robocat

13 ms·

271.
by robocat 4mo ago
> HTFU I'm guessing "Harden The Fuck Up"
272.
by robocat 4mo ago
Can't visit that site from NZ. I've mostly seen kits for lifting 4WDs in NZ. And I think the arsehole ute/pickup drivers are more of a tradie demographic. Lifted 4WDs here seen to most commonly be private older vehicles owned
273.
by robocat 4mo ago
So put the price up by $100 and include $100 of non-transferable digital credits on the XBox account to spend on games.
274.
by robocat 4mo ago
Yet thread and string really are different things. Is there an App that explores the smeared line between meanings? Show me pictures of (rope, thread,string,twine,line, cable, wire, fiber, ribbon, braid) and let me pick the right word. We s
275.
by robocat 4mo ago
The common theme for the discussed symbols is consideration for others. In New Zealand we require a yellow [L] sign on cars with learner drivers (with learners drivers licenses). However I get the impression that other drivers are less cons
276.
by robocat 4mo ago
I've always found ligatures (fi, ff, ffi etc) really ugly. Or are you talking about using them for hacked purposes (-> in C)? Then again I don't put different foods on my fork when eating - which seems relevant.
277.
by robocat 4mo ago
Is the hydro power already mostly consumed? What actually matters is where extra generation occurs to handle the marginal new load of new electric vehicles. Everyone fools themselves because they look at the current percentage of hydropower
278.
by robocat 4mo ago
My underlying point is that money is fungible. How you account for the tax dollars received doesn't affect the pricing signal. We have accounting systems to colour tax dollars. However that doesn't mean you can define cause and ef
279.
by robocat 4mo ago
> single byte prefix was a language design "mistake" Easy to say in hindsight. It was an optimisation made back when every single byte mattered because you might have some kilobytes of memory and a 6502 CPU (where you strongly
280.
by robocat 4mo ago
Many countries have high fuel taxes that approximate pricing in the negative externalities. Assuming you think price as a signal is the solution to dealing with those externalities, it doesn't matter what caused the price to be high.
281.
by robocat 4mo ago
PassGPT: Password Modeling and (Guided) Generation with Large Language Models https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.01545 Although most activity is likely hidden (blackhat or state)
282.
by robocat 4mo ago
Yeah, active electronics seems like the only solution that would vary brightness correctly. But electronics are too impractical for the simple problem of modifying existing LED lights. Some quick searching didn't find any photochromic
283.
by robocat 4mo ago
decline of 28.54% [US FMS notifications 2025 cf. 2024] Although the article is more positive Emerging Trends in the Trump Approach to Security Cooperation: https://www.stimson.org/2026/emerging-trends-in-the-tru
284.
by robocat 4mo ago
> Mortgage payment vs. household income is probably the best way to assess affordability. Except that effect and cause are counterintuitive. People bid against each other on houses to the limit of affordability (maximum payments). With s
285.
by robocat 4mo ago
Favours, status, time, attention, information, morals, desires: Individuals seem to run on invisible currencies, not money. Earning and spending money does influence our decisions, but to me most people seem to have other invisible drives.
286.
by robocat 4mo ago
I fixed a power wart LED today using black electrical tape, with a needle hole. Ideally instead I need some stick-on semitransparent dark-alpha stickers to reduce brightness. Maybe I should use two polarized stickers, and rotate the second
287.
by robocat 4mo ago
> SG&A = SG&A stands for Selling, General, and Administrative expenses
288.
by robocat 4mo ago
> SDoH = Social Determinants of Health
289.
by robocat 4mo ago
> He leaves the ceiling white, empty, fresh. Did anyone ever try and recover the painting/palimpsest?
290.
by robocat 4mo ago
I have a friend who absolutely loves getting the spins from excessive drinking. She liked to lie down and watch the room spinning. I would need to ask her if she gets motion sickness.
291.
by robocat 4mo ago
Outlawing something often gives it extreme power to those that support it - Nazi symbols and concepts appear to gain strength from their pariah status (especially since they signal group affiliation). Aside: pariah is sure to be disallowed
292.
by robocat 4mo ago
> Schtupping Note that word isn't joint to tupping unless you're from Tasmania. Shtupping comes from Yiddish, while tupping comes from an old English/Scots agricultural term relating to rams. I wonder what "com
293.
by robocat 4mo ago
Your overall point is true - but I'm unsure whether you are clarifying or trying to ackshualise. And well actually, "price/demand elasticity curve" appears to be ambiguous word-salad (although a human mistake;) I do appr
294.
by robocat 4mo ago
What's a polite way to suggest you ask AI first? Why should others spend their valuable time helping you? Especially when you insult the people you want to answer you "fetish/superiority complex" just demonstrates your o
295.
by robocat 4mo ago
Businesses charge their customers as much as they can. Businesses want to raise prices almost regardless of what their input costs are. It is wrong to believe that a product's "correct" price is simply its cost plus a reasona
296.
by robocat 4mo ago
I noticed a small drone hovering outside my bedroom window (suburban home). It quickly disappeared as soon as I started getting out of bed. The incident still disturbs me. I've thought about designing a cheap anti-drone defense - consu
297.
by robocat 4mo ago
The assumption is that price is supposed to reflect quality. Unfortunately as you say, too often price is a weak signal. And price often signals current fads/fashions rather than quality. Non-monetary costs are often a better indicator
298.
by robocat 4mo ago
TimescaleDB Compression: Hypercore and Columnar Storage with up to 98% Ratio in PostgreSQL Is the full title. Up to 100% of articles using "up to" in the title are complete dross. How do I get the job of benevolent dictato
299.
by robocat 4mo ago
That site promotes range voting, and rather superficially dismisses approval voting: "Why Range Voting is Better than Approval Voting": https://www.rangevoting.org/rangeVapp.html We've got MMP here in New Zea
300.
by robocat 4mo ago
Similar discussion about 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614100

More ›