aschampion

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by aschampion 9mo ago
How so? Corporate and surveillance capitalism's infrastructure is built on copyleft software. The equivocation of license dogmatism with social good and sustainability that those movements were never actually aligned with is part of wh
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by aschampion 1y ago
Like all AAA media in the age of supposedly social media, games became hostile to self-organizing communities that sustain themselves, because they want a push model for consumption where the producers decide what you see, when, and whom wi
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by aschampion 5y ago
Pipenv quickly becomes unusably slow. As in half hour to change one dependency. Poetry is strictly better, and I say that believing poetry is not a great solution either. There aren't many good, general recommendations to give people r
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by aschampion 5y ago
IF fits my natural appetite and is easy for me to adhere to. My problem with it is I've discovered eating a small breakfast (~250 cal) immediately when I wake up is the single greatest aid to keeping my sleep schedule stable. On IF, wh
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by aschampion 5y ago
The average gold plan in the US is $575 premium per person per month. For the average household that would be thousands. The average monthly healthcare cost across all "levels" is about $975 per person.
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by aschampion 5y ago
I didn't say margin, I said profit, and you can click a tab over on any of those pages and see overall gross profit is up in 2020. What kind of rational baseline is assuming that increasing margin is the default neutral state? How is
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by aschampion 5y ago
At one point in 2020 a majority of insured Americans treated for COVID (>80%) had the majority of their COVID-related treatment waived by the insurer. However, most insurers have been terminating these waivers since January. Also, to a
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by aschampion 5y ago
The problem is not necessarily lunatics who deny the reality of AGW, but energy companies, industry, and their political agents who have known the reality for over half a century. Lunacy was purposefully propagandized and indoctrinated to p
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by aschampion 5y ago
The UX community seems to value rather than avoid breaking changes, and it's infuriating. Novelty and surprise are rarely usability virtues.
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by aschampion 6y ago
See also https://seatable.io/
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by aschampion 6y ago
I'm also very sensitive to UI lag, but flagship phones are more a cause than a solution. If you're on Android, enable developer options and disable animations. Not only is your phone now many orders of magnitude more useable becau
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by aschampion 6y ago
Rust has plenty of momentum and non-Mozilla core team members and contributors, and has been in the process of finding or creating a foundation to organize under for some time. Of course this will slow the pace of development because so man
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by aschampion 7y ago
An international version of this was Oppenheimer's vision (both for peaceful nuclear applications and weapons) which he expressed in his personal writings and in the Acheson–Lilienthal report. It was not looked favorably on by most of
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by aschampion 7y ago
I went through a 4-5 year period in my late 20s working 60 hour weeks while also doing grad school and independent research for 60 hours a week, not getting enough sleep or taking enough time for physical and mental health. It was ultimat
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by aschampion 7y ago
The vast majority of my bluetooth woes are not with bluetooth, but with the complete lack of configurability on Android and other devices. I end up pairing/unpairing my home speakers with my phone constantly, not because bluetooth is b
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by aschampion 8y ago
> Describing is not the same as justifying. Nature is what created us as individuals. We have little means of empirically separating what is natural versus social construct (or even qualifying what such a distinction means) when it comes
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by aschampion 8y ago
> A utopia which purports to make everyone happy (shouldn't they all?) is one that assumes all people are the same or it endeavours to make them so. So the contrapositive is that because people differ all societies require some peop
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by aschampion 8y ago
I had a G200 and recall having random lines scattered over the screen in games courtesy of the OpenGL-via-Direct3D wrapper.
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by aschampion 8y ago
Matrox and S3 were also competitive in the consumer space before convergence on the big two.
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by aschampion 8y ago
Evernote is guilty of this. They don't create the password field until you've typed in your username, breaking every login manager. This along with their synchronization getting worse over time has effectively caused me to stop us
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by aschampion 8y ago
Yeah, I don't buy the justification versus Julia because of community size either, given most of Swift's community has little to do with data science. The document even says as much, contradicting that rationale, later on. As some
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by aschampion 8y ago
16:10 is great, although I did briefly trial run a Surface Book 2 and loved the 3:2 screen, as well as the rest of the hardware. Only decided against it because of the amount of compromises and maintenance when running Linux on it.
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by aschampion 8y ago
I split my development time between a 2015 rMBP and a Precision 5530 (pro model of the XPS 15). I still can not switch fully to the Dell because of a few issues: - The touchpad is just garbage compared to the MBP, to the point I have an eve
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by aschampion 8y ago
PBS SpaceTime's excellent coverage of Loeb's paper: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0
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by aschampion 8y ago
I have far, far worse compression artifacts in cable broadcast (apartment provided, can't opt out) than from Netflix, and I can only pick out artifacts in Netflix 4K if I'm actively trying. Where streaming services do fall down fo
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by aschampion 8y ago
Further, having worked in university systems, diversity offices and administrators are not highly funded. Almost all their activities are student led and organized; they usually just provide administrative guidance for student initiatives.
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by aschampion 8y ago
> I stopped reading when I got to "C also operates inside of a virtual machine." The very next section, beginning on the very next line, begins to explain what the author means.
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by aschampion 8y ago
It's mainly targeting MATLAB, and to a slightly lesser extent scientific and numeric programming in Python and R. It's a well thought out language that allows you to write MATLAB-like high level code with an easy gradient for prog
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by aschampion 8y ago
This is for extended support for Java SE8 only. Public updates are still available for SE9 and later releases. Java SE is transitioning to a Ubuntu-like release system with YY.M releases, some of which will be LTS will longer public update
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by aschampion 8y ago
> which deals with the nature of language as it relates to our ability to think and formulate ideas, is undeniable Except by Wittgenstein himself, who largely renounced this philosophical project in the second half of his career. Still e

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