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by ohwellhere 3y ago
I had a coworker have his bike stolen on 5th Ave in New York City while thoroughly chained and U-locked to scaffolding at 9am with hundreds of pedestrian passersby in the time it took him to go up the passenger elevator and down the freight
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
What is the role of stimulus during the growth phase of organoids? Meaning: is it sufficient to grow an organoid and then connect it to the electrodes and go through the training process, or is there an advantage to growing the organoids _w
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
I took my kids to Disney last year for the first time. We went to go see Anna and Elsa. The line moved fairly quickly, and the group ahead of us went in through a closed door. Almost immediately the door opened again and we were pulled thro
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
"Tau is transcendental. 0.5 isn't." It's definitely a value judgment. But the value judgment is: Is the radius or the diameter more fundamental to a circle?
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
I think most people base most beliefs on being told that they're true. Full stop. It really comes down to who you are listening to and why; most critical to this is the birth lottery.
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
Neither the old app nor the new app feels like it was written by someone who uses Apple TV. My pet peeve on the last version was having a carousel movie expand when you pause on it so that it moves things around and hides what you were look
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
$47 for this work via that service
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
I think there are more roles out there that can benefit than people realize. I know a cartographer who makes maps in some specialized software and then also has to occasionally interact with some official federally managed database. This pe
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
Comments below suggest buying debt to cancel it or resolve at cost (e.g. the massive discount). Q1: As an insider, how feasible is that strategy? Q2: As the collector do you report to credit bureaus that it's cleared? does it have a m
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
Over a decade ago I rebuilt a small business's web application. By small I mean it was a one person company, the app was used by maybe a dozen clients, and the rewrite took me 10 hours. Imagine my surprise when one day I'm browsin
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
I’m an early HomePod adopter and it’s gotten worse every year. My kids and I constantly make fun of it, yell at it in exasperation, or give up and do a task manually on the phone. The big speaker still sounds nice though.
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by ohwellhere 3y ago
Has anyone used Vale or have any thoughts on it? (That's my main curiosity after reading the post and clicking around. It looks neat but I'm just hearing of it.)
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
I don't live in Paris but we have them in our small city in the US and they are a nuisance. We're only a rather small < 60k population city with a ~200k population metro area, but we have a university and these scooters are eve
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
I think the author's chosen name for the phenomenon "Nicespeak" creates a cognitive distortion that muddies what I think her point is. She is not talking about being nice rather than being rude. Rather she is talking about be
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
What mechanism behind intelligence could only be found in the natural world but not made into a machine? That's the thought experiment I like in this arena. It's not useful for identifying a time to AGI, but it makes me believe AG
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
Rather than "parsing", is it a form of type casting? To me it feels like downcasting in OOP from a parent class (more general) to a child class (more specific). In Swift there is the "conditional downcast" operator `as?`
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
I find the arguments in these areas absurd and not absurd in almost equal measure, but I don't think your argument is a strong one against. If we bite the hook then the thing we care about is something like expected value. That only ap
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
Some people have it much worse than others, and it sounds like you have it bad. You're still a person and worthy of love and capable of change. There's no magic bullet, but you can't predict the future. Keep working at it, br
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
I agree with your number 2 especially, but think that Stimulus is doing a fairly good job at it now. The Turbo side of Hotwire still feels like a bit of a mess, especially once you try to do a lot with it. But little Stimulus controller add
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
I don't know Mr. Altman's rationale, but FAANG companies being first to automate away programmers sounds reasonable to me on the basis of scale alone. They have more code than most companies with which to make up a company- and pr
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
It's a useless comment, but this is what they were referencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230 I think the implication is that if there are significant financial repercussions for social media posting t
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
It's funny how differently people can read things, and how different contexts color our impressions. On most topics, this community mostly values pursuing personal curiosity even if it's not for a larger purpose. We never know whe
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
Statistical inference also regresses to the mean. And the mean for spelling and grammar skills in society is regrettably low. In the last year or so I've noticed more and more that I have to fix misspellings or grammatical mistakes tha
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
You're solving for trust rather than "truth". Of course, there may be no truth, hence GP's: > > Perhaps truth was always an illusion But my interpretation of what they meant by "very concept of truth" is
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
He didn't say it was easy at all, he simply pointed out that the required knowledge of each language is a subset of the total available functionality of each language.
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
> > The entire point of advertising is manipulating human beings. > No the point is to connect products to interested consumers. You're both right in identifying points of advertising, and they're not in conflict. Adverti
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
Sage advice. In comparing ourselves to others -- wealth, beauty, fitness, career, etc -- we tend to look up (and feel unsuccessful) rather than look down (and feel successful).
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
The blessing and the curse is that you get to choose. Choose Netflix, choose a hobby, choose a career, choose a family, pick several of the above, and/or choose to try to surmount the mountain and be the best among billions. There&#x27
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by ohwellhere 4y ago
When I was a consultant with better manners than I have now, this was the right response to the constant stream of scope increasing requests on fixed time or budget projects. “That’s a great idea! I’m gonna write it down here as something f

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