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by carlmr 3y ago
I get all of these with major airlines now, they've adapted. Except for maybe the bad safety record.
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by carlmr 3y ago
Depends on how exact it has to be? If I know I have to fly out I just try to book the tickets early. If I'm choosing a vacation goal I might stay flexible and wait for any offer that's attractive and let the flight choose my desti
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by carlmr 3y ago
While it's not, the article should give the numbers to prove their hypothesis makes sense. Otherwise it's more like fake news.
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by carlmr 3y ago
>Yet, politically the idea gets simplified to lowering taxes will always increase revenue which is false. Also this usually works short-term because companies and people still have the infrastructure from previous government spending. Wh
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by carlmr 3y ago
Adding to that, alcohol is worse in these categories.
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by carlmr 3y ago
How did they measure Russian growth? Compared to last year where they had a huge drop? By official numbers? I think they just like to use the numbers that fit their narrative.
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by carlmr 3y ago
Most of these were only revealed 20-50 years after the fact, no? I think we don't know yet in how many ways we're being poisone, because the policy seems to be use random chemicals now, ask questions later . Also maybe add phosph
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by carlmr 3y ago
Especially a community that is already self-reliant to a large extent. Preppers are doing the IT equivalent of making untested backups. The backups may work, but since you didn't test it they might not work. Amish are testing their res
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by carlmr 3y ago
>so you can focus more on the person sitting next to you than on drinking the drink I never felt this was a big effort. Is this like people driving automatic transmission that assume it's dangerous to drive stick because it's &
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by carlmr 3y ago
Interesting, maybe I should consider using my glass straws more, since I like drinking lemon water in summer.
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by carlmr 3y ago
Ah that explains it, neither heard it in the US or Canada, but I'm not too well versed in British English.
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by carlmr 3y ago
It isn't an excuse, but having worked with C and Rust programmers, C programmers IME tend to have attitudes blaming users for not RTFM and Rust programmers (again IME, not generalizing) have more of the opinion that illegal states shou
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by carlmr 3y ago
>For instance, a computer in Afrikaans is a rekenaar In German it's Rechner , meaning the same.
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by carlmr 3y ago
What's a dirty weekend?
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by carlmr 3y ago
I found it funny that if you did robotics this is the first thing they teach you, and in control systems they went onto other more "fancy" controllers, but never explained how to make PID work well for a range of systems.
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by carlmr 3y ago
It's the we're using algorithms of EE.
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by carlmr 3y ago
>have one car drive a lonely highway every 10 days This is obviously an availability issue. If it's available and cheap enough it will drive that stretch all day, since there are private cars driving there all day. The only reason i
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by carlmr 3y ago
Not Norwegian but sounds like it to me, a German. In any case in German this is exactly how you'd create a new word. Gammeln (rotting) + Buch (book) + Duft (scent). Then you have Gammelbuchduft. In French maybe you can make it parfum
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by carlmr 3y ago
This is exactly why human error is not a valid answer in the 5-why process. A good company will try to identify what makes this more likely and remove the root cause. A bad company will find someone to blame. Reading up on Deming's w
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by carlmr 3y ago
Also there are plenty of drugs that make you more focused, but they also make you _high_ at a certain dosage, _normal_ is just what's the default level.
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by carlmr 3y ago
You're absolutely right, one additional point though is that if you're drowsy right now napping is good, but you should also maybe reflect on what's making you drowsy. That carb heavy meal you had? Better scale those down, it
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by carlmr 3y ago
I think if we get 1.5x as smart as the smartest human, then that will automatically scale after a few iterations of improving itself.
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by carlmr 3y ago
Fellow German here, I concur, being BM is 6€ got two patties in my local store. Other replacements are around 2€. It's just not competitive.
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by carlmr 3y ago
Bright orange is a warning color in nature, neutral green suggests an hospitable environment. It could be that the warning color added subconscious stress to doctors and patients alike.
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by carlmr 3y ago
If there is a better color then it's guaranteed to save lives in the long run.
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by carlmr 3y ago
The title, the article, everything just screams scam. They never explain what they mean by the fourth dimension.
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by carlmr 3y ago
>So the driver said he was scared to stop. Well if google employees/contractors/ are scared to stop, what does that say about US police practices. Seems...reasonable? At a minimum make cops have a 4 year education, like almost
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by carlmr 3y ago
You're saying this as if it's self-evident. Why not?
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by carlmr 3y ago
>So German doesn't need another set of Unicode code-points for A-Z; it just needs codepoints for those extra letters. The extra letters would sort differently though right? I wouldn't expect ö/ä/ü to sort after z. For
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by carlmr 3y ago
If you believe it's a unicorn, yes, otherwise it's fraud.

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