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by ianferrel 2y ago
>Tesla has an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on its battery packs, and there’s still a good bit of that battery warranty remaining on this particular car, assuming Tesla will honor it on a used rental car. This feels like a load-bearing a
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Two AA batteries is about 16 cm^3 of waste. 10 CR2032s is about 10 cm^3. "Number of batteries" is not the right thing to measure. Maybe volume isn't either, but it's got to be closer.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
How much of this is just "most board games are awful"? Awful in the sense of overly complicated and fiddly. There are plenty of games with deep strategic depth that have been around for hundreds of years and are simple enough that
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Yeah I do this too. I also, when playing a totally new game that no one has played, state up front that we're pretty much going to wing it for a few turns and after that we can see if we want to keep playing or start over. Start over i
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Sure but I could imagine some kind of software failure caused by trying to divide by a distance that rounded two zero because the same location was listed in two databases that were almost but not exactly the same location. In fact I did wh
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by ianferrel 2y ago
When you think about the class of things that humans consider to be "fun logic puzzles", NP-Completeness seems more common, since it encapsulates broadly the set of puzzles that require a certain amount of brute-force to find a so
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by ianferrel 2y ago
You could, but you'd still have a similar problem. Imagine that footraces all had to be run in the same model shoes, in whatever size. Human body variation far exceeds any kind of standard sizing. There's a reason that anything th
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by ianferrel 2y ago
This wouldn't work because people aren't all the same size. Just like you couldn't make footraces fairer by making everyone wear the same shoes.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
As Heinlein intended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
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by ianferrel 2y ago
>I can make better food faster with better ingredients for a cheaper price at my own house for my own family, as long as we did some thi king ahead and planning. On top of that, when I make a new recipe, I learn how to make something new
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by ianferrel 2y ago
I disagree with that. In the case of food delivery, there's socially and economically useful work of getting food from where it can be efficiently created (restaurants) to where it can be efficiently consumed (hungry people's loca
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Evolution is optimizing for survival, not crop yield.
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Couldn't you write this about almost any technological innovation? Traditionally, avant garde tech is very expensive and available in limited quantities, then prices come down and things become more broadly affordable. Every drug was a
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by ianferrel 2y ago
My experience with the Harmony remote was that it was a very brittle solution. It took tons of setup, and would regularly strand me in some intermediate state where some components were enabled and switched properly and some weren't. A
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by ianferrel 2y ago
Doesn't your example support the author's point? Your car, like all other cars, does not support all three of those apps.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
>If I missed $200 on my income taxes, the IRS would be up my ass within a year for it I mean, the IRS would... write you some sternly worded letters. They might call you on the phone. What else do you think would happen? Can you find a
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Most places won't actually put gas in a car you bring back with less gas in it either, they just mark that it's at 3/4 or 1/2 a tank and you need to bring it back with the same amount of gas or they charge you. And presu
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Sure, but for the most-used real-world geometry, n = 2 or 3. So how fast it grows really doesn't matter. Most maps are 2-dimensional and this is fine.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Probably not "whatever", but anything that passes a "reasonableness" standard. It's totally reasonable to expect that if an airline offers bereavement fares that you could file the paperwork a month later because,
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by ianferrel 3y ago
>The company contends that iMessage [doesn’t fall within the scope of the DMA] as it is not a fee-based service and it does not monetise it via the sale of hardware devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VevDpYZ0a4&
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Non-conductive liquids still might be corrosive, or might provide enough thermal insulation to cause heat build-up, or might leave some kind of residue that would be problematic, or...
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by ianferrel 3y ago
If we remove the regulatory barriers to building more housing, the rich and the less rich can buy as much housing as they want. Think about this in the context of any other good. No one worries that if we build more cars, they'll all b
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by ianferrel 3y ago
You could do that with a much simpler trailer, though. All you need is battery and a cable. I don't know anything about electric trucks, but given that the standard use is to add trailers to them, I'd be surprised if "put the
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by ianferrel 3y ago
>direct trade with the US has no impact on their availability in Cuba. This is factually very wrong. The US uses a variety of methods to enforce the embargo, including sanctions on multinational corporations that provide goods to Cuba an
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by ianferrel 3y ago
The pressure sensor answer is a good reason. I have two cars with pressure sensors, and they've gone off a handful of times over the years. Each time I check, the pressure is low and I put more air in. If they're going off constan
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Even if like 80% of gas stations close, the remaining 20% will be situated along major transportation arteries. I expect there will be a gas station somewhere along someone's regular weekly driving route for all but the most remote dwe
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by ianferrel 3y ago
It's not a misuse, it's the natural language meaning of the word "opt", which long predates anything like the opt-in/opt-out usage that refers to default settings.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I think this might just be a slight difference in language usage. "opt-in" and "opt-out" as adjectives mean "something that is default off/on (respectively) that you can choose to select the other mode". B
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I have USB-C cables that look the same, but some of them carry video and some don't. I have USB-C charging devices that will charge off of some cables, but not off the one that will charge my laptop. I now have a box of weird crappy ch
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by ianferrel 3y ago
No you don't. If the king moves, you update both rooks to be unavailable for castling.

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