minot

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by minot 2y ago
> "the last 5% is an open research problem". That is the biggest hurdle, in my opinion. If we could even reply with, "sorry, I don't know about that", it would be such an improvement over what we have today. Sadl
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by minot 2y ago
> The Free Software community has made it clear from day 1 that the GPL can only achieve its goals through enforcement of copyright We should mention when we say this, although I think it is self-evident, that the preferable alternative
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by minot 3y ago
> NPM wants to have its cake and eat it too, which is the problem here. The solution is just to say that if you publish a package to NPM you give it the perpetual right to distribute it as-is, and then remove the ability for users to del
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by minot 3y ago
> (1) We need 240V outlets for EV charging (costs cents at construction time, costs $3000 - $8000 later) My understanding is that there needs to be some kind of upgrade on our grid so everyone can charge their cars. This would likely inv
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by minot 5y ago
I think the difference is I don’t have kids. I would like to think I want kids but there is no way I can afford having kids especially given I’m not sure if I can even afford to retire. I don’t understand the way of thinking of people mill
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by minot 5y ago
I do not recommend using SD cards to store apps. I think SD cards are for storing media like photos we take or music we listen to… SD card is just not nearly as fast as NVMe storage or even UFS 3.
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by minot 5y ago
You might say that well I’m no worse off than before which is true but still feels weird that I was unable to use my existing riot im account when I wanted to sign into Mozilla’s riot server. I ended up creating a different login for Mozill
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by minot 6y ago
> Saying them introduces legal liability onto the company in future lawsuits. My first thought was ExxonMobil when I read this comment. > In July 1977, a senior scientist of Exxon James Black reported to the company's executives
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by minot 6y ago
> "Most of the world" has a hard time understanding hierarchical structure like files and directories. That is an excellent point that I think deserves expanding. I submit that files and directories ARE difficult concepts. Pret
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by minot 6y ago
I don’t remember exactly what I hated about school but I remember promising myself no matter how bad things will get in high school or beyond, nothing in life will ever compare to the insanity of middle school. College was a lot less produc
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by minot 6y ago
Barbers often don’t have very nice haircuts. Car mechanics often drive “boring” cars.
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by minot 6y ago
> I don't think I agree. It's great for individuals and countries to be friendly, but I see two problems with a one-world-government system. I agree that power corrupts but it doesn’t follow to me that power corrupts more at th
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by minot 6y ago
> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country. I think this is a problem with or feature of our democracy. If eighty percent of the voters want gun control but only half of them show up (forty percent) and vote for one of four
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by minot 6y ago
The biggest scam that Intel, AMD, and nVidia are all guilty of is naming the desktop parts the same as laptop parts. It isn’t the same thing at all! If you’ve only used thin and light laptops for the last ten or so years, you’ll find that d
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by minot 6y ago
I would have said you’re wrong Even as late as 2015. I don’t know much about regulations. What stopped Intel from dropping prices the moment Ryzen was available in the market? It isn’t like Intel hardware wasn’t good enough. It was just way
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by minot 6y ago
I swear if I got a nickel for every time a recruiter cold calls me, asks nine hundred questions, gets me to commit to a slot for interview, and then calls me back to say they need my full date of birth and social security number to submit,
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by minot 6y ago
What would the number of representatives look like if it was fluid and we said the unit is the smallest state that only gets one representative is the yard stick? A quick search shows Wyoming is the smallest state by population with 578,759
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by minot 6y ago
Personally, I think fully proportional meaning getting rid of districts is the best idea. The entire state is one district, parties publish a ranked list well before the election, and based on the votes everyone got, the top n people from t
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by minot 6y ago
I still don’t understand how this business model works at all. Take cloudinary, for example. You can have your images transformed and hosted by cloudinary. So like you have a photo and let cloudinary examine the photo and serve different si
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by minot 6y ago
Not that I speak for the project but this isn’t privileged information anyways: If you have TestFlight, you will see there have been several updates pushed to TestFlight over the last few days.
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by minot 6y ago
Not just her. All of journalism. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by minot 6y ago
Is there still no easy straightforward way in $current_year to put an absolute spend cap of say USD 0, USD 5, or USD 10 per month on Amazon.com web services or Google Cloud Platform? I’d think I’d like to prepay a fixed dollar amount like U
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by minot 6y ago
Car dealership campaign contributions?
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by minot 6y ago
I was going to say no but I just checked and at least ONE latest generation i3 processor supports ECC https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro... https://ark.intel.com
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by minot 6y ago
> Then in the US we also have a major problem of turning schools into defacto social welfare centers. I think we’ve arrived at the heart of the problem. Seems like the problem is a massive scope creep on what a school should do. How does
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by minot 6y ago
> The problem is not how much tax we collect. It's how the money is spent. Thank you. I clearly didn't know enough about the problem space. For others like me: > MAY 11, 2020 —The amount spent per pupil for public elementary
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by minot 6y ago
We won’t even buy them office supplies. Teachers sometimes buy everything from Kleenex to stationery for use by students in the classroom out of pocket. I don’t think how demanding raises will work unless we somehow convince the public to
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by minot 6y ago
But I bet I can’t start a taxi service and call it Uber Shuttle Service for job applicants and build a website with Uber logo, phone number, and everything and when job applicants call me I pretend to be Uber? Hey why stop there? maybe I ca
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by minot 6y ago
> mirrorless camera (with clean HDMI out) sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't have much experience with cameras and recently learned that cameras have a limited lifespan when it comes to the shutter (the thing that opens
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by minot 6y ago
I’ve said this before and I’m more convinced of this now: the cfaa is unsalvagable and must be completely repealed/scrapped. All of it. No half measures. It does nothing to stop what matters: corporations or nation states. Horrible cor

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