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by uxp100 4y ago
9000 yen? It does seem like if you’re going to have the law in the first place a fine that cheap sort of undercuts it. The crime enters the news, and then everyone sees the fine is less than the cost of a special edition fancy blu ray of he
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by uxp100 4y ago
A fun article with good explanations. It’s a phenomenon I suspect many noisy music dabblers have heard before, it’s pretty easy to accidentally or uh, improvisationally create when playing with audio circuits, or mixer feedback, or delays o
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by uxp100 4y ago
Eh, I don’t know this persons position, but typically they’re not really paid more than ftes. The hyper expert high paid consultant does exist, but most contractors are just compensation wise a lower tier or at parity. But there are advanta
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by uxp100 4y ago
I agree. The U shape is a gimmick, but a good one. It helps it be quieter inside, but even outside they are quite quiet. I have whole house AC, but I like the windows open, I like being hot. Just not when I’m sleeping. Basically only downsi
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by uxp100 4y ago
I suspect that there are good stats somewhere, but I think that 40% roofs might be a pretty high over estimate in say, Sunnyvale, or even San Jose.
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by uxp100 4y ago
Yeah, formal verification of software is sort of a niche topic, formal verification of hardware is like, one of the primary tools. Shit even something like Built in Self Test, which is common in hardware, I’ve seen only rarely, and never co
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by uxp100 4y ago
The first time I saw a bald eagle was from the observation car of the empire builder along the Mississippi south of the twin cities! I hope you get the opportunity as well. OTOH I used the empire builder purely for utility for a time, and t
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by uxp100 4y ago
Which was cheaper? In my experience, in addition to being much worse in many ways (love to be called and told my cab driver is ready to pick me up when I am already boarded and sitting in a plane, after the dispatcher repeatedly told me the
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by uxp100 4y ago
Is that good? Bad? I think culturally Greece will be relevant for a long time to come because of the construction of Ancient Greece as a sort of origin for “western society.” Economically, well, you have to try something, right? I may agree
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by uxp100 4y ago
I suspect if not the world leader, the world leader among wealthy countries (Some South American countries have shockingly high murder rates overall, so those would be the others to check I think, though those murders might have a different
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by uxp100 4y ago
You can see the basic methodology in sibling comments, just some counting on wikipedia, really hinging on whether you include Universities (I did not). But a less controversial way of putting it is that other countries, including European o
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by uxp100 4y ago
I'm not suggesting under-reporting of German mass shootings in English (well, outside of the 1-2 casualty incidents which you also note), I just used a count from wikipedia. I suspect the difference in our numbers is whether you includ
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by uxp100 4y ago
My number for these murders in the US was 119, basically taking a similar wikipedia page as the one that you linked to and adding up mass shootings (I used 3 or more as criteria, chosen because of one definition used in one particular US la
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by uxp100 4y ago
This is not so alien to Europe as you seem to think. Over the past 20 years, more people per capita have died in school shootings in Germany than in the US. A European nation was in a similar situation very recently. What is maybe unique ab
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by uxp100 4y ago
Yeah, Critical Mass is the one org I’m aware of that does direct action, and it’s moment has kind of faded, for various reasons. But yeah, I don’t really take it in stride, I go home and whine about it, but getting spit on, called a faggot,
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by uxp100 4y ago
Ah right, with some particularly large tiles.
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by uxp100 4y ago
Prince of Persia is what I can think of that has (sometimes huge) wind up animations for jumping. And it feels ok once you get used to it, but really feels very different than any other platformer. But there is more than just a big animatio
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by uxp100 4y ago
The Atlantic publishes things like this pretty frequently. People on their staff who are not liberals: Connor Freidersdorf, David Frum (eww), and (well, she is a liberal but has some edgy feminism takes) Caitlin Flanagan. It's a fairly
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by uxp100 4y ago
My reading is that was the intention though, it was supposed to be for White House guests to grab an album to listen to, but that didn’t last into the Reagan administration.
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by uxp100 4y ago
IIRC the punk in the term cyberpunk was not inspired by the musical genre, which Gibson was not particularly familiar with, but of course they both share common origins in referring to a person as a punk. (and also IIRC at the time the line
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by uxp100 4y ago
A little bit of a confusing title, this is about the lifetime of a battery.
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by uxp100 4y ago
So safe spaces have nothing to do with firearms. It’s sort of a concept about the norms of conversation. So if a support group was a safe space it essentially means you’re not supposed to contradict people even if they’re wrong. Circa 2014
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by uxp100 4y ago
I think most HN users are not familiar with the pre-silicon verif environment, and so, don’t understand what a testbench is. I am fairly familiar with it, and I think I debugged testbench issues at some point, and I don’t really know what i
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by uxp100 4y ago
Satellite internet has existed for decades, and is common out of range of cable. Starlink is better, but it’s not the first.
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by uxp100 4y ago
I’d say the main downside is location. I don’t think Airbnb would be cheaper than a homewood suites, and I’d probably sleep better at a hotel than the average Airbnb mattress. But the typical inexpensive chain hotel locations are concrete i
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by uxp100 4y ago
Hacker News is just the wrong place to look. This is essentially a web dev site. Just use linked in or zip recruiter or whatever. There are tons of positions for embedded now, same trouble hiring as everyone else, and often they’re open to
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by uxp100 4y ago
I think the troika connection to OSR is somewhat tenuous, but the game system is inspired by the Fighting Fantasy series of “interactive” novels that were popular in the UK in the 80s. But I think it is essentially a cliquey thing. It is ge
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by uxp100 4y ago
To speak to Troika just a bit as someone who read the rule book and played like one session: A lot of the Troika book is character profiles/archetypes/etc. if you tell someone this is a wild game, make up your craziest character,
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by uxp100 5y ago
Well, less effective on some measure is not the same as less effective as preventing death, and I'm not sure how much less effective it is, actually.
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by uxp100 5y ago
I mean, I think people believe that there would not be that many deaths because China has a heavily vaccinated population and a less strict lockdown could still be stricter than anything the US did, perhaps something closer to Australia. On

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