paddleon

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by paddleon 11mo ago
Tech enabled the horrors of WWI and II, tech directly enabled the Holocast -- IBM built special computers to help the Nazi's more effectively round up the Jews. Tech also gave us vaccines and indoor plumbing and the clothes I am wearin
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by paddleon 11mo ago
Just imagine the incalculable wealth if you could store the energy of the sun in, say, plants, which would release the fresh mist during the night, build the health of the soil, and enable mobile life forms to carry the energy around to mov
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by paddleon 11mo ago
did similar work at similar scale to srean. Assume you have signal from one IoT device, say a sensor reading. Anomalies are sudden changes in the value of the signal. Define sudden (using the time delta between observations and your other d
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by paddleon 11mo ago
you missed the "almost as" in your first sentence. also, we didn't define "good".
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by paddleon 11mo ago
> R is perhaps the closest, because it has data.frame as a 'first class citizen', but most people don't seem to use it, and use e.g. tibbles from dplyr instead. You're forgetting R's data.table, https:/&#x2
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by paddleon 11mo ago
Curious if we could test/compare (popluation-level) memory skills before/after writing was introduced to the population. I want to say "I remember things better when I write them down", and because I think I'm a sma
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by paddleon 11mo ago
who said anything about finite?
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by paddleon 1y ago
missed opportunity to grant the authors a F1 super license and get the chance to actually drive one of the cars!
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by paddleon 1y ago
he rejected it from the beginning. https://www.heritage.org/commentary/the-man-who-would-not-be... After the [revolutionary] war, there were calls for Washington to claim formal political power. Indeed, seven months af
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by paddleon 1y ago
"We the People of the United States, in Order to - form a more perfect Union, - establish Justice, - insure domestic Tranquility, - provide for the common defence, - promote the general Welfare, and - secure the Blessings of Liberty to
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by paddleon 1y ago
and one more time, sorry, you triggered a rant. if you can't count on your troops to be disciplined enough to follow your rules of engagement, how can you count on their discipline to follow your other orders? If you cannot show them t
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by paddleon 1y ago
To address your concern-- if two people are fighting and one thinks "I won't hit below the belt" that person is at a tactical disadvantage. Even worse if they think the other side has also agreed to that rule. So in that sens
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by paddleon 1y ago
How does WWII strike you? Notice that Germany and Japan are now strong allies. Also notice that many people think the cause of WWII was that the WWI surrender forced unsustainable terms on Germany thus fueling the resentment that lead to WW
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by paddleon 1y ago
Friend, I have respect to where you are coming from, and ask you to please think a little longer term. You don't prioritize the well-being of the other side, but you do want to avoid radicalizing them. The more reasons they have to sur
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by paddleon 1y ago
Concur. Lack of empathy is the curse of our age and the destruction of our society.
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by paddleon 1y ago
> Ultimately, capitalism is not necessarily at odds with providing efficient high quality healthcare. Um, yes it is? First off, there is tension between "efficient" and "high quality". High quality in an environment w
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by paddleon 1y ago
> And then when times are bad, small organizations are the first to die, because they lack the economies of scale and financial reserves that allow them to weather a contraction. Not sure it is bad times which drives this. Plenty of exam
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by paddleon 1y ago
Wait, could you remind me what war was going on when NASA took us to the moon? Could you remind me what war was going on when the CDC eradicated malaria from the United States? Could you remind me what war was going on when FDR build our ba
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by paddleon 1y ago
> DOGE toppled existing incentive structures, yes > emphasising cost reduction no.
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by paddleon 1y ago
better analogy: the majority of fouix-gras birds would prefer not to be force-fed and caged. The people working in the bureaucracy do not have the authority to overhaul it.
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by paddleon 1y ago
> The R community should have anointed one object system > and made tidyverse a core part of R. Not a tidyverse fan. It doesn't scale well. Learn data.table, which has a much more R-like interface and is fast fast fast even for l
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by paddleon 1y ago
the reason to NOT have a DSM-recognized diagnosis on your medical record is it can be used to disqualify you for things later in life. And we cannot predict all of these future changes, either in our interests and/or the law. "We
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by paddleon 1y ago
or roll your own. This M5 Stack ASR unit costs $7.50, and has a vocab of about 40-70 words. That's enough to turn on/off lights and timers. You might need to come up with your own command language, but all of the ASR is extremely
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by paddleon 1y ago
you may be interested in https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ or https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voi...
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by paddleon 1y ago
Assume you viewpoint is correct. How is this different from so many tech bros? The person is doing something physically and technically challenging. Perfect HN material. Would love to dive into how he built the paddleboard, etc.