xsmasher

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by xsmasher 6y ago
What is the connection to identity politics here? I am missing it.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I depend on work for income, but also get some social activity and a steady stream of "interesting-enough" problems to solve. If the need for income goes away I still need to replace the other two.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This reminds me of the Hogwarts Houses - there are specific translations for different languages that try to preserve the feeling and meaning of the originals. French: Gryffondor, Poufsouffle, Serdaigle, Serpentard https://harryp
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by xsmasher 6y ago
You may be right, but Apple's lineup sounds better than Amazon's first season of TV content. They turned it around eventually.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
if the wsb narrative is true - and that if they hold, the shorts must buy at any price - then why don't other knowledgeable traders and institutions recognize that and get in the game? In other words, if the wsb moon-theory is true, it
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I can't tell if you mean "eventually they graduate and carry the new ideas into the world" or if you mean "eventually they graduate and buy into into the system and turn into drones like the greasers, hippies, and punks
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Excuse my ignorance. The advantage of this tool over 'git clone --depth 1' is that this tool can clone just specific files?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I work in game development; the amount of care and craft depends on whether I am working on a reusable component / shared system, or one-off code for a specific feature. The real hell comes when you think you're working on one and
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Storing fresh ingredients for all of those items takes a lot of space; a typical restaurant can't do it. Diners and do it by using canned ingredients from sysco.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This is not a random sampling of youngsters; it's presumably an interested, motivated, and exceptional group.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Because it feels so good when you stop.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
What indicates these residents are part of the monolithic "they" that you lay out?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
If they suffer the consequences of their own actions / inaction, they have a chance to learn and improve.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Disagree - that sets up an incentive for everyone to cover for bad apples. To get the right incentives it's important that it's at the individual level to price bad cops out of the market.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Are you sure you pay 50% in tax on the profits? A quick google suggests that 50% of the profits counts as income, which is then taxed at your income rate. 50*50 = 25% in the top bracket. In the US long-term cap gains is 0%, 15%, or 20% - no
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Amateur analysis: for the citizens filming, yes. The copying is incidental, does not harm the market for the work, and the filming is for news/informational purposes. For the police? They may be in violation of copyright law for playin
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by xsmasher 6y ago
> the Impossible Burger has 0 mg cholesterol, compared to a quarter-pound, conventional "80/20" patty from cows which has about 80 mg cholesterol. Fat and saturated fat is slightly higher; sodium is much higher.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Just to clarify, if you update toReadableNumber to take a second parameter and that parameter is not a number, typescript will complain.* TypeScript won't catch the original landmine because it ignores the extra parameters; maybe some
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The type of meat production you are talking about is not typical or representative of the industry.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
that solves the gpu problem of high-resolution rendering and the bandwidth issue, but is the density of pixels in the display enough to fool the eye?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Do you mean to pass the real world through, or for scanning the world? If the display is see-through - perhaps with a removable view shield for switching AR/VR - you can have pass-through without a camera. Like magic leap, but without
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Yep - in order for this solution to work, all of the calls need access to the same mutex; they all need to be in the same process (this is noted toward the end). If you can do that, just share an "account" object. Calling account.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
> The car takes 7.5 seconds to reach 60 MPH from a standstill while it is able to run a quarter-mile in 15.8 seconds. It's not a Mustang, but it's not a golf cart.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I don't know about other EVs, but the Leaf shows the battery capacity on the dashboard at all times - if you know how to read it. I had to google it because the salesman had no idea. The first leaf we looked at was already down to 80
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Alternate numbers: typical home solar installation delivers 10-15 kWh per day. Tesla model 3 has 50kWh battery and 220 mile range. 15kWh * (220 miles / 50 kWh) = 60 miles of charge a day. If your commute is less than 30 miles each way
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by xsmasher 6y ago
There may have been family waiting for word of him. No one knew at the time.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
If someone invented the concept of a library today wouldn't it sound, you know, kinda socialist?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I think it helps to point out when something is an oddity that serves no practical modern purpose; the learner needs to know which are the "good bits" and which are the backward compatible cruft so they don't mistake one for
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by xsmasher 6y ago
It's to allow people to live, on average, 11-13 more years. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/49... It's also to keep heath services from being overwhelmed, which will cause
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I recall an interview where the palmpilot folks opined that $300 was the magic price point where someone could still make a purchase without consulting their spouse. Obviously there's strong middle-class bias built into that number, bu

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