DontGiveTwoFlux

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by DontGiveTwoFlux 4y ago
Drivers killed about 200 times as many people as bicyclists over a 15 year period. You are misplacing your fears. https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestria...
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 4y ago
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/feature/nimby-...
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 4y ago
OP describes systems which seed tests with non-determinism to catch users who write tests relying on undefined behavior, such as order of equal elements. Writing tests against these systems is a game changer (once you figure out what’s goin
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 4y ago
Not mentioned in the article is power density. How quickly can the energy be released? Consider solar panels, you need a table sized cell to get 100W. That can make for a big battery to get grid scale power output if these cells are only as
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 5y ago
I hope that iterations can get some language level treatment via a mechanism to hook into the ‘range’ operator on custom containers.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 5y ago
I was curious to see if anyone had tried the coal mine bit. This is the closest I could find, a business plan to sell coal attached to carbon credits. Not sure what’s happened since 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 5y ago
I worried about this too. But I think my attitude has changed after watching lots of the PBS Space Time youtube channel. They do a great job of breaking down these concepts at a level where highly interested non-physicists can get what feel
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 5y ago
If a Netflix subcontractor didn’t pay their actors, writers, etc, they would catch a well deserved deluge of criticism. Of course it wouldn’t happen because those workers are organized to prevent these abuses.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
I haven’t done the analysis myself, but I highly doubt winterization would double the cost of energy. It’s probably some small portion of the capex to build the plant in the first place. Would you pay an additional 5% or 10%? Probably, esp
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
Unfortunately the percussive clacks from a keyboard are probably too broad spectrum to neutralize. These transient waveforms are hard to beat.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
Stamping out the above board market for hacks, is not a perfect solution. But limiting the free flow of these hacks from private companies to law enforcement and governments will decrease their availability and abuse. The expertise to build
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
High taxes incentivizes more productive use of real estate, such as multi family housing.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
I find that the prices of the food are also inflated over what the restaurant would charge.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
As someone who writes <5 commits of C++ per year, it is very frustrating. I can’t get through a code review without reviewers referencing at least 2 blog posts about proper style for modern C++. I’m sure if I were an expert who used it e
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
This comment hits on one particular issue of ulterior motives in the actions of a non-profit. But more generally, there is a whitewashing going on. Look at the Sackler family, which for decades got to put their names on museums, hospitals,
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
Racial inequality isn’t a one percenter problem if your child was Killed by the police. Pollution isn’t a one percenter problem if your kids all have asthma from inhaling coal fumes or have been drinking water with lead. I could go on. Thes
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
I read Giridharadas' book, and I found it to be pretty narrowly focused on hypocrisy of the wealthy class. Sure, there is a lot of undeserved back patting about how much good people are really doing in the world, but that's probab
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
You could subscribe to a newspaper or magazine.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
I have to imagine that this is to mitigate problems with bandwidth intensive low level networking equipment that is performance sensitive, not application level code. That equipment typically runs code in the languages you mentioned.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
The foil in this article were tabloids and paparazzi. I imagine you were not the one rifling through People magazine before Instagram, much in the same way you don’t follow these people now. Yet, these tabloids had cultural cachet among man
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
Pressure to IPO sooner would probably be a good thing for most people. Index fund holders got to benefit from the rise of Amazon and Google much more so than the rise of Uber. Public company accountability mechanisms may put a damper on som
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
I disagree. US companies can have such an outsized impact by the volume of money they bring, that it can create a moral vacuum that sucks up all the air in a place. Everyone has a price, and when the price is in dollars it may be surprising
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
Let the market decide.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
Well sound uses different neural pathways than audio, so it's not a totally fair comparison.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
And how many of those were untested? Most I imagine.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
Can any member of the class lawsuit here comment on the settlement? How did that work out for you?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
Most insurers require customers to limit their risk in all kinds of ways. I’m curious if there are cyber mitigation’s that are out there, such as mandatory two factor authentication, requiring up to date software and OSes or other measures.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
The article makes this out to be about digital devices like Echo and Google home. I agree that these devices should allow for choice in what gets sent back to the companies. More broadly, I believe that being able to secretly record convers
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
The article describes a case where an innocent man had to spend a week in jail. Eventually, he was released and the presumed actual perpetrator was caught. The lead seemed to come from the location data, so it wasn’t useless at least. But t
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 7y ago
The indictment charges that he conspired to crack passwords on government computers. It appears that the free press protections extend to only accepting documents, and not pursuing of them. This makes sense to me on its face. Newspapers rep

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