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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
EV's have 100% reduction of NOx/tailpipe VOCs, 100% reduction in soot/tailpipe particulates, 70% reduction in brake pad dust (due to regenerative braking), in exchange for 25% increase in tire wear. Vehicles are capped at emi
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
I would have thought so too, but it turns out that the USA seems to have the exact same problem! Millions of Texans were woken up at 4AM to an "EXTREME" level alert because one police officer was shot when he went to serve an arre
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
You can get very good tire performance with long life these days. They don't even cost that much. It's just most people buying tires don't learn about tires, they simply buy whatever the store sells them. There's a lot o
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
> three major trade-off when it comes to tire compounds We are inventing better and better compounds though, which just plain better at all three. Formula 1 has to artificially nerf their tire compounds just to force racing teams to actu
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
But how can I take a screenshot that intentionally shows the password or whatever?
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
I go for anything that’s USB-IF certified. Personally the Amazon Basics USB4, 40Gbps, 240W are great price for value whenever they’re around $10: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C93G2M83 At that price they’re my
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
Sure. But the cable tester that you describe here doesn't exist. You could maybe DIY it but there's none off the shelf.
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
Something that keeps needing to be pointed out every thread this stuff appears on: What these tools report are not functionally different from just believing "what's on the packaging", despite the misleading marketing claims.
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
My introduction to his work was "The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization"[0] which completely blew me away. It still feels futuristic today, 13 years later. Novel UI/UX paradigms like this are slow to find widespread ad
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by nerdsniper 1mo ago
> less common to have an ad that will auto-download malware without you clicking it Less common but we just saw a week ago that malware-via-ads is definitely still happening today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
But no country with high statin use has high death rates. You can have low death rates without using statins, but using statins does prevent high death rates. Or countries with enough money for statins also can afford other interventions. O
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
It's expensive, but this uncompromising bread is the best I've ever found in the USA and it ships nationwide: https://www.zingermans.com/Category.aspx?Category=all_breads
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Does Paseo work with Claude Code and Codex subscription plans ($200/mo) and not just PAYG API keys?
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Incentives are for Losers: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-lo...
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Vitamin B12 supplements can be found in a range covering about 4 orders of magnitude. The RDA is 2.4 ug/day and the Costco daily multivitamin provides 6mcg, but here is someone selling 10,000 ug supplements: https://www.hart
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
try: https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&Doc... It only requires the encryption of the specific age-bracket signals mandated by Section 10 of the bill. What you're looking for is here
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
> In the eternal game of cat and mouse between the goodhearted people trying to fix the incentives and the Goodhart’d people trying to exploit the incentives, I am rooting for the cats. What lovely writing.
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
I see it plain as day as well FWIW. Not just that section, but most of the headings. The issue I have with it is that I can’t be sure whether a human actually double-checked anything. Writing in a “human” voice rather than robotic one serve
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
This keeps needing to be pointed out every thread this appears on. Plenty of cables have eMarkers that claim "40Gbps" or whatever speeds, or support 240W PD...but absolutely cannot deliver either of those. And none of these consum
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Most of my high-powered lawyer friends would do as much as they could to avoid being on that side of the deposition.
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
That was a shockingly controlled landing for an unpowered vehicle. Very impressive! > Here you go - drops slightly slower than a brick. The glide ratio of a brick, even if it is initially traveling at 80 KIAS is ... 0:1. This is the same
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
That seems pretty reasonable! It's also AGPL licensed and the source code is available on GitHub. 20 minutes with an LLM would likely yield you a nagware-free version if you value your time at less than $21/hour. Otherwise it cost
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Running marketing off a separate domain is often a conscious decision because if they start getting blocked for spam, then critical service/operational emails from your actual domain might also get blocked.
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
YC is definitely pivoting into Defense. Besides 9mothers, there’s a list of 22 defense startups accepted into YC just this year so far: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/defense And beyond this there
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
4 rotors is also a much more difficult “controls” problem. Helicopters actually glide reasonably well if their engine cuts off. They’re not super insanely unstable. Quadcopters are basically obligate fly-by-wire vehicles which necessitate a
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Why should I put any stock in what some snake oil "AI detector" says?
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
I pasted and instantly hit enter on this prompt: "I generated a filter set using REW v5.31.3 using real-world sweep tone measurements from the room I'm listening in . How can I use it as my MacOS output equalizer so that my spotif
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Is there a way around the paywall for this? If not, the submission should probably get flagged.
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Is there a way around the paywall for this? If not, the submissions should probably get flagged. archive.today doesn't seem to work on this article. Neither does archive.org
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by nerdsniper 2mo ago
Absolutely. No idea what’s going on with these downvotes.

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