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by Swizec 3y ago
FortNine is great but the conclusion in this video is a little silly. The best result comes from threshold braking with ABS enabled. Yeah no shit. As described in the video, motorcycles perform funny under braking. If you slam the brakes to
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Money falls out of armoured bank trucks all over highways when it’s supposed to be secured in the back sometimes I had a few classmates back in high school whose uncles could get you cheap Nike, Adidas, Calvin Klein etc that fell out o
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A $13.5M Dirt Lot Explains San Francisco'sHousing Crisis(sfstandard.com)
34 points by Swizec 3y ago|0 comments
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Oh my god, as a Scandinavian, the whole American thing about boobs is so annoying! It seems like the internet really want to force me to be shocked about seeing a chest, it's so weird My favorite are medical tiktokers sharing gyne
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I still haven't found a great resource that covers this middle ground, which seems to me to be where a lot of the power of these approaches is going to reside. Read papers, build intuition, experiment. That last part may be the mo
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by Swizec 3y ago
Author probably means the web and forgot that the internet ever existed. Which is funny because kids these days use the internet a lot more than they use the web. That said, I’m from ye olde 1987 and we only got internet in the house in 200
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I beg to disagree. Maybe this explanation is English-specific, i.e. many languages have a much stricter grammar that children learn for a decade or so? Divjak sounds like a slavic last name. English probably wasn’t their first language
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by Swizec 3y ago
> my Golf had a REAR collision warning which would fully engage the brakes I once had a rental engage full brakes when reversing out of a parking spot because a shadow fell across the rear camera. Car stopped so violently I thought I hit
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Which is why all the LeetCode interviews always struck me as odd 90% of leetcode is choosing the right data structure. If your algorithm doesn’t wanna come together, you probably missed a better way to model the data.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Unless you are a seer with perfect precognition Even then ain't nobody in a 10 person seed-stage startup got time, resources, or need to build the database you'll want to have when you're a 600 person Series C monster.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> 5. Never remove a name. > Removing a named schema component at any level is a breaking change for programs that depend on that name. Never remove a name. I agree with this in theory and have seen it go oh so very wrong in practice.
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Lessons learned from running GPT-4 on lots of data using the same task(swizec.com)
1 points by Swizec 3y ago|0 comments
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by Swizec 3y ago
That’s okay, a conversation log is no substitute for documentation. And we all know this, which is why we complain that discord is bad as a community support/documentation replacement.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Just because it’s an email/message doesn’t mean it’s not a meeting. The number of hours I’ve wasted having intricate discussions on Slack or Email instead of jumping in a call for 5 minutes is too damn high. But everyone’s busy so find
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by Swizec 3y ago
Gough is pronounced like cough. Not that surprising, just a very old way of spelling
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by Swizec 3y ago
It’s an idiom that means I never want to do this again. Even if I waited an infinite amount of time, it would still be too soon to have to write httpd.conf or nginx.conf files again. https://hinative.com/questions/33745
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by Swizec 3y ago
If I never again have to write a httpd.conf or nginx.conf file from scratch it will be too soon.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> The people who use Vercel don't know anything about how to deploy on AWS Ehhhh. I’ve been deploying to AWS professionally for years and I’d choose Vercel for a personal project any day of the week. Life’s too short to play devops&
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Is the phone correct? If so, I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for a bit of ear health. Noise cancelling headphones/earbuds solved this problem for me. With noise cancelling I can keep volume below 20% and have a
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by Swizec 3y ago
In most of Europe (and probably elsewhere), you can’t throw a rock without hitting some sort of historically significant thing. We used to smoke weed on the local Roman wall. It was also a popular destination for rock climbers to practice.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> If the documents contain a variety of ideas I've found chunking by sub-headings works really well. But here's a dirty secret I've learned as a writer: Your document can only ever contain 1 idea. That's the most that
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by Swizec 3y ago
If social media use has been casually linked to depression and friends, that’s kinda like coating your brain with tar. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-social-m...
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yes everyone wants to sell more, but social media companies purposefully try to make their product addictive. There are entire teams of psychologists and behavioral experts figuring out how to maximize engagement through manipulating your e
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by Swizec 3y ago
Think less “app too good” and more “big tobacco strategy”. Because let’s not kid ourselves: that’s exactly what these apps are trying to do – become as addictive as possible. On purpose.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Does the father whose daughter didn’t come home from school care if the “civilian casualty” was deliberate or accidental? “Stop killing kids” sounds much more impactful than “establish rules of engagement to minimize collateral damage”. Lan
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by Swizec 3y ago
GPS often fails in dense cities with tall buildings. Also in mountainous areas with sharp terrain like the Julian Alps. I imagine a dense jungle could pose similar challenges. If nothing else, a gps won’t help if you can’t find a route to w
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by Swizec 3y ago
All my loneliest moments have been while surrounded by people and all my least lonely moments have been while alone. Spending time with people is easy. Making and keeping a real connection, now that's harder.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> key to the building's stability and durability Key to the building’s stability and durability are the steel reinforced cement corners and support columns. The bricks in between, especially for internal walls, are just dividers. Yo
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> In heavy rain, can the various drainage paths on the exterior be overwhelmed (especially if there are some leaf litter and/or spiderwebs in the wrong spots) My mom's Chevrolet Kalos got so bad in autumn that plants started sp
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Growing up in mid 2000s Australia, I recall it being thought largely as a rote learning exercise in which one repeats the same letters over and over again without much context, which isn't a particularly exciting thing to do Growi

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