WillPostForFood

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by WillPostForFood 7d ago
<posted from phone while driving through red light>
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by WillPostForFood 9d ago
From the preface of first edition The C Programming Language. Just interesting to note the authors never claimed it was low level, just not "very high level." --- C is a general-purpose programming language with features economy o
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by WillPostForFood 15d ago
That data is in the article, "true unemployment" was higher in 1999. The last few years are the best years on the graph.
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by WillPostForFood 17d ago
It depends. Solid particleboard is pretty close, but a many Ikea pieces are hollow, with internal cardboard support. I prefer some of these to particle board because of the lightness. Like the Lack or the Linnmon table tops.
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by WillPostForFood 19d ago
Why not? If the agency is doing a poor job you might be better of defunding it or disbanding, or forcing smarter, cheaper, more efficient testing. If money fixed problems we'd have great schools and great health care.
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by WillPostForFood 19d ago
The big Boar's Head listeria recalls were in Summer 2024, before Trump was elected, before Doge existed... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boars-head-listeria-recall-bug-... https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
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by WillPostForFood 21d ago
In defense of Prusa, I’ve had mine for six years and have done basically zero maintenance. I’ve adjusted temps a few times when switching filament brands, and that’s about it. You are right to say Prusa is more of a hobbyist machine while B
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by WillPostForFood 21d ago
Some context on the US/WTO conflict. It started under Obama, blocking reappointment of two judges. Trump in term 1 went all in, stopping all appointments. When Biden was elected he fully maintained and supported the policy of blocking
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by WillPostForFood 24d ago
So no tourist travel for the poor or middle class, just the elite rich? And no tourist income for the poor and middle class? This is a policy only the top .1% will enjoy.
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by WillPostForFood 1mo ago
There is slow progress being made on this. https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-action-operation-robocal... https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fcc-proposes-new-numbering...
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by WillPostForFood 1mo ago
That's near the opposite of what Aristotle intended. He wrote about happiness as virtuous action, living well. He wasn't so internally oriented.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
Riding a unicycle and coding are not complementary activities - you are multitasking. Writing is aligning different parts of your brain to the same task, perhaps it is just creating additional focus.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
But the idea of a blanket ban on Chinese open-weight models was not seriously discussed. Article should probably put the above higher in the story.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
It will be a great day for China and the world when the Chinese people are free from a totalitarian dictatorship. But until then we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China, even if many, or most disagree
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
It is 4 trucks for the state police, and it is a big state.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
Allowing states to force ISPs to block websites might be an even bigger can of worms.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
Sane take getting zero traction on HN, meanwhile every dumb EA/doomer post rockets to the top.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
Without diminishing the huge cost Iran has been able to inflict on US radar, quarter of a trillion is off by more than two orders of magnitude, maybe three. There are 1-2 confirmed radar system confirmed hit, a couple more suspected hit or
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
2 years, and 6 days later.
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_6#Games_using_id_Tech_... It may have been great, and lapped the entire industry, but it wasn't getting used very much, even internally at Microsoft. So how much value was rea
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
Like the evil Republicans running San Francisco! https://www.sf.gov/news--san-franciscos-new-public-safety-ca...
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by WillPostForFood 2mo ago
I'd like to see a larger date range. The Stanford dataset starts in 2021 (covid, work from home, low interest rates, govt stimulus), which is one of the weirdest economic times in the last 100 years. It would be useful to see how Jrs a
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
pedantic. You can use lawsuits, within the law, to thwart the law. You can do it knowing you will lose, just to cause delays, like Califorinia and the 9th circuit are ACTIVELY doing to slowdown gun control cases from reaching the supreme co
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
Some states, like California, and New York (which recently passed the first 3d printer ban), have restrictive gun control. These laws are in conflict with Supreme Court rulings supporting the 2nd Amendment, but the litigation and appeal pr
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
It looks even closer to a California banned "large-capacity" magazine. https://dpmsinc.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7217d38013ee...
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
Offline printing would be illegal in printers sold after the law goes into effect. *printers will accept print jobs exclusively through authorized and validated software systems and will not accept print jobs from unauthorized software path
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
Looks even more draconian than the New York law. For example, it seems to mandate proprietary, locked down slicers from the printer manufacturer. -- For integrated preprint software [slicer] design, guidance for how vendors shall demonstrat
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Xiaomi's New EV Just Set the First Autonomous Speed Record at Nürburgring(robbreport.com)
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
I had read there was a ~5% slowdown with it enabled.
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by WillPostForFood 3mo ago
So my PC runs 5% slower because someone could break into my house to get physical access to decrypt memory? OK sure, but not my top concern, and a bad tradeoff for the lost performance. And not only fair, but completely accurate to describe

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