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- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 hours ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 4 days ago:
I am the Walrus?
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 4 days ago:
Interesting, TIL — thanks!
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 5 days ago:
Books has become e-books.
To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 5 days ago:
Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 5 days ago:
It makes for a mean cappuccino, and is environmentally much, much lower impact.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 1 week ago:
I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on receipt…
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 week ago:
CC “debt” that’s paid off in full every month is debt in the same sense that eating at a typical restaurant puts you in debt.
Don’t get me wrong, unmanageable CC debt is a real thing, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of non-graphical utilities — basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.
I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is “developer friendly” — tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 weeks ago:
It’s not all bad — remote work policy is now a major topic. You’d be laughed out of any number of job interviews for asking about remote work policy, whereas now it’s a completely fair question.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
Having a CC doesn’t mean you have debt…
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 3 weeks ago:
“Why the HELL should I have to press 2 for English?”
— bumper sticker I would see on my bike commute back in the day.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 3 weeks ago:
With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 3 weeks ago:
Except that this problem doesn’t specify distance between horseman, so I think it’s a bit bogus — no.need to resolve an individual person to be able to tell that they’re there. And for hair color, if you make assumptions about the clothes being worn, you could perhaps infer color of hair, even if the hair isn’t resolvable (a person being a “single pixel” would have a different hue depending).
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 3 weeks ago:
Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 4 weeks ago:
This is the real big brain hack with decibels — you can use a linear scale, it’s just that the units are logarithmic instead.
- Comment on Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted. 5 weeks ago:
This sounds like something Gowron would say…
- Comment on Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted. 5 weeks ago:
Why the HUGE, irreconcilable disparity between your front page and the opinion section?
This is always how it goes, as it should. Horrible opinions shouldn’t affect the reporting; and horrible reporting shouldn’t affect the opinions. Different publication, but newsliteracy.wsj.com/news-opinion/
It’s best IMHO to think of them as two completely separate entities.
- Comment on uhhh overleaf you say 1 month ago:
I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn’t sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to
\mathrm); googlinglatex residuedid not produce the search results I was hoping for… - Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
This is obvious though — currently, you might test a drug on mice, then on primates, and finally on humans (as an example). It would be faster to skip the early bits and go straight to human testing.
…but that is very, very, very wrong. Science of course doesn’t care about right and wrong, nor does it care if you “believe” in it, which is the beautiful thing about science — so a scientifically sound experiment is a scientifically sound experiment regardless of ethical considerations. (Which does not mean we should be doing it of course!)
Now, taking a step back, maybe you’re right that, in the long run, throwing ethics out the window would actually slow things down, as it would (rightfully) cause backlash. But that’s getting into a whole “sociology of science” discussion.
- Comment on see the joke is that someone else does the work 1 month ago:
This is all based, most likely, on Griffiths’ textbook. Quoting here from this post reddit.com/…/magnetic_fields_do_no_work_but_magne… :
The statement “magnetic fields do no work” is incorrect. Griffiths has mislead a generation of physics students on this. A correct version of the statement is that “magnetic fields do no work on objects with no magnetic moments” which is rather trivial. One could also correctly make the same statement about electric fields. However, electric monopoles are very common, so a situation in which there are no electric moments never occurs in normal circumstances.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 1 month ago:
Jobs created toxic work environments.
…and so did Linus Torvalds* — he’s certainly not the embodiment of capitalism. But I absolutely have a huge amount of respect for Torvalds, even if I don’t approve of his way of his interpersonal/professional style.
(I used to run Arch btw [but I run Debian now].)
*He’s supposedly taken steps in the right direction here and has made improvements.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Yeah, without being a policy junkie I think a reasonable step would be to have Prop 13 only happy to primary residence — investment real estate would be subject to a “wealth tax,” but folks wouldn’t get priced out of their primary home due to gentrification.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Right, that’s a huge downside for sure.
Property tax is on the one hand a wealth tax, which sounds like a great idea; but on the other hand, it’s a wealth tax that disproportionately affects people with the bulk of their assets tied up in real estate — which often means middle class homeowners.
So while you can certainly look at prop 13 as “good” in that folks don’t get priced out of their existing homes, it of course gets used to the advantage of rent seekers, etc.
It’s…complicated.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
California disagrees: …wikipedia.org/…/1978_California_Proposition_13
Property tax is assessed when there’s a sale, and otherwise changes very slowly. It’s a controversial measure.
- Comment on This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting. 2 months ago:
Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.
- Comment on Found these in a cabinet at work. Boss told me to make them disappear. 2 months ago:
They were thinking of making a Minority Report adaptation (with Arnold, not Cruise) as the sequel to Total Recall, with the mutant Martians as the precogs. Could have been a fun one!
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 2 months ago:
If it’s a campus bus it’s almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 2 months ago:
Some bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it’s a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!