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by nitrogen 5y ago
Human experience simply cannot be averaged over large spans of times while ignoring the extremes. Dipping into the red means permanent damage. Imagine applying this line of thinking to your bank account -- "sure I spent $500k in two
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by nitrogen 5y ago
All but two of the article's examples of bad buildings look amazing. What is supposed to be wrong with them?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Better for a building's inhabitants to be free to bring their own life and color, than for the building to try to impose one decade's view of life and color upon every generation for the next century.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We have lots of evidence from paintings and photographs that it's not just survivorship bias, that things have gotten on average uglier. There's definitely a bias at play here, whatever name you give to it. Maybe a bias toward
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There are lots of deficient drivers too, why do we so heavily subsidize the road system? Because it's an investment that pays back in increased economic activity. Also because when you are in separate cars, you can't get sick fr
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Everyone seems to forget that it took a freaking tsunami that displaced hundreds of thousands of people to take out a 60 year old reactor design . While coal is killing people every day.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Try living by a coal plant or an oil refinery. My lungs and I would take a nuclear plant in my own backyard over a coal plant down the road any day.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Definitely a hero for getting a generation of kids into science with the science guy, but if anti-nuke then definitely wrong about nuclear, and his newer stuff is kind of weird and less interesting.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
(At the time there was a book called The Black Art of ... Assembly? I can't recall, and I should be flogged for forgetting it... Probably not the book you're thinking of, but Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If all these ecosystems are so fragile, then it's our responsibility as a species to re-engineer them to be more robust.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
When I first played Sim City I imagined a future of towering soundproofed arcologies where everyone still had a private yard on a giant balcony, so you could increase density without overly decreasing living space per household. Is anyone
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That's kind of the whole point. People want that.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Presumably docks have shore power connections.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Vending machines usually don't have to deal with $50-$100 transactions though.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
A bit, because that solar manufacturing capacity wasn't used for reducing global carbon emissions or other direct human needs.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Tone of voice, body language, hesitation, etc. Non-verbal clues that maybe you can help your teammember, or that they can help you. It gets better if there's some detail about the task, like "Still working on X, runtime is too sl
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What am I going to do with the information? The purpose of a functioning standup is contextualization. If you know your teammate is still working on feature X, maybe you notice that your own work is related and you can design some shared
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> The Switzerland-based Behringer’s business model involves cloning famous pieces of music gear, with precisely enough design changes to evade trademark disputes, at a fraction of the original price. It is arguably a form of cultural an
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I mean for acoustic waves. Alternatively/similarly, could an aerial sonar waveform be matched to the ocean surface waves to cause constructive interference below the surface, and destructive above it? Would it be possible to recover
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by nitrogen 5y ago
How do anti-glare coatings on lenses work? Could something similar be devised for the air-water interface?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
How many years do we have left to slash our emissions again? How many years to we have to keep listening to the "stop living your ugly human lives" rhetoric before we realize that the "save the trees" activists caused
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Annual odometer reporting is totally fine, of course. I read "logger" as "continuous data logger." That's never going to be acceptable.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
In city B, you have a private backyard, an outdoor kitchen with grill, a private pool, and you only have to drive to the store once a month because you have room for a real freezer and pantry. And you pay less per month than city A.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ages ago there was a company trying to do this kind of auto-discoverable UI through their proprietary protocol for controlling and monitoring audio/video processing equipment. It seems like it should be possible, but for some reason h
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by nitrogen 5y ago
manage complex routing schemes for your projects just dragging nodes and noodles. 100%. I want something that combines the multitrack timeline of ACID with the MIDI, control, and audio routing of a virtual modular synth or console.jp (sa
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But now everyone else knows, too. That's not such a great feature.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
require a miles logger instead That's a huge non-starter warranting much harsher language than is reasonable for HN.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Though it's the road expansion itself that often leads to more sprawl. Every trip taken is an economic activity that would not have otherwise occurred. Traffic is commerce. Sprawl allows the middle class to continue to exist. More
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by nitrogen 5y ago
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Vacuum deposition is a thing.

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