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541.
by wyager 4y ago
> these services have recurring costs in the form of infra Only because these companies have forced us onto their cloud platforms in the interest of justifying/enforcing continuous payment. I don't want to use Adobe's cr
542.
by wyager 4y ago
> Subscriptions are great model. Not for the user. I give $0/yr to digital subscription services with zero marginal reproduction cost (SaaS, video, etc.) and somewhere in the range of $250-1000/yr for pay-to-own software. Reaso
543.
by wyager 4y ago
MS fired all the MSR programming language people working on F# and C# a few years ago, so you can probably expect the trend of C# and F# improvement to taper off.
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by wyager 4y ago
I've noticed that my M1 MBP provides a seemingly implausible degree of stereo width (the left and right channel sound as if they are at a physically more extreme angle relative to your head than they actually are) but only if you are i
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by wyager 4y ago
I wish American companies would simply start ignoring silly foreign directives and force those countries to implement internet-blocking themselves. That way, the cards are on the table, and it's clear to everyone who's actually re
546.
by wyager 4y ago
Outsourcing your critical thinking faculties to something called the "Democracy Index" seems profoundly unwise.
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by wyager 4y ago
99% don't know how anything works, but they still have preferences.
548.
by wyager 4y ago
> Literally none of this matters to users Users prefer the hypertext model to opaque blobs.
549.
by wyager 4y ago
I had the same process with BlackMagic's dedicated video-editing keyboards - they seem really cool at first, but it's hardly an improvement on just getting good with keyboard shortcuts and the trackpad, and then you don't hav
550.
by wyager 4y ago
Certainly, that would work very well, but such a system would almost certainly not be permitted by federal regulators (e.g. HUD) or the courts.
551.
by wyager 4y ago
It literally is your right to do what you want with your property, subject to whatever covenants were in place when you acquired it.
552.
by wyager 4y ago
Agreed. I'll shill rsync.net (no affiliation, just a happy customer) and their ZFS VM backup service. It's basically just a lightweight freebsd VM with a big ZFS volume attached, so you can `zfs send` incremental backups to it, an
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by wyager 4y ago
> Having a majority-elected government step in to restrict the property rights of individuals is literally the most democratic thing possible. We need to allow the mob to steal everything - it's the most democratic social process po
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by wyager 4y ago
> SF is not the only city with a housing shortage. And? There are dozens of cities that don't have a housing shortage. Living in the city of your choice isn't a human right.
555.
by wyager 4y ago
It's socially beneficial for people to A) make the place they live reflect their preferences and B) ensure that the ones who capture the positive social externalities of an action are the ones who paid for it. Being able to make rules
556.
by wyager 4y ago
Iirc, the Ledger crypto-wallet supports FIDO2 based on your backed-up seed.
557.
by wyager 4y ago
> worked with the land to sustain themselves Most evidence suggests the extent of land-work utilized by early Australians was controlled burns. There is a bit of a recent effort to promote the idea that they may have done extensive plant
558.
by wyager 4y ago
You can do QKE via sat-bounce, which is maybe what they're talking about, but this sounds more like clueless hype marketing than something written by an engineer.
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by wyager 4y ago
It seems like Woit is kind of intending this to serve as a refutation of PIF, but I don't really see why - this sounds more like a description of some problems that are hard in PIF, rather than anything wrong with the underlying theory
560.
by wyager 4y ago
At some level this is just the application of wave mechanics to reality. "A vibration on a guitar string is just the sum of the vibrations of its harmonics." You are decomposing a system into a mathematically favorable basis, perf
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by wyager 4y ago
You wouldn't necessarily end up with a single reality, but if there was some kind of process "sampling" a finite number of realities from the wavefunction (either continuously, e.g. if quantum collapse is ontic, or e.g. at so
562.
by wyager 4y ago
The path integral formulation is possibly the most local theory you could come up with - it's incredibly simple and does not require any nonlocal effects! The relativistic lagrangian is even more elegant than the classical one - it&#
563.
by wyager 4y ago
Does anyone else not resonate with this? I ~never miss typos.
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by wyager 4y ago
A much more significant causal factor is probably the aggressive devaluation of other monetized (in the sense of serving-as-(ersatz-)money) assets like equities and national currencies. Real estate is one of the only good investments when g
565.
by wyager 4y ago
> Is the expectation that we slowly disallow insults in culture The current equilibrium seems to be that we're on a sort of vulgar treadmill. The process goes as follows: 1. Decide that previously formal/medical/technical
566.
by wyager 4y ago
> old school liberals -like the Clintons- Is this a joke? Or are actual "old school liberals" so "old school" now that liberals by the ten-year-old definition count as "old school"? "Old school liberal
567.
by wyager 4y ago
Last time I looked at claims about Florida "book bans", they were actually just hysterical overreactions to removing books from the mandatory public school curriculum - is this more of the same? I don't really care that muc
568.
by wyager 4y ago
There's at least a coherent interpretation for this one.
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by wyager 4y ago
The fact that I'm referring to them as "weird" means that they are not, in fact, normal. Presumably if any of these people had seen such a thing before, they wouldn't be so concerned about it.
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by wyager 4y ago
A bunch of people here in CT have been posting pictures of weird white deposits on their cars from rain (which, apparently, is currently carrying stuff from OH). Seems like there's a pretty high chance that this ends up as one of those

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