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by mynameisash 7mo ago
I'll save you about 30 ad views: > The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REM), might suppress the brain activity that le
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by mynameisash 8mo ago
> over 100 years there have been vast improvements in efficiency in ICEVs. In EVs, the curve is mostly flat. This may be true, but my family's "daily" ICE vehicle costs us about $0.162/mile to run; our actual daily EV
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by mynameisash 8mo ago
> Ban phones from class. For real. Lock down websites that are irrelevant to the subjects being taught. These are all technically possible with the tools schools have. Even Youtube. If something is important enough to show the class, the
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by mynameisash 8mo ago
> Donald Trump is wickedly smart. I'll grant that he has achieved success via some amount of cunning (often via threats), but "smart" is decidedly not a term I would ever apply to him, and I'm not sure how anyone co
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by mynameisash 9mo ago
> They’re not creating pull requests and maintaining learning / analytics systems? Sure, they check prompts into git. And there are a few notebooks that have been written and deployed, but most of that is collecting data and handing
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by mynameisash 9mo ago
That was probably about what I got when I migrated some heavy number crunching code from Pandas to Polars a few years ago. Maybe even better than that.
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by mynameisash 9mo ago
Not GP, but as a data engineer who has worked with data scientists for 20 years, I think the assessment is unfortunately true. I used to work on teams where DS would put a ton of time into building quality models, gating production with def
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by mynameisash 9mo ago
I assume the iodine is about water treatment and not radiation?
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by mynameisash 9mo ago
> You have to be the one who creates things to do. > You have to do it on a regular cadence. I've posted about this before, but my wife and I sort of accidentally started a trivia team that's been going strong for like four
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by mynameisash 10mo ago
Two years ago, my son was REALLY struggling with his depression. Having tried almost everything, at the suggestion of his therapist, he tried cold showers. To show some solidarity, I decided we should do cold plunges into the ocean together
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by mynameisash 10mo ago
Given the makeup of the courts is the US, I can't help but imagine these hypothetical laws would be thrown out on first amendment grounds. Viz. "Our algorithm is our free speech"
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by mynameisash 10mo ago
Yeah, I get that Amazon is incredibly convenient, but $1000 is $1000 no matter which company takes it from you. If some local mom and pop shop effectively stole $1000 from me, you can bet your ass I'd never patronize them again.
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by mynameisash 10mo ago
> a motorcycle is not about efficiency; it's more about a hobby, fun. It's also about fun, but for me, it's definitely about efficiency. My 600cc gets 50mpg versus 31 for my Honda Fit. 98% of my 30k+ miles on my bike are
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
You know, I tried F# like eight-ish years ago, and I loved it, but I couldn't break into doing it with enough regularity and depth that it made sense for me. I still do a decent amount of C# at work, and with my experience in Rust (alg
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
I don't spend a lot of time building services, but the last few I've done, I actually went straight to Rust. The downside is that it's quite slow to develop -- I probably don't have the knowledge that others do, but it s
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
For all the complaints against Windows, legit or not, I can't envision a world in which I want the world's largest advertiser to run my desktop OS.
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
GP didn't say anything about it being a human right. You seem to be strawmanning their argument. I think it's a reasonable expectation that even in HCOL places like SF or NYC, people in careers important to society should be able
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
> It seems like these single-node libraries can process a terabyte on a typical machine, and you'd have have over 10TB before moving to Spark. I'm surprised by how often people jump to Spark because "it's (highly) par
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
> society is not civilization. local vs global. I agree, and I am still pointing to the collapse of society, not civilization. My infrastructure is local. If local society collapses, what reason do people have to maintain transmission
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
> the transition was a non-issue I'm reminded of when Minnesota passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act (MCIAA) close to 20 years ago. (Some) restauranteurs - along with the GOP - made pronouncements about how this would destroy t
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
When society collapses, will we still have reliable infrastructure (internet and electricity, to be specific) on which cryptocurrency depends?
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by mynameisash 11mo ago
I was just lamenting last night that we can't watch some of Terutsuyoshi's amazing makuuchi bouts from about three(?) years ago. I wish I'd archived them.
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I agree with you. The "smart" in "smart appliance" to me always indicates some bullshit I definitely don't want. What's especially frustrating to me is that my appliances that should have a delay on them don&
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by mynameisash 1y ago
A few other advantages to induction: 1. Better air quality. You don't have combustion byproducts in the kitchen. 2. More efficient than both gas and conventional electric stoves. 3. Faster to heat than gas/conventional elect
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by mynameisash 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> Since I suspect I've had it since birth, it doesn't bother me. It's just something that is. I feel bad for the folks who get it later in life and have trouble with it. 100%. I remember being rather young - maybe 5? - and
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I don't think I've ever seen anyone say they're not useful. Rather, they don't appear to live up to the hype, and they're sure as hell not a panacea. I'm pretty bearish on LLMs. I also think they're over
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by mynameisash 1y ago
Also the guy that created "the world's most important piece of software", as you put it. Appealing to the authority on the exact thing you raised concern about is the single most important authority one can cite.
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by mynameisash 1y ago
How would you square building and maintaining flourishing relationships if you don't care for others?
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by mynameisash 1y ago
Do you also not care how people think of you now?

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