pretzellogician

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by pretzellogician 8d ago
(Background: trained, published, but still amateur mathematician.) This is a cool blog post and I think you're going the right way, and beginning to get an understanding of the proof as you go. I'd recommend continuing on the simp
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by pretzellogician 21d ago
Reducing population is a perfectly valid (partial) solution, and it also doesn't mean extinction. Telling people not to have kids may not be realistic, but... it's also happening already.
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by pretzellogician 1mo ago
Not necessarily. For example, landmark-based navigation is good in rural areas but not generally in cities (of today). I believe there are studies on this, in fact.
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by pretzellogician 2mo ago
Wow, just yesterday I was thinking this exact problem would be a good candidate for AI. Seems it is!
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by pretzellogician 2mo ago
I love working outdoors. And mowing is meditative... some of the time. Until I encounter a yellowjacket nest.
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by pretzellogician 2mo ago
Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "a
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by pretzellogician 2mo ago
The article isn't great. But it's nice to know about TxGraffiti! I always wondered what happened with Graffiti.
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by pretzellogician 2mo ago
I would vastly prefer it to the current Zig News.
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by pretzellogician 3mo ago
Much as they have features for walk / bike / transit traffic, they could suggest step-by-step carpool instructions: "1. meet with (other Google Map carpool user) X at location Y. 2. In one car, both of you drive to locat
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by pretzellogician 3mo ago
"Hence, the efficient use of transportation networks is of paramount importance." Perhaps some sort of carpooling profile? That would be a dramatically bigger improvement than, say, routing users through residential neighborhoods.
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by pretzellogician 3mo ago
Valid points, but this doesn't mean JIT doesn't work for relatively lower-latency coding. To avoid the compilation etc. hit, common practice is to do some "warmups" before serving users. (Another reply has other ways to
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
Verified that Turkey Run State Park in Indiana is in there. Nice!
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
"extremely homogenous and flat" is a common sentiment, but.. it's just not true. Flat for example. The southern portion of the Midwest can be quite hilly (the northern portion not as much, due to glaciers). But even there, th
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
Naked molerats live a relatively long time and have many cool longevity adaptations, but they're far from immortal. Max lifespan is under 40 years.
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
Thanks! I didn't know that. That's... really unfortunate that the slang has gone that direction.
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
:-) In that case, I'll kvetch about the "boomer" term (Baby Boomers are ~61+ years old), as I think you're conflating it with Generation X (45 - 61 years old)
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by pretzellogician 4mo ago
Not to be forgotten, Steely Dan's unreleased jingle for Schlitz: https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long...
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by pretzellogician 5mo ago
> "solely for the crime of having a larger population than your country" I think there's an interesting question here. Perhaps having a larger population is indeed a bad thing, and should be considered as such? (Yes, India
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by pretzellogician 5mo ago
I'm a free Bitwarden user, I don't plan to self-host stuff, and... honestly I have no idea what this person is going on about. And "Aside from the aforementioned technical details, Bitwarden is (and has always been) one of th
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by pretzellogician 5mo ago
That was a fun Zelazny short story, thank you! I thought I'd read them all.
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by pretzellogician 7mo ago
Except you spend extra time making your code simple, rather than slapping together something that requires extra maintenance from the eventual owners. Ideally we need metrics saying, "my projects require 30% less support or 50% less
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by pretzellogician 8mo ago
Your points about nostalgia marketing are quite valid. But fyi, the Venture Brothers creators (Publick, born 1967, and Hammer, born 1971) are firmly in Gen X.
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by pretzellogician 8mo ago
There was also Black Destroyer by a.e. Van vogt, where the cat-like creature specifically ate phosphorus: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153274
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by pretzellogician 9mo ago
Almost certainly. Ankles also rely upon hyaline cartilage (as opposed to fibrocartilage). I found this out when I had microfracture surgery for a bad ankle injury. Looking forward to this therapy. My fibrocartilage is wearing out!
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by pretzellogician 9mo ago
Q3'25 was a known blip due to the rush to get the $7500 U.S. tax break, which IIRC, even Elon noted.
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by pretzellogician 9mo ago
True! But insurance companies (in the U.S. at least) would also love to know that information...
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by pretzellogician 9mo ago
Yes, very rough. Marijuana still being illegal at the federal level, and often illegal at the state level, means it's not always in your best interest to self-report. For example, in my doctor's questionnaires. "Have you used
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by pretzellogician 9mo ago
Funny, I grew up using what's called a "hand impact screwdriver"... turns out a hammer can be used to drive in screws!
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by pretzellogician 10mo ago
And this can generally be avoided as well, by doing "warmup" when starting your service (effectively, mock some calls), but before accepting requests.
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by pretzellogician 10mo ago
Very impressive! To be clear, this is not the smallest known bacterial genome; only the smallest known archaeal bacterial genome, at 238k base pairs. In the article they mention C. ruddii , with a smaller 159k base pair genome. But accor

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