6figurelenins

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by 6figurelenins 1y ago
The geopolitical stability is now cheaper[1] than the debt service. Naturally, that calls into question the incredibly low interest rates, and the reserve currency status. If you need to blame Trump, the last straw was COVID. > At incred
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by 6figurelenins 1y ago
Layman's guess: wings push air down, air pushes wings up. An everyday experiment is sticking your flat hand out the window of a moving car. With slight wrist rotations, you'll find even slight deviations from neutral (parallel to
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by 6figurelenins 1y ago
Not to pick on Rails, sorting files into "models / views / controllers" seems to be our first instinct. My pantry is organized that way: baking stuff goes here, oils go there, etc. A directory hierarchy feels more pleas
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by 6figurelenins 1y ago
Not Linux specific, but the thermal paste is pretty poor. Mine disintegrated in two years of heavy use. (13", Intel 12th gen) Popping off the heat sink to apply a fresh dab is no big deal, but I didn't find out until the top-cente
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by 6figurelenins 2y ago
If it had any "parts," there would be seven trillion dollars' worth. But it's actually all just taxes.
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by 6figurelenins 2y ago
> To say that the government is too big and complex and it should be smaller and simpler feels like a drastic oversimplification and incredibly simple thing to say. I can stipulate there must be essential complexity. I think we have to
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by 6figurelenins 2y ago
Terminal, sadly.
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by 6figurelenins 2y ago
Turnkey web hosting. Drag and drop your build folder, get a URL. Or point it to your git repo.
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by 6figurelenins 2y ago
> in my experience drug addicts are not very good at hiding it when they lose control Not sure if it's relevant, but psychedelics (mushrooms) broke a college friend after minimal recreational use. Like, maybe twice, with zero past h
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
The opening paragraph is occluded by a cookie consent banner. That's perfect.
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
The "shuttle" concept dates to the late 1960's. Great marketing, but the program was intended to finish once a destination was built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_Freedom > As the Apol
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
Not really. "Post-war" means 1945. "Fiat money" means 1971. "Largest era" means 1981. Grandparent said "collapse," which is what Jenga towers do. Here's the era, in two charts: [1] https:&#x2
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
I'd like to remind everyone clamoring for law enforcement that the person who arrests you will be driving to jail at 70 miles per hour, in a 35 mph zone, while using a laptop.
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
"Hey Google, give me showtimes for Aquaman" opens the assistant on my phone, and transcribes my request correctly. There's a Nest mini (2nd gen) two meters away, but the device that answers is the Google Home 2016 in a differ
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
The fan at full load (i5-1240P) is noticeable, but not obtrusive or unpleasant. My noise floor is a Be Quiet! desktop case. In a normal workday, I don't hear it.
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
"If there is no banner, your Actions project is not a Conversational Action and won’t be affected." Here, "conversational" means your voice command should prompt the app to ask you a question, driving a state machine. (
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
> "Hey Google, add <x> to the shopping list"... was very useful... Then one day Google decided to disable that integration. Now the only shopping list you can add to is one Google provides If I recall correctly, "add
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
The concept of voting includes the possibility that a plurality of voters reject your preference. You consent to this outcome by participating. When half[1] the population refuses to participate (perhaps they're tired of being lied to
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
Money is never something governments "have." They collect and spend, not necessarily in that order. Accordingly, "their" costs inevitably exceed revenue. It is obvious they're spending more than ever.
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
FWIW, I see no difference. (hyperfine 1.17.0, jq 1.7, jaq 1.2.0) $ hyperfine -N -w 100 -m 1000 -L bin jq,jaq "echo '[1,2,3]' | {bin} '.[1]'" Benchmark 1: echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '.[1]'
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by 6figurelenins 3y ago
> [Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm's] advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around... So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to r
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> you're really wasting a lot of cpu cycles on building up the garbage collector. Are you sure you aren't thinking of JIT compiling? The context where I think of "warmup" is (say) Java, where the runtime profiles hot
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> The BMW Mixed Reality Slider is the central operating control that gradually transforms the windscreen into... a fully virtual world > BMW i Vision Dee is a distinctive companion that shows emotions. Her headlights... form a uniform
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Significant sectors of us (irritated end consumers) are not merely "playing with free products." We purchase hardware (Assistant, Pixel, Nest). We make a living (Play, YouTube, Ads, gSuite). We're vastly outnumbered by free
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
I assure you it predates GoT. https://www.quora.com/Who-started-the-phrase-you-sweet-summe... It's just art imitating life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Winter_Night
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
My Pixelbook Go with a broken plastic hinge would like a word.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
I can't speak to Fedora, but Debian stable runs great. Best laptop I've owned, hands down. Caveats: + Wifi needs kernel 5.19 from backports (USB tether your phone to download.). + fprintd (fingerprint) from testing/bookworm.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> In America, libraries do not pay annual licensing fees for books. We're talking e-books ("concurrent check out"), and they certainly do. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs&
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Ok but hear me out, what if we embed citations in the text, so there's like a colossal graph of publications, with regional distribution centers.

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