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by debacle 2y ago
ABS can be very dangerous, and as a technology are less good than simply knowing how to drive in the snow. For someone who thinks that you need to slam on the brakes to stop, ABS are probably fine (but you will lose a lot of stopping power)
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by debacle 2y ago
Antilock brakes are bad enough. I don't want to ever own a car with an automatic braking system.
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by debacle 2y ago
Maybe part of the problem is most of the people claiming to be "AI experts" are riding the wave but don't really have much to offer. My company was recently offered a $5k/mo package that would "supercharge our sales
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by debacle 2y ago
When my daughter was 11 she tiled our bathroom. Now she's 16 and talking about what tools she wants to add to the workshop. Kids are tiny adults, you just need to enable them.
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by debacle 2y ago
Arithmetic is one of the places software excels. Fast Math is ubiquitous. Where do you think the friction for your daughter was?
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by debacle 2y ago
The article doesn't match the conclusion. The buried lede: procrastinating with the Internet is easier than procrastinating without the Internet. If you care about your kids, control their access to the brain rotting aspects of technol
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by debacle 2y ago
> If one considers bacteria as living entities — and all biologists seem to — then it is impossible to explain why mitochondria are not. There seems to be a strange, half-hubris, half-pride vein that runs through Humanity that would see
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by debacle 2y ago
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band." Yes, but not a good living.
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by debacle 2y ago
The same argument that they used against Microsoft 20 years ago is a "stretch?"
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by debacle 2y ago
ADHD or not, all good entrepreneurs manage themselves.
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by debacle 2y ago
Perf reviews are a terrible abstraction. The ranking and self-scoring and meetings and goal setting and stomach aching could be boiled down to a 5 item list: 1. We want this person to leave. They probably should have been let go already. 2.
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by debacle 2y ago
Few of the good Indian engineers stay in India, in my experience.
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by debacle 2y ago
"We are no longer valued like a startup, we are now a major player in a saturated space that is feeling the crunch of global economic headwinds and dwindling value for our real users, advertisers, and our bet on AI doesn't seem to
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by debacle 2y ago
It's true, though: accomplishing anything at all is relatively a feat. You have two ways to contrast a retrospective: what if we had been perfect, and what if we had done nothing. Sometimes a comparison against the latter is more infor
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by debacle 2y ago
Maybe we need to start with Zeno. Doing anything at all is relatively impossible.
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by debacle 2y ago
Good manager, have a cookie.
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by debacle 2y ago
The problem with DropBox is that it can't really compete with Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon Drive, etc. It's too narrow of an offering.
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by debacle 2y ago
Canada has a worst of both worlds system. Most wealthy Canadians come to the US for procedures because they can afford it and there is no waitlist, and so they don't care how bad the Canadian healthcare system gets.
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by debacle 2y ago
The discovery of rapamycin sounds like something a Joe Rogan guest would pontificate about. What an interesting drug.
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by debacle 2y ago
It doesn't. After a few years, the scant resources (phosphates, magnesium, manganese) run out again. Most small-scale regenerative ag farms are bringing in a lot of outside material to add those minerals back in. My farmland hasn'
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by debacle 2y ago
The farmers already know regenerative ag and are executing certain aspects of it, but for most of the US the financial incentives aren't aligned and the mineral losses in heavily farmed soils will take generations to recover. This is a
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by debacle 2y ago
“We have now discovered that diatom pyrenoids are encased in a lattice-like protein shell,” says Dr. Manon Demulder, author on both studies. “The PyShell not only gives the pyrenoid its shape, but it helps create a high CO2 concentration in
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by debacle 2y ago
This is one of the most underrated features of PHP.
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by debacle 2y ago
I have been taking seratonin precursors (5-HTP, a supplement) for about 4 months at a very low dosage (.3 of the "normal dose"). My chronic depression is mostly gone, but I have noticed an uptick in physiological signs of anxiety
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by debacle 2y ago
As someone who lives in New York, I don't understand why Cormorants get so much hate from bass fishermen. There can't really be that much pressure from cormorants on the small mouth fisheries. Cormorants are beautiful birds and th
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by debacle 2y ago
> I don’t think websites were ever intended to be made only by “web professionals.” I absolutely agree with this, in both directions - the tools we have kind of suck if the web WAS meant for professionals, but also that I remember learni
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by debacle 2y ago
What's that pg quote about the internet routing around such and such?
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by debacle 2y ago
What is Ladybird?
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by debacle 2y ago
They can and do. Firefox the browser is a tiny part of Mozillas budget.
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by debacle 2y ago
This is the weirdest comment I've ever upvoted on HN.

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