shaboinkin

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by shaboinkin 27d ago
Slightly tangential, but I wonder how much energy savings could be had if street light timings factored in the energy it takes to get cars moving from a stop to the posted speed limit from one intersection to the next. Terrible light timing
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by shaboinkin 3mo ago
Risk aversion could be looked at in the same lens in my opinion. It’s possible to be risk adverse in a modern society as we have risk takers to do it on your behalf. Policemen and women, firefighters, warfighters, astronauts, test pilots,
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by shaboinkin 4mo ago
Counter point: Apple exists in their size because of the US’s willingness to keep shipping lanes and trade routes open by use of force and US diplomatic efforts to allow for trade to exist in foreign nations. It’s debatable if this still h
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by shaboinkin 5mo ago
My opinion is the original 99 cent app, then followed free apps and services caused a public devaluation of software costs. Use Youtube as an example. It tickles me hearing people complain about the cost of a YouTube subscription. In my he
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by shaboinkin 7mo ago
https://youtu.be/NFw7ZifqhTg?si=IujBLjIsaQysNHmp&t=267 4:27 “The time when we conveniently let the United States carry the burden for our security is over. The US is absolutely committed to NATO, but this commitment com
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by shaboinkin 8mo ago
Anecdotally, my company has a device driver posted on Windows Update. I inherited the project and was digging through Microsoft’s hardware dashboard trying to find information on the stability of the driver. I ended up finding that our dri
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by shaboinkin 10mo ago
From watching talks by the various US think tanks (CSIS, CFR, Hudson, etc), the common theme whenever the topic of AI is brought up is that the US is in strategic competition with China where it essentially boils down to economic superiorit
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
“Sixty-three percent of adults said they would cover a hypothetical $400 emergency expense exclusively using cash or its equivalent, unchanged from 2022 and 2023 but down from a high of 68 percent in 2021.” https://www.federalres
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
Something like this already happened relatively recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods?wprov=sfti1
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
It sounds like you’re making the assumption that things will remain static because the alternative is unfathomable to even consider.
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
Sure, but we’re talking about hundreds of miles of coast line all being affected, within various regions as the article points out, at relatively the same time. Thousands of coastline if we want consider a worst case rate of increase. The l
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
What I wonder about sea level rise is what happens to all of the development that gets swallowed by the sea? I’m not optimistic that there will be proper cleanup of the stuff that was built up over time. If I recall from the LA fires last
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
That 25% turns out to over 77 million people. Reducing voting results to percentages is a bit silly in my opinion. We both major parties, including minority parties, are composed of autonomous individuals with individual worldviews that are
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by shaboinkin 1y ago
It is if war is in the future. And I’m not saying this as hyperbole but based on statements made by NATO secretary general (both Rutte, previously Stoltenberg and former General Bauer) about Russia’s military production outproducing NATO, o
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
It’d be foolish to rule it out completely even if it looks benign at face value. It’s entirely plausible for someone to be recruited on behalf of another state, seeing how it’s currently happening now: https://www.reuters.com&#x2
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
What I find funny about their sign that says “your photo will be deleted”, it fails to specify how many memcpy’s of the bits making up the photo have been made and if they made any detours along to the way to various other software systems
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
Recent events suggest dismissing sabotage as a likely cause would be foolish. 10:13 presents details involving sabotage throughout Europe as well as states choosing to not disclose to their public about the nature of what is happening to av
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
I like how the generated response after a “stop” is “You will not receive any more messages from this number.” Where they turn around and send you a message from a different number. How about a “take me out of your database” option?
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
If the CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet corporation I work at is anything like Microsoft, employees are given too much different work that causes needless mental context switching while you go off and do something else while waiting for PRs to be re
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by shaboinkin 2y ago
That was my thought. The supports look like toothpicks relative to the ships that routinely pass through. I don't know enough about the forces involved here, but I'd like to think when they rebuild, they will add some sort of defl
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by shaboinkin 3y ago
> Some of the WIV's genetic engineering projects on coronaviruses involved techniques that could make it difficult to detect intentional changes. A 2017 dissertation by a WIV student showed that reverse genetic cloning techniques wh
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
I raised my eyebrow at that comment and found [1] and [2] which mentions evidence of human influence in the region, though I can't watch that BBC doc in my region, the paper is pretty interesting in there appears to be some lost civili
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
Unchecked aggression tends to lead to more aggression if you just glance at history. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Spanish invading the Americas, US pushing out the Natives, Roman Empire into Europe, Genghis Khan. It stands to reason that
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
I'm working in a codebase that has, at times, 10+ different expressions within a single conditional in many places, and trying to pull out the context of why the conditional exists in the first place make grug brain hurt. At the very l
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
Imagine finding a correlation between specific genes and specific spending habits. Have Alphabet spin up a company that does what 23andMe does, offer a cooler, trendier version of the competition to entice adoption, then in the fine print
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
I learned this with my router. I updated the firmware thinking it was the smart thing to do, security fixed and all that, but instead I was greeted with ads for their other products and them wanted to shove their stupid phone app in my face
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
As I understand it, 30% pays for all of the frameworks Apple develops that is available to you when you fire up Xcode, as well as everything involved with running the store, and they take their cut when you post on their store and sell stuf
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by shaboinkin 4y ago
I feel an unintended fallout of an eventual mandate to allow 3rd party stores on iOS would be Apple charging a license for the frameworks and tooling they provide. Something like, "Want to use CoreML? Well, each API call will cost you.