neetdeth

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by neetdeth 3y ago
How can you acknowledge that the USG colludes with domestic platforms to censor Americans and not think that it is targeting foreign platforms because they make that censorship more difficult? You know, the obvious explanation that doesn’
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by neetdeth 3y ago
Let’s all keep in mind that “adversaries” are just regular countries that some people in government have decided are a competitive threat or strategic obstacle. This is, frankly, bullshit. If you want to declare a country an enemy of the Un
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by neetdeth 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Just bring back testing. I’ve seen way too many people speculate recently that Russia’s nuclear arsenal possibly doesn’t work. This is incredibly dangerous. What’s the plan when humanity is so many decades into a test ban
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by neetdeth 3y ago
It's easy to predict that this will drive privatization in Russia. Things that can't be done efficiently under the byzantine government rulebook will be farmed out to private entities. Americans should be well familiar with the dy
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by neetdeth 3y ago
What’s alt-right about it? Every example given on that page is a belief I’ve seen espoused by mainstream conservatives since I started paying attention to politics in the late 90s. The “alt” right of the last decade was a reaction against t
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by neetdeth 3y ago
More than 90% of natural gas used in the United States is produced domestically. In California, over 50% of electricity generation comes from natural gas. Supply is less precarious than just about anything else. Even in a future where the e
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by neetdeth 4y ago
You're describing a federation of platforms, and this can work, at least technically. XMPP worked wonderfully for a brief moment. Unfortunately, profit incentives are aligned against it. The Fediverse, at least as I see it advocated
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by neetdeth 4y ago
To be clear, I’m not imputing motive directly to the Rust project. I think the people involved have consumed so much American state-affiliated media that they simply don’t ask themselves these questions.
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by neetdeth 4y ago
Great post, and the best point is highlighted in bold. > Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda . Russia’s primary internal justification for war is based a
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by neetdeth 4y ago
The iMessage model? Somehow make having a Twitter brand Twitter account into a status symbol. Turn the screws on monetization while giving the product away for free to VIPs. Banish the poors and undesirables to the fediverse, where they can
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by neetdeth 4y ago
> I'd much rather have a (income tax marginal rate * loan amount) debt to pay than a (loan amount) one. Depends on your ability to pay. In some cases a large debt to a corporation is far preferable to a small debt with the IRS.
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by neetdeth 4y ago
Never had a reason to use them, but I do recall that Edmund Optics has some C-mount units with liquid lenses in their catalog. The driver modules will allow control over USB or I2C.
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by neetdeth 5y ago
This all makes sense, and in that context it’s unfortunate that Apple’s relationship with the largest game tools company, Epic, is... strained, to say the least. They could always choose to remedy that with a generous buyout offer.
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by neetdeth 5y ago
Yes, it's a common journalistic trope to dig up the weakest, least defensible alarmist take and debunk it. Dismantling the strawman allows you to take a general pro-policy stance without explicitly defending the policy. Simultaneously,
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by neetdeth 5y ago
They are no longer easily available - presumably as a direct result of the Facebook incident. I'm sure there are companies still grandfathered in, but as a new entrant you'll be aggressively shunted toward either the B2B or consum
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by neetdeth 5y ago
Terrible, considering how text-centric social relationships have become. Reply delays on the order of hours are considered to send a strong signal. "Double texting" is a faux pas. It pains me to think how many friendships and roma
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by neetdeth 5y ago
Regarding the distortion observed in the output, I believe this is due to the inherent physical properties of the galvo system, specifically that the actuators have momentum. A more sophisticated controller would either slow down the beam w
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by neetdeth 6y ago
The few I've opened appear to cover a 60-character segment of the ASCII table from 0x20 to 0x5B in row major order with a fixed glyph size indicated in the file name.
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by neetdeth 6y ago
I think they're deliberately trying to shed personal users because the hobbyist association is brand poison for Fusion in the professional space. The people Autodesk wants to sell subscriptions to sneer at the "hackerspace" t
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by neetdeth 6y ago
For skin cancer narrowly, sure. I don't know what it's like to live with white skin near the equator with primitive or no clothing and no access to sunscreen, though. Losing melanin every winter, getting scorched every summer... I
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by neetdeth 6y ago
One aspect of sexual selection is that a disadvantageous trait needn't kill to cause differential outcomes in reproduction. If a deficiency results lower hunting success, diminished fighting prowess, loss of mental acuity etc. the indi
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by neetdeth 6y ago
I’ve done the same to at least a dozen “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” ads on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there is no algorithm behind it. A switch connected to nothing that exists only to provide an outlet for user frustration.
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by neetdeth 6y ago
Cooperating with Bezos is a different thing though. It would be like nursing an injured rattlesnake back to health.
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by neetdeth 6y ago
I'm very willing to believe that this move was driven by actual user research. As a user, the last thing I want to do is create a user name and password for your app, click a link to validate my email, then enter my password again into
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by neetdeth 6y ago
There is actually an equivalence here. Maybe it isn't "money as speech" but it's certainly "dominant market position as speech." In the former case, one is worried that a company's right to spend their own
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by neetdeth 6y ago
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, there's an excellent project for Hackintosh support on the Intel NUC8i7HVK Hades Canyon machines. https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/ The only "hacky"
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by neetdeth 6y ago
He has rock solid distribution between YT and RSS. Anyone who has heard of podcasts has heard of JRE, it doesn’t need marketing. Joe’s reach is going to take a big hit from exclusivity. Spotify is clearly paying him enough that none of this
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by neetdeth 6y ago
Sure, but if they can’t deny US industry the ability to operate that’s one less reason to invade Taiwan. If I’m Taiwanese, I’m probably not confident about surviving a conflict even if the US “goes to bat” for me. On balance you may be righ
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by neetdeth 6y ago
I don’t doubt it. There will be a slowing convergence and eventually one curve will overtake the other and one day a Chinese design is the fastest GPU. What I’m talking about is the capability of instantly kneecapping the US tech industry.
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by neetdeth 6y ago
Counterpoint: If the PRC takes over now, they own the process technology NVIDIA and AMD depend on. They can tell the Americans to go pound sand, good luck on your next supercomputer project, and dedicate all production to Chinese origin des

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