LarsAlereon

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by LarsAlereon 9mo ago
I'm interested in either human composting for end of life, but it tends to cost significantly more than cremation, but not as much as burial. For a cost effective alternative I've researched "water cremation", which inst
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by LarsAlereon 9mo ago
"It either is AI-generated slop or it looks like AI-generated slop for no artistic or thematic reason whatsoever." The artistic and thematic reason is obvious. It's a commentary on the show and AI art in general. To ignore th
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by LarsAlereon 9mo ago
Tory Bruno seems cool, and my impression is that he's been held back by a conservative, risk-averse culture in the ULA board that really only worked until SpaceX and other competitors proved themselves.
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by LarsAlereon 10mo ago
So basically this article is 50/50 insightful and helpful feedback from a Framework customer, mixed with gripes by someone who bought the wrong laptop for them. Part of the reason this is getting a sour response is that most laptop com
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
It's one thing to advocate not over-engineering your minimum viable product, but it's quite another to normalize releasing Potemkin village products and hoping customers pay before they realize the product doesn't work.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I agree. From what I've been told, people's supervisors just wash their hands of it and say "talk to HR to work it out."
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
From what I've heard from low-level employees, HR was basically entirely automated some years ago and the HR staff existed as a kind of helpdesk to solve exceptions. A simple example I heard is that employees are automatically fired af
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
It looks like the top-end estimate is that the Fukushima disaster may have caused up to 500 additional total lifetime deaths from cancer. Roughly 23,000 people per year died of diseases attributed to coal power plants in the United States a
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I think it's primarily a fundamental cost issue. It's simply far cheaper to get an equivalent amount of energy from fracking a natural gas formation than having to literally dig coal out of the ground.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I was wondering if it was just me noticing a severe and rapid decline from that speech. If I didn't know better I would have assumed he was drunk.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I feel like this is the opposite lesson than you should learn. Firing people sucks for everyone involved, but investing a lot of time trying to interpret tea leaves to determine if candidates are a good fit doesn't have a return-on-inv
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Anyone who has done any level of chemistry, including home chemistry, has observed how important stirring is to dissolution. If you just dump some ingredient into a container with solvent without stirring, you're going to end up with u
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I'm thinking this might be related to voice-over-WiFi registration, I'd be curious if that was previously enabled while a SIM was installed. Alternatively, if the phone was purchased through the carrier it will have their provisio
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
This seems more like a hardware or controller failure. There's no way Windows could cause all sectors to return identical contents even if it wanted to without hours of writes.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
They're struggling with employee turnover because the boss won't pay competitive wages. Why won't the boss pay competitive wages? I have some ideas, but rather than project I'll just say that's the problem to solve.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
This is more of a change in terminology than a reduction in capabilities. They are replacing 9,600 long ton Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers with 9,700 long ton Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
The 2026 US budget has a 70% funding reduction. This evacuation was for medical reasons, so for privacy the information released will be limited. In an emergency it makes more sense to fly from New Zealand than all the way from the USA.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
As a man who is not from India, could you please provide some cultural context on this number? Is this the price that would be expected to be paid to the family of a woman who matched these specifications in order to get married?
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Being cool is about being cringe without being apologetic about it.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
My main complaint in older cars is that the cup holders are too small. My main complaint in newer cars is that they are to shallow. A common way to describe the torque in electric cars is "enough to dump all the cup holders" which
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
I never lost weight through increased physical activity because my hunger levels always scaled to match my Calorie burning. Two things that have made major durable differences for me include reducing my sugary beverage intake and increasing
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
In general landfilling (in modern, properly designed landfills) should be regarded as a kind of carbon sequestration. It's actually pretty hard to be better for the environment than that.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
From the paper: "Maximal complexity arises in systems that achieve an optimal balance between order and randomness. According to criticality theory, this critical point characterizes the state of maximal computational efficiency and op
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Kikkoman has a double-fermented soy sauce in their product line, brewing starts with their regular soy sauce instead of salt water. The flavor is much deeper and more complex, it's actually less salty than regular soy sauce.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
It's true that old-growth wood is stronger and denser than modern wood, but it's absolutely not true that obsolete windows made of old-growth wood are better than modern windows or should be retained in a restoration if not requir
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Looking at some of the comparisons, the data appears to be (I could be wrong) scraped from this article by Dr Larrin Thomas based on his personal research and testing, possibly also including some of the other articles on his website: http
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
It seems it's because Japan allows LTE service on 1427.9Mhz and higher. It looks like Europe starts at 1452Mhz, and the US keeps this entire band clear from consumer applications.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
This new product called "Memex" does not appear to be related in any way to the previous ones mentioned on Wikipedia. It's just a good sounding invented name.
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Late to this, but I wanted to wait till I was home and could type on a keyboard: Overall, it feels like Aella, justifiably, wants to feel like she has passed a bunch of filters for a guy to consider her a high-qualified mate. This is both b
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by LarsAlereon 1y ago
Tesla was the only Western car company serious about making electric cars. Every other company is very clear that they make gas cars, don't want to make electric cars, and will only do so if forced by the government. Consumers only wan

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