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by bwanab 3y ago
Exactly. I've still got my 2004 93 (the last of the Saab Saabs). It has been a fabulous car.
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by bwanab 3y ago
That hardly makes it false. That's actually almost exactly the point the article is discussing. In the U.S. policy decisions, in this case encouraging living in suburbs, is a major contributor to the lack of walking.
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by bwanab 3y ago
From Tesla (note this is for the Model Y, but is true for all models): --------------- If regenerative braking is aggressively slowing Model Y (such as when your foot is completely off the accelerator pedal at highway speeds), the brake lig
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by bwanab 3y ago
And once again, with a Google Workspace (or whatever they call it these days) account, "Passkeys aren’t allowed on this account. Contact your admin for help". I am the admin. Doesn't appear there's any way to help.
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by bwanab 3y ago
The wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis ) is much more informative. Given that this is a financial sector that no longer exists, it's hard for people who weren't around the
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by bwanab 3y ago
What are the odds that passing this bill will actually help the mostly Democratic lawmakers who pushed and passed this bill? My guess is the beneficiaries will still largely vote against them due to nebulous culture war issues.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Not OP, but I'll say you're right, but for the wrong reasons. Having embarked on learning APL by doing a project in it, the character set becomes second nature in a few days time. No special monitor needed, at least on my Mac, jus
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by bwanab 4y ago
Agreed. His books are amazingly good resources for learning difficult subjects. I particularly liked Bayes.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Historically, this response doesn't make a lot of sense. Yes, farm labor became redundant, but it became redundant because of machines that had to be built, maintained and repaired. People who would have been on the farm their whole li
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by bwanab 4y ago
I would agree and have always felt like it would ultimately be the insurance companies that end up "mandating" autonomous driving, but... I have a Tesla and after a year with the FSD "beta" I finally tried it out. OMG, t
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by bwanab 4y ago
That actually wasn't what he said. He said the hype around cryptocurrencies was comparable to the hype around AI. That's a very different statement than you're putting into his mouth. If you've ever read any of his b
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by bwanab 4y ago
There's a nice intro to DuckDB for julia developers by Bogumił Kamiński, the creator of DataFrames.jl here: https://juliazoid.com/welcome-to-duckdb-3c4e75f50b97 . Interesting since in some ways, as he points out, it&#x2
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by bwanab 4y ago
I know it's not. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
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by bwanab 4y ago
And as Musk pointed out, back in the days when Tesla raised prices, no customer who got the prior low price volunteered to send Tesla a check for the difference.
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by bwanab 4y ago
I understand what you're saying, but isn't there value in the notion of being able to chat with a historical figure that one would otherwise never be able to do? Stepping away from the obvious like Socrates, I'd love to be ab
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by bwanab 4y ago
The space elevator was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in Fountains of Paradise in 1979. That said, I do love Cixin Liu's work even if I don't love his prose.
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by bwanab 4y ago
So, you ask it to write a song about <name your poison>. Let'd say it does and you write about on your blog. Some reporter from <name your bad corporate media here> with an ax to grind writes a story "AI tells kids to
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by bwanab 4y ago
I totally agree. There are so many good beer and ale styles. I love IPA, but please let's have some variety.
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by bwanab 4y ago
<The world can only tolerate so much contradiction.> My guess is the world can tolerate it as long as everybody is making money off it. When that stops, the contradiction might seem intolerable. The world needs a default reserve that&
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by bwanab 4y ago
For a civilizational basket case, Japan's GDP/capita has held up pretty well. Their industrial output is very strong for a country with sparse internal resources. Europe's problems are not unlike the U.S. internal problems wh
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by bwanab 4y ago
I also thought it was a bad sentence, but thank you for giving me solid reasons why that is so.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Sampras was a great player, but I never really liked his style of play. As a baseliner, I far preferred Courier and Agassi. As a serve and volley player, I far preferred Edberg and Rafter. Maybe it's unfair to compare him to the best o
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by bwanab 4y ago
The two recent books by Madeline Miller, "Circe" and "The Song of Achilles" "Crossroads" Jonathan Franzen "Agassi" Andre Agassi - I don't normally read sports memoirs, but this one came highly re
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by bwanab 4y ago
Recursion, Blake Crouch was an amazing ride.
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by bwanab 4y ago
If I were a lot smarter and had a lot more time, I'd love to paraphrase the article using, instead of AI, a legacy technology that at the time struck many as useless, but after development and acceptance became indispensable. Maybe the
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by bwanab 4y ago
As a sax player who also plays a Roland Aerophone, I have a similar question. Is the mouthpiece a real sax mouthpiece and reed? If so, that means it's making a lot of noise. One of the main appeals of windsynths is that I can play at t
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by bwanab 4y ago
How to take a bunch of true facts - and reach a completely unsupportable conclusion. Yes, banning single use plastic is going to be painful and inconvenient, but one could likewise argue that for the addict, going without your drug is painf
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by bwanab 4y ago
Maybe it's my bias as a musician, but as long as Apple doesn't put Logic on the iPad, it's just not a system that works as a piece of professional kit.
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by bwanab 4y ago
"Class" seems to have held up very well. I remember back when it was published trying to shoehorn myself into his "Class X". I had to squint really hard.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Ah, the irony of modern English usage: "Moms for Liberty" pushing for book bans.

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