smelterdemon

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by smelterdemon 7y ago
Seasonal flu does have containment efforts - vaccination
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by smelterdemon 7y ago
The only real difference is the drivetrain, and only enthusiasts really care about the technical differences in ICE drivetrains. Interiors, cargo capacity, reliability, fit and finish, ride quality, etc. will all still differ between BEVs.
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by smelterdemon 7y ago
A tech company is a company that is: (1) Marketed to investors as a tech company (2) Valued by investors based on the premise that they are or will become oligopolists in their market
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by smelterdemon 7y ago
We already do this, just with corn instead of MOFs
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by smelterdemon 7y ago
I guarantee you CN has lines connecting Calgary and Vancouver today.
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by smelterdemon 8y ago
You're right that the tech industry is by no means uniquely guilty for creating negative externalities or for the negative effects of capitalism in general. And while the other industries you mention have taken plenty of criticism over
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by smelterdemon 8y ago
Are you writing a lot of FORTRAN 77 or something?
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by smelterdemon 8y ago
I drive a Volvo S90. I only really use the "Pilot Assist" on the highway, and once you've driven it for a while you can get a sense ahead of time what situations it will fail in. You're right though the biggest issue is
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by smelterdemon 8y ago
Well, it's more like 19% of the population (or 27% of the eligible voter pop.)
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Efficiency gap is a decent objective metric of fairness.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
They would have to pay the ISPs? It may well benefit them in the long run by increasing the size of their moats, but it will immediately affect their bottom lines.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Time to find out how well autonomous cars will deal with potholes
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Sounds like Visual mode
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
There are people in Detroit mourning gentrification too
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Ferndale is an inner ring suburb not a neighborhood
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
That's on the client code. You can't stop callers from doing something stupid (or cosmic rays from flipping bits). At that point crashing fast is preferable.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
For parameters where you aren't transferring ownership, just use raw pointers/references. If it's a required parameter make it a reference. If it's optional, use a pointer and check for null.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Creating objects in invalid states is definitely not idiomatic C++. I do agree that people are a little too fearful of using bare pointers for optional references, if you're using a linter that will catch possible null dereferences it&
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>the "vtable" (the dictionary of functions) being passed around isn't virtual and is provided per type, not per instance. This might be nitpicking but vtables in C++ are created per type with instances having a pointer to
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
I had always assumed that Auto-Tune had evolved from or was an advanced form of Vocoder (likely from the similar "robot" effect extreme applications of Auto-tune gives). I've been working on a relatively simple real time musi
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
For active people trying to build muscle or lose fat while preserving muscle mass, studies have shown benefits for up to 2.2g protein/kg bodyweight. Which is a lot of protein and can be hard to come by. Sure, if you're sedentary a
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
In 1996 your processor might be running at 150MHz. Using a standard 44.1kHz sampling rate, that doesn't give you very many cycles to get each sample processed to do this in real time.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Detroit has one of the largest concentrations of engineers in the country. Granted I'm sure a significant percentage of those are specialized in fields Amazon isn't interested in, to say they'd have to import nearly every wor
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Oh, I'm not optimistic at all that the kind of societal shift I'm talking about will/can happen, at least in any peaceful/gentle way- that's why I said in a best case. I'm just objecting to the idea that workin
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
>People left without a job/role in society often don't matter even to themselves -- low self esteem, turning to drugs, alcohol, etc. I see this argument all the time here, but no one accounts for the fact that we live in a soci
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Because they have unions to protect them.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
I wouldn't want to see it used as evidence in court (and I doubt it would be allowed anyway but IANAL) but I could see this being a useful in certain circumstances for generating the photo-realistic equivalent of a police sketch e.g. i
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
In what ways has it grown? It seems easier than ever to track and automate personal finance.
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
Re: the pushback the author got on Twitter; I believe in skepticism towards corporations and marketing claims, but the level of cynicism online towards any new tech idea or product seems a bit out of hand. There's a certain trend, on T
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by smelterdemon 9y ago
I can't speak to the relevance of monoids (I don't have much experience with FP) but to me those examples are helpful in illustrating the definition. It's easy to assume associativity <=> commutativity until presented w

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