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by carabiner 2mo ago
fMRI is incredibly noisy. Mandatory dead salmon study: https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Literally everything in the federal budget costs $10 or 10 cents per us citizen. Do you know calculus, or arithmetic? By this reasoning we cannot cancel anything.
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by carabiner 2mo ago
But how can we support israel? /s
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Date format in the blog has an error. D M Y doesn't have a comma.
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Best gifts are sub $5 and from a thrift store, like a funny shirt or mug.
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Yeah exactly. I've loaded up from tj's on sardines for many years and they were always fully stocked, until this year.
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by carabiner 2mo ago
In US I haven't seen them for months at Trader Joe's. Usually they stock 3 different kinds.
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Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf(corneroffifth.studio)
193 points by carabiner 2mo ago|326 comments
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Harm to the world. I seriously believe screen addiction is worse than obesity and opiates but it's so normalized, no one can imagine a world without it.
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by carabiner 2mo ago
Humans also have prior world domain knowledge. A human driver seeing a guy running across the road behind an obstacle can infer that the human will probably pop out on the other side (and prepare accordingly). A human can see the silhouette
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Seriously. I just remember as a kid seeing my school bus driver browsing the adult video section. I'm sure he did not want to find "community" there.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
I swear it's the era of chesterton's fence. Boundaries in life, whether personal or professional, are largely protective for everyone. https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-how-i-learned-...
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
When I worked in flight test you realize how much pilots don't know anything. It's exactly like a car driver vs. automotive engineer.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
That's not what your original comment says at all. You're pontificating on future aircraft configurations while you're just learning the ABC's of being an enduser of said products. Being a learning pilot confers zero exp
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by carabiner 3mo ago
It's a lot like saying, "as someone 5 hours into driver's ed in my mom's honda civic, I believe that future stability control algorithms in self-driving cars..." Or the difference between a (noob) software user and
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Cities have banned billboards. Sao Paulo did it, so did parts of London: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret... Hard to quantify the benefits, but I think anyone other than advertisers would sa
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by carabiner 3mo ago
https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-production/boeing-massive...
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by carabiner 3mo ago
This is a massive improvement for airliners where margins are a few %. Tube and wing configuration is already highly optimized. This is a physical problem with a hard limit. Can you make a sphere "exponentially" rounder?
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Toyota had the largest recall in history for the unintended acceleration debacle. Yes, lots of people were saying they'd never set foot in a toyota again. Now people don't even remember it.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
can we not do this
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by carabiner 3mo ago
One honest caveat worth flagging though.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Fair callout.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Wait where is that from? Googling just takes me back here.
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Gaming is better for you than Scrolling Social Media [video](youtube.com)
3 points by carabiner 3mo ago|1 comments
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Drones killing drones in the sky. Each side is just burning piles of money until one runs out. Imagine if that could be put towards something useful.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Is there a way to benchmark the accuracy, validity improvements in these successive benchmarks?
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by carabiner 3mo ago
strawberry
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Chomsky said it was the only newspaper that told the truth.
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by carabiner 3mo ago
Tax breaks for filming and it's not SF specific or even cities. Other planets too, like Stargate SG-1 being filmed around Squamish 1 hour away.

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