JshWright

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by JshWright 3y ago
It doesn’t say the paper was the entity engaged in the raid. If I didn’t know the broader context, I would assume that sentence meant “A newspaper was investigating a police chief at the time the police chief’s home was raided by another la
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by JshWright 3y ago
It’s definitely a confusing title though, as the pronoun “his” seems way more likely to refer to the police chief than the “paper”.
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by JshWright 3y ago
If you genuinely believe it's a good deal, feel free put your money where your mouth is.
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by JshWright 3y ago
And criminal or not, all inmates are human beings.
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by JshWright 3y ago
The only thing you use your cell phone for is making a single phone call? Literally nothing else? Also, where are you spending more than $25 for a hamburger? I'm sure you can find some high end restaurants charing that, but even in pla
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by JshWright 3y ago
So if you're "good enough" you can train your cells to use something other than glucose to produce ATP?
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by JshWright 3y ago
Those narrow use cases definitely seem to overlap with Twitter though. Obviously Twitter is not exclusively about video and computer games, but a subset of Twitter users certainly use Twitter "for transmission of messages among compute
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by JshWright 3y ago
I’d love for Firefox to be my daily driver, but I just can’t give up the quality of life improvement I get from TouchID based WebAuthn.
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by JshWright 3y ago
"People" aren't the ones deploying chatbots, companies are, because they successfully deflect cases. If you think most people have done everything to avoid reaching out to support, I can only imagine you haven't worked i
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by JshWright 3y ago
> The thing is, I wouldn't be asking for support if I was able to find a fix for my issue in the first place. You are the exception though, the vast majority of people don't do that. Those are the users the chatbot is designed
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by JshWright 3y ago
> The thing is nobody seems willing to let the system actually do anything except escalate to a person, so why bother? Because you are not the target user for the bot. For every user that proactively reads the FAQs, there's 10 more
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by JshWright 3y ago
The stronger colors and flavors occur later in the season. The warmer weather allows more bacteria growth in the sap, which metabolizes some of the sugar into other compounds.
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by JshWright 3y ago
The goal is to evaporate the water away. For every liter of finished syrup, you need to get rid of approximately 40 liters of water.
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by JshWright 3y ago
Three questions in I thought “hey, this reminds me of that recent 99% Invisible episode about restrictions on mechanized equipment”. Then I got to the explanation at the end and sure enough…
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by JshWright 3y ago
That's only the most recent incident... A few years back he was caught silently editing users posts that were critical of him.
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by JshWright 3y ago
Sounds like it was vegetarian, bordering on vegan.
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by JshWright 3y ago
The timing of the changes was another major factor. Most of the app developers I’ve seen comment were more than happy to pay for API access (assuming Reddit set a good faith price point), but 30 days is not enough time to make that transiti
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by JshWright 3y ago
There is currently a propeller driven VTOL aircraft operating on Mars. The thin atmosphere definitely poses some challenges, but those are offset a little by the lower gravity. It's not easy, but it can definitely be done (as Ingenuity
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by JshWright 3y ago
A subreddit is a group of private individuals, go someplace else. Just move on.
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by JshWright 3y ago
Do you believe reddit’s API pricing is reasonable?
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by JshWright 3y ago
Your friend’s dad’s death is also my (very trivial) connection to Kaczynski. That morning our family had gone Christmas tree shopping, and the tree was scheduled to be delivered later that day. As it turned out, the delivery driver was also
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by JshWright 3y ago
You can be a very responsible person and still not be able to cover a sudden expense that is a significant fraction (if not a multiple) of you annual income.
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by JshWright 3y ago
I'm not aware of any AEDs that will pace. There are devices that can function as both an AED and an external pacer. Most cardiac monitors used in ambulances have an AED mode that can be used by EMTs, in addition to the more advanced fe
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by JshWright 3y ago
> If I'm dying, I'll take the CPR. It's better than the alternative. No, it isn't... There are many outcomes of resuscitation that are not at all better than simply passing peacefully where you were. A lot of resuscit
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by JshWright 3y ago
CPR alone is very, very unlikely to reverse cardiac arrest. It's possible your neighbor lost consciousness, but wasn't actually without a pulse, and CPR just woke them up.
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by JshWright 3y ago
Just to be clear, a "heart attack" commonly refers to a myocardial infarction (part of the hear tis being deprived of blood, generally due to an obstruction in a coronary artery). Someone in the early stages of a heart attack will
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by JshWright 3y ago
>There’s no getting around breaking ribs You're usually "just" dislocating the ribs from the sternum (and often tearing the cartilage at that joint). Doesn't feel any less crunchy though...
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by JshWright 3y ago
Especially CPR alone. Assuming a defibrillator wasn't used, there's a non-zero chance this wasn't actually a cardiac arrest, but rather a loss of consciousness and the bystander couldn't find a pulse that was actually pr
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by JshWright 3y ago
Can the chat be handed off to a human seamlessly in the event the bot can't answer the question?
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by JshWright 4y ago
This is the reason I opt to pay for TSA PreCheck (in the US, obviously). Not because it saves hassle (though it certainly does that), but because it pretty effectively filters out first timers.

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