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by amalcon 3y ago
Usually that works one of two ways: 1. Ground source heat pump -- which can work pretty much anywhere people live, but costs a lot more and people don't necessarily know about them. 2. Failover to resistive heating when it gets too col
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by amalcon 3y ago
There are people seriously talking about it. E.g. the current President of the United States has been talking about better police training since his campaign, and has issued executive orders touching on it. It's just kind of boring,
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by amalcon 3y ago
I mean, didn't Pandora spend like a decade pretending to be that? We don't exactly need AGI for that, we just need Pandora with some specific problems fixed.
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by amalcon 3y ago
That verse is also absent in two of their greatest hits albums, including the 1998 one.
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by amalcon 3y ago
It's a little more problematic than usual in this case because a Nm would then be a newton-meter, which is a joule, which is not only common in general but relevant to electronics.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Not really, but that doesn't mean they would continue to exist without it.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Work vans and cargo vans are two of the best markets here, since work vans spend a lot of time parked at jobsites and cargo vans spend a lot of time parked loading/unloading. Ford has even had some brilliant marketing on their electri
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by amalcon 3y ago
Those lockers are great for ergonomic keyboards, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone using one for anything else.
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by amalcon 4y ago
I just try to prepend "my". It's usually natural to do this anyway ("my left knee" e.g.) but can always be done ("I fell to my left" instead of "I fell to the left").
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's a delayed vestige of the "stranger danger" panic of the 80's and 90's. Being in a park without kids is considered suspicious in some places now. Fortunately, not where I live.
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by amalcon 4y ago
The thing about the metaverse (and related tech) is that its success or failure rested entirely on the rate of improvement of the hardware. If the headset could present, say, an office that I could work from for 8 hours -- this would repre
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by amalcon 4y ago
There was a famous study where the patients were told they were receiving a "pill with no medicine in it." It still resulted in measurable improvement. The short version is that we do use it in some cases where there's a lac
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by amalcon 4y ago
While I can't say whether ChatGPT or others are actually doing this, it's entirely possible to use a PRNG in that spot with no loss of effectiveness. PRNGs are specifically designed to create the appearance of randomness out of a
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by amalcon 4y ago
In practice, there are a lot of devices around for which tampering would be profitable. Making these devices resist tampering is a practice with a long history of good (though imperfect) results. Your electric meter is a great example, or
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by amalcon 4y ago
> people stuff. That one's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. The "people stuff" (working out requirements, managing expectations, explaining things, etc) has been arguably the most important software developer skil
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by amalcon 4y ago
Assuming that the retailer can actually get a refund or replacement from the manufacturer (for some products, only the consumer can actually do that), usually they just replace the item or the wholesale price. They don't replace the r
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by amalcon 4y ago
There's a very boring, practical thing that most of those colors have in common. White, silver, and gray make your typical road dirt less visible. Black also accomplishes this pretty well in climates where they don't need to sal
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by amalcon 4y ago
> Maybe the fleet doesn't autoscale and it's overprovisioned at night but underprovisioned when you're actually shopping. It's further worth remembering that Amazon happens to, y'know, own AWS . Since this is
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by amalcon 4y ago
The issue is pretty much the same as it ever was -- hardware manufacturers support Windows first. Linux is usually later if at all. Community support sometimes steps in to fill in the gap, and some manufacturers (most notably AMD) are com
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by amalcon 4y ago
Yeah, for some reason people say "you can't prove a negative" but mean "you can't prove a universal". Any positive assertion can be trivially restated as a negative assertion, so it would be impossible to prov
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by amalcon 4y ago
That's just the beginning. My favorite is the concept of the pre-payment penalty: a lender can (in some jurisdictions) charge you a fee if you attempt to pay down the principal on your loan sooner than you are required to.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It absolutely was and is. The "potential to produce toxic gases" thing the article mentions is very well known, though the usual advice to avoid it (never mix two different cleaners) was briefly a little more difficult to practic
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by amalcon 4y ago
Some brokerages break down various types of position (equity, bond, etc). Mine in particular has a "Cash and equivalents" section. Money market accounts go there, but so do treasury funds and such. I suspect the upvotes are beca
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by amalcon 4y ago
Nonsense. Farms obviously predate suburbs, for one thing: nothing resembling the modern suburb could exist without steam power or something newer than that. There's never really been heavy industry in the suburbs: the modern suburb
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by amalcon 4y ago
Traps. Mechanical, glue, poison, etc, are all available and don't care if you see the critter before doing what they do. I won't use them for anything that doesn't pose a structural threat to my house (i.e. termites), but ot
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by amalcon 4y ago
Nothing requires a browser to auto-play animated GIFs.
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by amalcon 4y ago
Clearly the model interpreted "in the style of Franz Kafka" to mean "featuring an inscrutable, uncaring, and inescapable bureaucracy".
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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't think you need to be smarter, but coming from something like C#, there are some different ways of thinking that you'll need to learn. In addition to the memory management stuff, there are a number of things borrowed from
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by amalcon 4y ago
Something doesn't add up here. They're actively telling third parties to lease cloud servers with large amounts of free bandwidth, and allocate them to this purpose. I see four possibilities: - They are paying the third party le
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by amalcon 4y ago
Visible. It's actually a Verizon subsidiary, but you pay $25/mo for unlimited talk and data (though low priority data). There's a trivial hoop you need to jump through to get that rate (join a group of other people with who

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