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These are not ram sticks, these are difference in the M2 chip itself. I'm not a chip designer, but I imagine there are more manufacturing quality challenges with the ones that have more RAM.
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This image illustrates the differences: https://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1-11.jpg The difference is that one keyboard is made for humans who touch type, and the other keyboard is made for p
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Show me where in the news or otherwise that the objection against farmers is that we don't want to pay for their labor. You know this is not the case. I'm happy to pay farmers for their work, so long as their work doesn't ad
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Making profits for doing something useful and not overtly harmful is commended. If you provide a needed service, and you do it without harming others, then everyone is happy. But there are many, many, many examples where the harm is very c
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These are not the same at all, at least generally speaking. IT workers are usually not causing direct environmental impact on those around them. And if you assessed the percentage of environmental cost per individual, you would likely find
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The LACK of regulation is burdensome to everyone. The farmers have increased profits at the expense of everyone else. If a person ran a small mail order business out of their house, and once a day a delivery vehicle came to drop off and pi
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No, probably not. I would just know that I was making a profit at the expense of everyone else. To go out in public and cry crocodile tears about my livelihood would be disingenuous.
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Let's take your analogy and fix it a bit. There's a guy living on one side of the lake in an area where electricity is cheap. He decides to setup a bitcoin miner in his home. Once he starts making money, he realizes his profit i
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Most of the public face of Dutch farming is a show intended to mislead the public into having sympathy, as if the farmers were struggling and at risk of losing their livelihoods. This is what every industry does in the face of regulations.
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I'm not sure I believe "max heart rate" limits. They must vary per person, perhaps significantly. In my early 40s, I did a lot of higher altitude mountain biking (single track, usually involving a good mix of climbs and desc
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Generally speaking, some big companies are less reliable providers of software than individuals. Google's long list of killed projects is a good example, but any large (especially publicly traded company) may kill a service if they dec
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There are four things which IDEs typically provide which I find invaluable. It's probable that some or maybe even all of them could be wedged into Vim or Emacs, but then you'd have basically an IDE. 1. Quick go to _anything_. In
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> After registering, I was immediately told my account was disabled for suspicious activity > Your account has been disabled for violating our terms I have experienced that same process on Facebook, with the same wording. However, I
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Sorry, the Toptal mention in my original post was not necessary. My experience with both companies was a waste of time and a disappointment, with similar characteristics along the way. I group them in the category of companies that has an
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by z9znz 4y ago
Another thing we can do, especially on HN (but also for those of you who may be in Cali where you actually meet a lot of humans in this space) is to ask, "Have I ever met a happy Toptal consultant?" Has anyone here on HN?
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For Toptal, I progressed through the initial interview, the two timed algorithm challenges, and faced the human-observed algorithm challenge. I passed the first of two tests with him, and on the second test I realized at 17 minutes out of
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by z9znz 4y ago
I'm curious. Would some sort of intentionally-activated eye tracking work? Do your eyes have tremors? Ideally (there's a pun in there, but it's not intentional) we could use our eyes to signal where we want our "focus&
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Whether they are malicious or not, I cannot say. But anecdotally, are they a time-waster? Absolutely. I took their generalist test and scored perfect. It was actually not so hard, but it tested some language things (a couple/few lan
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I considered that, but forward speed doesn't seem to be the priority. I think the VTOL aspect is what matters, and that suggests weight is most important. But who knows. I would much sooner ride in a helicopter than this. At least a
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That's true to a degree, but there's always the not-in-my-back-yard condition. I got to see this first hand during the Barnette Shale gas drilling boom in the mid-2000s. As Texas, particularly the DFW area was very pro-oil&ga
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> People in Alaska want to develop their land In many cases, the "people" who want to develop things are actually not people but rather businesses or agents of businesses. Go to rural or remote places which have been upgraded a
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> 1000x times simpler/redundant propulsion technology This is a contradiction. A system with that level of redundancy will have a corresponding increase in complexity of management systems. That means software (multiple copies of s
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Without a vertical stabilizer, I guess it relies on thrust vectoring to control yaw. One would question why that uncommon decision was made (deleting the stabilizer), and the most likely reason I can imagine is weight. If that's the c
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This will be an ever increasing scenario. I'm surprised that we are not putting priority into developing technologies to disrupt drone systems. And if there is some kind of non-aggression agreement, then some amount of subtlety and pl
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I would not advocate for rewriting everything in non-Python. It is what it is, and it excels at tasks related to the important libraries discussed in this topic. Just as Python wraps the libraries which do the heavy lifting in C, I would t
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> if expr: x = 1 But PEP8 and now the all-too-popular Black formatter disallow this. I think it's fine. The momoization/optimization point is exactly the opposite of what should be a default use case for a beginner friendly la
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> These are pointless nitpicks. Every language has things like this. In 4 years of using Python in anger I’ve never written a line of code that could be improved by the features you list. This is exactly the kind of response one often he
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You are just arguing that a simple language is good for beginners, and I agree with that. We want a beginner language which has easy (and consistent) syntax, no requirement to specify datatypes (implicit), and can be interpreted (no compili
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I'm not attacking data scientists. I have no objection to how they solve their problems. My point is that their choice of Python (because of the libraries they use, or the training they got in school?) bleeds out and causes Python to
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The point is about inconsistency. You can say "x = 1 if expr else 2", but you cannot say "x = 1 if expr". You do a two line if expr: x = 1 You cannot say "x = 1 if expr else return". [1] is a list wit

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