w1nt3rmu4e

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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
> this salty-ass junk Do you mean sea water? The amount of fresh water the human race will extract from the oceans will be what fraction of a percentage point of the total? Not accounting for, of course, the fact that most of it will mak
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
It's amazing how many people here -- presumably reasonably successful people -- are butt hurt about paying a few more dollars a month for unlimited, high quality (in terms of streaming quality) content. I fail to see this as a cynical
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Started my own company with a couple of partners. Lots of risk and hard work, but it can pay off. It did for me. Not really that company, though it was successful, but companies I started after that which were more closely aligned with what
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
That's interesting. Do you have source(s) for that? I'm not a 'the Moon landings were faked' person, but how does this reconcile with manned Moon missions? [Edit] So I don't have to add another comment: My first tho
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
If you happen to be fishing for app ideas, here's one I'd pay $50 for: An app that controls `~/Downloads` and automatically organizes (somehow), tracks usage and schedules files for deletion. Once a week I'd like to see
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I've got a lot of different gear, but the stuff in question was the HiBy R3, which has a new ESS DAC/AMP combo (an SoC which eliminates a lot of variability in quality due to implementation problems) and a very healthy 200mW/
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I generally don't name drop and I never tell people to get better gear. The burden of proof is not on me. I simply do not give a shit what they believe. I only take issue with people telling me what I do or do not experience -- becau
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Personally I have zero problems A/B-ing DSD, PCM and lossy formats on my reference system (headphones). I also know (award winning) people in the audio industry who can walk into a listening room and tell you where the dominate resonan
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Can you offer an insight as to why? Of all of the project / language tools / package managers I use NPM seems to offer me the least amount problems. Easy to install, fast and 99% of the time 'just works'. I actually use
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Delegation does not require sharing private keys. Nor does it require transferring XTZ to anywhere other than your own wallet. Ever. Period. The only risk associated with delegation is that the baker will run off with the baking rewards i
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Incorrect. 1. The number of nodes is not fixed. 2. The process for node selection is random, based on the amount staked. This happens continuously. 3. The D in DPoS is entirely optional. Anyone holding Tezos can directly participate by ru
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
That 30% is unjustifiable. Period. If we're talking cost, the cost of hosting software and payment processor fees are closer to 7-8%, 99% of which are on the payment side. The cost of Apple's gatekeeping -- their review bureaucrac
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Not sure why this was flagged. Looks nice. I did find the UI confusing since the map will jump to a location if you click on it and if you hover. I'd suggest click only, or at least not both. I'm not target since I have a home o
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Maybe I didn't parse it but is there anything here that couldn't be preserved as a video? Video can be stored as a series of images, which can be (and often are) stored as a list of RGBA values. Those are as timeless as a WAV file
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I've seen some truly awful journalism from Reuters. Articles that were so agenda driven as to almost laughably gloss over facts in order to present the desired narrative. (Laughable if reputations and money weren't on the line.) I
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Action? All I remember is the father -- a superhero -- unable to perform basic child rearing tasks and I tuned out. I don't know what Bird's intention was, but I felt it played into current gender politics rather than addressing t
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Oddly, my advisor (I have a BA in lit) asked the class to comment on the often ignored line -- but then left it when no one offered the more correct interpretation. (Why I didn't bring it up is another story.) Funny enough, not long ag
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I may be stretching the definition of algorithm here, but I've always been fascinated by signed distance functions / signed distance fields for 2D / 3D shapes. Being able to do the full set of boolean operations on shapes wit
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I prefer a complementary theory -- that it's a spent stage of a multi-stage spacecraft. If the primary stage were decelerating for a rendezvous with Earth, then any stage that made it to full acceleration would reach us first, probably
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Synthetic training data. Sometimes it's cheaper / safer / easier to work with simulated data rather than real world sensor data. For some types of machine learning, a simulation is "real enough". Someone asked me to
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Honestly, I don't see why everyone hates blockchain these days. Two things are going on: 1. It's a potentially revolutionary technology (trust-less, decentralized, nearly tamper proof, etc) that hasn't yet found a killer app(
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
> 2. Have a supportive partner on whose earnings you can live [on]. This is much more achievable for many people, and under-emphasised (it's common for, eg, postgraduate education!) My wife an I have taken turns shouldering our livi
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I understand the background of the "passion" conversation (e.g., PG's take) but I've begun to think it's way too biased. At some point in my life I became obsessed with software and very quickly went from zero to ge
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
I know cryptocurrency is contentious in this community so apologies for injecting it here: OCamlPro is heavily involved in the development of Tezos and a big part of the reason I invested in it. One of the main selling points of Tezos is fo
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
His videos on the Fourier transform are top notch. I can't recommend watching him enough.
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
It's been a while since I used mine since it was destroyed after falling 18 inches onto a wood floor (corner bent, screen connection shorted) but I'm pretty sure the Macbook 12 keyboard is worse. Maybe by a millimeter or so. There
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Have to pile on here. I have a 2017 and use it mostly with an eternal keyboard and monitors but I am shocked when I use the built in keyboard. It is really bad to type on -- all for what? A few fractions of an inch in thickness? I had a fir
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
[Edit] Oddly enough, I just talked to my father for the first time in years. It's amazing how faulty memory narrates. It was a Cessna 421 and the tanks were vented, but the vents had frozen over because of a heater failure. The temp wa
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
My father did this at least once (maybe a couple of times?) in the 90s, ferrying twin engine aircraft to the newly formed Czech Republic. This was, as I understand it, to establish the first commuter airline in the country. Long story short
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by w1nt3rmu4e 8y ago
Awesome stuff. Just spent 20 minutes with my 4 year old tweaking settings in the platformer example to see what the results would be. He loved it. Way more fun (for him) than the other day when he asked what the modulo operator was. It bums

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