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by fwlr 3y ago
Relative timestamps really are more user-friendly than ISO 8601 for 90% of the use-cases of 90% of users. I share your sentiments about them but objectively speaking we are in the minority, even for ostensibly technical-focused sites like G
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by fwlr 3y ago
The fact that it pushes anonymous viewers to log in or sign up is definitely a positive (for their conversion rate metric, if nothing else), and that might be the main reason the number of images is so low. But the specific mechanism of IP
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by fwlr 3y ago
The IP-level block you experienced after trying to get around the login modal is an anti-scraping measure. I doubt it is based on anything like “detecting that you’ve opened web inspector”, it’s much more likely that Instagram is running so
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yeah, based on the other comments here I think I have quite a different view than most. To me, trad climbing vs free soloing seems like riding a bike with or without a helmet - it’s the same sport, just with different levels of safety equip
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by fwlr 3y ago
It’s the same as any other extreme sport - skill reduces risk but cannot fully eliminate it. Eventually a skydiver’s parachute will fail in a way they couldn’t have prevented, etc.
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by fwlr 3y ago
Fascinating thought experiment! For a version two, I would love to see: • more ambiguous examples (instead of “there are 27 examples, you only need to answer 7”, I would instead just offer 7 examples and on 7th say “stop now, or keep answer
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by fwlr 3y ago
What was your answer on the wheelchair? Same as for bicycle, or different? If different, what about a wheelchair but the person in it doesn’t need a wheelchair, they just enjoy the sporting aspect of arm-powered vehicles? The other way I wo
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by fwlr 3y ago
Fascinating stuff, looks like it was achieved on a regular lathe with with eccentric chucks (the piece is held off-center, so it doesn’t spin about its own axis, which is where the elliptical and circular shapes come from). This fancy turni
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by fwlr 3y ago
https://archive.md/jcs6x Archive for the paywall. It’s a short article: checked in for one night, stayed for 603 nights, leaving in Jan 2021 (so they arrived around April 2019, meaning this could potentially be related to C
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by fwlr 3y ago
I did some more research and it seems like we’re both right. Yes, the US OSHA (the Australian body has the same name) does not actually have a national standard for heat-related illnesses. It does however have plenty of (non-Californian) ma
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by fwlr 3y ago
Hmm, I’m not sure I buy your contention. You can point to an individual instance of applying a specific technology and say “it is an extension of a particular human intention”, sure. But this is not commutative; Person A’s application of Te
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by fwlr 3y ago
Realistically, no, it wouldn’t be a problem for this case. I was charitably trying to come up with the strongest possible argument for the repeal bill. I think it’s a decent argument in the general case - it’s not hard to see how hard-and-f
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by fwlr 3y ago
This is due to the market for electric vehicles growing much faster than Tesla is. The note reports 78% market share in 2018 and 62% in 2022. Numbers for illustration only: In 2018 there were 100 people who wanted EVs and 78 of them bought
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by fwlr 3y ago
Oh, if it’s true that aluminum alone has this local minimum issue, then the paper is even weaker than I initially thought. I took them at their word when they said other shielding may have better coefficients but still suffers from the same
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by fwlr 3y ago
I can see the wisdom in that, certainly. It does seem like it’s an OSHA issue so I’m not sure why these laws were passed directly by local government instead of being enforced by OSHA, but I can imagine good reasons - maybe OSHA does not ha
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by fwlr 3y ago
Sure, I have no opinion on removing the laws, I was just confused about their origin.
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by fwlr 3y ago
“ We considered a spherical water phantom in a spherical spacecraft shell, and analyzed how the radiation dose absorbed in the phantom depends on the aluminum spacecraft shielding thickness (surface density values of 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 5
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by fwlr 3y ago
Those mandatory water break laws confuse me. Is it because businesses are refusing to let their workers take water breaks? Or because workers don’t realize when they need a water break? I find it hard to believe either of those things are g
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by fwlr 3y ago
I tried it out and you’re right, it no longer works (it definitely worked for me several years ago). As far as I know, macOS even up to Ventura is still built on Cocoa, so the answer should still have an NS prefix. I’ll have a look and see
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by fwlr 3y ago
A friend coined a useful sibling acronym for when NIMBY doesn’t quite fit - NOME, Not On My Earth. I quite like how it highlights the claim being laid to the whole planet (one can of course view climate change as a justification for this cl
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by fwlr 3y ago
defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.01 should fix that (disclaimer - haven’t tested this in a long time, may need to restart apps or whole os to see effect). In general, if something about macOS annoys you and there isn
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by fwlr 3y ago
I do think the borehole plan (3km deep, rather than 400m deep) is better, although it is more speculative and this proposal has the overwhelming advantage that it’s being enacted.
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by fwlr 3y ago
Sounds like some Air Force guy got paid to spitball ideas, seems fine to me. This kind of brainstorming is often effective at generating good ideas. Something like “Stopping the Earth’s rotation would cause ballistic missiles to miss due to
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by fwlr 3y ago
The NVD seems optimized for dealing with companies. It definitely provides a valuable service, but the service it provides is something like “ingesting all the company PR about a given security issue and distilling it into an automated form
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by fwlr 3y ago
Aside from sleeping overnight in an airport, there’s also a bit of a “life hack” a friend taught me: lay on the ground with your calves and feet up on a chair. Elevating your feet makes for a very soothing and relaxing nap/rest/me
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by fwlr 3y ago
Fascinating stuff. I’ve always found it interesting how much of a role astronomy has played in the history of power and hierarchy. The editor did miss a typo in this text: “her other brother Manishtusu, who seized unprecedented tracks of la
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yeah, the situation is sort of like buying a car from someone, and you don’t like the previous owner’s agreed rate with the mechanic for ongoing maintenance, but you also park the car at the mechanic’s shop and if he stops doing daily maint
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by fwlr 3y ago
Devs want to put the menu where users expect it. Where do users expect the menu to be? Wherever devs usually put it. Where do devs usually put the menu? Where the users previously expected it to be, which is wherever devs put it before then
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by fwlr 3y ago
I don’t think this is normal or an expected behavior, apologies if my comment gave that impression. My claim is more that ‘Twitter not paying Google Cloud’ and ‘me not paying my mechanic’ are both situations where the phrase “refusing to pa
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by fwlr 3y ago
The hat/turtle/specter aperiodic monotiles are slightly disappointing for me. They seem much less aesthetically pleasing than Penrose tiles. Specifically, the “kite and dart” tileset is by far the most aesthetically pleasing to me

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