i_am_jl

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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I was really hoping this was a novelty account that just went around HN threads, calling out misinformation.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm very naive about all of this, can I ask what this means? Evergrande has been ordered to liquidate, on paper this means that the Chinese subsidiary Hengda must also liquidate, but China's just... not going to liquidate Hengda?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>The "price per page" has long been a efficient business model in the professional copier world. This is true, but I'm not sure it's can be adapted for home use. Every price per page agreement I'm familiar with i
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
"alternatives to Boeing" is a very strange typo for "Airbus".
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>It doesn't appear that OpenAI is trying to get into the foundry game. Instead, it appears the plan is to funnel any funds raised into leading-edge chip manufacturers like TSMC, Samsung Electronics, and potentially Intel.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I was going to say that Boeing had already gotten that exemption, but I was thinking about a different exemption: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-max-10-certification-fli...
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Folkrace! Kills me that it's not a thing in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Damn. Too late to edit this comment. The MAX 8 had the crashes due to MCAS problems. The underlying MCAS issue affected all 737 MAX variants.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
MAX 8 had the MCAS problems. The recent plug door issues are affecting MAX 9s.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
An output of 2.4Gw would make it the second most powerful onshore wind farm by nameplate output. China's Gansu is much (3-4x) more powerful. The UK's most powerful offshore farm, Hornsea, is being built in phases. Their phase 1+2
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
My boss had a KYC experience that involved uploading a short selfie video in which he had to turn his head/blink, smile, etc. This was recently, and in addition to the "photo of yourself holding a document with your photo in it&qu
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
If they were actually primed for success then 18 months of Duolingo should've given them a significant head start on the other students. Judging by the tone, I'm assuming that didn't actually occur.
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I was a SoundCloud subscriber for a few years until mid '19. Back then the value prop was music discovery + streaming access to artists who weren't on other platforms. But I don't see any evidence of growth. Other platforms h
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>‘We’re not saying the people who say they feel addicted are addicted,’ said Georgia Turner, a graduate student leading the analysis Is it common to question the validity of self-identified addictions to other substances or behaviors? Is
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
This is very cool, and gorgeous, but being the pedant I am I feel I need to ask, "Is it really a bridge if it doesn't cross over an obstacle?"
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
That's Striatus, a predecessor to this construction called Phoenix. https://www.holcim.com/who-we-are/our-stories/phoenix-bridge
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Regarding machining, you can/should read a lot of books but you're not going to learn how to run a mill or a lathe without getting your hands on one. I took engineering tech and welding classes at my local community college as a n
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I imagine Google sees a benefit in funneling people into YouTube Music's ecosystem, ostensibly to sell YouTube Premium subscriptions.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The really crazy part is that one of the factors that make emergency helicopter fleets more expensive than regular commercial chopper fleets is keeping the fleet at a state of readiness. Using them for ferrying officials around cancels thos
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>Fireworks tried to fill the gaps between PS and Illustrator, but never got traction. I couldn't disagree more. Fireworks was a perfect blend of raster and vector editing and was killer for early 2000s web design work. It was an a
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
That's the worst part, the products are great. $20/month is reasonable for PS/LR considering that yearly releases were retailing for $500+ in the CS6 era. Cloud storage and generative AI credits are rolled into those costs. N
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Garmin's watches have differentiating features, but any Garmin sportswatch will be sufficient for what you're doing. The biggest differences between the watches are the screen. Venu/Vivoactive is a perfectly fine starting poi
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Yeah, you're right. I suppose I can charitably interpret that number as removing the subsidies that also assist other farmers, but that makes the number far less useful for comparison. Switzerland and South Korea have exceptionally exp
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>We can't even make non-meat meat that's as cheap as meat and you didn't even have to grow or feed the cow. In the US if you remove the government subsidies from meat production the price of a pound of ground beef jumps ~5
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm not sure what I expected their reasoning to be, but "we have to protect farmers" wasn't it.
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Indiana's OSHA is one of the state plans that has authority over most private workplaces. https://www.osha.gov/stateplans/
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
It could be a withdrawal symptom if their ability to work returns after the withdrawal period ends. I've known people who are completely unproductive if they're not on Adderall, or on cannabis, I can't think of any reason the
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>Why would you buy a car tailored specifically for buying groceries? For many people moving stuff from shops to their home is their primary use case for an automobile. Why wouldnt they buy a car tailored for that purpose?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Do we have a word for this yet? I feel like it's becoming common enough that we'll soon need one.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
"A warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban" Yeah Chris, that is the point.

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