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by Breza 3y ago
The classic problem with civilian air travel: Gains in airspeed can matter a whole lot less than gains in groundspeed. Getting from your house to the plane and then from the plane to your hotel on the other end can take as long as the fligh
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by Breza 3y ago
Special Forces aren't great in head-to-head combat against well-equipped and well-supplied soldiers who know they're coming. They lose their advantage. Plus they would need a whole lot of resupply.
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by Breza 3y ago
My toddler loves the movie Moana. Turns out part of the movie is based on a real historical time period where Polynesian people stopped sailing long distances to colonize new areas. https://historydaily.org/disneys-moana-dep
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by Breza 3y ago
Honestly, if I'm spending that much money for a ticket, I'd prefer luxury over speed. I don't know how many people would prefer a cramped supersonic aircraft over a trip that takes slightly longer and gives you a lay-down bed
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by Breza 3y ago
I wonder if someone like Google will try to restrain OpenAI's claims.
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by Breza 3y ago
I'm a Lutheran. We believe it's impossible to do enough good to reach God, so you'll never earn your way into heaven by being doing good deeds. Strangely, the church (ELCA) is one of the most active when it comes to actually
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by Breza 3y ago
Agreed. It's like the librarians who responded to the Patriot Act by putting up "The FBI has not been here" signs.
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by Breza 3y ago
I like dtplyr. It shares the vast majority of code with dplyr and runs fast.
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by Breza 3y ago
Have you used sqldf? IMO it's one of the most underappreciated packages in the R ecosystem, especially for people who aren't fluent in R.
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by Breza 3y ago
Same here! Hadley is incredible. He can think, code, and write amazingly well. Lots of people can do two of the three. It's rare to find someone who does all three.
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by Breza 3y ago
I completely agree with you. I think about what I want and R code comes out of my fingers. By comparison, pandas requires more thought to do intermediate-to-advanced things.
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by Breza 3y ago
Well said, I completely agree with you!
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by Breza 4y ago
I have a bunch of my grandpa's professional tools from the '30s-'60s. Other than a motor failing in his electric drill, I've never had problems.
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by Breza 4y ago
I could use that book
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Ask HN: How do I learn how my EV works?
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by Breza 4y ago
R's dbplyr package lets you use the amazing dplyr syntax to query SQL databases.
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by Breza 4y ago
Not GP but I love my WorkTunes. Excellent passive noise protection.
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by Breza 4y ago
Wireless headphones with the option of plugging them in when the battery dies. Best of both worlds. I use an industrial pair with passive noise canceling since I work on a treadmill.
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by Breza 4y ago
There's still more competition in the retail space and greater ability to sell across multiple stores simultaneously.
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by Breza 4y ago
I'm a native English speaker and a strong writer, but I still find it useful to have my copy reviewed by GPT4 to see if there's room for improvement. It sometimes suggests additions that I should make. I also find it useful for pa
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by Breza 4y ago
I'd be interested to hear how well it works. In my experience, GPT is good at common legal issues, but pretty bad with nuance or unusual situations. And it can hallucinate precedent.
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by Breza 4y ago
I completely agree. Being able to generate a bash command that includes a complicated regular expression is like magic to me. Also, I consider myself a strong writer, but GPT4 can look at things I write and suggest useful improvements. Thes
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by Breza 4y ago
If we found signs of extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe, I think governments would celebrate. The president of the United States would try to be in the meeting where it was announced just so his face would be on every story abo
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by Breza 4y ago
No kidding, being able to know the exact type of content that interests you would make Google Assistant much more powerful, not to mention their other projects.
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by Breza 4y ago
I also moved to Feedly, but the shuttering of Reader meant that many websites stopped posting RSS links, and some big sites stopped supporting it altogether.
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by Breza 4y ago
In hindsight, it seems that Google Reader could have offered a continuing alternative to social media. If Google had kept throwing resources behind it, they could have held a unique advantage against Facebook. It never would have gotten as
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by Breza 4y ago
Greetings fellow millennial!
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by Breza 4y ago
You can restrict someone with a license even if you can't copyright the underlying technology.
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by Breza 4y ago
I strongly recommend the book Normal Accidents. It was written in the '80s and the central argument is that some systems are so complex that even the people using them don't really understand what's happening, and serious acc
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by Breza 4y ago
I have a tangential question. I remember distributed processing being a "next big thing" back in the day. The idea was that a company could run complex operations by borrowing some power from all their employee's computers. S

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