jschwartzi

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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Autotools is the de facto build system for most of the GNU system programs. The bit about dependency management mostly fits but I would argue that letting us figure out how to build and install the dependencies is fairly UNIXy. It’s also u
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
In Seattle it will often also be a Subaru driver.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Yeah anecdotally I’ve hopped on a couple planes this year where masking is required. Normally my wife and I get sick from the plane. But since we’ve been wearing KN95s the whole time starting when we get to the airport we haven’t been getti
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
In my state the vaccination rate is above 70% and the hospitalization rate has decoupled from the positive rate. The spike this winter ended in October whereas last winter it didn’t end until January. We’ve been on a downward trend even wit
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I want legislation that the manufacturer has to publish, online and in a conspicuous place, full board-level schematics, parts lists, and service notes for household appliances no later than the day after the first unit of a model goes out
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
What proof do you have that enumeration of function is equivalent to understanding? If I encounter a building-size device filled with large cogs and two stones, I can’t immediately tell from looking at it whether its purpose is to grind app
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I can’t put my finger on why though.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
In my state prospective teachers are fingerprinted and their prints are run through the FBI database when applying for the certification. My prints are in that database.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
The other point that’s being missed here is that pedestrians need a bunch of stuff that’s ignored: * to be able to walk from business to business in minutes or seconds * to feel safe walking across the street * to be able to have conversati
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
The US definition sucks.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I think if it’s water efficiency you’re after you should check out my proof of millet system. It continues to produce new coins even in deserts and historic droughts. And you don’t have to drain Jackson Lake for your proofs!
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
They hit the ground at the same speed but with significantly more impulse.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
So in other words it’s useful for feeling morally superior.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
That’s really only been my experience with telecoms. Other companies I’ve called in to have absolutely put me in touch with higher level managers who can actually resolve the problem. It depends a lot on what company you’re calling in to, b
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
The reason it’s okay to be deterministic and wrong in engineering is because it’s a lot easier to explain the conditions under which the wrong result will be produced and how you can identify those situations in the specific photo. The reas
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
When interpolation goes wrong it’s predictably wrong, which is not true of more complex algorithms using AI. If we can predict how it goes wrong we can extract the meaningful information from it.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
you might get better results with a run-length encoding on a dithered image. I’m not aware of any modern image formats that use RLE though.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
That’s not “hassling,” that’s “clarifying criticality.” The notion that we can’t even pass complaints along to support agents isn’t helpful. In my case when I lodge a complaint or turn down a solution it’s not meant as a personal attack. I
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Also Ubuntu in Azure.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
If you did start something like that you could call it Labcorp and make sure it’s the only game in town.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
It’s even a microcontroller that emulates the original SIM, so it can have whatever specs they want.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
This was driven home to me many years ago when I popped a SIM from a Mexican carrier that had an embedded Dominos Pizza app on it. Suddenly the Windows Mobile phone I was testing had a new icon on it.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
A better hardware architecture for running a gui with some real-time requirements is often to move the real-time stuff into a separate microprocessor entirely. I’ve run into some tricky problems trying to do both on the same core, as you ha
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I don’t understand. Are you saying there’s some negative impact to allowing people to have children who otherwise couldn’t? What problems do you foresee?
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Just a nitpick but the process of crystallization evolves energy rather than involves. So it’s proceeding to a lower-entropy state. If we wanted to trigger such a transformation we’d have to involve machinery so you’re right in that sense.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
That isn’t a plan, it’s an appeal to “life finds a way.”
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
All of the trees I’ve seen where I live have been damaged either by the current drought or by various bark beetle attacks. All of them. We had to cut down a birch tree that was girdled by bark beetles, and I’m very worried about the mature
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Please only do this in artificial bodies of water. There’s an entire food chain of insects and birds and fish which rely on the larvae and adults.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Bitcoin isn’t exciting because it doesn’t solve very many problems relative to the massive energy expenditure needed to create it. It’s like a fire at an oil well or a gas pipeline break. The arguments for why we should use it remind me a l
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Well the idea that stocks must go up is a kind of scheme in itself. The whole financialization of our economy is based on constant growth. So you could argue that it’s a Ponzi scheme as well. Our children will likely be caught holding the b

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