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by jdlshore 3y ago
A profession that needs a cable longer than 1 meter with full bandwidth and power. (This one is 3 meters.) Active cables are much more complicated and expensive than passive cables, and full bandwidth, full power cables even more so.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Your assumption that this decision is being made for career related reasons is what people are saying is cynical.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I misread it. The article says “30 min less than driving,” but I read it as “30 min.” Airplanes take 60-90 min, not counting boarding etc.
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It’s meant for kids.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
According to the University of Washington report, high speed rail is in competition with metro-to-metro air travel, which also involves arriving without a car. I don’t know how this particular route rates on that metric, but I do remember t
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by jdlshore 3y ago
OP said "all of it gets you drunk, which is what you're after"
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Your world-weary nihilism is appealing, but I don’t buy it. Your core premise is flawed: perhaps you drink to get drunk, but that’s not true of everyone. Heck, I don’t think it’s true of most people, other than alcoholics. It’s not true
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by jdlshore 3y ago
In theory, it’s the outcome of #1; in practice, it’s a nuance many people miss.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
This intrigued me, so I looked it up. Sadly, your memory doesn’t seem to be correct. Mercury’s day is 59 earth days and its year is 88 earth days. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/planet-mercury.html
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by jdlshore 3y ago
3. Work in very small steps (a handful of lines of code) and incrementally build up as you go.
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The difference is that unit tests are checked automatically, and logs require manual inspection.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
> Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world. This exists and is called
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by jdlshore 3y ago
1. I’m not convinced this is true. Yes, electric cars have environmental costs, but so does everything. How confident are you that solving climate requires reducing car ownership, rather than just benefiting from it, and what evidence do
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by jdlshore 3y ago
That is not evidence for this particular claim.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
> Real estate bros… directed news outlets to criticise the practice. What evidence do you have for this? It sounds like conspiracy thinking to me.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
The direct link to the reason is here: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13219#issueco... All in all, a well-reasoned decision. And I say that as someone who actually likes typed and checked exce
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by jdlshore 3y ago
You have a massive blind spot here. As one solution-oriented person to another, please make it a goal to understand and fix this blind spot. It will make you more successful in life, and will make you more effective at implementing your sol
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by jdlshore 3y ago
> What am I missing? That not everyone is as solution-oriented as you, and that being solution-oriented isn’t inherently superior.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
This is a type of article called a “human-interest story,” and isn’t intended to teach you how to protect your home from fire. Instead, it’s soft news intended to create an emotional connection to the impact of the fires. This sort of story
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by jdlshore 3y ago
There’s a point at which money is no longer the deciding factor in people’s decision making. The amount of money required to make it a deciding factor again is uneconomical, and is of the “I’ll do this for a few years, then retire” variety,
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I get your point, but check out the history of the steam engine. The first one was invented in ~30 BC. Additional attempts were made in the 1500s and 1600s. It took until 1712 before it was commercially viable.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Some people have sexy friends that invite them to stay the night. Some people stay with family. Some people use their phones a lot and need to charge away from home. Some people have worn out batteries that don’t hold much charge.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
It’s low-quality journalism. The actual report says that HSR competes with metro-to-metro air travel, and explicitly contrasts it to commuter rail. It says that when managed poorly, —for example, trying to serve too many communities—HSR en
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by jdlshore 3y ago
The actual report is here. It’s quite readable: https://mic.comotion.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Keepi... The word “commuter” appears 19 times, always in the context of “local commuter rail,” in co
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I understand the difference, and chose my words intentionally. What evidence do you have that the purpose of the high speed rail project is primarily for commuting to and from work? I’d be willing to wager that the actual report (which I ha
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by jdlshore 3y ago
What would prevent the need for travel between Portland, Seattle, and BC, and how would you like the government to make that happen?
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Regardless, the green dot is produced by a laser, not the lidar module, as shown in the video.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
It uses LiDAR. The green dot is an aiming laser for the human, and is calculated from the LiDAR result.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I wouldn’t worry about it. HN is prone to these sorts of thoughtless dismissals.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
No, but given limited time, it makes sense to evaluate whether a source is ( edit: heavily) biased or a crackpot before spending attention on them.

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