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by schiffern 6mo ago
Who said only 5 years? How does that change if it's 20 years? Or never? The monkey's paw curls. Now they were all invented by Oracle...
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Right, that's why it's a couplet. Sitting alone like that yes I agree. Smelling Your Own Dog Farts would also be acceptable...
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by schiffern 7mo ago
>The producers of dogfood don't really care what it tastes like or how nutritious it is. Bingo. This is why "eat your own dog food" works so well. The best koans and parables include a contradiction, which is a tea
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Exactly. That's the "smelling your own farts" part.
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by schiffern 7mo ago
" Eat your own dog-food and smell your own farts " is just crass enough that people will actually remember and retell it. Nice work by the author's Comparative Memetics Division. "Eat your own dog food" == experienc
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by schiffern 7mo ago
>And since energy usage is exponential vs speed Doesn't energy usage vs speed scale as O(n^2), not O(e^n)?
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by schiffern 7mo ago
>Does Tesla even look for the road surface? Yes. They use an occupancy network which segments the environment into drivable and non-drivable space. This has been shown in patents and company presentations. https://pate
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Cynicism is very cooler-than-thou, but it's not because we don't know better. It's because we do know how the system fails, and holding power accountable to those high aspirations is the only thing that pushes back the equi
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Plot twist, for employee safety the store policy is to always say "lost connection, sorry" when the system detects suspicious purchasing patterns.
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by schiffern 7mo ago
I agree it ruins the whole product. I also agree traditional car manufacturers should have software as a core competency, but instead they're notoriously terrible at writing software.
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Looks like it's the F-150 Lightning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421383 I chalk it up to poorly designed software from a company where software isn't the core competency, rather than blaming the basic c
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by schiffern 7mo ago
In urban areas you probably can just have the whole-house surge protector and skip the rest, since that protects all costly electronics not just a single device. With just a surge strip on the PC I'd say you're a tad under-protect
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Not too bad, just rural. We used to lose stuff every 10 years or so. One day The Big One came along and fried nearly everything. " Once burned, twice shy ." Hopefully someone can learn from my mistake and not have to do it post-mo
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Commercial uses layered surge protectors (Type I, II, and III), which is also recommended for other users but rarely followed. In surge prone areas, at a minimum I would have good quality whole-house surge protector (eg Siemens 140 or Eat
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by schiffern 7mo ago
> reduce something that has been shown to be correlated with negative long term health outcomes Are you suggesting the link isn't causal? Because your argument only makes sense if you think air pollution particles aren&#x2
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by schiffern 7mo ago
>I think not using an ultrasonic humidifier would be better stated as only using distilled water with ultrasonic humidifiers That's a common misconception. They still atomize bacteria from the tank because nobody ever cleans
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Even with no permanent install there are lots of good options out there, especially the new PC fan air purifiers. If you're just starting out check out HouseFresh for their excellent air purifier reviews.[0] If you don't mind a sl
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by schiffern 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/JAow3
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by schiffern 7mo ago
"I always have and always will abide by that rule to the best of my knowledge at the time a story is published." Nothing suspicious about heavy use of qualifiers in a non-apology blanket denial. Where's the Polymarket for wh
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Hey now, what's wrong with 'slop?' A farmer loves slop. It's dirt cheap, and the pigs don't seem to mind...
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by schiffern 7mo ago
The mayor is making a great argument for not blanketing your city in a surveillance dragnet. Policymakers were warned about precisely these dangers ahead of time. They went ahead anyway, and now they want to play blameless and are trying to
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by schiffern 7mo ago
It's in an <iframe>, commonly used for social media stuff: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H3XKt/3/
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Chart is buggy for some. Original here, Vox just added the countries up. Notice beef is off-scale high. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-026-01305-4/figures/5
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by schiffern 7mo ago
This is ignoring the massive distinction between manned flight (where failure is not an option) and unmanned tests. NASA and SpaceX both know this well. Calling it a "SpaceX like approach" and connecting to Apollo 1 is a neat tric
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Thanks, quite an engrossing story. (Trivially I think it [missed] a word: "But he didn’t share his finding. A slow and methodical thinker, he preferred [not] to discuss his results with others until he was sure he was right.")
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Also interesting to hear what the NASA people assigned to work with SpaceX say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIiiwD9C0E&t=1440s
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by schiffern 7mo ago
See also: Chinese banking (anti-fraud) numerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Financial_num...
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Makes sense. Nowadays you could apply a long-term trim using the GPS speed, including correcting for variations due to steering inputs and elevation. Mandatory for new trucks and grandfather old ones, like how most new vehicle standards are
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by schiffern 7mo ago
The claimed commonality is "early maximalist optimism turns into mature niche adoption." Could be different this time around, or could be that the early naive optimism is just more widespread.
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by schiffern 7mo ago
Right. If 0.5 mph is so valuable (which I believe), how do we explain the slow trucks? How do we fix the slow trucks?

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