xsmasher

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by xsmasher 4y ago
The "opposite sex" isn't a monolithic bloc. You could police your identity to make yourself attractive to someone that you need to hide yourself from for the rest of your life, but it's a tremendous waste of energy. Find
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If you could live in a detached home but the next block over had a restaurant or two and a small grocery, wouldn't that be pleasant? Zoning that allows ONLY single-family detached housing, and no retail or business, forces car-dependen
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by xsmasher 4y ago
You've taken on someone else's idea of what a man is and what a man does. You're the adult now, you get to decide what that means. https://xkcd.com/150/
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This is what some people call "the singularity" - once an intelligence can upgrade itself it can design better machines than we can, which can design better machines than they can... technology will leap ahead at a rate we won&#x2
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From my POV Apple has bent over backward to prevent the "stalker" use case, to such a degree that it degrades the "stolen item" use case.
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I always write a remote function as just "an async function that takes type A and returns type B" - then I can write tests for it very easily and run it locally, IF it doesn't use any AWS services like databases. For deployme
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by xsmasher 4y ago
* Prop 47 was a state proposition in 2014 * it was not specific to SF * it predates the 2020 BLM protest * it did not "[make] it illegal to arrest people" * It made some thefts in misdemeanors
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I thought California law (for now) forced utilities to provide "net metering" - where your credits during the day offset your usage at night 1:1. No batteries needed. I don't know why that wouldn't apply to your friend.
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IMO the e-scooter app + sharing model solved the parking and storage problem in a way that Segway did not. You don't need a bike room at work or secure bike parking at the restaurant / movie theater / bar if you can park it a
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Just so no one is confused - inventor Dean Kamen is still alive, but CEO Jimi Heselden who bought Segway in 2009 died.
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I haven't used an online service for this, but I write a lot of server APIs for mobile games. It helps to think of the server call as "just an async function that takes type A and returns type B." Your client's ServerCon
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There are many clothing drop-boxes near me (SF bay area). They make claims to charity; they sell the clothing and give 10% of the proceeds to a charity. The other 90% goes to the company that owns the box.
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That's a great idea. Steam deck comes with a short game - Aperture desk job - that tests all of the controls. I didn't know it had a gyro until I played that game.
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You are under no obligation to be who you were 15 minutes ago. I assume "startup guy" was a big part of your identity, and now that is changing, and that's painful. Don't spend a lot of energy trying to reconcile your ne
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> If you needed to play so much with words, then it will eventually become a specialized task killing any benefit of having the AI doing the work for you since we eventually we will need to resort to specialists to use the AI to get the
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Before the aneurysm Joni Mitchell used alternate guitar tunings because they were much easier on her left hand, which was weakened by childhood polio. Neil Young also contracted polio as a child; so did Robert Anton Wilson. We're not t
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That did not compile for me with my TS settings; > Type '{ dev: boolean; readonly prod: void; }' is not assignable to type '{ prod: true; }' It's still a bad solution though; it allows nonsense values like {dev:t
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What would you use for a field called "stage" that could be set to 'dev' or 'stage' or 'prod'? Or other enum-type things? I've seen pure JS enums like {'dev' : Symbol('dev'),
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by xsmasher 4y ago
I used to have a list of "bad" IMEI numbers and android IDs; there were some android phones where the whole run of that model would return the same identifiers. If our code found one of those "bad" ids, we'd have to
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If someone said "dongle" to me today I would assume they mean an adapter of some kind; I've heard it used for the lightning -> audio adapter you need to plug headphones into an iPhone. If I google for "dongle" I
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Most CEOs can not sell stock without announcing it well ahead of time, or during scheduled periods. What form does this insider trading take?
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Do you mean you were offered tokens? Or do you mean you were explicitly offered access to non-public information that you could trade on?
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Can you rewrite or break down your last sentence? I can not understand it.
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They're called "wipes" and they had fallen out of fashion by the time Star Wars was produced. They were used in a lot of old sci-fi serials like Flash Gordon.
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A reuse / thrift store near me takes donations of old solar panels and resells them at dirt-cheap prices; apparently there's a market for these panels with DIYers.
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I see what Bill is doin; He's going after the anti-marketing dollar, the righteous-indignation dollar. That's a big dollar!
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I don't think BSON de-dupes the keys in the manner that JCOF does? But it has other nice properties. In a game I worked on we used a BSON library that didn't really "parse" the data when you loaded a file; it just kept a
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comets.json: JSON: 51949 bytes JCOF: 37480 bytes (0.721x) JSON ZIPED: 15178 bytes Zipped json wins again.
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Bob Hope does this in the beginning of "The Lemon Drop Kid," but with horses instead of stocks.
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We didn't lose twenty or even ten years of gains though; only about one year. So the Cassandras were wrong nine out of ten times.

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