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by lancebeet 2y ago
I might be mistaken but I believe the final day has only one puzzle, but the 50th star (a.k.a., the second star of December 25th) is given for having solved everything else. I don't think any puzzles are "locked".
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by lancebeet 2y ago
>Though secretly, it was to give hope to the students who were defeated by the education system and told “You can’t study Computer Science, because you didn’t know Carbon has a radioactive isotope.” Forgive me if I'm being elitist h
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by lancebeet 2y ago
It's interesting how bad the democrats seem to be at the game of winning elections. They continuously seem to pick bad candidates and poor strategies resulting in them losing the election when they seem to have had the general conditio
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Is this really a "degradation" in popular taste, or is it a change in the demographics that dominate the demand side? While there's apparently been some studies on the demographics of Swifties, it's much more difficult t
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Toyota, who is widely recognized as the pioneer of JIT manufacturing, famously began stockpiling microchips after the Fukushima disaster disrupted their supply chains. It might not make sense to stockpile raw materials, but stockpiling thin
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Weird argument, in my opinion. It may be that eyesight is only one of several factors that determine performance in shooting events, and these devices help the athletes that use them but provide less benefit to others. Stating it's pla
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Seems to be user agent. ~$ curl -v -A "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" " https://ma
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by lancebeet 2y ago
I opened it up and was a little surprised by what it showed in my surrounding area. It was filled with restaurants and businesses that haven't existed for years. There must be thousands or even tens of thousands of apple maps users tha
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Interesting that you should say that, because I'm of the exact opposite opinion. In fact, the omnipresence of elastane in pants has been a big QoL downgrade for me.
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by lancebeet 2y ago
If they deliver the letter to the return address, what prevents you from writing the target address as the return address and getting it delivered for free?
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by lancebeet 2y ago
I wonder if this will have the same effect as the "parental advisory" sticker on music, where the demand for these noodles among Danish spicy food lovers will skyrocket. Since buldak noodles are already so much more expensive than
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by lancebeet 2y ago
It also makes sense if Chinese car makers can only compete because of massive state subsidies, whose purpose is to bankrupt competition and gain control of the market. From the EU's perspective, it might make sense to penalize Chinese
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by lancebeet 2y ago
Are you implying that the ethnic homogeneity of Norway is the reason for the low maternal death rates in Norway? Or are you saying it's the economic "diversity" (i.e. inequality) in the US that's the problem? What exactl
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by lancebeet 2y ago
I think a fair question then would be what you actually love about them. Theaters do boast large screens with high image quality, but compared to a large flat screen you can have at home (where you can select your own seat) the difference d
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by lancebeet 2y ago
I think driving a car without a curb side mirror would be frowned upon in countries with a lot of bicycle traffic.
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by lancebeet 2y ago
You state this distinction as if it's established, but it's not a definition I've personally heard explicitly stated before. If I read the introduction of the Wikipedia article on "privacy", I find the following: &g
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by lancebeet 2y ago
But suppose they did tick that box. If someone ticks "need assistance" for a 1 year old, you would bring a stroller and not a wheelchair, no? A casual googling indicates that the smallest generally available wheelchairs are for ag
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by lancebeet 2y ago
This article explains how they measure the error. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-most-accurate... >Previously, Goldberg and I identified six critical error types a flat map can have: local shapes, ar
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I've seen many date-related bugs similar to these and in very few cases it's as simple as "one developer was incompetent and did something stupid". Incompetence may be part of the problem, but in the background there are
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I'm assuming you don't need to. ChatGPT can just create the bullet points from summaries of the books consumed as part of its training data.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
This is a really unfortunate but also quite common pattern in Sweden, where there's a veneer of internationality which tricks foreigners instead of helping them. Swedes will generally understand that Jönköping university isn't for
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by lancebeet 3y ago
Is that actually true? Nature has a very low capacity per area for "wild humans". I don't think the planet would support anywhere near 8 billion "wild" (hunter-gatherer) humans.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
It seems a little strange to me that the people interviewed in this article find this is so remarkable. Only 40,000 people belonged to the group that got the vaccine before 14. If the incidence rate were the same as for the unvaccinated (8.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
It's apparently also possible to do Ctrl-q to quit directly (it runs :confirm qall).
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I apologize. It was simply my subjective impression of the AoC this year, not a statement of objective fact. I didn't intend to insinuate that Wastl is a liar.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
My impression of the 2023 AoC was that Wastl has spent considerable effort on making it less LLM-friendly this year. Some days, this seems to have been done by adding extra conditions and complications which make the task more difficult for
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I agree with the general sentiment but 2g was launched in 1991. Turned off "tomorrow" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. 3g has also been available for 2 decades.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
My claim is not that public transport is perfect everywhere else in Europe, only that the preconditions for good public transport are much better in the UK than in most other countries, such as France or Germany, yet it isn't vastly su
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by lancebeet 3y ago
It has always fascinated me how incredibly car-dependent the UK is, given how small, densely populated and flat it is. The UK seems to have the perfect conditions for getting rid of the automobile entirely, but in reality public transport i
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I think this touches on an important point that my personal experience on both the customer side and the retail side rhymes well with. When it comes to third party services such as payment and delivery, customers rarely see a distinction be

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