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by vzidex 6y ago
> I imagine farmers who treat animals well This is a cherry picked argument, at least in the US, where "factory farms raise 99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and
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by vzidex 6y ago
> I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this. I've noticed in tech that a common hope that people in tech hold is that "the billionaires", in their infinite wisdom and generosity, will pull magical soluti
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by vzidex 6y ago
>Some vegetables are luxury food, and less efficient than cattle [Citation needed] I'll assume you're arguing in good faith, but this argument is a common straw man made by people who are against plant-based diets. In fact, the
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm not sure if I agree - commonly-used packages will have known and documented faults, while validating something you (your organization) created can be challenging. Dance with the devil you know and all that.
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by vzidex 6y ago
> issue with this is the amount of time it takes to load the bitstream, but I thought I saw some things recently where progress was being made on this front You saw correctly, work is indeed being done to build "shells" that ca
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by vzidex 6y ago
>I think the problem is vendors see FPGA tooling as a cost center and a necessary evil Yes to a degree, but another part of the problem is the "physical constraints" you mention. FPGA tooling has to solve multiple hard problems
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by vzidex 6y ago
>or better yet, 2560x1600 I couldn't agree more, I was given 16:10 monitors for my current job and I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to 16:9 if I can avoid it. Next laptop is a 13" MBP for sure too.
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm going into the final year of my computer engineering undergrad and my tuition is $1,500 cheaper than last year - $15,800 vs. $17,300. However, that might be due to the politicking of our province's government rather than any g
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by vzidex 6y ago
Indeed, I didn't think this was a good move until I found that eBay owns Kijiji. I'm also Canadian and I'm pretty sure Kijiji is way more popular for private buy/sell than Craigslist - at least anecdotally from the peopl
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm moving to move in with my significant other, but I've noticed rents taking a dip here in Toronto. Not sure how it is in SF, but here all buildings older than November 2018 are rent controlled - leading to good opportunities wh
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Back in 2016 in Toronto, I chose a condominium specifically because it had Beanfield fiber I'm in Toronto, thank goodness this is becoming more common, not less. I was recently condo hunting and I noticed most new buildings had Be
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by vzidex 6y ago
> They are creative idea-generators—a lot of the ideas may be terrible, but there is never a shortage. I feel like I almost never have creative ideas - the entirety of my (short) engineering career has been spent working on school projec
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by vzidex 6y ago
> I noticed that having multiple monitors resulted in me having a dedicated screen for email (usually the smallest, my laptop screen) I'm currently using two external monitors, with my laptop docked and closed. I find the "dedi
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by vzidex 6y ago
> What do you think happens [to] the tenants when the landlord's properties go into foreclosure That actually depends on where you live - here in Ontario, we have laws that give tenants the right to stay even if the landlord sells&#
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by vzidex 6y ago
> If you get stuck, you tell yourself in whatever way you want, and honestly, some version of the following: "I don't understand this thing that is happening, but I know there is a cause. It does not happen without cause."
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by vzidex 6y ago
Yup, after some thinking I've come to quite like commander/worker.
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by vzidex 6y ago
Incredible post! I've been struggling with anxiety, depression, and a lack of motivation at work for the past year or so, and slowly coagulating towards the feeling that I needed to focus on my work. This article feels like it gives me
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by vzidex 6y ago
I just went through my settings on my work machine and: * Disabled transparency * Disabled animations * Disabled scroll-bars being auto-hidden Unfortunately, I couldn't find "Fade or slide menus into view", but the rest of th
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by vzidex 6y ago
In my field (FPGAs) master/slave is used correctly fairly often - having one module command another module is really common in HDL design. Although I'm happy to see "master/slave" gone, I haven't yet seen a goo
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by vzidex 6y ago
> it could also imply she's thought superior based on gender From talking to the women in my life, that would also be bad. They've told me that being treated as "superior" for their gender makes them feel that the res
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by vzidex 6y ago
Echoing what bobthepanda also replied - I hold the door open for _everyone_ when it makes sense for me to do so. It becomes weird when you specifically do it for women, or say words indicating that you're doing it because she's a
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by vzidex 6y ago
Hmm, to me the problem is the question of _why_ a man would do that "nice gesture" for the woman. To me, if you don't have reason to be doing it besides "she's a woman", it smacks that the gesture is being done
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by vzidex 6y ago
At the same time, people definitely can be happy without sex - various religious factions have been doing it for ages with vows of celibacy, and today there's a non-negligible "volcel" (voluntarily celibate) movement.
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by vzidex 6y ago
> instead there's a winner take all effect where a small number of men are having a lot of sex with a lot of women If true, I wonder how much of that is due to self-selection by men who aren't having sex. Having once upon a tim
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by vzidex 6y ago
Young man here. "Ladies first" is flat out weird to me, the only time I ever use it is jokingly with my girlfriend, sisters, or close female friends. I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to call it sexist, but it's an o
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by vzidex 6y ago
As someone who values their hearing - I religiously wear earplugs at concerts and muffs at the gun range - these absolutely terrify me. Good to see solutions, even if they're just initial prototypes that may/may not work, being de
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by vzidex 6y ago
Catch-22. It's not at all related to tech, but it's the funniest book I've ever read and I feel it helps keep me grounded.
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by vzidex 6y ago
My PC never broke, but for the first ~2 years of my undergrad (I'm about to start my final year) I didn't have time to play games at all because I completely overloaded myself with work. It might be some combination of burnout and
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by vzidex 6y ago
> that dude who makes low production quality lightsaber fight videos in his garden (can't remember his name) His online handle is Airsoftfatty, and his story is actually kinda tragic. iDubbz visited him and made a "documentary&
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by vzidex 6y ago
A baby step you can take if you want to leave Facebook is to disable (I forget if that's the exact term, it might be deactivate) your account. This removes your access to the site, and hides your profile - while leaving the Messenger h

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