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601.
by mwint 4y ago
Lots of things start optional before becoming mandates. The slippery slope is real.
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by mwint 4y ago
They may get better responses, and compliance, if this was instead billed as a pedal detent for “current speed limit please”. The current name just sounds Orwellian. Basically like cruise control, but only when the gas pedal is in a certain
603.
by mwint 4y ago
Yup, the kind of people Blind can survey aren’t representative of Apple as a whole. Selection bias.
604.
by mwint 4y ago
My bad, it’s been a while since algorithms class. I had my orders mixed up.
605.
by mwint 4y ago
> I can now run and walk in my dreams and rarely have the "legs in molasses" thing I know exactly what you mean. That’s fascinating that it went away with more walking; maybe the brain is now better able to “simulate” walking?
606.
by mwint 4y ago
Add Mathematica to that list, too. Pretty cool to play with and I would have bought a license if I had a good excuse to; the tactic works.
607.
by mwint 4y ago
n^1.5 is still quadratic growth.
608.
by mwint 4y ago
In this case, it’s a singular corner they are accused of cutting.
609.
by mwint 4y ago
What does that curating process look like?
610.
by mwint 5y ago
Sounds like you might have some entertaining stories?
611.
by mwint 5y ago
Can someone explain further why this is so hard? I’m not familiar enough with any of this to understand without some help.
612.
by mwint 5y ago
Indeed, that's why I wanted to see what would come out the other end.
613.
by mwint 5y ago
500W/day is a nonsensical unit; I assume you either mean 500W or 500Wh/day (different by a factor of 24)
614.
by mwint 5y ago
Looks like the 50's, originally coming from an Alaskan practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving#Poss...
615.
by mwint 5y ago
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616.
by mwint 5y ago
Mine took a different route from (I assume) the same initial input: "The brown fox jumped quickly on the lazy dog." Which isn't really that much loss, I think.
617.
by mwint 5y ago
Man, we went through so many cycles of “You (shouldn’t/must) wear (one/two/three) masks because the virus is (not) aerosolized and anyway the vaccine(s) (will be / are / weren’t) effective enough (to keep you off a
618.
by mwint 5y ago
Cool, hadn’t seen that. Li is open source, so it should be possible to see how it works. I wonder how exploitable that compensation might be? I.e. build a client that pretends to be on a crappy network, to give yourself an extra few ms per
619.
by mwint 5y ago
Bullet chess is so much fun; as you say it’s a different game. Some things you can do in Bullet: - Detect when your opponent is using premoves and use that against them (for example, if you think an opponent probably has a premove for their
620.
by mwint 5y ago
GP is referring to Elon’s allegations that he did in fact have funding secured, but the SEC and banking sectors for some reason blackmailed him into falsely “admitting” he didn’t. It’s in that TED interview he did on the day of the TWTR tak
621.
by mwint 5y ago
Lol, the regulatory credit thing again. Here are the Q1 numbers [0]: - Total revenue: $18,756M - Gross profit: $5,460M - Total regulatory credits: $679M So to answer your question, about 4% of their revenue is credits. It’s been tiny compar
622.
by mwint 5y ago
What things did Damore do wrong that you would do differently (honest question)
623.
by mwint 5y ago
I suspect in a world where people aren't dying, lifetime appointments would be revised.
624.
by mwint 5y ago
Both of these investors mentioned have “ESG” policies where they will deliberately influence companies to act in certain political ways, rather than purely for the furtherance of the company. Whether that’s good or bad is up for debate, but
625.
by mwint 5y ago
What kind of issues are you seeing? Naively, a fridge seems like such a simple device that I'm curious how they screwed it up so badly that it's developed an anti-following.
626.
by mwint 5y ago
Pre-2018 Nissan Leaf, though the range isn’t great. I have a 2014 I bought for $8k several years ago, it’s a perfect second car for 95% of trips.
627.
by mwint 5y ago
Ugh, I wish people writing these articles knew something about cars: > Luckily, the brakes still worked, something surprising in a car where even the glove box is opened electronically. This is entirely unsurprising. Do there even exist
628.
by mwint 5y ago
TL;DR article (and Musk) says the extra battery required to do this is dead weight 99% of the time. I guess the question is if Tesla stumbled on a feasible battery technology that double energy per weight, would they choose to make an 800mi
629.
by mwint 5y ago
From what I’ve seen, gymnastics tends to have some weird cultural… quirks… that aren’t as common in climbing.
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by mwint 5y ago
If I believe this will happen, what should I stock up on for my family?

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