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by peeters 3y ago
> in 10 years time everyone will assume their driving habits are being monitored by their insurance company. And even if there continues to be an opt-out, those plans will become so prohibitively expensive that you're essentially fo
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by peeters 3y ago
It needs more "Democratic" in it to make it clear it's definitely not authoritarian. Maybe "The Democratic People's Temporary Cyber Act for Freedom"
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by peeters 3y ago
Most would consider it to be vanilla, when "vanilla" is used as a descriptor of the gameplay (i.e., as opposed to "modded"). There are some very minor differences, but almost anyone advertising a vanilla Minecraft multip
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by peeters 3y ago
Can you expand on this? This bill seems to enable exactly what the author is attacking: exploiting the desperate hopes of terminally ill patients to sell ineffective drugs. I agree with removing red tape and allowing accelerated trials when
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by peeters 3y ago
I haven't seen most of the issues you describe, but I do know that AA is incredibly finicky with the quality of cable you use. When I first bought my car I would use a random cable from Amazon and Mazda's infotainment would stra
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by peeters 3y ago
I've only used a Lexus that had a touchpad. I do however regularly use a Mazda with its commander knob, and it is far safer than a touchscreen in my opinion. You can do most navigation without looking at the screen, with just an occasi
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by peeters 3y ago
I wasn't trying to extend the analogy to saying landing F9 is trivial. But F9 surviving re-entry is fairly trivial, which is the important difference between the two. Once you've survived re-entry and slowed down to terminal vel
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by peeters 3y ago
No, they are not correct either.
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by peeters 3y ago
You're quoting this article, but you're misunderstanding it: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/U... . This is calculating the gravitational potential between two point masses . I
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by peeters 3y ago
I mean sure, there's ambiguity around the word "spacecraft". But Falcon 9's booster isn't orbital, its payload is. So it might still be a first for an orbital spacecraft. The gravitational potential energy of a 100k
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by peeters 3y ago
Because they would otherwise be denied a service or freedom they are legally entitled to. "Undue advantage" is a bribe like "hey choose my company for this lucrative government contract." A harassment bribe is more like
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by peeters 3y ago
Typo in original and submission: 155mm, not 155M (which could be interpreted as 155 million something--dollars?) as in the submission, nor 155m (metres) as in the original.
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by peeters 3y ago
The context is "should I go for the 2-pt conversion?" When you're making that decision, you've already received 6 points for scoring the corresponding touchdown. The scenario presented is that you were down by 14, th
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by peeters 3y ago
> But if you're at a slot machine and you can put in an extra dollar for a 10% extra chance to win the jackpot, and in fact you chances increase from 0.001% to 0.0011%, would you think that's honest or scummy Casinos in general
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by peeters 3y ago
If you are given the option of taking one lottery ticket or two lottery tickets, is it dishonest to say that taking two lottery tickets would increase your odds of winning by 100% over taking just one? Do you need to know the odds of a sing
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by peeters 3y ago
This is a very long article which seems to just reveal the author doesn't understand the difference between percentages and percentage points. 50% to 62.5% in the simplified calculation is a 25% improvement, not a 12.5% improvement. It
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by peeters 3y ago
I'm guessing you haven't done much with prompt customization. Try starting a conversation with something like "I'm the research assistant for a policy maker and often need to summarize complex topics for my boss. Please
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by peeters 3y ago
> If we are being pedantic about it It's not pedantry; you're just taking two roughly analogous things and acting like they have no differences. It IS relevant that EVs call it "regenerative braking" because it does
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by peeters 3y ago
Give me an idea of how often you'd hit the brake pedal while trying to use one pedal. A few times an hour? Week? I feel like if it's a regular enough thing the natural impulse would be there for new drivers too, but if it's s
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by peeters 3y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions about me and flipping them into a big false dichotomy. It's actually entirely possible to both drive at a safe speed and even still want to be able to brake quickly when you see potential haza
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by peeters 3y ago
What was the impetus for manufacturers to design it this way I wonder? It seems to me like you could easily implement regenerative braking in the same way by having the brake pedal respond to light pressure with regenerative braking, and fi
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by peeters 3y ago
I mean GP specifically mentioned "no cruise" and while I doubt that's common in EVs, to their point in an ICE you can take your foot off of the gas, do some stretches, give it a quick rest, and put it back on the pedal all be
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by peeters 3y ago
How fast does the regenerative braking start? When I drive in an ICE with two pedals, when driving in an area with hazards, kids, etc, I frequently will take my foot off of the gas and hover it over the brake so that I'm able to respon
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by peeters 3y ago
> The title says he objects to diversity I don't know if the title has been updated in the last 15 minutes, but the title currently says "A math professor who objects to diversity statements ". Not "to diversity&quot
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by peeters 3y ago
What mechanism for user tracking could you possibly use to do this?
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by peeters 3y ago
> Six lines of code tell me exactly what it does I like the minimalism too, but I don't think it tells me "exactly what it does". I have no idea from that page what the backend requirements are. Is it a hosted solution? I
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by peeters 3y ago
I wonder how many road deaths their declining hands-free quality has contributed to? I'd wager the number has more than two digits. It's one thing to never have supported something hands-free, but when something that you used to b
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by peeters 3y ago
Another step in Android's steady progression of become less and less useful hands-free. It's incredible to me that my experience with my Nexus One in 2010 was better than it is today with a Pixel 7. The fact that it arbitrarily de
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by peeters 3y ago
> Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time Emphasis mine
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by peeters 3y ago
> Lookup tables for computable values are not novel, nor are they a joke It's been ages since I've done anything low-level, but I don't think 4 billion if-statements are compiled to a "lookup table" when optimiza

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