NickM

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by NickM 3y ago
Right, that’s true on the “higher repair costs” side of the original post, but I’m talking about the “market prices have gone down so we have to recognize bigger losses on salvage” aspect later in the post, which is caused by changes in fai
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where a car is salvaged, we must crystallize at once any difference between our carrying value and the market value of that car Hang on though, this part has nothing to do with repair costs. This just sounds like an accounting issue, righ
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I am curious, though, why they made Carol a girl. I guess depending on your political agenda they were either trying to be inclusive and promoting gender diversity in STEM, or they were being subtly misogynistic by implying that women are
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Well, frankly, no, that’s not a summary of the article at all.
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by NickM 3y ago
When I was a teenager I had a friend who wanted to build a PC on a very limited budget, and she wanted it to be able to play The Sims 2. Well after much bargain hunting and throwing ideas around, we couldn’t find a way to afford every com
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by NickM 3y ago
Move away? I mean maybe not everyone can easily do that, but as prices go up, fewer people will want to live there, and units will start going unrented until prices come back down. But this is just basic economics. Supply and demand. Are yo
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by NickM 3y ago
People don’t believe it, but cities used to be cheap. I wasn't really aware of this, but was just wondering about it the other day, as it seems like logically they should be cheaper; economies of scale ought to help for both housin
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by NickM 3y ago
Sure, you're technically correct, but when the average person reads "recall" they typically assume something very different. Doubly so since this isn't even a bug fix, just a new requirement to add additional safety chec
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by NickM 3y ago
That's weird, I've had a Model 3 since 2018 and it definitely used to have some issues with phantom braking, but for the last ~year it seems to be totally fixed (at least for highway driving, still sometimes gets confused on surfa
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by NickM 3y ago
Yeah that one bullet point destroyed any trust I might have otherwise given this service. I was excited to try it until they mentioned blockchain. There’s no plausible reason to use a blockchain instead of a traditional database, and many p
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people are conditioned to correlate that with quality Are you sure it’s really just conditioning? Impressionist paintings are obviously a lower fidelity reproduction of reality than photorealistic paintings, yet people tend to like Impres
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by NickM 3y ago
Maybe this is ridiculous but I kinda like the lack of a backlight: it forces me to find nice bright places to play in, and discourages hanging out in the kind of dimly lit areas that tend to sap my energy and mood.
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by NickM 3y ago
Religion gives you a set of things to believe in, a community, and maybe some transcendent experiences. You can still choose to believe whatever you want though even without religion, and there are many other sources of community and transc
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by NickM 3y ago
Yeah, fair, maybe we are in violent agreement :) I agree it is interesting that ketamine seems to work very quickly for some people. Re: your placebo comment, I also agree it's hard to separate it out. One of the tricky things with the
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by NickM 3y ago
Well sure, but I don't see how that contradicts anything I said.
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by NickM 3y ago
Not to downplay the current world problems, but you could make similar arguments at any point in history about any number of big problems humanity has faced. Yet, people still find hope and keep solving problems.
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by NickM 3y ago
An admittedly anecdotal set of my encounters with people who take or have taken anti-depressants is most are on changing set of prescriptions because nothing works continuously and a high percentage of them are ones which no anti-depressan
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by NickM 3y ago
AFAIK, neither the sexual side effects nor the withdraw symptoms are generally considered to be long term much less permanent. They’re often not permanent, but particularly with sexual problems there is a significant minority of people wh
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by NickM 3y ago
To add to this, a tiny one-sentence note about post-SSRI sexual dysfunction is actually buried in the prescribing information for Prozac. It’s not just something on Wikipedia, it’s a known issue in the mainstream medical community (albeit m
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by NickM 3y ago
I wonder how many of the people commenting on this essay read all the way through. It starts out quite lucid and makes some seemingly insightful points, but as the essay goes on he starts to descend into some strange metaphysical ideas abou
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by NickM 3y ago
EVs probably produce more tire particulates but definitely make less brake dust, since most of the braking is regenerative. Not sure how that balances out in the grand scheme of things but it’s not a clear cut thing.
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by NickM 3y ago
This example is a great use case for partial incremental view maintenance systems like ReadySet: you automatically get something like the “prepopulating the cache” section (toward the end of the blog) while only caching the data the applica
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by NickM 3y ago
Supply constraints typically lead to higher prices and higher margins. The fact that the margins have gone up does not somehow imply that the higher prices are something other than inflation.
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by NickM 3y ago
the hard part of that app is just the scale... but a handful of servers running elixir/erlang would handle it without breaking a sweat. Funny you should say that - I’m an Erlang dev and Grindr has tried to recruit me in the past. App
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by NickM 3y ago
I'm not a vegetarian but I like to eat fake meat burgers and stuff like that, and it's really weird to me how sensitive some people get about this. I have friends who get genuinely mad that they call fake meat products "meat&
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by NickM 3y ago
I had no idea battery life was measured in hours It’s not. I know a lot about EVs and I’ve owned a Tesla myself for years, and I don’t know what they’re talking about.
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Stateful Property Testing in Rust(blog.readyset.io)
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by NickM 3y ago
Speaking from experience, there were plenty of normal families who chose homeschooling decades ago. The problem is that the weird people make a lot of noise, and then homeschooling gets a reputation, which causes the self-aware normal folks
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by NickM 3y ago
Yes, there's evidence that eye rubbing is a risk factor for keratoconus. Not sure I follow what your point is about sleeping. Some folks may indeed rub their eyes unconsciously while they sleep, but that doesn't mean it's hea
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by NickM 3y ago
Simple. When the original poster tries a new pair, they assume it may not work. If they happen to feel pain they mentally mark the glasses as “one of the bad ones”. From then on the placebo effect won't apply to that pair because they

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