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by khrbrt 5mo ago
Even better: allow theaters to charge different prices to different movies. It's ridiculous that a big budget action movie with A-list cast costs the same to watch as a cheap indie film. Smaller movies could get a huge boost if they co
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by khrbrt 5mo ago
They're going extinct by habitat loss from climate change.
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by khrbrt 6mo ago
A fun application of this is hooking mushrooms up to synthesizers for groovy beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890 Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BionicandtheWires > We connect bion
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by khrbrt 7mo ago
Has it? I recently tried to organize a little AoE2 LAN party but we got stuck because the DE was too heavy for our old computers and the HD Edition was no longer for sale on Steam. (Apologies if this was answered in the video, I'll wat
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by khrbrt 10mo ago
Dunno, but I like the Chinese Doomscroll substack for a daily glimpse into what they're talking about. https://substack.com/@weibo
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by khrbrt 1y ago
We've had protectionist tariffs for the auto industry for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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by khrbrt 1y ago
Meanwhile China is building it's own giant telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-quietly-prepar... And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by khrbrt 1y ago
This is the first I've heard of "direct-join union"s. DuckDuckGo only brings up variations of this article, or the pages to join individual, employer specific unions. Where can I learn more about this type of union? Is there
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by khrbrt 2y ago
None of those cases are "generative" AI.
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by khrbrt 2y ago
Combining engineering teams of very similar products will inevitably lead to consolidation. The key leaders of these teams will leave. The open source projects will starve. No customers will start a new project with these products when it&#
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by khrbrt 2y ago
They've existed for years https://www.fastcompany.com/90651242/how-the-drivers-coopera... https://www.wired.com/story/gig-economy-worker-owned-apps/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by khrbrt 2y ago
A club I'm active with posts everything to Meetup and Facebook. Meetup is the "official" source of truth for posting events and photos and limited chats related to the events themselves ("Where are we parking?" type
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by khrbrt 2y ago
>Our results show that regulators must consider mass economic grid defection of PV-diesel generator-battery systems as a very real possibility in the near future. To prevent utility death spirals and increased carbon emissions, it’s impe
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by khrbrt 2y ago
They meant after consolidations.
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by khrbrt 2y ago
The seed was still alive for those 1000 years. Still respirating from stored fats and carbs. Still performing cellular activities like DNA replication and repair. Also plants often have many duplicate copies of their genome per cell.
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by khrbrt 2y ago
A standard coding setup but with a very strict block list for time wasting websites.
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by khrbrt 2y ago
This as good a place as any to mention one of my favorite authors, Dishwasher Pete[0], who wrote a zine about dishwashing and dishwashers[1], and a memoir about his quest to wash dishes in all 50 states[2]. 0: https://en.wikipedia
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by khrbrt 2y ago
Unrolled: https://unrollnow.com/status/1828490449881047401
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by khrbrt 2y ago
Thank God, now I can finally kick my YouTube addiction.
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by khrbrt 2y ago
"Whuffie" is a reference to the Cory Doctorow novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . It's set a post-scarcity society, Whuffie acts as a sort of currency and is earned from clout and social status. The protagonist goes fr
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by khrbrt 2y ago
> Most of the feedback loops in employment — from salary payments to annual performance appraisals — were torturously long. So Coonradt proposed shortening them by introducing daily targets, points systems, and leaderboards. These condi
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by khrbrt 2y ago
Forget flying cars -- a 50's consumerist fantasy. I'm begging for basics like safe bike lanes, fast public transit and cheap high speed rail. > It’s often remarked upon, in boosterish circles, that American society allows about
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by khrbrt 2y ago
Have you never heard of Iran-Contra? The CIA was caught selling weapons to Iran to illegally fund contras and death squads in Latin America. There's also BCCI, their own international bank to fund who knows what. By going through shell
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by khrbrt 3y ago
Mining sand has terrible effects on riverine ecosystems. You can't just use the sand at the beach.
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by khrbrt 3y ago
Would processing[0] be a good fit? It's designed to be easy to use and learn but powerful enough for professional use. Very quick to get cool stuff moving on a screen and the syntax is Java with a streamlined editing environment. [0]
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by khrbrt 3y ago
It would be helpful to link to a specific thread or an FAQ page for the subreddit instead of vaguely suggesting to search its archive or create a new thread.
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by khrbrt 3y ago
But what's to stop wealthy people from buying the newly built houses as yet another asset to their real estate portfolio to the exclusion of first time homeowners?
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by khrbrt 3y ago
It's a Simpsons reference :) https://youtu.be/U1iCZpFMYd0?si=EHnRdnuKjoOvjuCP
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by khrbrt 3y ago
I learned Fortran back in 2016 for a HPC course. It was indeed quick to learn but the resources online at the time for understanding compiler and runtime errors were scant compared to more popular languages. I mostly referenced pdfs of old
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by khrbrt 3y ago
From the article's sidebar: > Once-treelined street losing its shade. The flaming red leaves of the liquidambar displayed fall colors before the rest of the street's once orderly progression because it went unwatered. The tree

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