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by xenadu02 4y ago
I subscribe to a single Patreon. It's an artist publishing an online comic. I pay for day-ahead access vs the public site. Reading the thing I pay for is fucking _painful_ on Patreon. So is trying to use their comment system to interac
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I did this in 2017 and it worked great, but the pandemic broke this for many dealerships. With both new and used inventory being so tight they can often sell the car the day it rolls off the truck for MSRP or even more with zero effort. The
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Most car dealers don't care about establishing a long-term relationship so their level of "give a shit" varies dramatically with the state of the market. I bought a new car at a low point of the 200x financial crisis in the w
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> Japan just has a lot of rituals that people do daily and ~seasonally We have the same thing in western societies, it just isn't often as homogeneous. Taking the USA for example we don't call them rituals, they're just &q
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> storage is only assured as long as nobody decides to chop down the forest for other more pressing purposes Yes and no; if we're talking about logging for lumber then it's really a question of efficiency. Logging in optimal wa
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This will likely not happen. USB-IF is made up of manufacturers. The primary goal is lower BOM. The confusion is the point. Making everything optional is the point. USB-IF is not going to adopt a standard that requires every manufacturer to
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Snap On is selling more than just a brand: 1. They will outfit your new shop on a payment plan (or at least they did at one time), allowing a new mechanic to get started with a full set of tools for not much money. 2. Their reps come to you
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> In other words, Britain discovered coal, to some extent, then started using it earnest Coal was known and used in antiquity. It has the same problem as oil: extraction was difficult and expensive except where it was on the surface or j
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by xenadu02 4y ago
No, this is about optimizing profitability. They were bought by Salesforce and that whole cohort (Salesforce, Oracle, et al) are machines optimized to extract as much money as possible from the Fortune 1000. Salesforce doesn't need a f
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This process pre-dates computing. And the law in general defers to precedent, history, and customs - that's part of what Common Law is. Eventually the legislative process will catch up and use something akin to version control. But tha
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by xenadu02 4y ago
That's one of the functions of the Federal Register. It applies the diffs so to speak to produce the actual code (by code here I mean law code). But yes in theory you can challenge that in court by showing they applied the changes inco
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The problem for anyone wanting to build an older generation fab is cost. It costs (within an order of magnitude) the same to build a modern fab as it does to build one for a process 1-5 generations back, maybe more. You have a roughly simil
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Indeed; check settlement used to be small planes flying the checks to the nearest Federal Reserve every night where all the checks from all member banks would be reconciled and money transferred from the bank where the check was drawn to th
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Yeah but part of what throwaway908724 says is absolutely true: There are a lot of naive newbies _and_ investors buying up property right now without a viable plan to ever make money on that property. This in turn drives up prices for both p
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> who is printing 10's of thousands of pages using an inkjet Specialty applications such as large-format inkjets (eg 3ft/1m wide continuous roll paper), edible ink for baked goods applications, custom inks for branding/pro
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by xenadu02 4y ago
That doesn't mean conditions will be to our liking under those regimes. We built cities along coasts assuming a certain mean sea level. We built farms assuming certain weather patterns. If we cause large changes to these patterns in a
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The problem is the grossly inefficient market where vehicles have an MSRP but the actual price you can pay varies wildly. In that sense it is no different than airline ticket fees (though not baggage fees) and similar schemes. The goal is t
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The FTC has two major enforcement mechanisms available to it: The normal administrative one where the agency initiates an administrative proceeding, makes a judgement, then more or less must restart the process with a court case to enforce
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The problem is not that no one could build a system to detect and triangulate gunshot sounds. The problem is that this specific company seems to be strong on marketing claims and light on engineering legwork. There have also been some impli
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You're close to the fundamental problem here but don't go far enough. All one needs to do is look at Oliver Sack's books to understand that either of these must be true: 1. Consciousness is a physical system. This is the simp
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by xenadu02 4y ago
OK sure: If you are sophisticated enough to completely fool the SEC investigators without leaving a paper trail, email, or text message anywhere that points back to you. If you are amoral enough to steal money this way. And smart enough to
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by xenadu02 4y ago
It is highly likely that Musk's financing will pull out if they haven't already. The market is down so the value of his existing wealth has dropped. Musk may not have the resources to close the deal. If they force him into bankrup
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by xenadu02 4y ago
As a participator in Tesla IPO Musk's actions are very concerning to me. His prior incident tweeting that he had lined up financing to take Tesla private (which was a 100% complete lie) should have been enough of a wake up call that he
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You cannot receive an award for activities for which you have decision-making authority. "Whistleblower" in a legal sense has to mean that someone _above_ you asked you do to the illegal activity.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
What are you talking about specifically? Overly politically minded people love to say the US president is doing this or that but in reality the president doesn't have all that much control. Even rejecting things like oil leases on natu
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're carrying so much water for China, a huge nation that can fend for itself. China absolutely throws its weight around - just like all the other big nations. It also blindly pursues its own self-interest again
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Self recursion is a special case that WASM backend targets can more or less efficiently resolve the same way a human can convert a recursive function into a non-recursive one: explicitly put arguments onto your own simulation of a stack and
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Most hardware architectures (and software ones based on them) the compiler controls the calling convention: how the stack is managed, what gets pushed there vs passed in registers, and so forth. The architecture may or may not have helpers
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Thread-local compacting GCs already handle this. Requests tend to be served by a single thread and the GC dishes out memory from a thread-local pool to avoid contention. Server-side GCs can also be concurrent and avoid suspending threads as
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Indeed - that's one of the primary reasons to build the JWT: Dust and gas blocks our view in various cases so we want to take images in wavelengths that are more transparent to that debris.

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