danepowell

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by danepowell 8mo ago
Doesn't the precipitating change optimize memory on the DNS server at the expense of additional memory usage across millions of clients that now need to parse an unordered response?
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To My Fans (Scrapers)(nathanshobbies.com)
4 points by danepowell 1y ago|0 comments
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by danepowell 3y ago
I wonder whether the bot hallucinated the wrong information or whether the policy changed and the bot simply wasn't updated / retrained. The latter seems more likely but less interesting, akin to information on a boring HTML page
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by danepowell 3y ago
Mazda isn't the first car company to abuse DMCA takedowns: https://github.com/toyotha/toyota-na
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by danepowell 4y ago
Google currently says .dev domains are $12 per year with no fine print about renewals. https://domains.google.com/registrar/search?searchTerm=asdfg... I think there's more to the story here.
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by danepowell 5y ago
> Surely other patients must have asked about [this traumatic experience]? Or commented on it? I find myself having this reaction all too frequently after traumatic encounters with the healthcare system. I honestly don't know the an
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by danepowell 5y ago
I don't disagree with the article at all, I think it's conclusions are probably largely right. But it's hard to take seriously when the very first figure has a logarithmic y-axis without any callout in the discussion, exagger
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by danepowell 6y ago
I fully agree that at least in principle it seems wrong to have insurance for routine care, when most insurance only covers catastrophe. I think the two practical problems with this view are (a) what's routine to you might be catastrop
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by danepowell 6y ago
There's a wide gulf between "some customers may have trouble using Slack" and "most/all customers are completely unable to use Slack". Putting aside formality, I'd say "Slack is down" is in fact
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by danepowell 6y ago
Can someone help me to understand all of the pessimism surrounding plant-based meat? Of all of the morally-dubious technologies in the world today, this seems like a force of unequivocal good, and yet the criticism is endless: "it&#x27
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by danepowell 6y ago
> The other party would pre-approve you and then you could request location on-demand? Precisely, and you could set a timeout (5 minutes, 24 hours, whatever) to automatically provide the location unless you intervene to deny the request.
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by danepowell 6y ago
I disagree that ending trials early is solid science, or at least not _as_ solid as running them to completion. It makes it hard to know whether results are due to a treatment effect or just random fluctuations over time. Essentially, it al
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by danepowell 6y ago
From the email to Trusted Contacts users: > Since then, we’ve built this functionality directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing That's simply not true. You can share your location with someone else, but you can't request
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by danepowell 6y ago
> Mostly because I don't like the trend towards optimal laziness personally It's easy to characterize home automation this way, and certainly "optimal laziness" is part of the appeal for some people, but it's gen
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by danepowell 6y ago
> This move feels radical My understanding is that, at least depending on your goal, this isn't nearly radical enough. Some experts think we not only need to stop selling gas-powered cars _immediately_, but also actively remove exis
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by danepowell 6y ago
This is an argument against treating drivers as contractors, but it's not an argument against the OP's point, which is that a contractor relationship might be beneficial for some non-negligible part of the population, even if it&#
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by danepowell 7y ago
In 2018, another Southwest flight used that same EMAS after overrunning the runway yet again, if you can believe it. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=219098
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by danepowell 7y ago
Unless you're talking about, say, botulism-contaminated food products that a grocery store discarded and a dumpster diver "recycled" on Amazon. Not saying that exact case has happened, but surely there's a more nuanced t
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The Mandalorian uses “fake” HDR(arstechnica.com)
2 points by danepowell 7y ago|1 comments
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by danepowell 7y ago
You've been able to get pretty decent Bluetooth in-ear headphones for $20-40 on Amazon for a few years now, can anyone comment on whether AirPods are really 10x better to justify the price? I just have a hard time believing that's
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by danepowell 7y ago
You can make that much and more by passively investing in index funds. What's the appeal in day trading then?
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by danepowell 7y ago
Does anyone know how stealth fighter aircraft are able to incorporate radar hardware that doesn't act like a giant retro reflector? Putting a radar array on the front of a stealth fighter just seems like painting a giant bullseye on it
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by danepowell 7y ago
Most comments here point to cherry picking and "p hacking" as being the primary problems with p values. Certainly those are major issues, but I think they miss the real point of the article, which is that null hypothesis testing i
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by danepowell 7y ago
The headline neglects to mention that the system is opt in and per-incident, which I think is a critical detail. It's not like police have 24/7 involuntary access to everyone's video.
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by danepowell 7y ago
I read the whole article expecting the question posed by the title to be answered. It never was, nor was there any appeal to science, data, or statistics on UV skin photography. Pretty disappointing. Specifically, I wonder how good of an in
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by danepowell 7y ago
Price. I worked briefly with teams building self driving cars in the past. Their budget for sensors far exceeded the cost of the car itself.
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by danepowell 7y ago
I think they are referring to autophagy, which is upgregulated during fasting. Sure autophagy is an important process in cellular "cleansing", if you want to use the pop definition here. But more autophagy != good outcomes, genera
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Known Issue: Charged full price of Fi device after financing(support.google.com)
45 points by danepowell 7y ago|46 comments
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by danepowell 7y ago
Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, I interpreted "what more do drivers want" as "what more can drivers expect to get", which I think is a reasonable question for what seems to be an as-yet unsustainable company.
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by danepowell 7y ago
Of all the government agencies, I think the IRS actually has one of the best track records for caring deeply about UX. Compare the federal tax forms and instructions to just about any state tax forms, the federal forms are miles ahead in te

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