sagarm

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by sagarm 3y ago
Yeah, I was amazed to learn that dappled sunlight is actually thousands of pinhole images of the sun, and during an eclipse all the little circles turn into crescents!
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by sagarm 3y ago
Bike theft was normalized long ago.
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by sagarm 3y ago
After all, Apple users are the product. They even pay for the privilege!
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by sagarm 3y ago
And yet it's not possible to build new walkable communities, despite the high price of existing ones indicating there's plenty of demand.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Florida also has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the country: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2023/04/20/ne... The state DOT puts the safety of people on foot and on b
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by sagarm 3y ago
Building housing attracts people, expanding the economy of the metro area. Expanding highways supports and enables building sprawl instead of infill. Sprawl is very expensive to maintain due to the per-capita infrastructure costs; eventuall
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by sagarm 3y ago
Pedestrian fatality rates are at a 40-year high. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
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by sagarm 3y ago
> All the layers/tools that are heaped upon one another just lead to complexity and dependence on paid services. I'm not advocating for reinventing the wheel, but rather that a bespoke solutions seem to be worth the cost. Which
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by sagarm 3y ago
An article on this phenomenon: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-private-nonprofits-ul... The donation is made to a non-profit controlled by the donor. The non-profit provides token public access, at best, while t
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by sagarm 3y ago
From GP (and my) perspective, the useful part of UUID is that it's 16 bytes. This is usually for formatted as 32 hex digits with dashes in specific places. The version/variant bits are the pointless part. Of course if you put the
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by sagarm 3y ago
You've excluded the >300 deaths from the two 737 MAX crashes.
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by sagarm 3y ago
High end ski goggles come with reflective lenses by default these days.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Redlining was bad because it was explicit racial discrimination. Setting prices based on costs is not redlining. If we want to subsidize poorer people in rural communities, we can do that through a means-tested program just like we do for t
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by sagarm 3y ago
The original context was road cyclists; the digression to country trails was to justify aggression and violence towards them.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Drivers are killing 50% more pedestrians per year than 2019.
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by sagarm 3y ago
If it's unfair to tax unrealized gains from owning property, then surely it's even more unfair to tax actual work?
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by sagarm 3y ago
I use persistent runners, but we had to add additional steps (docker prune, mvn -U, docker image ls, etc) to keep the runner healthy and be better able to debug issues.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Use a persistent runner and you can take advantage of on disk caches...at the cost of repeatability you get from a clean image on each run.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Arrow is an in-memory data format designed to allow zero-copy interop between languages, including Rust, C++, and Python. It's a bit more sophisticated than just some arrays, but ultimately everything is just arrays. Polars is implemen
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by sagarm 3y ago
IMO it's pretty hard to training an LLM isn't a transformative use. It's clearly not just copying, or even excerpting. Even if it was just compression (and it's not), they're only providing model output not distribu
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by sagarm 3y ago
Isn't it totally normal to write articles / blog posts that effectively summarize, and often quote from, news articles?
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by sagarm 3y ago
At $10/hr and 14 hours per day moving, that's $50k/yr just in fuel costs. You'd also want to consider depreciation and maintenance. Already, though, you've got a budget of >$4000/mo for a more comfortable st
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by sagarm 3y ago
I lived the mechanical turk version of this for years: riding a corporate shuttle to work. I prefer Caltrain.
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by sagarm 3y ago
The stats clearly show that Waymo gets into fewer crashes, though. In the remaining incidents, the other driver was considered at fault.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Typically, you would be considered responsible for damages for not keeping a safe following distance.
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by sagarm 3y ago
Will you rewire my house? I'm pretty sure I can't get an electrician to show up for less than a few hundred! Plus touching the panel I think will force us to bring the entire thing up to code (60s construction).
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by sagarm 3y ago
RunLessWire switches work this way https://runlesswire.com/
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by sagarm 3y ago
Hue is configurable, which is what you want if some of the bulbs are hard switched (so you want them on when power is restored) or soft switched (off or last state on power restored). Power outages are rare, though; I've not bothered c
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by sagarm 3y ago
You need continuous power anyway to allow for app or remote-based control. It's really nice to be able to use a remote to turn lights on and off from my bed or desk, or use voice control when my hands are full. Plus, I can have dimmabl
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by sagarm 3y ago
No need to outlaw the 30 year mortgage; it's the creation of government policy in the first place. Just stop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from insuring mortgages.

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