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by Apes 1y ago
> They dropped 60 eggs each from three different heights (8, 9, and 10 millimeters) Based on the photos, they measured this as the distance from the surface of the edge to the surface they were dropping it onto. But for the vertical egg
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by Apes 1y ago
It's very expensive, but Geisha varietal coffee might be of interest to you. It's extremely smooth, and tastes more like a light tea than a coffee. I've only had it once, and it was by far the best cup of coffee I've eve
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by Apes 2y ago
It feels like "Democratic and open" in the US has become "shadowy oligarchy and kleptocracy run for the benefit of whoever can control the media propaganda machine controlling the masses"
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by Apes 2y ago
I really liked Shoup's book. It contains a lot of practical advice what causes issues with parking, lays out bad designs that promote parking issues, talks through how to resolve these issues, and even covers how to sell it in a way th
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by Apes 2y ago
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by Apes 2y ago
RMSE of current digital clocks rounding down is roughly 34.5 seconds. RMSE of proposed rounding to closest is 17.5 seconds. The new method is roughly 17 seconds more accurate on average. Does this reduced error make a significant difference
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by Apes 2y ago
I'm curious how this compares to using fins. Just at a glance, I suspect it causes more drag and is more cumbersome to swim with. But the big thing is if it's more efficient overall than fins.
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by Apes 3y ago
It's not quite that simple. Sonic focuses their fiber services only in areas that are most profitable to install fiber. As far as I know, they only install fiber on telephone poles that have free space, in areas that are high density.
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by Apes 3y ago
In practical terms, fixing merge conflicts and running git bisect are a lot more time consuming when you have a lot of merge commits.
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by Apes 3y ago
If everyone else is spending all their time cleaning up the broken shit he built but won't fix, and he continues to produce more broken shit faster than everyone else can keep up with fixing it, he is a 10X programmer. Not because he&#
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by Apes 3y ago
1.5x the features, 3x the code would roughly result in 1/3 development velocity, 3x bugs, and 3x incidents going forward. Even assuming all your developers are magically given a solid understanding of the new code, all remaining veloci
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by Apes 3y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels like modern architecture is about cutting labor and material costs as much as possible. Old architecture had craftsmen put a lot of time into things like smooth plaster walls, molding, wainscoting, herring
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by Apes 3y ago
The ACA changed the insurance cost, but it doesn't change having to pay for the surgery and medication.
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by Apes 3y ago
Of course such an extreme proposal is going to seem silly - but what about outlawing any advertisement for sugary goods towards children, coupled with a heavy tax on sugary goods? Now that not only seems possible, but seems like only a matt
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by Apes 3y ago
I guess for you that might be an upside of the American Healthcare system - fat people pay more for health insurance, and have to pay money out of pocket for their surgery and medications.
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by Apes 3y ago
I think "demo" or "toy" or "exhibit" would be a better term than "game", since there's not really any story, or rules, or objectives, or anything resembling a normal gameplay loop. The level of i
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by Apes 3y ago
You can use a lowercase c, and it won't count as a roman numeral.
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by Apes 3y ago
Yeah, roughly the 1920s through the next 20 years.
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by Apes 3y ago
Trying to wallpaper over complex and deep rooted systemic issues by just declaring the outcomes we want to be law is the toxic zeitgeist that will probably both be our downfall, as well as what our era is best known for in the future. Creat
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by Apes 3y ago
That's not true - Inflation + growth is what makes a pension fund designed for generating votes possible. Any system that intentionally pays out significantly more than people pay in is going to have sustainability problems. It'
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by Apes 3y ago
A bit different. The GPS restriction was to prevent GPS on a device moving over 400 mph (I think that's roughly the speed?), and to limit accuracy to within a few meters rather than a few centimeters. The restrictions were intended to
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by Apes 4y ago
All employees across the globe are cheap compared to even a single C-level, but how many C-levels have you seen let go during this "recession"?
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by Apes 4y ago
It's so much worse than even what you say. This article is just a continuous slow flow stream of gas lighting. Like, if the problem you notice is 7,500 pound vehicles designed to kill pedestrians, isn't the logical solution to any
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by Apes 4y ago
An organization entrenched with managers like this is not salvageable. There's no "right" way to fix organizational rot this extensive from the bottom up. The organization has evolved into a parasite that exists only to suck
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by Apes 4y ago
> it's super easy I have a suspicion that you're not putting the source for the specific versions of glibc and Linux you used into every one of your projects.
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by Apes 4y ago
Why does it cost more then?
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by Apes 4y ago
You're right in the sense that if you die because your head cracked open like a watermelon on the pavement, that doesn't count as a head injury - it counts as a fatality.
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by Apes 4y ago
The chance of a habitable planet happening could just as easily be 1 in 10^10000000000000000000000000, and it was just a freak occurrence it happened at all. Just because something happened once doesn't tell you much about the odds of
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by Apes 4y ago
I guess it logically makes sense to not begrudge the person who scratches off a winning lottery ticket while everyone else around them is getting laid off, but it definitely feels in poor taste to send someone on an expensive company sponso
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by Apes 4y ago
Other than the fossil fuels already being used, there doesn't seem to be anything energy dense enough for commercial air travel coming any time soon. Maybe some kind of in-air carbon capture on the engines?

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