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by asark 7y ago
The example uses it to spot a case where most people are wrong, but some large minority of people expect that most people will answer incorrectly, while themselves answering correctly. A large enough difference (10%, in the example case)
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by asark 7y ago
> Yeah, I put on 10 kg as well once I hit 33. I don't know what happened, everything I've read said your metabolism doesn't slow down until much later I remained trim eating 4000ish calories a day of junk food from about a
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by asark 7y ago
There is so much content. Great content, too. The miracle of over 100 years of mass media recording tech. And, you know, 4000ish years of written word records and storytelling. Ad-supported web trash is mostly just a distraction from bett
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by asark 7y ago
Lots of modern houses aren't built to function very well in temperature extremes. Windows are too small, don't open wide enough or at all, interior blocks too much airflow, insulation and sealing's too good. Certainly they do
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by asark 7y ago
You have a better solution for complex game theoretic coordination problems of this sort?
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by asark 7y ago
They've added new features I like, but that was the sweet spot of discoverability and aesthetic. It's been downhill since. I'm also not loving making it a more general-purpose OS—the iPad/iPhone as a slab of metal &
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by asark 7y ago
I didn't know I did it until I used a touchbar MBP, but it turns out a couple of my right hand fingers drift up to the tops of the number keys when making certain chording presses, which is close enough to barely brush the edge of th
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by asark 7y ago
Firefox and Safari have incognito modes, too. Call them something different ("new private window" is the menu label, in both cases) but they're the same thing, more or less. Not sure about Edge. Probably has one too.
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by asark 7y ago
I'd think anything cheap enough to fit in what you're treating as your annual % income budget's basically fine. You won't ruin yourself or significantly harm even a modest fortune with it. More like "don't inve
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by asark 7y ago
Pennsylvania Highway Interchange Popular Among Web Users as Symbol of American Homogeneity Due to a quirk of a now-defuct law causing an abundance of low speed traffic, an unusually dense set of typical off-interstate chain stores and resta
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by asark 7y ago
Ew, what was the reason for that?
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by asark 7y ago
I've never seen JSON used in a project of any size at all where we didn't end up trying to hack constraints and types on top of it with some ugly and gross thing or another—looking at you, JSON Schema. The more parts of your stack
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by asark 7y ago
I'm not rich, but I'd think that if that's just your keeping-busy hobby it seems like a relatively cheap one. You could save for not that long from just the 3%/yr, buy something used, fix it up yourself maybe paying a li
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by asark 7y ago
(1) I'm with him on her technical composition of a story being hard to tease apart (in a good way) but not so sure about them seeming unusually real or true . Structure and purpose of the novels' parts, the flow from incident t
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by asark 7y ago
Before behemoths funded by free-but-spying software/services took over, protocols and standards were a thing and had some power, at least. They've (largely Google, but not just them) been slowly killing them. Can't risk mak
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by asark 7y ago
Not sure how to fix business, but for B2C getting rid of the ability to monetize user data would help. Right now businesses go: well we're gonna have to vacuum up all their data anyway, and our price is free, so who gives a shit if we
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by asark 7y ago
I'm on Google Fiber, of all things, and it's slow as hell. I use basic HTML instead, much faster. As you note, even interactions are faster which, you know, was the whole point of AJAX back in the day but I guess by the time you m
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by asark 7y ago
> The real reason in vast majority of cases, why most of our software seems slow is not because someone used Javascript instead of Win32 C or something else programming language related. On the PS3, I bought way less stuff in their sto
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by asark 7y ago
Use the "basic HTML" version and make it your default view. On mobile it's even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap that is modern Gmail. The site takes so f*$%ing long to load you sho
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by asark 7y ago
Other countries don't have the same notion of what good service is, and don't expect the server to be up your ass about drink refills every 30s to count as good service. They expect you to ask if you need something, so they'r
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by asark 7y ago
I received some huge % off an order from them, recently, and tried the service for the first and last time. I had to hunt to find a place to order from that wasn't absurdly expensive even with the discount. Menu prices were significant
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by asark 7y ago
There's an awful lot of "we can't do it, and if we did it'd definitely be bad" in American political discourse that can be pretty conclusively proven false by just looking at a few other OECD states.
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by asark 7y ago
Labor market reality's also that everyone's falling over themselves to hire developers. Won't last, but that's what's up right now.
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by asark 7y ago
Working for a petty autocratic bureaucracy is so inherently and intensely fulfilling, it's no surprise that so many rich people do it, even though they don't need to. /s
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by asark 7y ago
You might like: The Talos Principle — Basically Portal but... different. Physics, timing, & world-affecting-zappy-device puzzles. No actual portals but it's pretty similar. A "there's more going on" story. Quite good
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by asark 7y ago
Not sure about the super-high gap ones, but I'd bet the normal-gap (mid shin, maybe?) ones make cleaning a lot easier. A semi-permanent pre-fab wall especially is probably gonna have a lot of gross little nooks & crannies at floor
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by asark 7y ago
> Plus being a super picky eater Took deliberate effort (training, even) but I got over this. I can't eat just anything (nothing with bones I'm expected to crunch on, or a clear face, please—I can do [love, even!] fish skin-on
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by asark 7y ago
Planning something over your vacation and expecting you to work on it is just your manager being a dick. If they can do it without you, they should. If they can't do it without you, guess it can wait 'till you get back. Not like y
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by asark 7y ago
How're the grout lines? That's the complaint I've always heard from people who've had tile countertops, who are all eager to tell you how they never want them again. I tend to try to eliminate anything in the kitchen tha
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by asark 7y ago
Thanks, this has been really helpful!

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