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by hinkley 2mo ago
How do you responsibly test something like this? The payload isn't going to follow a ballistic trajectory, it's going to follow an aerodynamic one. You'd probably have to design something special to load into it to aim the da
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Were they packaged as kid gummies or are you presuming that gummies = kids? Because that hasn’t been the case for a long time. Those vitamin D gummies I buy because I will take them instead of might take them consistently, are not child dos
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by hinkley 2mo ago
You wouldn’t, if you remembered that medically speaking, younger people “needing” melatonin pills has been pretty fringe until very recently, and the number of young people who need it is still comparatively small. You can find smaller pill
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Long ago when I paid attention to this, the wisdom was to watch out because most melatonin pills are targeted to geriatric patients. Old folks need a significant boost to their melatonin to deal with eroding sleep quality, not a little hit
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Time to touch some grass. Better use of my time and energy than twisting the remaining things on my todo list today to make more progress on them than I have managed. I should have taken a long lunch but I rebased the hell out of a PR inste
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Yep, and my free speech liberties mean that people can say horrible things to each other too. You can't have it both ways and we live in a society with people who have priorities that are misguided in different ways than our priorities
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There are three other things I could be doing instead, but I noticed it was down when I pushed the last of my GH todo list for the day and my brain is stuck in closure-seeking. I should eat lunch.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I haven't said as much in any of the projects I maintain, but I've set a very high bar for even entertaining AI PRs to those projects. So far I've only accepted ones that are nearly indistinguishable from humans. Typically th
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There are several branches of horticulture that require the same sort of systems thinking that makes one a good staff or principal engineer. Natives are one of them.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
They never were. They were just really good at maintaining the bluster and backing it up with expensive lawyers. Now that they don't come in claws-first like they did when they were a NASDAQ rocket to the stars, it's easy to see.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
The entire complexity and value of GHA is rent-seeking to keep the lights on for other things. They have a strong motivation (self preservation) to continue to misunderstand the problem. If they did what is best for us, then we could avoid
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I think you can do better than a whataboutism. First, Costco has some of the best employee treatment in the industry. Second, we are talking about blocking unwanted neighbors based on anything that will stick. We shouldn't have regulat
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by hinkley 3mo ago
You’ve forgotten sales taxes and income taxes generated by shopping malls, which is a pretty big oversight. The square meters per employee is much lower for retail than for a data center. They’ve gotten quite good at keeping staffing low.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
One of the ways Californians prevented Walmarts from getting built was to prove how egregious a drain they were going to be. The stormwater runoff alone was breathtaking. Those parking lots and roofs are crazy.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Their net worth alone argues against this just being a character assassination.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
They’re buying up undeveloped land that would not have been developed for any other reason. If the only developer is a problem, then it doesn’t matter if all developers are a problem.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
You can also get layout glitches if you screw up your math where the scroll bar disappears and reappears in a tight loop. This is a dodge for that. The viewport doesn’t resize when the content gets longer and you either run never into >
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Neglect and dust. With the billboards up nobody not even the rain has been washing the facade.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
The ground floor is a Sunglass Hut from the looks of things. Then the first floor looks like it might be offices, or a fancy apartment. The other floors could be storage space for the tenants and the landlord. My first instinct was perhaps
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by hinkley 3mo ago
People underestimate the value of predictability.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
That's the cover charge. It's like showing up at a karaoke bar and then complaining about all the drunken covers being terrible.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Probably not that much because one of the legacies of x86 is that library calling conventions are based on this same registry scarcity. To make an API call there is a convention that a limited number of registers are treated as callee-prese
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by hinkley 3mo ago
One of the lessons I picked up from my very brief foray into the world of realtime software is the idea of amortization. If you have one activity that is possibly time-unbounded, then the solution is to trade away a bit of throughput for ce
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by hinkley 3mo ago
At this rate I'm going to have "npm is by far the worst thing about NodeJS" printed on my gravestone.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
So many Ghostbusters II flashbacks watching this.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Don't touch the weird pink goo you find down there either. And if your name is Winston, it's just best if you stay above ground, or stick to the subway system.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I guess a robot would have to be crazy to be a folk singer...
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by hinkley 3mo ago
One of the pigments used for cave painting is also a really good natural sunscreen. So there is probably some truth to that. Perhaps recorded exploits of either first successful hunts, or hunts that earmarked one of their number for leaders
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by hinkley 3mo ago
If you're doing the same job every day for dozens of years, that's a lot of time to figure out ways to do the work better. But whatever they were doing was either so mundane or such a trade secret that they never wrote it down. Bu
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by hinkley 3mo ago
It’s concrete and rebar in the middle. This isn’t going to stand for 5,000 years.

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