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by ben7799 1y ago
This article is mediocre because smartphone is perfectly happy to take pictures that look like the "beginner photographer" pictures. You just have to know what you're doing. - Don't use the super wide lens and stand too
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by ben7799 1y ago
This is just what the bike companies are selling right now since an Aero bike with disc brakes and electronic components that comes in at the UCI weight limit is like $15,000. If you can have it all you want it all.
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by ben7799 1y ago
I raced in the early 2000s. Power meters were expensive, but Pros had them. The only thing back then is they sometimes didn't use them on race day for fear they were too heavy. Bikes are actually much heavier today than they were bac
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by ben7799 1y ago
The Tour de France was around for several generations before amphetamines became available. But otherwise that's probably correct, whatever they could find, they used.
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by ben7799 1y ago
I have always thought the fact Boston was a hotbed of revolution and New York city was a loyalist stronghold (as the article mentions) has had some small subconscious effect on the ongoing rivalry between the two cities all the way to the p
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by ben7799 1y ago
I think he's just using the wrong date range. 2012 things had already matured. 2009-2010 eReaders were a lot more expensive. The "Kindle 2" in 2009 launched at $360. So basically by 2012 prices had tanked, and there's a
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by ben7799 1y ago
I never played enough Settlers to pick up on this but I totally get it with Monopoly, and I feel like this is bad game design when it happens. Monopoly feels like the game might take 4 hours but you know 20 minutes in that you're hopel
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by ben7799 1y ago
Java beta & 1.0 were released my Freshman year of college and I've been writing Java ever since. With the exception of one job where we tried to write a Java-style Enterprise security cloud application in Python every commercial p
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by ben7799 1y ago
Car speed in the zone.. that graph is really telling, showing that in NYC cars never really travel faster than even the slowest bicyclist, and slower than a modest runner. That alone tells you this is the right path. All that infrastructur
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by ben7799 1y ago
These comments just read like a whole bunch of people who never rode a bike and yet are somehow experts on everything about bikes. This thing is not for Le Tour and you don't go fast on it and you don't go up giant hills on it.
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by ben7799 1y ago
I agree with this. I think the overall experience with the modern setup is worse in every way than 20 years ago with the exception of picture quality since we have 4K now. (Of course mostly we watch heavily compressed streaming video). 2
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by ben7799 1y ago
Also every time Duolingo comes up people criticize it based on where the free tier was years ago.
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by ben7799 1y ago
The LLM based explanations actually explain what is wrong with the user's specific answer, not a generic explanation. They are of the form: "You entered X, because of Y grammar rule you should instead enter Z". So they aren
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by ben7799 1y ago
Obviously I've had access to those for a long time. I would still say they are nowhere near as good as published material. And sometimes I've seen the community text ones actually be more correct. Really a question of how much y
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by ben7799 1y ago
As others have said this is interesting but use of Ultimate Guitar is flawed as the tabs/scores are so bad on that site, very often not even being close to the real chords. On top of being simplified tons and tons of songs get rewritte
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by ben7799 1y ago
It happens because we act like calories are calories when it's clearly not true. Calorie counts in nutrition data are generated by something like burning the food in a bomb calorimeter. Which is most definitely not what our bodies do
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by ben7799 1y ago
I can't remember exactly what I was listening to, maybe some kind of NPR podcast. But the doctor was mentioning that none of the influencers influencing young people to try T and Steroids (which is rampant right now) are ever mentionin
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by ben7799 1y ago
It has nothing to do with the pandemic. The ban on masks is about whether or not protesters are actually students. Masks have been used to conceal identities when taking over buildings or shutting down classes.
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by ben7799 2y ago
Spending massive amounts of money on sports is something state schools are very much into. They will shutter academic departments but continue to pay a football coach more than the University president. Not all schools do this but it is par
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by ben7799 2y ago
This still works if you get your phone too close to an electric guitar!
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by ben7799 2y ago
This is actually more common than we might think in the music world. TC Electronic and a few other guitar/effect companies also had audio based ways to transmit program data into effects pedals.
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by ben7799 2y ago
This is what I had to do. It was probably beneficial. I was pretty young.. 10-12? My dad is also an engineer and would help me debug the programs after I typed them in, teaching me BASIC as we went. I wasn't necessarily able to
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by ben7799 2y ago
It's easy for Jon Stewart to feel that way cause it can't hurt him. There is no minority Jon Stewart to take his job, and he already has so much money he will be wealthy the rest of his life even if he loses his job today and ne
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by ben7799 2y ago
I have a kid with celiac.. he has eaten exactly 0 school food ever. They have never been able to make us feel confidence in their preparation safety.
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by ben7799 2y ago
I was in college in the mid-late 90s. There was this brief period where all of a sudden it became painfully aware how much Mac OS was crashing. I was regularly using SGI, Sun, and IBM Unix workstations and Linux had just become available
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by ben7799 2y ago
I can't remember which of these it was but one of these actually "bricked" my Mac Pro on the OS upgrade, at least from the casual Apple fan perspective or the Genius bar perspective. I took it into the Genius bar and they had
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by ben7799 2y ago
Where are they at with power supply? All these videos are now showing the robots untethered (and they have been for a while), but how long can they operate untethered? Are they just running on Lithium Ion batteries? And the new electric
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by ben7799 2y ago
Part of this was that sales for networking gear actually did tank because there were so many companies going under all at once that suddenly weren't buying any more gear. There were so many companies going under lots of people I knew e
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by ben7799 2y ago
I graduated in 1999 and probably should have stayed for grad school. I had good enough grades my Alma Mater was basically sending me letters my senior year "Hey you're just about guaranteed to get in if you apply!" It'
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by ben7799 2y ago
The percentage change in resolution you ran the games at was also absolutely mind blowing too. For the most part we went from running the game at 320x200 or 320x240 to 640x480 in that first round of acceleration. I think in terms of % chan

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