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by lkbm 3y ago
To be clear, the US has something like 140 GW[0] of wind farms—it's just all inland. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_State...
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by lkbm 3y ago
It's also not learning from individual humans. It's learning from all the humans. Different humans have different strengths, including within chess.
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A complete aside, but: > The Jeff Bezos-owned site Jeff Bezos owns ~13% of Amazon.
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by lkbm 3y ago
Honestly, my go-to explanation would have been "Cloudflare has an automated alert for when they're on the HN front page". Not an, urgent, wake up the team alert, but a "post it to a Slack channel" bot. Maybe I shoul
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by lkbm 3y ago
I've watched so many people scramble eggs every morning and leave half the egg stuck to the pan day after day. You don't have to live this way! Before putting in your eggs, heat up the pan and put in some oil/butter. A spatul
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IIRC, no, it wasn't per-site, but disallowing third-party cookies overall was a setting in 3.x. The more relevant aspect, I think, is that there's an essential/non-essential distinction in the law, which differs from 1st-part
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He was using Hetzner and says it was costing him $200/month. He then had to spin up a second server, presumably increasing the cost, and it was still struggling. From there traffic doubled, and he moved to Cloudflare Workers. And then
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by lkbm 3y ago
If you restart Firefox, it won't load a restored tab until you navigate to it, so presumably most of his are already backgrounded. I find it useful to periodically prune, though. Save to Pocket or other "to read" list for thi
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by lkbm 3y ago
I'm not sure precisely what you're referring to. I recommended reading Wikipedia for less-sensationalist summaries rather than watching videos designed to anger, and specifically said that I believe this will leave you better in
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by lkbm 3y ago
Yeah, I very specifically did not advocate for disengaging from understanding what's going on. I recommended ways in which you can stay informed about what's going on while avoiding the downsides. I'm not endorsing the sp
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Ideally yes, but this is roughly the same as saying "advertising doesn't influence me ". Seems like everyone believes this about themselves, but I'm doubtful that many of them are right. It gets smart people all the ti
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The intent is not to hide from them or completely eliminate them, but to notice when you're being affected and seeking out more and more. Recognizing their effects and reduce exposure when you notice them taking over is one of the ma
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by lkbm 3y ago
A lot of us have seen the rage machine polarize someone into partisan insanity. I like to think I'm resistant to this, but I've seen it happen to people who are probably smarter than me. I'd say it's more common with the
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by lkbm 3y ago
> you can easily choose not to read it. I cannot easily exclude it from the ratings. There's a pretty widespread understanding that star ratings are meant to aggregate the opinions of people who read the book.
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Ten years of no improvement and gradually getting slower and slower (perhaps because my "Read" lists is now several thousand items), and it's still the number one spot. I've tried a few other places, but my friends use G
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by lkbm 3y ago
Do you consider it censorship when Amazon removes fake reviews from their products? This is something most people are in favor of. You can write what you want about books elsewhere. On Amazon, product reviews and ratings should be from peop
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This can't explain the data shown in the article. It shows US mortality for the richest decile of Americans on par with the poorest decile of Europeans, and far below middle- and upper-income Europeans.
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by lkbm 3y ago
Sure, that's relevant to life expectancy, but check out figure 3 in the article: mortality for ages 20-65 is higher in the US, at any wealth level. None of those people are infants. We appear to be dying early in all walks of life, not
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by lkbm 3y ago
One thing that stands out for me in this article is Figure 3: Europe shows a significant mortality of adults 20-65 drop from 2005 to 2018. What has improved there? Improvements in cancer treatments seem like it would mostly show up in the 6
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by lkbm 3y ago
Anyone else remember when Colonial Pipeline was attacked? The "ransomware as a service" platform[0] stepped in to say "oops, sorry, never mind" when they realized they'd attracted more attention than they were prepa
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by lkbm 3y ago
Well, that's over 30 years, but yes, I think we can come up with examples. Broadband, videocalls, "free" (bundled, unlimited) long distance. I remember when I first started seeing people with broken ankles/feet using tho
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Another memory: when joining a chat, the standard form just said "username enters the chat" or something along those lines, but it was just an HTML form, and the entry text was just a hidden input.You could write your own form tha
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by lkbm 3y ago
There was definitely a solid period much longer than a day where Javascript was allowed, and was used to "kick" people via DM. It was usually just a link with an onhover that popped up an "enter the password" prompt, f
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by lkbm 3y ago
Oh man. I recently threw together a "j2p" script to make converting between json and python dicts simpler, and combining it with pbcopy/pbpaste will make it so much better: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import s
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As an engineer, I consider all those those very much my job. "Negotiating against" scope creep maybe not quite, but it is my job to provide decent time estimates for expanded scope so they can decide if it's worth it. To be f
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> > remember that you are the PROJECT manager and not dev manager. don't overstep your position. This suggestion really applies to both, but I just wanted to note that article is talking about product managers, and specifically
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> Yeah. Almost all innovation and economic improvement has only helped the upper classes and in many cases actually hurt the lower classes. When my parents were born, something like 30-60% of the homes in their states didn't have i
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Debt, not bankruptcy.
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The second page of instructions actually specifically addressed that: "Again, please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)." I went with "yes, violation" with t
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"travois". It's basically a sledge dragged along the ground and pulled by (usually) a horse. I think "travois" is something you either know or you know you're going to have to look it up, so there's no ris

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