harpiaharpyja

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Comment · 3 days ago
Or you know, you can read it and then evaluate your sense of what it's worth based on the actual content.
Comment · 6 days ago
(Presumably you mean the guy affected by the decision?)
Comment · 17 days ago
I think it's for the best to just accept that retaining control over your machine is just incompatible with the competitive online gaming, and that's fine. There is plenty of gaming to be had that isn't competitive, and/or isn't online.

And in fact there are many online games that are competitive not in the narrow sense used above, but in a more general sense where people don't cheat because they choose not to, usually because a sense of community does exist among players of such games.

Comment · 29 days ago
To add to that, my advice is to look for LED lights where the AC-to-DC conversion is done by a power brick separate from the lights. Not only does that mean you can replace them separately, but generally these will be much more robust as the power electronics won't be as constrained by size.

I wish it caught on to have LED lights powered by a barrel jack DC plug like you have for most electronics. It would be a huge win for longevity. Sure it's not backwards compatible with fixtures designed for light bulbs, but the cases we're discussing here are complete light fixture replacements anyways... The fixture could have a barrel plug that you connect to an inexpensive commodity DC power brick which you then hide away in the ceiling.

Comment · 29 days ago
It's funny how popular it is to take an extremely durable and long-lived light-generating technology and pair it with the cheapest short-lived power electronics.
Comment · 1 month ago
Or to bring it back to the original context... Reducing volatility would be reducing the impact of bad weather on your harvest, absorbing volatility is finding someone to cover your losses. (presumably by giving up some profits on the good years. It's like a financial low pass filter)
Comment · 1 month ago
With all the attention on the link between compression and intelligence lately it is neat to have this example of how creating a encoding scheme naturally allows you to create new (likely) never before seen flags.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks, that was insightful.

Personally, I think the main legitimate use of the ticket pattern is when dealing with hardware. In which case your global hidden state is actually the physical world and can't be eliminated.

Otherwise, I think you have a good point.

Comment · 2 months ago
Pastimes are in fact incredibly valuable. And it's possible the motivations that led to the creation of this artifact wasn't just all about the end product.
Comment · 2 months ago
Maybe the Korean live stream map will depict it as a Korean territory
Comment · 2 months ago
Exactly right? Why would anyone expect a competent security outfit to tell the reporters anything?
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been introducing rust to our embedded projects at work for the past few years and I can really empathize with this.

The rust embedded ecosystem seems to have way too much focus on ownership and safe handling of peripherals. Exactly as you say there's not many of them, you're limited to what's in the hardware. These are not things that you are dynamically spinning up and tearing down dozens of instances all the time but the HALs I've seen all treat them that way. The result is a lot of abstraction that creates a ton of needless boilerplate.

I would rather these things just get out of the way and let me focus on building abstraction in the business logic where it's needed.

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