jessewmc

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by jessewmc 3mo ago
it helps to have a good sewing machine - the difference between a poor quality one and e.g. a nice bernina is dramatic. even an old one thats been well maintained will give you many years of reliable use with minimal maintenance, and they&#
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by jessewmc 3mo ago
A tick bite in alberta? diagnosed lyme? when? seems very unlikely - there are no recorded cases in the 30+ years of tracking of a case of lyme disease from a bite _in alberta_. All from exposure elsewhere (not to say that alberta will stay
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by jessewmc 4mo ago
Looks interesting! If I'm reading correctly, the indexing (Context Store) is neutral/unopinionated? How does it select fields for indexing? Have you done any testing on guided indexing, or metadata layers on top of the data? My ex
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by jessewmc 6mo ago
As an aside, do you have any suggestions for "state of the art" reading on safety culture?
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by jessewmc 10mo ago
Wow thats a name I haven't heard in a long time! I really miss the way tacops 2.2 felt, never did get along with 3.x versions. Was definitely a formative gaming experience for me as well
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by jessewmc 3y ago
https://github.com/lua/lua Everything is nicely documented and pretty easy to read. It's a great companion if you want to learn more about how languages are implemented.
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by jessewmc 3y ago
Your unit mixtures hurt my brain
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by jessewmc 4y ago
What does this mean? Is there a list of approved conversation allowed on trails? What difference does it make if they are talking to someone virtually or physically present on the trail?
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by jessewmc 4y ago
Actually I bet you wouldn't be too far off. Random googling seems to suggest that the average cruise ship today is under $1 billion: https://gangwaze.com/blog/how-much-does-a-cruise-ship-cost These are _much_ big
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by jessewmc 5y ago
177ms from west coast of NA, but that is slower than I would have estimated. Other than HN, almost everything else I use regularly feels subjectively way slower, although I've not checked response time.
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by jessewmc 5y ago
A plumber with five trucks isn't so much a plumber anymore as a business owner employing five other plumbers.
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by jessewmc 5y ago
Congrats! Ordered. Been waiting for a physical copy, being able to scribble notes in the margins and bookmark and flip back and forth by hand just works so much better for me.
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by jessewmc 5y ago
I think the big problem here was with Starcraft 2's lack of UMS and chat room focus compared to Brood War. I played competitive 1v1 in both, and anecdotally I spent alot more time in Brood War, and much of that time was socializing, pl
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by jessewmc 5y ago
Aside from the branding and history problems here, actually kind of surprising its been this long before a mainstream brand came up with a "vetted" crypto miner. Interesting. Press release is extremely vague, but I read this to be
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by jessewmc 6y ago
If you want to reduce animal suffering, there's a pretty good argument that cows are the last animals/animal products you should stop eating. You should definitely stop eating eggs, as egg-laying chickens live short, miserable liv
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by jessewmc 6y ago
I mean, isn't that sort of the fundamental problem with government funding? They're not very good at picking winners, and when they make winners by picking, sometimes it still turns out to be a mistake (e.g. diesel in Europe). Sti
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by jessewmc 6y ago
Of course no one individually wants to sacrifice for society. The point is that if everyone is willing to do it, everyone is better off. By making some sort of collective incentive to have a wider distribution of incomes in neighbourhoods a
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by jessewmc 6y ago
You're not even engaging with the parent's point. This logic does not work. You must make a choice to balance risks, because EVERYTHING has risks. Aggregate economic ruin kills people. By your logic, you shouldn't be able to
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by jessewmc 6y ago
The dismissiveness in this thread is unreal. From the comments you'd think the article only had one sentence insulting the Sanctity of Cargo Pants. If you happily wear baggy jeans or cargo pants, these are not for you and you don'
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by jessewmc 6y ago
What TFA is doing is basically the inverse of a digital camera sensor. They're essentially putting a coloured tint in front of each pixel (actually a block of 4 pixels) in a bayer pattern ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jessewmc 6y ago
I really like the idea of the watch instead of a phone, but it seems like they've explicitly designed it so that it will never be a stand-alone device. I don't mind buying the watch and the airpods, but having to buy a phone AND t
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by jessewmc 7y ago
That's barely two applicants per opening? There is no way that's a technological problem.
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I can think of two reasons: A sort of Dutch Disease caused by Rails is probably the biggest one. When one killer feature drives the adoption of a language, everyone who is interested and good at the language is involved with that ecosystem,
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by jessewmc 7y ago
This has finally allowed me to switch. I’ve been trying to since quantum came out two years ago, but this was always a deal breaker. Firefox is generally still a little buggier and less performance in my experience, but not so much that I w
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by jessewmc 7y ago
Strange optics not to mention the elephant in the room. I could see them hitting some roadblocks and wanting to try again to get into China, but that would be a reasonable thing to come out and say. It also would be reasonable to come out a
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by jessewmc 7y ago
A lot of these problems are solved by making student loans dischargeable and subject to market forces. Nothing like someone with monetary incentive to sort out who has a positive ROI on education. As a side effect it would almost certainly
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I mean it could be both. I could imagine that people can become conditioned to it in such a way that they are functional in cold water if they do it on a regular basis and/or were brought up with it. But I've jumped in glacial lak
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I think one of the simplest arguments is that criminals who need privacy will move to their own platforms. Any law that weakens encryption only weakens the privacy of regular citizens. People make a variant of this argument about guns, but
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I'm paying for a phone that lasts 4-5 years (I'm on my 3rd iphone since the original, probably not going to buy another this year) and is still way nicer to use than a moto g (which is admittedly a great budget phone).
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I think this is general a pretty good argument, and in good faith, but I can't help but think that at some point power users and developers become a leading indicator. Poor longevity and rising prices and useless or missing features wo

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