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by Swizec 2y ago
I used to get sleep paralysis a lot. Almost daily. Easiest to trigger when you’re falling asleep but your mind is racing. At one point you’ll notice that your body has fallen asleep but your mind has not yet. At this point you have two opti
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by Swizec 2y ago
> How did enough birds survive post-impact in order for them to still exist, if their ‘air sack’ lungs are so sensitive to air quality? The k-pg extinction was instant in a geologic sense, but in terms of individual animals it felt more
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I generally like being born in 2006. Before iPad kids and such I was a high school senior in 2006. Growing up with computers becoming exponentially faster and better every 6 months was freakin’ amazing and I’m happy to have seen it. &g
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Like it or not, you (yes, you) are a slave to your internal chemistry. No amount of willpower or happy thoughts will cause your hormones or neurotransmitter levels into the homeostasis you want. If your chemistry is off, your physical
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by Swizec 2y ago
> What if personal projects are not meant to be finished? The key is deciding on 2 things before you start anything: 1. What is the goal? 2. How will I know it’s done? With this approach you can start side projects purely t
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by Swizec 2y ago
Active safety on big cars struggles tho. In my experience (from rentals) stopping distances are horrendous, handling is awful, everything wobbles like you’re on a roller coaster, and you can barely see where you’re going. I once drove a Sub
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Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them(economist.com)
8 points by Swizec 2y ago|4 comments
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by Swizec 2y ago
For me Django and ActiveRecord stand out as 2 good examples of what an ORM should be like. Both feel like they make the simple stuff super easy, the complex stuff figure outable, and the super hard stuff trivially possible with raw SQL and
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by Swizec 2y ago
As someone who speeds on highways (but not in cities/towns), I wish more people sped. The left lane is for crime, get out of the way.
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by Swizec 2y ago
People still find unexploded WW1 munitions on the Isonzo front in the Alps. Regular iron harvests in Verdun too.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> And politics, well, only for people who do not agree with him it is an issue. But that's normal in politics, is it not? 50% is a big chunk of your target market to piss off
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by Swizec 2y ago
> What is a behemoth in your opinion? I drive a Camry Toyota Camry 1979 – 980–1,060 kg (2,161–2,337 lb) Toyota Camry 2024 – 1,480–1,660 kg (3,262–3,659 lb) This is the problem: All cars are getting bigger and heavier. By a lot. But us sq
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Like, you can't make a column of lists-of-strings. Most relational databases have supported lists-of-strings (arrays) for about 10 years now. All of them supported lists-of-strings even before that, if you were okay doing a bit of
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by Swizec 2y ago
> So you're saying women didn't tend to be excluded from the formal economy? That's news to me. No I’m saying the 1-income household utopia was built on someone doing that work. Usually unseen, unsung, and poorly rewarde
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by Swizec 2y ago
Yep. We weren’t quite as communist as that, but my parents used to share stories of going on work brigades in high school. Altho they must’ve had the mellower 1970’s version that was more about building the socialist spirit than getting act
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by Swizec 2y ago
> The nature of work was also dramatically different in the past with the overwhelming majority of people being independently employed, or working at extremely small local businesses. Said businesses would also generally double as the st
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by Swizec 2y ago
> For your next act, could you tell us how the children yearn for the mines? No but I can tell you that both my surviving grandparents worked in the local factory and that at my great grandma’s farm every able bodied man woman and child
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Something that substitutes the effect of "one spouse works, one spouse stays home" but without the sexism this time This more or less only existed in the upper classes and for a brief few decades after ww2 when global economy
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Complicated topic? The information for "100% understanding" might not even be written Bjarne Stroustop, creator of C, famously rates his C knowledge as 7/10
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I'd love to hear about what you think is "untrustworthy" about converting from kilometres to miles so the audience can visualize the distance. 1000 km = 621 miles, this is a fact. 1000km is not an exact figure. It’s roun
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by Swizec 2y ago
> The public only has a finite attention span. Rap has gone through so many changes over the past 20 years Eminem is the 5th most listened to artist on Spotify right now . His first album came out in 1996 – 28 years ago. So we know it&#
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by Swizec 2y ago
There are 3 hobbies: 1. Doing the thing 2. Talking about the thing 3. Nerding about the gear for the thing Every activity has a mix of all 3 types of folk. It’s ok to be in it for the gear if that gets your juices flowing. Sellers love you.
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by Swizec 2y ago
In my experience being the hero is fantastic … until you want to go on vacation, have a sick day, change teams, or get promoted. Hard to promote someone irreplaceable. Always code (or mentor) yourself out of the job and let others play with
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Louie Leonardo climbs inside a boiler and tries not to get knocked over by an industrial power tool Dangerous jobs pay a lot, yep. How long can you do a physical job like this for though? What’s your body going to feel like after? Thin
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce. I use lite-youtube on my site for this
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> The granularity of that could really only be matched by cameras and vision models, which I expect cities couldn’t pull off as a comprehensive ML solution being simply too technically complex The systems I heard about in college used ca
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Many intersections don't have traffic sensors. When I heard about this in college the systems used the existing CCTV surveillance network to analyze traffic.
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by Swizec 2y ago
Why do we need Google to do this? I remember learning 10+ years ago in college that (I think) Paris was using AI to dynamically optimize traffic lights to manage congestion. It was called machine learning back then, of course. The oldest pa
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by Swizec 2y ago
I didn't say fuel. I said carbon sequestration :) > Peatlands are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store. They store more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined. Damaged peatlands are a major source of gr
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Why SQL Is Forever(swizec.com)
3 points by Swizec 2y ago|0 comments

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