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by rimunroe 1y ago
Ah. I misunderstood. I thought that by saying it could do all kinds of neat stuff you meant compared to other manufacturers.
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> For example, it has actual working adjacent lane blindspot detection Is this not standard? I don’t think my Hyundai Ioniq 5’s blind spot detection has ever failed to warn me about a car in my blind spot
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> I have always wondered why Windows never had a unified installation, update, and uninstall framework like MacOS had from the start. It seems like an obvious omission that was never solved. I was shocked when I switched to macOS. I coul
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> We should replace manual work with automation Could you elaborate on the reasoning for manual work being different, and what it’s different from?
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Meanwhile, I get to pay $9 MORE to drive my licensed, registered, insured vehicle on increasingly narrow roads filled with increasingly negligent 2-wheeled asshats because it's the preferred business model. It sounds like measures
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by rimunroe 1y ago
He’s quite capable of writing more. He’s been drawing stick figures for some time now
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by rimunroe 2y ago
What? iPhones let you disable all the AI stuff with a single toggle.
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by rimunroe 2y ago
A) Trump wants to send “home grown” people there B) You can’t know if someone is here illegally if they don’t have a way to challenge that claim. They could easily abduct you or anyone else and ship you off without allowing you to challenge
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> as if casual readers pick it up! I was a casual reader, but then I picked it up.
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> an entire (interminable, excruciating) chapter of The Silmarillion I’ve read The Silmarillion easily more than 20 times and I swear Of Beleriand and its Realms gets longer every time I read it.
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by rimunroe 2y ago
D’oh! It completely flew over my head. Thanks. I’ve heard people who are really into trains bill rail travel as being worth it purely for the experience, so it sounded plausible that they were arguing it seriously
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Per hour they will be much cheaper. How many people do you think care about the per-hour cost of travel. I feel confident saying that the vast majority of the traveling public wants to spend as little time and money as possible to get
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> the headline is positively wrong The headline is "US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish with Contract Cuts". Are you seeing a different version than I am? Your complaints don't make sense otherwise. > NOAA uses clo
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Sorry, I’m not an expert in the field, but are computerized projections not the norm in disease spread modeling? I don’t really feel like continuing this argument, so the last thing I’ll say is that I don’t know how else experts are suppose
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> These biases and trends are facts most people may not be aware of, but big pharma certainly is. I have a hard time believing that “most people” also means “most epidemiologists” or “most medical organizations” would be unaware of such
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by rimunroe 2y ago
No one exists alone in a society. People who ignored the overwhelming evidence of the pandemic’s severity were more likely to spread the disease to other people because of their poor judgement.
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Small town hospital And you generalized this to the world as a whole? I admit I don’t have a citation for this, but I’d be shocked if small towns didn’t have markedly slower spread rates than cities. I feel like this was brought up fre
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> I knew then and there I knew i was being sold a lie and the news was carefully orchestrating snippets of misrepresented footage. And then went about my business as normal. It’s extremely poor reasoning to rely on your individual anec
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Do you think the rough death toll of pandemics are fundamentally unknowable to some approximation? Do you think the massive increase in mortality during the pandemic was a coincidence?
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Vaccines were a miracle. The state medical examiner converted one nearby university’s arena to a temporary morgue at one point in 2020. It’s mind boggling that people were and still are in denial about how bad it got before large parts of t
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by rimunroe 2y ago
What are you referring to?
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by rimunroe 2y ago
Furthermore, it also matters if we’re replacing existing systems with new ones with lower reliability, e.g. replacing technical documentation written by humans with ones generated by AI.
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I’m skeptical of this. It sounds a lot like the widely debunked thimerosal panic. I’ve heard of no credible studies on such cases. Could you provide a link to something detailing these cases?
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by rimunroe 2y ago
The xkcd Now comic[1] is also done server-side. There's an outer image showing day/night cycles which never changes and the part with the map and all the labels is rotated within this. The server simply has a precomputed set of im
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Actual flu always lasted weeks, just lots of people call bad colds "the flu" until they experience the flu for the first time. People don’t take the flu seriously enough. It’s a major illness and kills plenty of people each y
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I’m not an expert so maybe someone else can chime in if I’m wrong, but: farmed salmon is not dyed pink. Their feed is supplemented with carotenoids like astaxanthin. These are substances they get in their diet naturally in the wild, is nece
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> Whenever you find yourself doubting whether you actually are red/green colorblind, just go strawberry picking with friends. I'm extremely bad at picking fruit in our garden. I'll go to pick the raspberries, strawberries,
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by rimunroe 2y ago
I breezed through this test, with the exception of maybe one or two squares. I’m red/green colorblind but constantly doubt if I am. Every few years I ask an eye doctor if I’m colorblind. The last time I did this they only went through
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> If there is anyone here who has time to explain to me (or link articles about) why functional components and hooks are considered to be better than class components, please enlighten me. Static evaluation of which instance properties a
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by rimunroe 2y ago
> if 128kbps MP3s sound OK to you then congrats your audio needs are effectively non-existent, anything will do (and I do not say that disparagingly; it's _fine_). Ignorance is bliss. I'm extremely happy I've never learned

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