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by Tade0 4mo ago
> I wish I could better articulate to my managers the costs of this policy to my family. Sounds like grounds for "take your child to work day". Do people still do that? I went a few times with my mom to her place in between sch
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Each and every parent of 4+ whom I worked with lived in the middle of nowhere and would only emerge from the deep woods for an occasional workshop a few times a year. It's a lifestyle impossible if one has to show up an hour's dri
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Is weight such a concern in this day and age? I have a 14" MBP M4 lying around unused, but yesterday picked it up to have my daughter watch her evening cartoons and at 1.6kg it struck me how light it was. The Zephyrus G14 that's a
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by Tade0 4mo ago
> Frequency can be easily overclocked from 50 to 80Hz, making the manufacturer's decision quite odd. 99% it was done to extend battery life. It's probably in the order of 5%, but most likely not the only such decision.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Only if they insist on expanding. For now the audience of disgruntled former Apple customers or just repairability enthusiasts appears to be enough.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
The battery might need warmup, but it would have to be significantly below freezing outside to affect it. Electrolytic capacitors can freeze up but again, you'd need a Yakutia-like environment for it to actually pose a concern. Lastly
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by Tade0 5mo ago
All that being said the product is genuinely worse now. The other day I googled "I'll be resolving" in quotation marks as I usually do when I'm unsure if it's idiomatic (or grammatically correct for that matter) Eng
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> And the funny thing is we developers did this to ourselves, by doing free open source work for the greater good, which now feeds AI models that are replacing many of us. Open source is not to blame here. AI companies used the code, in
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Where I'm from half of these points mean actual jail time for the physician attempting them, most of the rest (like kickbacks) result in standing in front of an ethics committee.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> It's just typical green politics. Forever backwards. I believe it has more to do with preserving the landscape that attracts so many tourists. Solar farms in Italy faced resistance for the same reason. It's not green politics
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by Tade0 5mo ago
He didn't know the nationality of the man in front of him as he's never seen the faces of the two before. It was the mid 90s, so it's not like he could easily look that up. Also he figured it would be rude. IIRC the wider con
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> Those low quality lawyers/doctors still won't care enough to help the layperson. I had a pediatrician who I regarded as generally low quality until she correctly identified scarlet fever in my child, while AI and a doctor in
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> You'd generally find that out by vising another doctor and finding previous diagnostic was bullshit and you lost time. To be fair the human body is immensely complex. Every specialist will look at everything through the lens of th
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> But the idea that tomato goes well with beef the whole world over is very interesting I saved a beef stew I was making for twelve people once by adding tomato sauce. Beef hardens if stewed incorrectly and tomato acid tenderises it agai
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by Tade0 5mo ago
I'm Polish and my father (boomer generation) attended a boys-only high school, where Latin was part of the mandatory curriculum. He managed to use it once when we were living in Kuwait and he had to arrange for my sister to get baptize
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> suppose he was always stuck in the safe area around their house? "Don't go there - there are mines there" is what my mother would say occasionally back when we were living in Kuwait in the mid 90s. I guess it's a si
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Lighting also means shadows - the other day I experienced this while playing one of those extraction shooters. If you throw a flare around a corner and it bounces of just right, you'll see you enemy's shadow as they're approa
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> "we have 4 engineers working on your project" (and also on 5 other projects). Largest such scam[0] I've heard of was "we have 11 senior engineers working on this project" (actually three, two of whom were actua
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by Tade0 5mo ago
My 5yo got plastic kitchen knives for her birthday which, while pretty dull, are still good enough to go through zucchinis. A test wouldn't work here as she can't read yet (not full sentences at least).
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by Tade0 5mo ago
The ideal gas model assumes point particles with no interparticle interactions, while all the interesting stuff with regards to all kinds of specific heat happens due to these things in... particular.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> I'm surprised corporate programmers with the hacker spirit haven't automated most of the things they are asked to do in Jira with Python command line scripts or whatever. Not a single of the many organisations that I worked f
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by Tade0 5mo ago
My experience as a parent is that gen alpha took note of the fact that their parents being on their phones means less attention, so it's possible they'll have a more sober view of the entire thing.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
I have two kids and recently I started cycling to work. I can get maybe half the new recommended number on a good week. That apparently translates to a 20% reduction. Upon reading the article: > The average age was 57 years and 56% were
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Maine has less than a tenth of Japan's population density.
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by Tade0 5mo ago
> cannot we dynamically switch between Otto and Atkinson cycles by just changing valve profiles? Toyota introduced this exact behaviour with their "Variable Valve Timing-intelligent Electric" (VVT-iE) system: https:/&#x2F
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by Tade0 5mo ago
I saw some parts of this video, so I'm not sure it was mentioned, but the key parameter that is optimized at all times in a hybrid is brake specific fuel consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-specific_fu
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Regarding the second point: ...or parasitic. There's a hypothesis that says the incidence of allergies correlates inversely with the incidence of certain common parasites, like the tapeworm or the pinworm. Additionally, nowadays pregna
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by Tade0 5mo ago
I ran it through speech-to-text and it starts with something among the lines of "dear colleagues, just like a doctor tells a patient 'health can wait'...", after that it's nonsense. I don't know if what the doc
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Beautiful. What I love about gaussian splats is the way they degrade - instead of a hard cutoff or LoD changing spheres into cubes etc., they get increasingly "dreamy" - the basic idea is still there, just less detailed. Take for
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by Tade0 5mo ago
Shame that dopant drift would render the chips inoperable eventually. But if the Antikythera Mechanism is anything to go by, I think they would at least figure out it was an electronic communication device.

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