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by asoneth 3y ago
> aren’t you effectively expanding the size of the language, even if this is “implicit”? Yes, this is how Toki Pona dictionaries work. For example, there is a surprisingly thick two-way English - Toki Pona dictionary, "ku", whi
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by asoneth 3y ago
> the quality of search results is often terrible Having used a few, I agree there's room for improvement. > the assumption that complexity of layout and density of information, much less relevance, are mutual opposites isn'
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by asoneth 3y ago
No site is an island. Even if I keep my own website's implementation minimal I still end up interacting with the rest of the internet via web pages with less minimal markup. However, if you also had a like-minded community of similarly
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by asoneth 3y ago
> The fact that you don’t like the specific rules for e-bikes doesn’t make them a “gray area”. My understanding is that the rules in NYC governing e-bikes and electric mopeds were very fuzzy until around 2020, but there is still some unc
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by asoneth 3y ago
A pet peeve of mine is the lack of clarity over terminology has resulted in journalists and marketers branding electric mopeds and motorcycles as "e-bikes". On one end of the spectrum are regular-looking pedal bicycles with assist
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by asoneth 3y ago
> ride your e-bike/bike in the middle of the lane. That is legal in the state were I live and probably most other states. This is dependent on where you live, and I would not recommend taking the lane unless you observe local cyclis
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by asoneth 3y ago
> Maybe that's a good thing, I am not sure. If you are young or if you are old with eyestrain issues it may be worth your while to learn about things like bias lighting, blue filters, PWM dimming, etc. If you are old with good visio
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by asoneth 3y ago
Many folks in my office have an ancillary monitor or two to the side of their main monitors, often in portrait mode, just for keeping docs, diagrams, and other reference material. But having so many backlit monitors in your field of view ca
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by asoneth 3y ago
That makes sense to me. If you have a specific use for each workspace then I see how reordering them willy-nilly would be problematic and break muscle memory. I have a multi-monitor setup and I often find myself using particular monitors fo
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by asoneth 3y ago
> 'zoom' is not equivalent to maximization Interesting, I tried a few windows that I don't normally "zoom" and you are right. I suppose prior to this I only ever attempted to perform this action on browser/d
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by asoneth 3y ago
Personally I find switching between workspaces annoying, but not particularly more or less annoying than switching between maximized windows on Windows. So I am curious what you specifically find annoying about treating maximized windows as
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by asoneth 3y ago
I cannot overstate how difficult it is to do this solo. Being the only person in a friend group who does not have a phone results in pretty severe ostracization, especially for preteens and teens who do not yet have a strong sense of self.
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by asoneth 3y ago
Several years ago we left NYC for a small old New England town not far from where I grew up. Our neighbors have victory gardens, chickens, goats, bees, and/or fruit trees. We insulated our home, got solar panels, started a garden and a
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by asoneth 3y ago
Absolutely. More efficient technologies will make life more pleasant for many people. On balance I think this is a net win for humanity and am in favor of ongoing work in this area. However, I should have been more specific when I said maki
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Due to the Jevons paradox making air conditioning more efficient will most likely increase energy consumption. Whereas if you increase the price of energy (e.g. carbon fees) then you will reduce consumption and incentivize more efficient ai
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by asoneth 3y ago
> it is obviously more sustainable to upgrade versions every N years I've heard this kind of thing before, but it's worth considering that utility, government, and infrastructure software may be under different kinds of constra
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by asoneth 3y ago
> A car passing another at exactly 55mph while another car is going the same speed will take forever. Why would either driver would try to pass the other if they are going the same speed? If they're not passing then they should move
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by asoneth 3y ago
> Sure the passing driver is ultimately at fault, but the slow driver has blood on their hands despite no accountability. If the slow driver is on a highway with a minimum speed limit or they're performing other unsafe maneuvers lik
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by asoneth 3y ago
Determining whether a particular driver is driving properly seems overkill. Any correlation between driving behavior and insurance payouts seems like it would be sufficient to improve the accuracy of your risk scores. Let's say you onl
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by asoneth 3y ago
I have no idea whether the current telematics algorithms are any good at assessing risk. However, with a large enough corpus of training data including years of telematics on drivers with and without insurance claims it certainly seems like
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by asoneth 3y ago
That seems like... a good outcome? The privacy implications troubling enough to give me pause but the idea of more people actually driving at safe and legal speeds seems like a net positive, but perhaps there's some disaster scenario I
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by asoneth 3y ago
I am also skeptical of the accuracy of the initial rules but this seems like a domain that should be fairly easy to refine with a large enough corpus of data. Once an insurance company has a sufficient number of claims from telematics users
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by asoneth 3y ago
I've taught people to juggle or even (barely) ride a unicycle after a lesson or two. That doesn't mean those aren't difficult skills to acquire. Plus, many people who are learning do not have the privilege of an experienced t
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by asoneth 3y ago
> Soapy water won't break down the molecularly bonded fat and iron on your cast iron. In that case I'm not sure what the exact mechanism was. But I know that after others have used/cleaned a seemingly well-seasoned pan I&#
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by asoneth 3y ago
I have been learning how to season, cook with, and clean cast iron. As someone who did not grow up using it it’s definitely not intuitive. The other challenge is that I either have to lock it away or teach everyone else in the household how
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by asoneth 3y ago
> There is a stop sign in front of my house and probably around 95% of cars stop There was some discussion amongst my neighbors about a sign near us and we found that the key variable is the speed at which one considers a vehicle to be &
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by asoneth 3y ago
Besides slowing the vehicles behind you down to a safe and legal speed, a secondary advantage of obeying the speed limit on neighborhood streets is to influence routing algorithms. Many routing algorithms base their decisions on past travel
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by asoneth 3y ago
Judging solely by the desktop screenshot [1] it doesn't seem like a bad first pass but there are a few things that could be improved: What jumped out first is the irregular post layout. For example the up/down arrows are farther f
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by asoneth 3y ago
Isn't this already true? The article makes that point at the very beginning and many people who cut ties or stopped supporting the FSF and Stallman still seem to be committed to the principles of libre software.
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by asoneth 3y ago
Advocacy involves 1) understanding your target audience and 2) making an appeal to them. If the composition of your organization does not reflect the composition of your target audience then both of those tasks become a little harder. This

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