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by ewhanley 2y ago
That's pretty gross. Why would a hospital/healthcare system even need all that tracking? They don't make enough from their primary business that they also need to sell patient data for advertising? I would guess some dev just
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by ewhanley 2y ago
Many companies already try this approach
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by ewhanley 3y ago
It's a niche market. I love Icon's stuff but they sell very low numbers of vehicles. I would love to have an ev FJ40 or Scout, but I'm skeptical the general populace wants these as much as enthusiasts think they do.
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by ewhanley 3y ago
Mrs. Davis[0] offers a pretty compelling vision of this - absurd but not wholly unbelievable. The machine doesn’t necessarily have to supply the physical threat if it has humans who happily do its bidding. [0] https://en.m.wikipe
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by ewhanley 3y ago
Fair enough - something like rock strength and rupture length. Good paper. Thank you
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by ewhanley 3y ago
An estimate of the upper limit of an earthquake is approximately 10. It's a function of max rock strength.
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by ewhanley 3y ago
Text-driven interfaces can be amazing. I worked at an auto parts store right out of high school. Our terminals for looking up parts were entirely text-based, and once you knew the commands and make/model/category shortcuts you cou
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by ewhanley 3y ago
A PHEV seems like the ideal vehicle to me. Most people's daily drives are probably around town, which will be all EV, but for longer trips you don't have to bother with slow, potentially crowded charging stations at limited locati
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by ewhanley 3y ago
There's also a decent (not documentary) limited series that explores the idea of determinism. It's pretty good and may be of interest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devs_(TV_series)
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by ewhanley 3y ago
This seems like the correct and fair implementation of non-competes broadly. If companies want leavers out of the market, they should be required to pay garden leave. People have to make a living, and it’s unreasonable to expect them to cha
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Farmers Win the Right to Repair Their Own Tractors in Colorado(vice.com)
54 points by ewhanley 3y ago|13 comments
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by ewhanley 4y ago
Yeah, the improvement from 3.5 to 4 is amazing. I'm surprised so many people are so dismissive, and I suspect it's because most of them haven't tried it out. Such are the ever-moving ML/AI goalposts.
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Does your company serve “weenies” or “shrimp”?(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
2 points by ewhanley 4y ago|0 comments
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by ewhanley 4y ago
It also makes me question how different this is from what we (humans) do. We learn a bunch of information from a variety of sources and experiences and synthesize that into answers. Sometimes we are correct and sometimes we are not. I suppo
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by ewhanley 4y ago
Right, but these sort of narratives are rarely linear. In either case they would have been working compilers. At least in this version of events, they got to take a shot at a passion. They could also try again and have a roadmap and the cou
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by ewhanley 4y ago
This sounds like a total win. You studied what you wanted, didn't completely wipe out your finances, and successfully re-opened a door you thought may have been permanently closed. I view self actualization as a far more important comp
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by ewhanley 4y ago
My first job had domain-specific libraries on certain floors, primarily geoscience and reservoir engineering. About a year after I started, they decided to liquidate the libraries to make room for more offices, and we all got to grab a few
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by ewhanley 4y ago
A writer can't win these days. People get all worked up about they/them, too. Not all writing needs to be parsed through a political lens.
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by ewhanley 4y ago
Not to mention they have been using ai/ml in practice regularly and at massive scale since at least the late 1970s. And IOT before it was a buzzword.
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by ewhanley 4y ago
I couldn’t agree more. I like the walled garden. I don’t care if some messages are green. If I wanted to have granular control over everything, I’d buy an Android phone. I really struggle to see why some regulatory body should be able to fo
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by ewhanley 4y ago
million (m = 1000, m * m = 1000000)
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by ewhanley 4y ago
It feels like there is a data leak built into this test. Imagine ‘better candidate’ sees the posting without salary info. They decide it’s interesting and google ‘salary kokanator’s company’, see the posting with salary info, and decide it
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by ewhanley 5y ago
I am 100% a morning person, but I’m at work inside in the morning. I’d prefer more daylight in the evening when I’m not staring at a screen at work (though I recognize some people start and end their workday later).
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by ewhanley 5y ago
You should check out Barbell Medicine. They have a great beginner / restart template [0]. It’s a couple of doctors and an extended team that cut through a lot of the bro science that surrounds fitness and, specifically, strength traini
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by ewhanley 5y ago
There is a great recent episode of Radiolab that discusses how pervasive lead is in the environment. tl;dr the background level is so high that calibrated measurement of specific samples is challenging. https://www.wnycstudios.or
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Tesla Fans Troll Repair Pro for Fixing Model S for $15,000 Less Than Tesla(vice.com)
27 points by ewhanley 5y ago|17 comments
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by ewhanley 5y ago
Thanks for the references. The latter bit of your response rings true to my experience. I grew up in a conservative rural area, and the mainstream conservative ideas from then are unrecognizable in today’s version of conservatism.
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by ewhanley 5y ago
I disagree and this is a condescending response. I know what it means to be objective. Hell, I probably lean right of the median on HN. I’m just presenting the observations of someone who could probably be called radically centrist I guess.
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by ewhanley 5y ago
I am admittedly a big fan of PBS, so maybe I'm blind to it, but I don't see the bias. I can't name a single conservative show, I suppose, but I can't name a single liberal show either. News and televisions don't hav
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by ewhanley 5y ago
That's right. You can't prevent a mineral rights holder from accessing their resources - even if you hold the surface rights. The company developing the minerals has to compensate the surface owner for roads/pads/etc.

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