necovek

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by necovek 8mo ago
From https://www.edgarsnyder.com/resources/underage-drinking-stat... : > Nearly 75% of 12th grade students...have consumed alcohol in their lifetimes. and > 85 percent of 12th graders ... say it would b
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by necovek 8mo ago
I put the "driver" in quotes: it is not just about ability (let alone perceived ability), but also about equipment (car braking power, tyre quality in relation to road conditions), attention and driving style. You can be reasona
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by necovek 8mo ago
Yes about traffic lights pattern: 5 traffic lights along the way, each with ~90s wait time or only a zero or a single wait and then riding the "green wave". So not overstating the savings either.
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by necovek 8mo ago
When one clever teen figures it out, they will share it with 80% of their friend group, making that number 80% and not 1%. Let's go back to parenting: yes, world is a scary place if you get into it unprepared.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Speed limit is only a proxy for your braking distance in case of emergency braking (at least in most cases, but also a proxy for bad road conditions in others): the point is to ensure safety, and not a particular speed. I've driven beh
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by necovek 8mo ago
Any law, including a speed limit, has unforeseen consequences. In my part of the world, there is a 4km stretch of the road with good visibility, low pedestrian traffic, and which takes you either 10 minutes to go through if you follow the l
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by necovek 8mo ago
I believe you misunderstand what "average" is: Americans (or people in general), on average, do not fly much. Some — eg. those who've moved for work — probably fly 10-15x the average, and 10-15x of people fly 1/100th of
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by necovek 8mo ago
Yes, when you have an obvious reason to track some data, do it: I do not think anyone questions that. Proactively capturing and tracking everything you can to prep for any future is too much work that would really steal your time from, you
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by necovek 8mo ago
This is the obvious "benefit" of hindsight. Yes, you accidentally had access to data that provided historical patterns you exactly could use. But, for anyone who does, there is another 1000 who do not when something hits them: man
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by necovek 8mo ago
Certainly, but merges are treated differently by default, and getting to this sort of output would require "custom" tooling for things like "git log". Whereas bzr just did the expected thing.
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by necovek 8mo ago
With Linux systems, if there wasn't a configuration option to override something, you'd be able to create a fork and still do it. So low level layers in Linux have become flexible enough that you do not need to do it, even if ther
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by necovek 8mo ago
I find it hard to speak into my phone while I am in a live meeting and trying to summarize my instant thoughts for paper or my Remarkable :)
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by necovek 8mo ago
That's a good one, I must admit. FWIW, Serbian Cyrillic cursive does not have that issue, or at least not as bad: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D...
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by necovek 8mo ago
How fast can you write in cursive vs non-cursive? I am much slower in non-cursive when writing. The only issue is that my cursive is pretty lousy looking.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Vector tracing was a thing way back, and from there, it was probably some simple programming to make a font out of a number of vector glyph images.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Not really. Launchpad.net does not have any public branches I could share atm as an example, but Bazaar (now breezy) allowed having a nested "merge commit": your trunk would have "flattened" merge commits ("Merge br
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by necovek 8mo ago
In fairness to GP, they said VCS, not Git, even if they are somewhat synonomous today. Other VCSes did support graph histories. Still, "3rd dimension" code reasoning (backwards in time) has never been merged well with code editin
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by necovek 8mo ago
Good naming and good tests can get you 90% of the way to "why" too.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Having "grown up" on free software, I've always been quick to jump into code when documentation was dubious or lacking: there is only one canonical source of truth, and you need to be good at reading it. Though I'd note
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by necovek 8mo ago
I believe there is also "Laser vitreolysis", which seems somewhat disputed. I have similar issues and 5 years in, problems are only getting worse (perhaps combined with pigment dispersion syndrom making it worse, but not on the pa
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by necovek 8mo ago
A very simple one: interview scheduling tool integrated with multiple calendars. Eg. when interviewing, sometimes I have a pool of interviewers, and I want a pair to be offered to a candidate (they only see time slots, obviously) with certa
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by necovek 8mo ago
Thanks you for adding a slight to your "understanding" statement. You can try figuring out the point I was making (wealth is relative, even "commoners" like us overspend from someone else's perspective). I would say
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by necovek 8mo ago
My Sony Vaio Z from 2009 or 2010 looks at your Dell in contempt: 13.1" FullHD screen at 314mm x 210mm (we'll pretend the thickness does not matter ;)) and 1.36kg. Vaio TT was even smaller footprint. But even in 2018, you could get
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by necovek 8mo ago
In a Notebookcheck test, they got the bottom plate up to 43C, and top plate near the screen up to 45C: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-passively-cooled-M4-SoC-ma...
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by necovek 8mo ago
You do have 13" options, though 14" is much wider. If I was going for 13" workstation, I'd go for Asus ProArt PX13 with Ryzen AI Max 395 (if I got that right, there might be a plus somewhere) and 128GiB of RAM. They&#x2
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by necovek 8mo ago
That iPhone is 15x more (I don't know the exact price, sorry)? Same order of magnitude. 3% of your monthly salary for $200-$500 shoes (I see plenty amateur runners getting carbon sole shoes in this price range, for instance), when yo
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by necovek 8mo ago
They've got someone carrying their battery packs with an extendable cable. Or maybe Big Ben hides the charging coils too.
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by necovek 8mo ago
It is still exactly the same iPhone tech-wise, just with a custom "case". I wouldn't go as far to call it "brain disease" though: in a sense, it is OK for someone well off to spend on expensive products (made by les
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by necovek 8mo ago
I look at "Avg $" (average task cost per instance) from the page you linked to.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Sounds like one peculiar benchmark that a particular model could be trained on. Btw, how do you get 17-20x? Cost seems to be 0.07 to 0.55 (for 4.6, or 8x) and 0.75 (for 4.5 or 11x).

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