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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Just to be clear, I don't think this is useful or good legislation. While the idea that the state is a shady body that's out to fleece an honest and unsuspecting peoples is a great story beat, I just don't think it's particularly accurate to reality and we shouldn't pretend that it is just because it sounds good in a HN comment.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Well over a decade actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_(gun) but of course just ignore the context of the parent comment about what's legally considered a firearm.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence that a significant portion of their polled constituents want restrictions on printed ghost guns. Is that more or less believable than a manufacturing lobby pushing legislators in NY state for printer DRM?

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

The only usable part a plastic 3D printer will make for you is the receiver, which is the whole point, to circumvent that very narrow legal classification. You're right about alternative lawmaking avenues, but given the 2a pushback on controlling "replacement parts" Americans are kind of stuck with the bed they made.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Did you mean to reply to the BYD lidar thread on the front page right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579927

قبل 12 شهرًاdiscuss

The article's author co-wrote Abundance.

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They couldn't "back then" either, I would argue.

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قبل 4 سنواتdiscuss

Not being able to have multi-DPI in X is what moved me over. Scaling one display makes everything fuzzy and increased my idle load substantially, though maybe a different compositor might have given different results.

EDIT: I should also mention that my experience is overall positive, I use swaywm so config and setup is easier than with X (no xorg.conf to tinker with every driver update) with a small stability tradeoff. Sometimes sessions will crash out when doing things with the GPU dmabuffers, which for a lot of people isn't really acceptable, but also who's usually using dmabuffers?

Oh and mouse interactions can be really wrong when going between xwayland windows and native ones.

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

From our experience here in Queensland, it's definitely not lost. We managed to get on top of a delta outbreak that peaked at NZ's current daily cases with a week of lockdown less than a month ago.

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Of course! I should have mentioned that I absolutely agree with the thrust of your original comment :) I should have been less confrontational with my opening statement.

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I'm a little confused, you seem to be using choice and environment like they are synonymous here. It's a small nitpick but, even if this is environmental or epigenetic it doesn't necessarily mean that people get to choose the environment they exist in, at least in their formative years.

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

I believe the original assertion was that the word 'idiot' is often used as shorthand for people that have different priors and indoctrination as you, so to propose that engineers are somehow less susceptible to that seems like the more questionable take here.

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What, you've never met a stupid engineer?

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Those societal advantages are only that way because of the defaults the article is describing. You could imagine a set of norms that better encourages and supports young parents (in child rearing as well as personal development).

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

It's also FUD, it's trivial to add a heater to the LEDs and still come in at a lower wattage than a tradition lamp.

قبل 7 سنواتdiscuss

This completely ignores the fact that below a certain line, B no longer gets to participate as freely as A in the space. A gets to demonstrate higher returns as well as higher losses and still be considered a better option even though in absolute terms they have contributed greater losses than B. "Reasonable to assume, follow the trend" is just so braindead, and basically no better than flipping a coin; if you're are absent of any other evidence, then maybe you shouldn't be using that to segregate the population in to the poors and those-who-know-better.

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That is assuming that the person that owns the wealth is the sole driver for growth of that wealth. Can we stop pretending that being wealthy is empirical evidence that you know how to grow an investment?