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by bena 2y ago
Hell, even the "Dunning Kruger effect" is a misapplication of statistics. The effect shows up even with randomly generated samples. Because there are floors and ceilings to the data. If you're low, you can only guess so much
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by bena 2y ago
But people who play professional sports do get joint replacement at a higher rate than even the general population. Just because there are more of the "general population" doesn't mean that the subset that are "professio
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by bena 2y ago
No, spending your time running at full speed into other large people also running at full speed takes a toll on your body. https://footballplayershealth.harvard.edu/for-former-players...
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by bena 2y ago
I'm saying that it's quite possible not related to cortisol at all. Or possibly you have the cause and effect backwards. Because of all the wear and tear, we become more cautious about certain activities, which causes more stress,
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by bena 2y ago
As you get older things hurt. The wear and tear one has put on their bodies adds up. For an extreme example, look at professional athletes. Drew Brees still had the desire and drive to play, but his right shoulder had simply given out. The
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by bena 2y ago
That's because as much as they may not want to admit it, HN skews "techbro conservative". It's a large enough segment of the community here that when they chose to exercise their collective will, they can influence discu
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by bena 2y ago
I was about to say that I've been pretty ok with Pandora so far. My wife thinks I "use it weird" as I mainly listen to the Shuffle station and have mostly various artists in my collection. Whereas she has styles and categorie
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by bena 2y ago
It also says to not feed egregious comments by replying. So, in a way, complaining about someone not following the guidelines is itself against the guidelines. So if you were truly interested in the application of the guidelines you wouldn&
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by bena 2y ago
Either that or the company hires yet another consultant to rewrite everything because it can't be maintained.
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by bena 2y ago
That really all depends on exactly how the program is implemented. But if Tesla goes under, there would be no one to buy those credits from. Manufacturers would have to either find another source or find ways to come under the target.
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by bena 2y ago
They do get the bulk of them. And they sell them to other car manufacturers. To kind of make it simple: the government has a target for emissions for an automaker. Your cars can only release N parts per million (ppm) of carbon or other gass
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by bena 2y ago
Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare against subsidies and tax breaks to other car manufacturers?
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by bena 2y ago
Spike Prime and Mindstorms use the same Hub just different colors. Spike Prime has a large motor, 2 small motors, a distance sensor, color sensor, and force sensor. The Mindstorms set had 4 small motors, a distance sensor, and color sensor.
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by bena 2y ago
I noticed that too. If I had to guess, and I don't, I'd say they changed just to be in line with everyone else. Although I wish they would have gone back to the ray gun as a sort of "told you so".
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by bena 2y ago
Ah. I have a profile because it seemed like the professional thing to do to get professional jobs, etc. However, I only have about 100 connections mostly because I feel weird about adding people on any social network. Which I know is weird,
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by bena 2y ago
The Wii isn't that huge to start with. You also have to figure the Wii unit houses full optical drive as well. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Wii+Teardown/812 https://guide-images.cdn.ifi
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by bena 2y ago
10/10, not a photographer. But yes, AI generated images always have this uncanny softness and smoothness to them.
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by bena 2y ago
I agree. I don’t see the difference. That’s the entire reason “clean room reverse engineering” is done. Using nothing but the binary itself, work out how things are done. Making sure that the reverse engineers don’t even have access to any
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by bena 2y ago
Also, I believe they’ve flipped cause and effect. They claim that pay went up then men moved in, but they’ve actually found the opposite. When men begin to dominate an industry, pay overall rises. When women begin to equal the number of men
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by bena 2y ago
It was Microsoft who started with the “golf balls in a plane” style questions. Google iterated to the standard DSA questions that are common now. And I don’t think they’re entirely without merit. However, people think you should be testing
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by bena 2y ago
But it’s not replicating results that a human would give you. Since it’s not giving the same type of results, then it’s not doing the same thing. If anything, LLMs have definitively ruled out probabilistic guessing as the model for human in
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by bena 2y ago
“We don’t know how we do it, so we can’t say this isn’t how we do it” isn’t a valid argument. We may not know exactly how we reason, but we can rule out probabilistic guessing. And even if that is a part of it, we’re capable of far more s
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by bena 2y ago
It’s all circumstantial evidence because that’s all we get. Circumstantial evidence is not “weak evidence”, it is evidence concerning the circumstances. For instance, DNA is circumstantial evidence. It’s evidence that can imply a connection
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by bena 2y ago
I don’t remember exactly, but it’s not testosterone itself that causes the hair loss, but what your body converts the testosterone into. And that process can ramp up as you get older depending on your genetics. So more testosterone, more by
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by bena 2y ago
But we’re looking for existing animals that fit the function until we get to that point.
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by bena 2y ago
That’s kind of what he said. Pandas and koalas are pretty stupid
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by bena 2y ago
C and C++ have implicit fall through for switch statements. So without a “break”, each case will execute after the one chosen. Most control structures compile down to labels and jumps under the hood. That “while” is jumping to that “do” reg
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by bena 2y ago
Also, it didn't require verification, so if you wanted, you could sign up any email address for it. And they would charge to delete the account. Which they didn't do regardless. So if you wanted to mess with someone, you could sig
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by bena 2y ago
It depends on what you mean by "simplicity". Combining your finances completely is as simple as you get. Money goes in pot, money comes out of pot. No separation. But anything that gets to be a significant amount becomes a discuss
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by bena 2y ago
I wouldn’t have made any until I had a viable game to demonstrate the system. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have committed to hardware until I had the game sketched out. You have constrained yourself to certain choices before you know the

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