saalweachter

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by saalweachter 6mo ago
> while a Semi can do all the things you can do with a scooter You may be able to lane split in a semi, but it also has excessive environmental impact.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
"America's Long Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Finally Over"
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Yeah, realistically the problems almost never happen and hopefully become rarer over time. The typical human preference WRT the trolly problem ("don't take an action which leads to deaths, even if it would save more lives") i
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
> Which is of course what the road rules are: you slam on the brakes. Yeah, there are a shocking number of accidents which basically amount to "they tried to swerve and it went badly". You can concoct a few scenarios where othe
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
I mean, they kinda are. Airline pilots aren't supposed to take a nap, and there are occasionally articles about the various things that have gone wrong because the pilots weren't paying attention.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
So her recollection is that she was in the house to view Lincoln's funeral procession. She didn't, because she was three and got scared, but it was still an event she was a part of. Even if she didn't remember whether Teddy
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
I was working at a crawling-based business around that time, and we thought it was because bandwidth contracts at that scale were symmetric, so the idea was that Google could serve video for ~free because they were crawling the whole Intern
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Corn produces something like 15M calories per acre, soybeans like 6-8. When you feed those 36M calories to chickens, you get back 12M calories of chicken, which is actually less than 6 x 3 = 18M calories for the soybeans, so I'm misrem
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Actually, the last time I looked into it, if you grow 2 acres of corn and 1 acre of soy, and feed it to chickens, you get out a similar number of calories (and more protein?) as 3 acres of soy. Soy is pretty good, but corn is insane .
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
"Insider threat model". Basic security hygiene in the modern world is "assume your employees can be a threat", either because they're incompetent ("I accidentally deleted the shared spreadsheet, I thought it wa
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
The simplest recipe for writing "almost bug-free" software is: 1. Freeze the set of features. 2. Continue to pay programmers to polish the software for several years while it is being actively used by many people. 3. Re
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Nothing about the human body argues for solid engineering principles.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
To be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
Only NASDAQ so far; S&P 500 is apparently "reviewing its rules" but hasn't changed them yet. So you've got a full year to wait on that index fund, assuming they don't cave.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
The five stages of Elon Musk: 1. Elon is a genius, a real world Tony Stark. 2. How dare you! You're just jealous! 3. Ok, regardless, he's done more to advance EVe and space travel than anyone else alive. 4. Oh God,
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
There are statistically around 15 women AFAB with XY chromosomes in the NCAA by those numbers (assuming no correlation between Swyer syndrome and athletic performance). There are currently around 10 openly transgender women in the NCAA. Sma
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
Methane only gets you to 100K.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
The movie term derives from a different piece of slang, a WWII term for a large bomb that could destroy an entire block. Before movies bombing was a bad thing, a successful movie was "exploding" like a blockbuster bomb.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
So it's hard to imagine biological life (chemical life?) without water or carbon, since they're such good solvents and building blocks, but we can at least imagine electronic or mechanical life which don't require them. But w
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
Depends, did you also fire the people who told you not to do it, and layoff the people who reluctantly installed the stove and preheated it for you as part of your exciting stove-touching initiative?
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
Maybe they saw the 30% cut Apple and Google were taking on their app stores and wanted in on the action?
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
In the 19th century, at the same time they went stone-mad (and redefined the hundredweight as 8 stone or 112lb), the British redefined the pint as 20 oz. After this point, there was no where the whole world round where a pint was a pound. (
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
I believe I replied to the wrong person!
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
> Results: A 5-mph increase in the maximum state speed limit was associated with an 8.5% increase in fatality rates on interstates/freeways and a 2.8% increase on other roads. In total during the 25-year study period, there were an
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
Pffft, like a bot couldn't fake metadata.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
I kind of feel like the nature of the Python ecosystem is a dozen or so extremely useful frameworks/tools that everyone uses heavily for 3 years and then abandons and never speaks of again. I'm not very deep in Python anymore, but
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
In _Inside Job_, it was Juggalos, the Illuminati, the Catholic Church, Cognito Inc [the main feature of the show, kind of the Deep State], the Atlanteans, and the Reptoids.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
It's not actually an oversight or training failure; as one of the six societies which secretly rule the world, the Juggalos simply demand to be exempt from facial recognition.
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
It's also my understanding that whole milk isn't necessarily just "pasteurize and pass along"; it really means "3.25% fat". All the milk has its fat separated out and re-added at specific percents, and the 3.25
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by saalweachter 7mo ago
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article".

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