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by kelseydh 6mo ago
The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with approximately 541 to 614 people imprisoned per 100,000 residents as of 2022–2026. While representing only 5% of the global population, the US holds roughly 20%
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by kelseydh 6mo ago
If you accrue a high score, Google should give you a plaque like they give to Youtubers with many subscribers.
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Obsolete Sounds(citiesandmemory.com)
6 points by kelseydh 7mo ago|2 comments
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by kelseydh 7mo ago
Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening.
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by kelseydh 7mo ago
My wife traded in her Macbook for a laptop. I couldn't believe anybody could live without a proper desktop computer but she proved me wrong. Aced some pretty intense physiology classes just using an iPad + touch pen.
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IANA tz (and POSIX) cannot add British Columbia's new Pacific Time (PT) timezone(github.com)
3 points by kelseydh 8mo ago|1 comments
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
How high can the numbers go?
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
Very cool, would love to see Ruby support added.
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
School ends at 3pm so that the teachers, who work a 9-5 like you, get two hours after class to grade homework and prepare lessons for the next school day.
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
One of the most depressing days of the year in B.C. is when daylight savings ends, and clocks are switched back an hour in November. The sun goes from setting at ~6pm to ~5pm, and you officially end work with it dark out. I'm very ha
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
The Fourier transform audio examples fooled me. The example sounds and slider for them appeared consistent as far as I could tell... but then again I don't know much about Fourier transforms. Maybe I'm out of the loop but have to
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by kelseydh 8mo ago
It's mindblowing while reading this that I had no idea they were LLM generated.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
That assumes the problem is a common one others have encountered, which the examples I gave above certainly were. When you're wrangling with poorly documented legacy code operating under the context of its own internal domain logic (e
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Claude Code does empower developers to do deep higher level work. It's easier to generate advanced changes now. E.g. database optimisations a Senior Engineer might do, such as designing a database partition or creating a complex compo
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
> you could model a pretend economy where only the wealthy ever buy stuff In the United States, the top 10% of income-earning households are responsible for approximately 50% of all consumer spending.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
I can't think of anything scarier than a military planner making life or death decisions with a non-empathetic sycophantic AI. "You're absolutely right!"
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
At the peak of the Gilded Age in 1910, the richest 0.00001% of the US population owned wealth equal to 4% of national income. Now, the richest 0.00001% owns 12%. US billionaire oligarchs today are even wealthier than the original robber bar
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Counter to your point, what's most striking from that chart is how comparably similar both Europe and the United States are in their GDP per capita growth. I wouldn't bank too much on those high salaries for U.S. tech workers. Th
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
America has already been living in a decline of living standards relative to Europe for many decades. EU vs US Comparison Life expectancy EU: 82 yrs US: 78 yrs Infant mortality (per 1,000) EU: 3.3 US: 5.6 Poverty rate (below 50% of median i
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Disturbance storm time index (DST) is a better measure of peak intensity as KP is just a weighted average of the intensity from the last three hours across monitoring stations. The May 2024 G5 electrical storm had a peak measured DST of −41
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
I've heard about technology like this for over a decade. Have never encountered a use case (even no coverage at music festivals) where it once became viable.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
What is now certain is Dead StackOverflow Theory.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
One way to use em-dash and look human is to write it incorrectly with two hyphens: --
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
This would have been very helpful three years ago, before I permanently stopped using em-dashes to not have my writing confused with LLM's.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Not to mention how high heat cooking of meat, which is common for a steak via frying, brings health risks from Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs). AGEs are also present in vegetables and legumes, but certain meats like bacon contain unb
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Kinda of wild that Dairy got its own section in that document as a proscribed thing to eat. There are plenty of lactose intolerant people. These people can meet their nutritional needs without dairy. (For Calcium: via Sardines, leafy gree
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
"Frozen peas" and "Green beans" make an appearance on the pyramid, but yes the omission of any others is glaring.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
Almonds and peanuts make an appearance lower than red meat on the pyramid, which is wild to me.
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by kelseydh 9mo ago
The map for Australia is interesting. Is this missing data? See no infrastructure for Alice Springs in the interior of Australia.

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