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by Cpoll 4y ago
> he concluded that if he kept cycling Ironman distances on open roads — 112 miles for the bike leg, which in the race is sandwiched between a 2.4-mile swim and a full marathon — there was a 100 percent chance he would be killed. I&#x2
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Depends on the width of the beam. If it's as wide as a laser pointer, the odds of it hitting anything are infinitesimal. When something's a light year away, changing the bearing of the laser by a degree will cause you to miss it b
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> And of course, the answer is that you are safer with a helmet. I'm not claiming you're wrong, just that it's not a home-run "of course": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Does it matter in practice? The OSP can restore the content and then immediately remove it again for a different reason, and I imagine that would honor the counter-notification.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Sometimes you do a perfect job, and sometimes you do a bad job perfectly. But to avoid any more wordplay: Sometimes you need to use a flawed technique to achieve an end. You can execute that flawed technique perfectly, but that won't m
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> though surely that could be automated these days? The big game engines all have assets or built-in features to do this. Of course, there's still the last 10% of QA and fixing up the ones that aren't properly converted.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Sounds just like an Ian Fleming passage (though I don't think he wrote it?) - plausible-sounding, but not centered in reality.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> Based on the context Personally speaking, it's not always easy to tell which "begging the question" someone means from context. I often have to stop and ask "hold on, do they mean the premise assumes the conclusion?
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by Cpoll 4y ago
/r/wallstreetbets was a weird one because there were so many 'winners.' I think on a smaller scale there's a survivorship bias too. In that sense, it's like deciding to play Russian roulette with a full clip be
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I've always wanted a "watch" (bracelet) that doesn't show the time. Essentially a narrow bracelet with no display and a few buttons on it that I can program, and a vibrating function so I can leave my phone on silent.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
A common containerization philosophy is to use a bare-minimum base image and add only what you need. Something like an Alpine container doesn't come with Bash.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> YAGNI For most people, YAGNI means using convenient Bash-isms, because their scripts won't ever be run on environments that don't have Bash. Edit: Admittedly, someone in this thread pointed out the flaw in my argument, th
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> More hypocritical than that is that I know many such people who then go to create their apps and as soon as they have enough traffic, they'll add adsense to their apps but keep blocking it in others. That's not hypocrisy, at
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by Cpoll 4y ago
For anyone wondering, this is probably referring to: > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> There would have been no forced masking. Could you elaborate? I thought early experiments showed masks reduced transmissibility, and that finding holds up today?
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> To say that Tolkien "intended" for Galadriel to present, in Lord of the Rings, any of the traits one would associate with a kinslaying ruthless warleader For the record, I'm not in this camp. I think it's fair to de
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by Cpoll 4y ago
In other words, ignore the writer's understanding of and intent for for the character because they didn't put it in the right book?
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by Cpoll 4y ago
No, I mean the population of the "dating pool." For example, if a "dating pool" consists of 10 men and 1 woman, and the woman enters into a monogamous relationship with one of the men, we can say that "the top 10% o
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> Mathematically speaking it's impossible. Only if you assume the "dating pool" is 1:1 men/women. If you take the view that it's 10:1 men/women then that conclusion is "obvious." And at least in th
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Possibly. My recollection is that the foundation of SEAL training was by Draper Kauffman, based on bonding he saw between French volunteer combatants in WWII, and their "no man left behind" attitudes. In this sense, the link betwe
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> [legislate away filtering] applicants in this way, what kind of effects will it have on the quality I think that's begging the question, in a way. There are probably ways to modify the "hazing" to be equally effective bu
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by Cpoll 4y ago
That sounds like The Matrix (the movie) logic. In reality, feeding humans is energy inefficient. If anything, it takes multiple watts to end up with one watt of human work. Dishonest accounting is pretending human/animal labor is free.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Apple designs the object made up of those components, selects the suppliers and QAs the components. They're directly involved in the manufacturing. Dewalt (Stanley, etc.) is doing none of that, they're just white-labelling. Essent
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> 63.8% 3:2 is 60%, 2:1 is 66.6~%, therefore the median is 63.3~%. 63.8% is above the median, so strictly speaking it's slightly closer to 2:1 than 3:2.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> Compare that to 45k ICE vehicles fires every year and it appears that EVs are significantly less likely to catch fire. You haven't provided enough information to make a comparison. Googling some numbers, Tesla has sold 2MM cars, s
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by Cpoll 4y ago
The median is meaningless anyway, with the bar to entry being so low. If enough people publish games that no-one buy the median will be $0.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Isn't this kind of logic capable of hand-waving anything away? 100 terawatt hours is no joke, if you can make it seem trivial by dividing by 8B that says more about the method than the number.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> a raspberry pi can pretty much serve 100k req. / second I appreciate the sentiment, but my intuition says that number is too high. What would that look like? I can't picture nginx or haproxy serving up a static 'hello wo
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> I assume many people have used it with no issue This is also a dangerous assumption. If 95% of HN is outside of China, they'll have no issue with the website, but that validation is meaningless for the 5% behind the Great Firewall
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> This article's message is effectively "you kids get off my lawn - and stop being kids, too!" I'm not reading that at all. My reading of the article is: "Being an adult sucks." It doesn't really talk a

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