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by matheweis 4y ago
This is not a new problem and can sometimes have disastrous results. 10 years or so ago a variation of this made headlines all over as certain Xerox Workcentres were transposing numbers during scans, due to a compression algorithm that was
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by matheweis 4y ago
There are lots of other options, one of which is playing out before us: 3a. print large amounts of money, enough to cause significant inflation. 3b. wait long enough for inflation to have a significant effect on the real value of your curre
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by matheweis 4y ago
This should be true but is definitely not. I’ve had cheap metal cutlery that was flimsy and bendable, multiple sets that literally rusted, and I don’t want to know what kind of metals were leaching from it. Now I buy stainless from liberty
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by matheweis 4y ago
> [sic] average household debt has pushed the national total to $16.5 trillion, a 7.65 percent increase from a year before. Meanwhile, the inflation numbers for Nov 2022 and Dec 2022 were 7.1% and 6.5%, so in real terms things haven’t li
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by matheweis 4y ago
Yes. NBER recently published some similar stats in the context of the lockdowns: > suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest during summer months > returning [post lockdowns] from online
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by matheweis 4y ago
Sure it can with some effort. One would need to work in reverse: start with the final work, then cut out the major subjects of the scene into layers, then use AI to infill where they had been and put that layer behind. Repeat.
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by matheweis 4y ago
The autopilot is already advertised as having the ability to pull over safely if the driver falls asleep. Allegedly the driver intentionally overrode the safety features that would have allowed it to do this. > it really should have this
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by matheweis 4y ago
This is not the story that the headline makes it out to be: > After about 15 minutes, the man finally woke up .. he showed typical drug failure symptoms > the officers found what is known as a steering wheel weight, which is used to .
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by matheweis 4y ago
The parents allegedly had a list of 20 or more people who met the relevant criteria for the parents besides being a proper match for the child. For whatever reasons, this was not considered to be acceptable by the relevant health services.
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by matheweis 4y ago
The PyBricks that the SO questioner self answers with is actually quite capable of doing this, and runs Python to boot. I wish this was the default interface that LEGO provided but I’m thankful for the PyBricks team creating a solution.
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by matheweis 4y ago
It’s always interesting to see archaeologists and anthropologists speculate about the use of something thousands of years later, with little to no context from that time. Here’s a (modern day) Italian fellow who has been dropping 10 ton mar
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by matheweis 4y ago
That’s a very interesting question. 1ns of error equates to ~30cm of error (from speed of light), so: You might get a couple of ns of error from the initial s and p waves. (Assuming on the order of 50cm displacement) If you’re on the fault
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by matheweis 4y ago
In my opinion they tried to hard to make it easy. The scratch-like interface is a nice idea but limited and probably expensive for LEGO to create and maintain. They should have gone the Arduino direction and made it so that you could run Py
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by matheweis 4y ago
Discussed several days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279281
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by matheweis 4y ago
Nope, tried that, they let me return the “1-pack widgets” but sent another “1-pack widgets”
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by matheweis 4y ago
A related problem I’ve encountered on Amazon is wrong quantity of items; ex, order three 8 packs and instead get three singles. Their return policy doesn’t have the ability to correct for this as far as I’ve been able to find.
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by matheweis 4y ago
What about outdoor pm2.5? I live in an area prone to frequent fog for many months out of the year. I learned that the fog will thoroughly disrupt the accuracy of pm2.5 sensors. After some research I found that running the air through a heat
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by matheweis 4y ago
It’s rather surprising to me that, despite what was an apparently net positive outcome for you and your immediate family, you would have such a negative opinion of homeschooling. For the others reading the thread (relevant bits of which are
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by matheweis 4y ago
> The issue no one seems to think about is that you need to make sure to pay for the domain for the duration of your life Is there a registrar that will allow you to do this? Most of the ones I’ve looked at have an upper limit of around
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by matheweis 4y ago
I agree. Not only “we can afford” it but in many cases have no other choice, because other forms of heating a home have been regulated out of existence.
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by matheweis 4y ago
I’m surprised it hasn’t been increasing faster. The US is in the midst of drive to replace heating systems of all kinds with more efficient heat pumps, with massive effort behind it, including restrictions on other kinds of heat, significan
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by matheweis 4y ago
So if you have an iPhone 14 on T-Mobile, will you have dual satellite connectivity, through both Globestar and SpaceX?
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by matheweis 4y ago
DDG is mostly (but not all) Bing (context, yegg is the founder of DDG): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994
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by matheweis 4y ago
Bing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality. In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at n
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by matheweis 4y ago
How is this not indentured servitude 2.0?
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by matheweis 4y ago
In theory but not necessarily in practice (see the 40k hr SSD firmware bug that recently took out HN)
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by matheweis 4y ago
Dupe from a day ago “Repurposing a dead spider to build an actuator (wiley.com)” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32234499
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by matheweis 4y ago
Am I the only one noticing that his entire timeline very nearly mirrors a list of US recessions? Was that intentional? Implicit? Coincidence?
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by matheweis 4y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. People use these sorts of stats in Seattle to pretend that crime hasn’t gotten worse in the last few years. The reality on the ground is much different, most people just don’t bother reporting crime, because it’s no
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by matheweis 4y ago
> I hate the idea of cutting flowers out to put on a bouquet. They'll just die way faster for nothing. Many kinds of flower plants last longer and produce many more flowers if the flowers are cut away from the main plant. I have f

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