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by nox101 2y ago
many planes have 4 doors per side yet they only use 1 to load
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by nox101 2y ago
IIRC NYC make blocking the box a fine and 2 points (so approximately $4k) and apparently enforce it. No idea how effective it's been
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by nox101 2y ago
The EU didn't get this right - or else they aren't enforcing it. I'm in the EU right now and the crap I see is a popup "We respect your privacy. Us and 352 (not an exaggeration!) of our partners are collecting data on yo
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by nox101 3y ago
On which platform? On Apple's there cost is part of the premium you pay for the device. Cheapest Mac is $599. Cheapest windows machine is $199? $99. So arguably some of tbat $400-500 is for the extra software. Or would compare against
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by nox101 3y ago
wish they'd ticket traffic violators, not just parked cars. Cars running red lights, cars driving in lanes they aren't supposed to be in. Cars turning in places that are illegal to turn at. Cars speeding. Cars stopped in crosswalk
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by nox101 3y ago
> they still only take around 30 mins total from first to last passengers being let through a gate Compare to the Shinkansen (bullet train) in Japan which loads 3x the number of people in 2-3 minutes
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by nox101 3y ago
> It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level, AFAICT this is a mis-interpretation. IIUC the actual study says "54% of adults in the United States have a literacy IN ENGLISH below 6th g
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by nox101 3y ago
Why wouldn't that be the case? People put up with raises in all kinds of expenses without really noticing or complaining. Why would it be any different with taxes?
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by nox101 3y ago
I don't know about Canada but SF, LA, NYC, https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-san-francisco-ca/ Zoom out can you can zoom into any city and see at least in SF, LA, NYC there are huge areas where you can expect n
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by nox101 3y ago
IMO most people here seem to be missing the point. The point is not directly about consumers or the choice between Android and iPhone. The point is about Apple (and Google's) market power. Imagine a self driving car that became popular
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by nox101 3y ago
HCR provides changing things while th game is running in it's current state. fast recompile does not. Start game, wait for engine to initialize, select level, wait for it to load, move player or camera to desired location. Now iterate
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by nox101 3y ago
there must be more to it. You're not picky? You're atractive? You've got game? You're on a site for hookups and not one for long term relationships? I meet less than 2 women a year from dating sites. I've been on th
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by nox101 3y ago
I think there are things they could do and that ML could maybe help? * They could let me directly enter my interests instead of guessing * They could classify videos by expertise (tags or ML) and stop recommending beginner videos to someone
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by nox101 3y ago
When (if?) auto-driven cars become a thing I'd expect some people will want a giant monitor in their car if nothing else, so they can watch movies, play video games, tele-conference, etc.... Disney's "The Magic Highway"
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by nox101 3y ago
three.js is not a game engine. it’s a 3d rendering library. It has no feature of a game engine. No collisions, no physics, no input systems, no facilities for game objects or ai or state machines etc… I have a feeling other libraries on the
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by nox101 3y ago
what logic leads to this conclusion? I tend to lean to the rising tide lifts all boats. who benefits from illiteracy?
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by nox101 3y ago
my last dentist did it and was not a "sedation Dentistry" practice. She was head of the California Dental Association tho
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by nox101 3y ago
Is it? My last dentist did it
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by nox101 3y ago
I had I think, a related issue. I moved, need a new dentist, called one, told them I wanted to take a sleeping pill because it helps me with my anxiety from previous painful dentist visits. They said they'd have their office manager ca
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by nox101 3y ago
And West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
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by nox101 3y ago
Flying aircraft carriers always seemed like a particularly bad idea to me. Too fragile, a small amount of damage would knock them out of the sky. No?
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by nox101 3y ago
Why despise them? If you mom put more sugar in one of her recipes because she thought it made it more tasty, and she got compliments on it when she served it, would you despise her? It doesn't take malice to add sugar. It only takes pe
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by nox101 3y ago
I hate reddit because the way close threads for topics that need an update or a follow up. The auto closing seems pointless Further, People keep telling me the communities are great but I've yet to find one of these mythical great comm
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by nox101 3y ago
Google does this and drives me nuts. If I search for say "pizza" it will show ~3 results from google maps. Those links you can not Cmd-Click to open in a new tab where as the normal search result links you can. My normal behavior
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by nox101 3y ago
I could be wrong but rarely do you get > replacement money from insurance. Pay $1000k for home, burn it down, get $800k from ins. You're out $200k. Or am I mis-understanding how home insurance would incentivize arson
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by nox101 3y ago
Your points seem irrelevant to this NPR listener demographics 2011: 26% conservative, 23% center, 37% liberal, 14% ? 2023: 11% conservative, 21% center, 67% liberal, 1% ?
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by nox101 3y ago
RadioLab did the same thing. Was science for the first ~10 yrs, then turned politics from a fairly left POV. I finally stopped listening after they passed the torch. This American Life is also pretty far left. It's still on my podcast
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by nox101 3y ago
That sounds like it has possible unintended consequences? "Go shoot lots of guns and do violent things and then our hazard pay will go up!"
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by nox101 3y ago
Interestingly I just went to osssoftware.org, clicked "design" and it showed photopea which AFAIK is not open source https://osssoftware.org/tools/photopea/
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by nox101 3y ago
> then contributing a clean PR with bundled documentation and tests. I've never seen this. No tests, un-clean PR. Describing them how to fix it would take more time than re-doing the PR myself. Of course maybe if I thought they were

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