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by gmac 4y ago
Somewhat disagree on this: in my experience, Siri is really bad even at what it supports. For example: * Alexa (in my kitchen) almost always plays the music I ask for on Spotify. Siri (in my car) gets it wrong about half the time — often in
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by gmac 4y ago
In the UK, when I was at school and at a time when numbers were shorter, I had a friend in the mid Sussex area (dialling code 0444) with a number that was mostly 4s. That made his number from anywhere in the world +44 444 4x4y4. I’ve always
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by gmac 4y ago
Ah, careful: https://www.nationalasbestos.co.uk/news/wwii-gas-masks-a-lif...
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by gmac 4y ago
One additional data point: I'm approximately an associate professor of economics in North American terms. Also curious how many of us there are here. As it happens, one of my colleagues was recently hired by Amazon (quite nearly append
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by gmac 4y ago
I always have spoken instructions turned off and drive by following the map view. This works fine for me with Google Maps and TomTom, but not Apple.
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by gmac 4y ago
The Apple Maps navigation view gives much less your actual perspective and much more an overhead view than either Google Maps or TomTom, and when driving this causes me to make way too many wrong turns (especially at roundabouts). I really
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by gmac 4y ago
> I'd rather have a reliable measurement of quantity that I believe contributes to well-being than a direct measurement of well-being that I think is unreliable. Sometimes there's a difficult trade-off here, especially since (u
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by gmac 4y ago
The dataset used is the UK Land Cover Map 2000 [1]. It's at 25m resolution, and urban parkland should show up as the appropriate land cover types: grassland, deciduous forest, etc. [1] https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/d
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by gmac 4y ago
Two points on this: (1) If you want to know how people feel, I’m afraid self-reports are the gold standard (2) Some other studies have large sample sizes (e.g. this one, which is based on my PhD: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/49
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by gmac 4y ago
> for example car insurance charges you differently by gender, because the statistics for genders are different Interestingly, car insurers in the EU are no longer allowed to differentiate premiums by gender. But since this law came in,
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Daniel Ellsberg on the Existential Threat of Global Conflict(thenation.com)
2 points by gmac 4y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 4y ago
... building on decades of prior research, much of it public (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w )
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Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology – UK(who.int)
65 points by gmac 5y ago|36 comments
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by gmac 5y ago
Hmm, OK. That certainly is worse than opt-in postal voting, though I think it's possible you're overstating quite how bad (for example, assessing how you think other people might behave is never quite 'basic logic').
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by gmac 5y ago
Other countries, such as the UK, have had postal voting for a long time. I've heard no evidence that there's systematic abuse. What destroys trust is not postal voting. It's a losing party actively spreading disinformation in
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by gmac 5y ago
It's not automatically a sensible policy. You have to decide how much you care about some people who have the right to vote not getting to vote, vs some people managing to vote illegitimately. Which side you come down on will probably
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by gmac 5y ago
Yes, all true. You can in principle export to STL but it doesn't work very well.
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by gmac 5y ago
Sure: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxirbmoa2n40xrc/steps02.lua The code isn't at all well-structured or documented. It needs external power and is designed around this motor: https://www.amazon.co.uk&
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by gmac 5y ago
If you’re looking for 3D modelling in real programming languages, I’ve very much enjoyed IceSL, which embeds Lua: https://icesl.loria.fr/ I used it to design this piece for use with Gravitrax, for example: https:/&#x2
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by gmac 5y ago
I had fun at the age of probably 12 or 13 figuring out I could create these sorts of stereograms in GFA Basic on my Atari ST.
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by gmac 5y ago
By the way, there were bad problems with the TS3+, Intel MacBook Pro 13" 2020 and macOS 12.2 (no USB or Ethernet until reboot after unplugging and re-plugging), which were fixed in 12.3.
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by gmac 5y ago
The train cost is often prohibitive, but can be done at a reasonable cost if you book at the right time (generally a few months ahead), especially if you’re a bit flexible on times. For example, I can visit family in Lausanne in the summer
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by gmac 5y ago
I assume your question is ironic. This case looks like an appalling over-reaction by an increasingly authoritarian state.
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by gmac 5y ago
Even if it's technically grammatical, I don't think it's something a native speaker would generally write or say. "You need X?" works in a casual setting. But IMHO it looks pretty out of place in a more formal sente
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by gmac 5y ago
This looks really nice. The template strings and querying work somewhat similarly to my own library, Zapatos[1] (but that sits on top of the pg package and is TypeScript-specific, being more focused on having everything typed). [1] https:&
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by gmac 5y ago
To me, this comes across rather condescending (and appears to be based on a reference category of: very rich people and/or major cycling enthusiasts).
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by gmac 5y ago
Pretty sure they all still have a headphone jack. https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/compare/
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by gmac 5y ago
Perhaps you're right that £850 is slightly below the ridiculous threshold (my recollection was that they were all £1000+). Though it seems that price omits arguably necessary features like mudguards.
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by gmac 5y ago
I'm sure Bromptons are great, but the prices are just ridiculous, and their marketing grates. I really don't need my bike to be handmade in London. I have a Decathlon foldable. It doesn't fold quite as small as a Brompton, so
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XBUS Modular Electric Vehicle(electricbrands.de)
42 points by gmac 5y ago|25 comments

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