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by chrisfosterelli 9mo ago
I guess I don't know exactly how these airplane machines work but in general ideal coffee brewing does not reach the full boiling point.
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
I wonder how air Canada reconciles this. There was a popular globe and mail article a while ago that gave awful rankings to air Canada's water tanks -- so the company put up signs in the bathroom saying the water is non-potable and cal
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
Thanks, this seems interesting. I'll give it a read. I admittedly don't keep tabs as much as I should these days. I feel like every piece of AI news is about LLMs. I suppose I should know other people are still doing interesting t
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
Well one of the inherent issues is assuming that text is the optimal modality for every thing we try to use an LLM for. LLMs are statistical engines designed to predict the most likely next token in a sequence of words. Any 'understand
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
I was recently talking to a colleague I went to school with and they said the same thing, but for a different reason. We both did grad studies with a focus on ML, and at the time ML as a field seemed to be moving so fast. There was a lot
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
I often do this in meetings and have gotten into the habit of saying "I'm thinking". It's not much but it gives both of us time to think and explicitly makes it clear I don't expect the person to say something. I th
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
There are events that may affect more than one machine which are not netsplits. e.g. an ISP with common users experiences an outage, an IRC client with common users has a bug, common users within the same time zone have automated system upd
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
A whole other part of this argument that could be made is about the inherent assumption that a ping timeout is caused by an event that only affects one machine.
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
What's the right amount of standards to have when you're writing 9 million lines of code that controls a 30,000lb machine moving through the sky at mach 1 with a human life inside?
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by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
Player compatibility. Netflix can use AV1 and send it to the devices that support it while sending H265 to those that don't. A release group puts out AV1 and a good chunk of users start avoiding their releases because they can't f
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by chrisfosterelli 11mo ago
OK this would obviously be bad, I think everyone gets that. But the note in the article is getting at something that feels interesting. I think there's a more fruitful conversation around "how might this work in spirit?" inst
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
I think that's reasonable. I suppose I also think it idealist that cities will actually act that way in practice in the short term. I'm specifically thinking of examples like the Corniche highway in Alexandria or Marine drive in M
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
> Please, look up how many people it is capable of moving per hour, and compare that to any light rail or street car service in any city. I have a hard time understanding this criticism. Why not do both? It seems to me like underground h
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Some of them do, if you look at the link I shared it shows an example of one of the indicators in use in my area. But you can usually tell anyway. You don't think about it as much in a vehicle but on my bike you get used to how each in
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Yes. I can't speak to the USA, as I'm from Canada, but I've had conversations with traffic engineers from another city about it and increasingly seen them in my own city. Here's an example of one of the systems: https:&
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Ironically now that computer vision is commonplace, the cameras you talk about have become increasingly popular over the years because the magnetic systems do not do a very good job of detecting cyclists and the cameras double as a congesti
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
The reasons are because it's their job to ensure the organization's future, and financials are the specifics of how the company plans to do that, and because providing financial information to more people than necessary increases
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Obviously money is important. We live in a capitalist world. It lets an org invest in future, greater service to its mission. But it's not WHY a business exists. It's just a measure. It's sort of like saying that you exist to
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
In fairness, they did just increase the price of all of their consoles due to tariff effects on hardware production. Same with playstation. It's pretty much the first generation in history consoles have gotten more expensive after rele
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
It does include cloud gaming but the wide impression I get is that most users don't really use this feature. If you use everything game pass offers you, it's still a killer deal. The problem is the vast majority of subscribers don
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Agreed; it has been an incredible deal, especially with the redemption loopholes they originally left open. I think I got nearly three years for less than $150 originally. But it's pretty obvious now that they've been nearly givin
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Heart rate muscle tissue is largely influenced by hormones. The sympathetic system releases noradrenaline to speed up the heart rate, while the parasympathetic system releases acetylcholine to slow it down. But the release of these hormones
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
It feels a little like a kludge as long as we keep calling it http. The premise makes sense -- best practices for connection initialization have become very complex and a lot of protocols need the same building blocks, so its beneficial to
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
IMO apps that do this have a bug, and possibly a security one. This causes issues with prefetching, bot traffic, caching, CSRF, and just plain violates HTTP standards.
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
That was my first thought as well. Sounds like a cool name for a black site.
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
This is what they do, for what its worth. Every team bike is subject to random or suspicion based inspection both pre-stage and post-stage. There's also in-stage monitoring that flags riders or their equipment for additional investigat
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding d
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
I would indeed agree with things as you've stated. I interpreted "the work they do" to mean "their craft" but if it was intended as "their specific working conditions" I can see how it'd read differen
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
"You don't really love what you do unless you're willing to do it 17 hours a day every day" is an interesting take. You can love what you do but if you do more of it than is sustainable because of external pressures then
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by chrisfosterelli 1y ago
Agreed. Especially for a home media server, an underrated element not mentioned in the article is that something like the N150 is going to have intel quicksync for hardware transcoding, and the pi is going to be stuck with software implemen

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