azulster

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by azulster 2y ago
yes, you are missing that the tokens aren't words, they are 2-3 letter groups, or any number of arbitrary sizes depending on the model
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by azulster 2y ago
if you are worried about being able to afford the taxes on your assets then you just plain arent rich enough for it to apply to you, dont worry you are safe
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by azulster 2y ago
may be it shouldnt be the same as capital gains, but it should be related. like maybe it should be (capital gains tax rate - interest rate of loan) else it will simply be a way to continue to pay less taxes and still have your income as cas
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by azulster 2y ago
why is everyone talking about small businesses when every proposal that's been published targets $100million + asset portfolios
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by azulster 2y ago
electron apps are an optimization all by itself. it's not optimizing footprint or speed of application. it's optimizing the resources and speed of development and deployment
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by azulster 2y ago
not if it costs 200 million in man-hours to optimize
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by azulster 2y ago
it's literally just the oracle problem all over again
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by azulster 2y ago
so much effort is put into making terminals, aesthetic, customizable, and impressive. yet, not enough work is done in fixing the usability limitations of terminals (especially for casual users or beginners) such as: -command/argument d
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by azulster 2y ago
its useful to measure and track the problem if only demonstrate it's validity
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by azulster 2y ago
messed around with the tool, why wouldnt a quilt of 4 squares evenly subdivide into 4 quilts of size 1? the tool shows it subdividing into 3 quilts of size 2 and 4 squares of size 1? i could see 4 quilts of size 2 if "quilt size"
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by azulster 2y ago
the word should probably be "optimize"
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by azulster 2y ago
if your frame of reference is centered on teh building then it could be claimed that the entire universe fundamentally depends on the exact properties of that building on some level
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by azulster 2y ago
probably because the dashes have semantic meaning
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by azulster 2y ago
USB solves this, but before USB every serial connection had to be programmed for individually, both for the OS and the firmware of the attachment. we've solved it now with USB for peripherals, but we only just managed to solve the band
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by azulster 2y ago
my dream is to have a lamp-style imac with modern internals. i wish apple would have fun with the chassis design again
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by azulster 2y ago
for such an influential design firm, i'm dissapointed in how uninteresting their website design is
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by azulster 2y ago
broad strokes yes, you are right. however you missed some explanatory details: !!!SPOILERS BELOW!!! the trisolarans specifically evolved to survive their chaotic orbit, by being able to completely "dry out" and wait in stasis for
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by azulster 2y ago
yellowstone is literally called the first national park in the world so...yes?
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by azulster 2y ago
ironically i had the same feeling when i visited the vatican, and they were holding mass while i was visiting! tourist attraction is always gonna feel like a tourist attraction i guess
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by azulster 2y ago
bricks and wood are unable to maximize the quality of a limited footprint. an expensive plot of land in a city needs to be built to certain quality standards to make sure it is affordable and safe. this is only possible with steel and concr
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by azulster 2y ago
old buildings used to also be death traps, we only know of the survivors, but lots of old construction would burn down, collapse in a minor earthquake, or rot from water. we only have the survivors to admire now
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by azulster 2y ago
"Do you mean that being habitable without air conditioning is a negative feature?" in a specific climate, sure. but in other climates high ceilings might just be a burden on the air conditioning system
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by azulster 2y ago
"hideous blobs of steel and glass" were originally known as glorious and beautiful modern architecture. oversaturation makes the creative into the tired and boring
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by azulster 2y ago
new york city's brownstones are considered beautiful and iconic now, but when they were built they were described as cheap eye-sores and a blight upon the beautiful city. i imagine a similar trend must exist for most of the European ci
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by azulster 2y ago
"modern architecture" is a following the same pricniples of most architecture, engineer it to be strong enough, for as cheap as possible, if you are very very lucky somebody may be willing to pay extra to make it look good. usuall
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by azulster 2y ago
some people use anarchist as term similar to "vandal", "rioter" or "terrorist", just a rogue element at the time causing destruction or chaos.
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by azulster 2y ago
i understood it to mean that the architectural vision of Gaudi was so original and singular that and future work could only be completion of an original design, an imitation of the already completed work, or an obviously seperated style (li
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by azulster 3y ago
in general people have always saught a way to not have to look at each other in public. before phones it was newspapers and magazines as the social scourge of anti-social behavior
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by azulster 3y ago
> The better analogy is probably something like the Apple Watch. first apple watch was afailure and immediately fixed by the watch 2 >Apple made the first mainstream acceptable smartwatch by smoothing over a lot of the complaints abo
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by azulster 3y ago
this is how microsoft's remote desktop protocol works (RDP) but apple never invested in their implementation of something similar, relying on vnc to just send images of the entire screen. the way RDP works is the code to actually rend

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