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by wyager 4y ago
Then why did NPR have a ton of content on their website about how absolutely critical federal funding was to their operation?
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by wyager 4y ago
Yeah? Lockheed Martin could be reasonably described as "federally funded".
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by wyager 4y ago
It doesn't matter in the slightest if they do this explicitly . NPR would be stupid to bite the hand that feeds it.
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by wyager 4y ago
> commandeering a cloud or two would do. No; The ASICs are orders of magnitude faster and more efficient per dollar. Every GPU on earth couldn't touch the bitcoin hashrate.
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by wyager 4y ago
Because the units are highly divisible and the divisibility can be increased easily if it becomes necessary. When someone loses/destroys bitcoin, they are effectively donating the value to everyone else who still holds bitcoin.
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by wyager 4y ago
An agency that is federally funded through 1 layer of intermediaries is still, in the most practical sense, federally funded.
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by wyager 4y ago
Say we're in a universe with a +- metric signature. We're looking at tx, ignoring yz. Rotating within a 45 degree cone (which hides the hyperbolic geometry of +- space) is easy. That's just normal acceleration. Rotating more
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by wyager 4y ago
> I think we underestimate the capabilities of children. Probably to a large degree because we lock them up in a room all day where they spend their time listening to information targeted at the bottom decile of the room.
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by wyager 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if AI research moves towards training models to use bolt-on peripherals like scratchpad memory. Transformers showed us an interface for addressing, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone figures out a way to
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by wyager 4y ago
Where is nestle "stealing the water from various regions"? I'm sure they've been involved in water rights disputes, as has any large water consumer, but I'm skeptical that "stealing" is the most objective
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by wyager 4y ago
When you finally cave and jury-rig bolt on language features like a decade after the fact, that's not quite as ad-hoc as what they had for the first decade (generics for builtins only), but it's still pretty ad-hoc in the sense of
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by wyager 4y ago
Rust and Haskell come to mind.
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by wyager 4y ago
This is a truly unreal level of blub paradox and/or brown nosing. It's almost a complete inversion of reality. Go's maintainers had to be beaten into bolting on a poorly-done implementation of polymorphism over like a decade.
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by wyager 4y ago
This is a pretty good vignette of how Go is designed. "Users don't need this feature (immutability, polymorphism, etc.), let's not include it. Ah crap, turns out we actually need it for a core language feature. Is there a les
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by wyager 4y ago
It is well known that the marginally insignificant political differences of the people I disagree with actually lead to billions of deaths every year
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by wyager 4y ago
> I can't help but notice that on every axis, our country appears to be in decline at the moment. > an unhealthy nostalgia for when we were more important in the world Really? Are you not seeing the connection there?
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by wyager 4y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret the "smooth path" thing in a way that applies to most languages but not rust.
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by wyager 4y ago
> At least, it should be locked to value at purchase adding only inflation This completely eliminates the social upside of property taxes compared to other forms of taxes
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by wyager 4y ago
You can do all that locally with Frigate, FYI
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by wyager 4y ago
Two issues with that - you have to make sure you dispose of the key(s), and this doesn't let you securely erase just part of the drive.
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by wyager 4y ago
I think we're agreeing - my point is that it doesn't make sense to allow bluetooth when they won't even allow a display (no power, laptop closed). What are you going to use the bluetooth for, moving a mouse you can't eve
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by wyager 4y ago
They don't let me use an HDMI display without external power while closed, so why let me use bluetooth without power?
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by wyager 4y ago
> Or is it possible to allow access from my trusted network INTO the restricted network Yes, my home network works exactly like this. I have a vlan called "trusted" which can connect to any other vlan. One line in pf.conf. My V
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by wyager 4y ago
Put internet of shit devices on their own VLAN(s). Almost all wifi APs today support multiple SSIDs with separate VLANs. Have your firewall block inbound connections to devices on that VLAN. Every OS firewall has built-in support for this.
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by wyager 4y ago
I meant more between e.g. a Scarlett 18i20 and a Motu 828. I went with the Scarlett because A) it was relatively cheap and B) it had quite good reviews, but I'm curious what I'm losing on a technical basis by going for the $500 op
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by wyager 4y ago
The all-aluminum UA volts are made in TW, aluminum-wood models are made in CN, FYI. The Volt 1 and Volt 4 are a good deal. Software is atrocious though. Their spyware DRM crashes any windows VM I try to install it on.
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by wyager 4y ago
What would you say are the distinguishing features between home/semi-pro/pro interfaces? Universal Audio recently released some really nice made-in-taiwan desktop interfaces in the same price range as the Scarletts. I have scarlet
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by wyager 4y ago
Reaper is awesome! I did a bunch of research before buying a DAW and Reaper struck me as the most principled and generally well-designed option among those I found. It's very powerful, which means there is a bit of a learning curve,
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by wyager 4y ago
> Useless for road trips, but most people don't need to be taking road trips every day. One of the primary benefits of owning things, as opposed to being a rentoid, is over-allocation to seamlessly handle peak/long-tail demand
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by wyager 4y ago
> If you expect me to keep paying for your software then I expect you to keep providing value. If you make paid software part of your workflow, you're going to keep using it whether they keep providing value or not. When someone els

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