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by jfim 6y ago
> Basically everywhere where you aren’t required by law to allow animals refuses them because making even the smallest voluntary accommodations for people is just something that doesn’t happen. What about accommodations for people who ar
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by jfim 6y ago
Really depends on what the context is. Maybe for a taxi ride when negotiating a price ahead of time, but pointing at an object, asking for its price, getting an estimate that's off, then getting the actual price before the transaction
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by jfim 6y ago
Because it gives an idea of what range is expected for the actual price. If someone gets an estimate of "about fifty bucks" versus "about $51.04", their reaction to seeing a final price of say $62.17 would be different.
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by jfim 6y ago
The BOM is similar but it's not very compact. I have yet to 3D print a case for mine and get the PCB manufactured, but the dimensions for it are roughly 1"x1"x2" assembled, when not on a breadboard.
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by jfim 6y ago
Not that I'm aware of, but it's actually pretty easy to build one from off the shelf parts (ESP8266, Plantower PMSA003, Sensirion SHT31, Sensirion SGP30, Senseair S8), which was my pet project during the pandemic. Basic soldering
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by jfim 6y ago
> I think this is a good thing provided it doesn’t take from people’s annual leave allowance. They switched to discretionary time off (no formal accounting of paid time off) a few years ago. They also have a one week company shutdown in
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by jfim 6y ago
Alternatively, one can have a bottle of hand lotion by the sink. Wash the hands with soap, dry them with a towel, add hand lotion.
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by jfim 6y ago
In general, on a high latency call, if you find yourself interrupting someone, you can just "pass the mike" back to them once you're done. A simple "Sorry <name>, I cut you off, you were saying?" does wonders
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by jfim 6y ago
There's a lot of variance between seats, and luxury cars tend to have better seats than Tesla's. For example, the Lincoln seats have 30 settings to adjust, as well as a massage function. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/jb
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by jfim 6y ago
> I'm skeptical of the idea that having heterodox opinions or being a bit of a stubborn ass should be a fireable offense It's more of an issue when someone is part of the leadership for a group though, as they are seen as repre
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by jfim 6y ago
Chickens have changed a lot in the last 50 years as well. This 2014 paper [0] compares the growth of chicken breeds from 1957, 1978, and 2005. The pictures of chickens at 56 days are pretty striking. [0] https://www.sciencedirect
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by jfim 6y ago
> In third world, generally the same amount of money goes much longer than in the West. There are some things that just cannot be purchased in the third world, though. Stability, a well educated population, a fair court system, confidenc
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by jfim 6y ago
Literacy is actually a good analogy. People have different reading abilities, but they're all under the umbrella of literacy. Some people are illiterate, some people can read simple documents but struggle with higher complexity texts a
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by jfim 6y ago
Prop 65 warnings are pretty useless though, since they have very limited information that does not allow one to evaluate the risk incurred. Case in point, my first internship in California was in a building with a sign that said "This
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by jfim 6y ago
Multiple reasons. It wouldn't look good on nVidia if they were to raise prices too much. Between being known as a company that doesn't have enough supply/is too popular sounds much better than a company that price gouges thei
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by jfim 6y ago
Oh awesome, thanks a lot! :-)
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by jfim 6y ago
Unfortunately, whomever edited the video only shows the speaker and not the content of the slides, which makes it pretty hard to follow the speaker's points. For example, the speaker will mention examples of doors, but no doors are sho
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by jfim 6y ago
It might, and it might not. Even though Japan also makes some fine watch movements, Swiss ones command a premium over the Japanese ones. I'd assume that this would be similar for chocolate.
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by jfim 6y ago
Sorry for your loss, hopefully they're in a better place now.
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by jfim 6y ago
> how hard can it be to render some text? It really depends. If the only thing you care about rendering is US ASCII with a monospace bitmapped font, that's not too hard. However, a general purpose text renderer will have to handle t
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by jfim 6y ago
From that perspective, a genuine Picasso painting has no intrinsic value above a fake one, since Picasso isn't physically part of the painting.
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by jfim 6y ago
I'd argue that it is intrinsic, and to argue about that, we have to think about what it is that makes a US dollar a US dollar, and not anything else. It's clearly not the piece of paper, because I can get many pieces of paper at t
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by jfim 6y ago
The IRS would like to differ. If you have to pay taxes, they have to be paid in US dollars, not chickens or Bitcoins. As such, it has at the very least the value of being the sole currency that can be used to pay US taxes.
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by jfim 6y ago
The captured models in the videos look really amazing. Wow!
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by jfim 6y ago
> I believe that the only reason Uber, Waymo, and friends have gotten away with "it's the drivers job" Waymo doesn't do L2 or L3, only L4 autonomy. In the case where the AV is at fault for an accident, it would be due
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by jfim 6y ago
You're missing a s there: s@/regular expressions/blockchain/g@s&@
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by jfim 6y ago
> Given that and the already-existing ability to create collagen/gelatin in a lab that's suitable for vegans, I've always wondered why nobody has managed to get it to market as a food. Outside of some pastry applications (
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by jfim 6y ago
No, from what I understand it's done to standardize a lot of telecom stuff across Europe. I think they're somehow related to the GSM, but I haven't been in the telecom industry in well over a decade so my memory is fuzzy ther
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by jfim 6y ago
According to your data, a 20:1 ratio could be explained. The first figure of your link [3] shows that the ratio for elementary level teachers is 89:11. Plugging these numbers into R shows that it's not exactly a surprising result:
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by jfim 6y ago
> To my knowledge, wholesale 'rephrasings' of standards documents have never been undertaken, even where royalty-free access to a document is in relatively high demand, such as with the C standard. No, they have. As a specific

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