eventually traced a bunch of weird network issues on my desktop system to IPv6. Seems that any web requests to site
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by ufmace 4y ago
I've been around the tech world for a few decades. This sentiment has often been repeated about things like this, but I no longer believe that it's viable. The tech world is just too fast-moving, which means there's not reall
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by ufmace 4y ago
I think it should be noted that "brand safety" is entirely theoretical. It doesn't necessarily mean that anything actually happens. What it means is that certain people in Apple's marketing department believe that their
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by ufmace 4y ago
Regarding trains, I don't think that's really accurate. Yes, a train that's completely full gets excellent effective mileage per passenger for that trip. But how often are they anywhere near full? In reality, trains and buses
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by ufmace 4y ago
Likes: - Big standard lib, including SQL base classes, allowing very consistent DB code. No 6 different ORMs and slightly different DB code for every DB type. Ahem Rust. - Cross-compiling is easy and consistent Dislikes: - Error handling. D
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't know that I'd call this evil. We have no idea who else is using this kind of technology but not making the results public. Better to know what's possible and take measures to make it less effective.
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by ufmace 4y ago
I wonder what's a reasonable threshold for "probably the same person". I've never had an alt on HN, and when I searched myself, it found 3 other users above 0.6, none of whom I've ever heard of before.
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by ufmace 4y ago
I didn't see it here, but one of the points that doesn't seem to be expanded on too well is that despite liking Rust, I wouldn't use it for a basic web server in a startup environment either, mainly because the whole environm
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by ufmace 4y ago
> I don't want to have to dig my phone out of my pocket, every time I want to know what time it is. Funny, I actually decided the opposite - I think making it too easy for me to check the time promotes anxious thinking, especially w
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by ufmace 4y ago
I think AWS is still the only one I know of doing that, or did they finally fix that? Yup, just checked, they still are.
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by ufmace 4y ago
> Getting back to real history, the Nazis were never notably popular. Their best result in anything like a fair election was in 1932 where they took 37% of the vote [1] This seems misleading. The governmental system at the time was a par
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by ufmace 4y ago
That's what I'm thinking. Okay this was a little weird and byzantine, but wouldn't it be like 1000x harder, more expensive, and more byzantine to hire a lawyer, file an actual lawsuit, and take it at least past the initial st
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by ufmace 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Historically speaking, every time we make doing some expensive and rare thing dramatically cheaper or faster, somebody will dream up a way to make use of that new capacity. I'd be more than happy to see what people dr
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by ufmace 4y ago
Having a slur filter on a particular forum instance designed and chosen by the admins of that site is a perfectly good idea. They know the character of their forum, they can choose what is and is not appropriate to say. I think it does disp

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