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by advisedwang 1mo ago
I had this same reaction to past step counters. I keep my phone in my pocket, and it works basically perfectly as a step counter. But then I realized that many people do not keep their phone in their pocket, especially women. For them, a wa
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
Thats basically all journalism
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
Don't be obtuse. He was saying 4x the cost of the tires.
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
The article seems to contradict this: > Reducing the rolling resistance of a tire isn’t technically that difficult, said Fadie. Incorporating more silica, for example, improves not only efficiency but traction as well. Rubber chemistry a
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
It's bad that cities and states can't get a firm grip on this kind of stuff. But this is a transparency success story. The wages were reported on. The press published a story about it. They were able to get "overtime worked f
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
I would be pretty surprised if Amazon insures their package delivery. Do you have a source for them using insurance? Maybe when they use a 3rd party delivery service they can strongarm that service into eating the loss. But, where I am, Ama
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
Eeh, you always rely on someone else's infrastructure. Even if you are off cloud entirely and own your own datacenter, you still need peering/transit. You still need power (or at least fuel). You can't avoid depending on a D
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
My guess is growth alone explains the change. It went from being a niche site that had views representing that niche to a broad site with broad set of views represented in proportion to their prevelance.
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
I think the hyper business oriented, technology first view that is what HN typically has been is actually the exception. Open Source, hacker culture, scorn of "the suits", the love of sci-fi and it's attendant politics -- the
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
If I'm running, say, an e-commerce business, an hour of downtime on my serving-path might cost me $100k of revenue. An hour of downtime for my development stack might cost me 30 person-hours = a few grand. As a result, I'm much m
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
It's not a specially blessed type. As the article says, anything that implements sync.Locker acts like this.
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by advisedwang 1mo ago
Blogspam. original story: https://onemileatatime.com/news/two-american-planes-same-cal...
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> Really, the moral here is that you should not use JPEG for icons and the like And, more importantly, you should use images that are an appropriate resolution for the size they will be displayed. Even if you switch to PNG, using a 2000x
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
4, L22 6ET doesn't work very fast/reliably in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ss7A20EVpk
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
If the drop in weight was accompanied by a drop in price I think the health angle would stick better.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Right... label them differently. Now you're just arguing what the label should be
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Axon is a public company with market cap of $50B. It is an incumbent with a huge business in bodycams and tasers with a huge number of US police departments. Flock has a $7.5B valuation at it's last funding round, and is the new comer.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Yeah HA isn't the best choice. It can do some of that stuff, but will require lots of customization to do so. Plus I think you would find things it can't do at all.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its suitability depends on what you want to do with an
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
There's no such thing as legal ownership of data. There's IP rights, contracts and innumerable data regulation laws, but not actual ownership. "Ownership" here just provides a vague cover that sounds like something defin
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Open to all people, not open to all roads.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> Camera data is owned by the police department and permanently deleted after 30 days There's so much going on in that sentence! What a thing of pure PR beauty. What does "owned" mean in this sentence? Probably fairly litt
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Labelling people as haters (or fanboys, for that matter) is just another way of dismissing people.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
And Iran, for that matter
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Users know to expect different things at different speeds, and have come to expect the actual "buy" button to be slow. 200ms is pretty fast for that, tbf
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
You could, but there's two big reasons why this isn't useful: 1. The translation system would still have to implement the underlying ideas. For example, your spec might explain "key frames are made by doing a wavelet transfor
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Dangerous game... getting in a legal battle is expensive and stressful even when you win.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
If you do it, don't say so in front of witness or where a call might be recorded.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I love recap. Their pages are easier to use than PACER itself. I fetch from PACER when needed to contribute, and have never hit the $30 charging threshold.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
How do you know that this is the system prompt and not just a hallucination of the system prompt?

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