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by alwa 3y ago
And beyond the setting and ambiance, it’s a huge portion of the restaurant’s value proposition: “Here are all the things we do and are proud of, what sounds best?” At the risk of being extra curmudgeonly, have you ever dined someplace where
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by alwa 3y ago
You are not at all the only one. I don’t mean to diminish the project in TFA-it’s a cool application at a sensible scale. But your point resonates with a broader frustration of mine that’s percolated since COVID. Dining out is a human exper
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by alwa 3y ago
I’m curious, what’s the basis for that claim? I’m surprised to learn that the constellation, incidence rate, and intensity of bullying behaviors don’t vary along sociocultural lines. Do you mean that there are no examples of areas or situat
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by alwa 3y ago
It sounds like it would, though, require an engineering effort on par with building a new feature from scratch in order to support PWAs in the DMA environment. It makes sense that a firm might be willing to invest in minimal maintenance of
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by alwa 3y ago
There’s also the small matter of that attack mode having actually been fashionable amongst murderously-suicidal ideologue types over the years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing... Security f
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by alwa 3y ago
The more consequential the thing, the more likely that it will still be consequential after some time passes at a human scale, and the more important it is to take the time and be sure it’s done right. It takes time to catch mistakes-whethe
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by alwa 3y ago
On the one hand, as a statistician memorably put it, “doesn’t matter how big the soup bowl is, you still need the same size spoon to taste what kind of soup it is.” On the other hand, yeah these particular convenience samples seem almost de
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by alwa 3y ago
Opening the link crashed Chrome on iOS in a little over a second here.
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by alwa 3y ago
You’re handling all the skepticism and hostility here with much more grace than I would be able to. I admire your tenacity and the scope of your effort-your hacker ethos, as it were. I understand why the audience’s instinct is to judge yo
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by alwa 3y ago
Out of curiosity- the blog leans heavily on examples of clinicians operating in the developing world. Would the same lines of serodiagnostic techniques tend to be realistic in lower-resourced settings like that? It seems plausible to argue
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by alwa 3y ago
I’m a latecomer to the home automation game, so I’m speaking from theory more than experience. In the environments where I’m thinking about building out, the WiFi is… you know, fine , but it’s not a rock solid corporate campus pushing reli
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by alwa 3y ago
There’s also the Goodhart-flavored line of argument here: at the moment, part of the sales pitch is that these internal conversation channels provide a meaningful view into staff’s reactions, dynamics, and states of mind. Fire the first few
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by alwa 3y ago
I always marvel at Quanta’s skill in trying to translate these intricate mathematical and physical ideas for a broad audience. I can’t always wrap my mind around their analogies, but I always admire their effort. Their visualizations seemed
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by alwa 3y ago
Wouldn’t ordinary forensic practice involve operating on an image of the device rather than the device itself?
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by alwa 3y ago
Doesn’t it suggest he was shaving the combustible part off rather than cutting off the head altogether, and that this is standard practice in the matchbox modeling community? It seems like that would yield a minimal change in size, just the
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by alwa 3y ago
Not to be low-effort, but you know Soylent Green is people, right? I always was a little mystified at their choice of name over at the actual Soylent meal replacement company. And their choice to feature their green Soylent product as the m
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by alwa 3y ago
Octopus flesh has the issue of containing the majority of the octopus’ neurons [0]. Life is weird . [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc...
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by alwa 3y ago
The premise of the study seems confused. Is there any evidence to suggest that these strategic decisionmaking problems are the actual domains where DOD or State are looking to apply these types of technology? What is useful about knowing th
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by alwa 3y ago
+1 to your observation about Kagi’s filtering. Whatever they’re doing sure seems to be working, and cumulatively with the rest of their small, quietly user-centric decisions over the past year or two, has really made them feel like an oasis
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by alwa 3y ago
Are there particular brands or manufacturers that you look to for this quality, or do you look more to the price or “commercial-grade” positioning as a signal?
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by alwa 3y ago
One of the happier things I’ve done for myself lately, at the advice of this forum, was to get a rock-solid, dumb, black-and-white Brother laser printer. It sits there and just does its job and I never have to think about it. Does anyone ha
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by alwa 3y ago
This was what made me understand the voice-activated stuff too. I hadn’t appreciated, until hanging around with more people enduring the indignities of aging, how even trivial physical tasks become ordeals.
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by alwa 3y ago
Are you referring to the USPS’ ePacket service, which subsidizes small packages from Hong Kong and China to the extent that it’s cheaper to ship from there than to ship domestically? E.g. per [0]: > As Amazon’s Vice President of Global P
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by alwa 3y ago
Whether or not we’re able to discuss controversial subjects, a topic’s controversy doesn’t imply importance or relevance. It seems to me that the quality of any public discussion tends to increase when it’s relevant to the expertise in th
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by alwa 3y ago
I feel like ex-Buzzfeed-guy Ben Smith’s Semafor is trying riffs on that theme in a couple of ways. In their big reported pieces they seem to like to packaging together mixed forms of reporting, coupling straight-reported factual summaries w
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by alwa 3y ago
Fortunately, the authors consider this and address it in part 4.2. They propose drawing and freezing-in-place the VRA-mandated majority-minority districts as a first step, before applying their technique to the rest of the districts. They t
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by alwa 3y ago
What are some of the good techniques you’ve found success with?
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by alwa 3y ago
To add insult to injury, one carrier demanded this of me, then its retail store franchisees refused to issue me a SIM unless I purchased a new device or a new line so they’d make commission!
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Stop playing God, Pope's adviser tells tech titans(thetimes.co.uk)
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by alwa 3y ago
No, I agree. There’s an impressive level of theory on display here, and I admire the passion, analysis, creativity, and follow-through. The end product matters less than the journey, but I agree with you that it’s missing the discernment of

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