jandrese

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by jandrese 1y ago
It depends. Socialism is one of the better alternatives for areas where markets function poorly, like healthcare.
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by jandrese 1y ago
You would think so but no. The inner wheel is the one that lifts.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Automobiles have 4 wheels. The geometry of the situation is very different. This is also why cars have differentials, because otherwise the car would be fighting against the turn. Basically when you turn your trike turns into a bike.
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by jandrese 1y ago
If you're trying to keep all of the wheels on the ground you're not using it efficiently. With trikes when you go around a curve the inner wheel lifts off the ground, especially as many trikes have solid rear axles. It feels sca
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by jandrese 1y ago
You do need to put cash in, sometimes quite a bit--so when you see that someone ran away with $1.4M be skeptical because at least some of the money they stole was their own.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Wash trades mostly, then it is just a matter of finding some suckers to bite before you pull the rug. $1.4M is a lot to you or me, but in the world of big money it is pocket change.
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by jandrese 1y ago
My impression was that the California utilities were being operated in revenue extraction mode for decades and prioritized paying shareholders over infrastructure maintenance leading to the crisis situation we are in today. The enormous co
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by jandrese 1y ago
> Running a 5-micrometer-technology chip at an 8-MHz clock rate caused it to dissipate a great deal of power—nearly 1.5 watts. So quaint in our era of 500w graphics cards.
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by jandrese 1y ago
That's going a little far. Apple and Valve do have costs to operating the storefronts. It's just that 30% is an overly big cut for what services they provide. Between Steam and Apple I think the case against Apple is generally s
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by jandrese 1y ago
Seems like it depends on the price point. These chips might be slow by modern standards, but if they're cheap enough then it doesn't really matter for a lot of the potential applications. I'm typing this post on a chip that
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by jandrese 1y ago
Ironically it would probably be safer if the helicopter crossed directly over the airport. At least then airplanes are usually on the ground, except for the cases where someone has to abort a landing and go around. Still dangerous, but it
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by jandrese 1y ago
I don't think IAD has the capacity to absorb the DCA traffic, at least not on a regular basis. Even if you include BWA I have my doubts that you wouldn't have to cut a bunch of flights due to gate or runway limitations.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I think it's time for OpenAI to release an AI economist.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I feel like the antimicrobal properties of something that runs at 800C are maybe not so important.
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by jandrese 1y ago
That's kinda like saying a car is easy to build because they have automated painting robots. Fundamentally the problem is that most of the land they want to use is owned by someone else, and that means every single parcel is a potentia
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by jandrese 1y ago
I was just thinking that grid scale batteries could be extremely useful in a black start situation.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Also fun to see dashcam video where someone jumps out in front of the car for the insurance claim, but the driver is too alert and stops before hitting them, only for the person to then throw themselves on the hood of the car while their fr
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by jandrese 1y ago
I've wondered this too. Even if it's only the rear camera all cars should have a few seconds of rolling buffer that they save whenever an accident is detected. At the very least if the airbags blow it should trigger the save. Y
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by jandrese 1y ago
In my car taking the headliner off involves removing 6 bolts (one in each pillar) and then popping out some retaining clips. I was surprised at how easy it was when I ran the wire to the rear camera. Headliners were notoriously difficult
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by jandrese 1y ago
His point that casefolding in a Unicode world is a minefield is completely correct. This classic StackExchange post goes into some of the reasons why: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-...
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by jandrese 1y ago
This is just my opinion, but reading about Bertrand Russell my impression is that he dedicated his life to Pincipia Mathematica partially because he expected to find God in the foundations of the mathematics, and when that didn't happe
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by jandrese 1y ago
Are you sure you don't have a custom search rule configured in Firefox? I just tried this on my local instance and there was no problem.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Of course this assumes the Trump administration doesn't shitcan the $7,500 tax credit, which is not something I'd bet a new company on.
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by jandrese 1y ago
You generally have to find someone willing to sell you a fleet vehicle if you want a full 8 foot bed. Modern trucks are more like minivans with a vestigial bed sticking out of the back.
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by jandrese 1y ago
In my old Ranger there were a couple of spots in the bed where you could put a couple of 2x8 beams across it and have a place to stack 4x8 sheets. You did have to lower the tailgate, but they didn't stick out past the end of the lower
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yeah, the completely unrealistic timeline, price point, and the fact that the company is only now looking to hire engineers sets off my "fun looking product that will never be available for sale" alarms. I don't think they e
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by jandrese 1y ago
Independent salesman.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Can you imagine being a law enforcement officer bringing a case before a judge that you previously arrested on a flimsy pretext in order to intimidate them? That's going to be awkward.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the agents are required to stay together when doing deportation arrests because they don't know when an immigrant might revert to their demon form and incapacitate a lone officer.
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by jandrese 1y ago
All politics are local, which is a damn shame because the smaller the constituency the worst the politics are.

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