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by queuebert 2y ago
Are you saying that the USPS delivering a handful of advertisements in addition to the odd package has greater demands than UPS/Fedex/Amazon delivering the bulk of the large packages in our society?
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by queuebert 2y ago
The choice of color here is not obvious to me. For example, greener could mean more money, i.e. more expensive. Also red connotes debt/negative in accounting, while black is surplus/positive. If you're eating a tomato, red is
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by queuebert 2y ago
Due to Tennessee's Right to Spork laws.
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by queuebert 2y ago
In true Windows form, you have a memory access error.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Fastmail is just about perfect. Feels like email 30 years ago but with a spam filter.
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by queuebert 2y ago
The simplest recommender would use videos that were commonly watched afterwards by other people.
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by queuebert 2y ago
jart is the best thing to happen to C since K&R.
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by queuebert 2y ago
C is great for its basics, but at some level, when you gain awareness of all of your unpunished pointer lifetime sins and how annoying the lack of basic data structures is in stdlib, then you realize that biting the bullet and learning some
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by queuebert 2y ago
Damn, I was so excited to see Monaspace, but they used Krypton instead of Xenon.
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by queuebert 2y ago
This is the clear-headed take. As a point of clarification, I don't believe Dotcom has anything to do with Mega anymore, and the service Mega has gone legit and provides quite a nice a service similar to Tresorit -- end-to-end encrypte
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by queuebert 2y ago
They probably could if the host country agreed to it. It's just a matter of diplomacy. The US certainly doesn't have any special status, just better relationships, especially with the English-speaking countries.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Wait til you hear about this new startup called Google. They are going to launch yet another search engine. I doubt there's much money in it, though. They'll be lucky to make a few million.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Mobile phone design peaked with the Nokia 3110 and the Motorola MicroTAC, and it's been downhill ever since.
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by queuebert 2y ago
So who does make good phones?
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by queuebert 2y ago
One is necessary to have a legal transaction, while the other is rent-seeking. People buy cars all the time without agents. We have excellent websites to educate us about car features and locate cars for sale. Realtors keep their racket goi
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by queuebert 2y ago
Kind of like how realtors make more money on a house transaction than the closing attorneys who draw up all the paperwork and execute it legally.
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by queuebert 2y ago
What about Blitz++?
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by queuebert 2y ago
To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.
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by queuebert 2y ago
This is quite an old problem. A quick search of PubMed yields 4834 results for "noninvasive blood pressure monitoring". Caltech has a weird definition of "first". Edit: To clarify, plenty of things have been tried beside
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by queuebert 2y ago
Two obvious problems that come to mind are 1. Replacing the extremely bloated official packages with lightweight distribution that provides only the common functionality. 2. Paving the way for GPU support on *BSD.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Yes, I know. It was a joke.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Maybe they could declare bankruptcy and sell for pennies on the dollar to a mysterious new holding company: Ksum Nole, LLC.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Not just yes men, but an entire monoculture of people who don't see how exceptional and different they are from the vast majority of humanity. Unfortunately, their culture is being reinforced by fat, soulless advertising money and not
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by queuebert 2y ago
In Table 3, being white is a very significant predictor (p=0.007) of being able to wait at least 7 min, but in Table 7 they don't report white among the races at all. Does this mean the difference among white kids is entirely explained
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by queuebert 2y ago
Exactly. It's not appropriate for this type of question. LLMs can summarize the global internet sentiment about something pretty well, but they aren't the right architecture for answering precise scientific questions, nor will the
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by queuebert 2y ago
Your kettle's power cable is sized to handle the relatively tiny current put into it, but even then it does warm up slightly. Try to run a million amps through it, and it will vaporize. This type of laser carries so much energy that ev
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by queuebert 2y ago
Whatever refracts the light will have to stand up to the beam for long periods of time. Maybe it's a materials science problem.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Personally, besides it being a nice format, I use Markdown to honor Aaron Swartz.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Finally an advantage for the people of the US being a republic of states instead of a monolithic democracy.
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by queuebert 2y ago
That's amazing. I was just about to comment that hooking this up to Lean [1] would be killer. This must be the way forward for higher math, as proofs are getting so complicated that almost no one understands all pieces of major proofs.

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