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by peeters 4y ago
Dang, that's a bummer to hear! Is it a motion sickness thing? I absolutely love his POV videos and find them so much more watchable than studio setups, partially just because of the intimacy and casualness of them, but also because the
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by peeters 4y ago
Curious analogy, given what would happen to someone caught in a stampede who tries to stop it by standing their ground.
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by peeters 4y ago
This seems like distinguishing between the snowflake that falls on a sheet of snow and starts an avalanche, and the snow that collects along the way. Both were necessary conditions for the avalanche, but is either more to blame? It's a
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by peeters 4y ago
I don't know who exactly made the decision to let the case get this far, but it's worth noting the judge explicitly credits crown counsel with suggesting an acquittal: > [7] After Mr. Epstein testified in chief, in a tremendous
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by peeters 4y ago
> Thank god the dishwasher has a wall switch to the circuit so I can just kill it but oh man. Surely just opening the dishwasher a crack would be simpler than cutting the power?
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by peeters 4y ago
I mean, that's true today. I'm sure you've seen plenty of shops egregiously misrepresenting the sizes of products via forced perspective or outright editing in images. If they were to upload a 3D model it would only get more
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by peeters 4y ago
Radar capability is interesting, but I'm curious if small balloons are really that hard of a target to shoot down once you've found it. They are slow-moving, non evasive, and virtually any impact from shrapnel will be a guaranteed
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by peeters 4y ago
> You make it sound like Trudeau did a noble thing here when he had no other option. I honestly don't know how I could have made my clarifying the basic context of the story sound more politically neutral. Maybe you have some sugges
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by peeters 4y ago
It should be noted (since "over Canada" could give the impression of an invasive action, and the article makes no further clarification) that it was Canadian PM Trudeau who gave the order for this object to be shot down, and expli
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by peeters 4y ago
It's not so much that he commanded US jets, he gave an order for the object to be shot down by the first able aircraft, and included authorization for that to be US aircraft. I don't anything is implying that the US pilot bypassed
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by peeters 4y ago
These systems exist (STCA/RIMCAS for the tower, TCAS for the pilots, but not around landing), and for all we know at this point they might have helped avoid a collision. The challenge is balancing giving useful alerts while not feeding
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by peeters 4y ago
So from the ATC recordings it seems like everyone was made aware of the traffic, i.e. the Southwest flight acknowledged there was an approach 3 miles out and FedEx acknowledged the 737 ahead of them. i.e. it's not like the ATC forgot i
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by peeters 4y ago
Pilots burn a ton of fuel while training. The USAF probably welcomed the opportunity to conduct a novel mission with very little risk.
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by peeters 4y ago
Not following this rule is also almost singularly responsible for Monopoly's reputation as an extremely long game.
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by peeters 4y ago
In must microwaves just pressing 1 (and correspondingly 1-5ish) and nothing else will start the microwave on high for 1 minute at full power. Rather than having to press <timed-cook + 6 + 0 + start>.
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by peeters 4y ago
Yep, but OP spent some time arguing that this should be the default theme across Wikipedia.
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by peeters 4y ago
I think it's a great example of the bubble that the average WP editor lives in. For the vast majority of users, that theme is incredibly distracting. But it might be more efficient for the most hardcore editors that rarely actually rea
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by peeters 4y ago
Just beware there seems to be little content filtering, one of the images I got was pictures of war casualties tossed on the side of the road from 2015.
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by peeters 4y ago
The WP front page is a bad showcase of the WP user experience as it is not an article, almost nobody sees it (as most navigate directly to articles via search results), and the layout is heavily customized outside of what the theme controls
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by peeters 4y ago
> They have a warehouse of 1000s of luggage where the tags are likely torn off or missing. Are you going to allow them to search the entire warehouse? Sure, why not? Let them in and have staff on hand with them requiring them to prove ow
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by peeters 4y ago
Donating an unclaimed bag is maybe an option (if the recipient is legally required to destroy all personal data). Donating a bag that your passenger has filed a claim for, and can tell you the location of, is a business decision. The penalt
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by peeters 4y ago
Is there any evidence of this? The article states the couple was compensated for 25% of the value of the luggage, whereas the passenger's bill of rights seems to say that the airline is liable for the full value of the lost luggage, up
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by peeters 4y ago
When I was in the security clearance process, the first step in the process was a 500 question multiple choice psychological exam (randomized order). The test is designed to have some level of error checking to make sure participants are t
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by peeters 4y ago
Note that for enumerable domains of less than 64, using a long plus bit ops has been a standard Set implementation for quite a while. For example, Java's EnumSet uses a long if the enum has less than 64 values: https://gith
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by peeters 4y ago
As far as I understand it, gravitational lensing would affect the trajectory of particles travelling different speeds differently. So it would seem entirely possible that the matter wouldn't even be pointed at us. That assumes that e
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by peeters 4y ago
It is, but they also have a competing mission to compromise the security of non-American businesses, communications, and infrastructure. Since for the most part, the same software is used by both, these missions often contradict each other
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by peeters 4y ago
For a product focused on reducing emissions, it would be nice if the environmental impact of the product was addressed in the FAQ or product page. What are the CO2 emissions of the source materials, production, and shipping the product to
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by peeters 4y ago
He definitely convinced me I was using far more water than necessary when boiling pasta. Cooking pasta in a shallow pan, with barely enough water to cover, was a revelation. Not just from the fact that you get a starchier water to help em
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by peeters 4y ago
I was using base 2 just for conveying the numbers of digits, i.e. showing that the digits in representation is related logarithmically to the magnitude of the base-agnostic integers in the fraction. I could have just as easily used natural
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by peeters 4y ago
I agree from the perspective of how most humans could memorize pi. But that's exploiting the fact that humans treat decimal representations as having implicit denominators--3.14 is actually 314/100. So say you had a computer th

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