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by jefftk 10mo ago
Plywood can be extremely durable, in many cases more than whole boards.
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by jefftk 10mo ago
I've done this many times, and it usually takes about 5min (which sounds short, but isn't really that short). There is social pressure, but it's even stronger on the store than it is on you as a customer.
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by jefftk 10mo ago
I remember it from at least 2014, and wrote about it in 2019: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ma-price-accuracy-law
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by jefftk 10mo ago
3. Point at the sign, which is posted at every register, and ask for your discount. If they say no you ask for the manager. I've done this several times, and never had an issue (but sometimes it takes a little while).
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by jefftk 10mo ago
> Red Baron frozen pizzas, listed on the shelf at $5, rang up at $7.65. Bounty paper towels, shelf price $10.99, rang up at $15.50. This very rarely happens in MA, because when it does the store has to give you the item for $10 off, in
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by jefftk 10mo ago
> Things made out of wood and metal were actually made out of hardwood and metal. Not so many composites that fall apart instead of wear ala wabi-sabi. Composites are older than you think: putting thin layers of high quality wood over
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by jefftk 11mo ago
> I think the best way to put it is, users with the same user picked settings should see the same things, in the same order. That's a given on HackerNews, as there's only one frontpage. Are you sure? The algorithm isn't
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3 points by jefftk 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jefftk 11mo ago
What's wrong with hats?
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by jefftk 11mo ago
> Incorrect. The KC-10 was based on the Boeing 707. No connection to the DC-10 at all other than having 10 in the name. I think you're confused? It's nothing like the 707, and is a trijet. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by jefftk 11mo ago
> Though I suppose another possibility is that they all share an identical pylon design or something like that. They're very closely related planes (MD-11 is an upgraded DC-10; KC-10A is a military version of the DC-10), so that w
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by jefftk 11mo ago
That's right. Several times they sneakily reverted my preference, and I reset it. The most recent time I went to do that again and learned it's no longer possible.
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by jefftk 1y ago
The claim is not "it's a state machine" but about transitioning from one valid state "to another". That requires more than one state.
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by jefftk 1y ago
"The system transitions from one valid state to another" is clearly false: the system only has a single state.
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by jefftk 1y ago
This is another example of something where, at least if you want to get all the way to completely correct operation, it's easier for an driverless car than a human. A person can't memorize the schedules of every school district t
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by jefftk 1y ago
> You're going to write a lot of code in blood this way. Waymo has been doing a lot of driving, without any blood. They seems to be using a combination of (a) learning a lot from close calls like this one where no one was hurt ev
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by jefftk 1y ago
> We are (still) firmly in the sequencing by synthesis era. It really depends what your goals are. At the NAO we use Illumina with their biggest flow cell (25B) for wastewater because the things we're looking for (ex: respiratory
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by jefftk 1y ago
You might like "The Mountains of Sunset, The Mountains of Dawn?", a science fiction story about this kind of drift on a generation ship.
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by jefftk 1y ago
The most common answer is to hire MarkMonitor to do this for you.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Different pasta shapes take very different amounts of time to cook, and the time estimates on the box are helpful for figuring out when to start tasting.
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by jefftk 1y ago
The pasta tastes great when I cook it for my preferred amount of time, doesn't seem like an issue with the quality of the noodles.
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by jefftk 1y ago
I think you might enjoy a really thin noodle, like angel hair. The thinner the noodle, the less contrast you will get between the outside and the inside. (On the other hand, I really like pasta with very different texture on the inside and
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by jefftk 1y ago
(author) That could actually be a lot of what I'm seeing! I live in Somerville (just outside Boston) with MWRA water, which is kept at a pH of 9.0 to 9.5 to reduce lead leeching from old pipes. Reading a bit, it seems like that could i
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by jefftk 1y ago
How does removing pasta cool down the water? I was putting in a slotted spoon, and removing one piece at a time. The water remained at a full boil throughout.
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by jefftk 1y ago
This isn't a Market Basket-specific issue: I see the same thing with pasta at Shaws/Star, Stop and Shop, and Wegmans.
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by jefftk 1y ago
That's a weird example, because they were vindicated. The .com economy really did massively change the way business is done. They just (fatally, for most of the companies) overestimated how quickly the change would happen.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Tesla is essentially the only one that doesn't use lidar. I'd be very surprised if a Waymo had a problem with this debris.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Is your claim that these studies are incapable of measuring what advertisers actually care about? That Google is reporting fraudulently positive results? Something else? (Once I understand your claim I'll be better able to respond: I t
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by jefftk 1y ago
I don't know, it's not obvious to me that YouTube should prioritize the creator's desire to track users over the user's desire not to be tracked.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Google built a system that tracked video views. Users installed a browser extension that intentionally breaks this tracking for privacy reasons. Why should Google do anything? They're not the one that broke it, and these users don&#x

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