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by senkora 1y ago
This is a long article (23k words!) but it's well-written and information dense. I need to finish reading it and study it more closely, but it is already clear to me that the author has spent a huge amount of effort making sure that th
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by senkora 1y ago
NYC has this. Bus locations and estimated number of passengers on board: https://bustime.mta.info/m/index?q=M5
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TLB Shootdowns (2020)(github.com)
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by senkora 1y ago
If you turn off your YouTube watch history, then it effectively disables shorts. That’s what I do. I only watch videos from my subscriptions feed.
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by senkora 1y ago
> pons asinorums This is a new one for me, so, in the spirit of the article, I will "act in the world to acquire more information as needed". > An obstacle which will defeat a beginner or foolish person. [from 17th c.] >
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by senkora 1y ago
Seems like karak == chai karak == masala chai == chai tea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai#Consumption_beyo...
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by senkora 1y ago
> An operator can be overloaded in C plus plus, but right now operators in the Java pro- gramming language can not be overloaded by the programmer, though names of methods may be overloaded. I would like to change that It’s a shame that
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by senkora 1y ago
There’s a reality distortion effect that builds up around companies and affects their employees. The company always builds up a narrative where they are a force for good. This narrative can be very different from what the public thinks. But
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by senkora 1y ago
I wish that we had a browser version of “pledge” that would: 1. Permanently restrict the browser tab from accessing the network. 2. Show an indication of this in the browser UI outside of the content area. It would be perfect for this kind
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by senkora 1y ago
Amazon seems quite interested in expanding into healthcare. - One Medical, for primary care - Amazon Pharmacy, for prescription medication - This first responder experiment could potentially be commercialized somehow I think I’m fine with i
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by senkora 1y ago
People with shellfish allergies are generally advised to avoid eating crickets for this reason.
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by senkora 2y ago
I’m not quite sure where the line is between Level 1 and Level 2 ADAS. Wikipedia says this: > ADAS that are considered level 1 are: adaptive cruise control, emergency brake assist, automatic emergency brake assist, lane-keeping, and lane
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by senkora 2y ago
I see a lot of people saying that this isn't statistically significant. I think that that is probably true, but I also think that it is important to do the statistical test to make sure: tesla.mult = c(1/(5:2),1:5) data.
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by senkora 2y ago
Do the gdb commands for printing information about python frames work with rr? E.g. py-bt, py-print, py-locals?
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I think that this trick or something like it is used in ski mountain maps. For example: https://files.skimap.org/js03b74i9eokcg2y1iakwdtv2av6.pdf I don't know how to confirm this; the distortion just feels similar to m
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by senkora 2y ago
I cautiously like this. I asked it to break down “clean the bathroom” and it gave me a reasonable series of steps. It then gave a time estimate of 3 hours 25 minutes, but I know from my own time tracking that doing a similar series of steps
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by senkora 2y ago
My favorite way of describing biology comes from another HN comment: > It’s more like a vibrating causal cloud than a chain of causality. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38898335
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by senkora 2y ago
The census has an official date to avoid issues like this. Since they lived at the house across the street from you on the official census date of April 1st 2020, the census worker was correct to record them at that address. They would only
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by senkora 2y ago
I’m excited for the Lojban work: > To further refine the features of language that activate the brain’s language network, Fedorenko’s lab is now planning to study how the brain responds to a conlang called Lojban, which was created by th
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by senkora 2y ago
Makes sense, thank you!
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by senkora 2y ago
I know that this is somewhat off topic but the writing in this passage is very odd: > “This means the future entry-level Volkswagen can be equipped with new functions throughout its entire life cycle,” he said. “Even after purchase of a
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by senkora 2y ago
Have you considered using the immediately invoked function expression (IIFE) pattern as a standards-compliant alternative to gcc statement expressions?
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by senkora 2y ago
Ah yes, the questionable value of checks notes reducing child and maternal mortality and providing HIV/AIDs treatment. (That seems to be the primary mission of Jhpiego, where 90% of the layoffs occurred)
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by senkora 2y ago
Treat them as two draws from possibly different, independent distributions. The question is whether the distribution that drew 7 “stochastically dominates” the distribution that drew 5. You may or may not be able to conclude that based on t
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by senkora 2y ago
The bacon egg and cheese is definitely up there. Other contenders could be the chopped cheese, the pastrami on rye, or the lox and cream cheese bagel.
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by senkora 2y ago
I’ll add that using the hyphen is a little controversial: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
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I encourage people to read the post. Whether or not Russia was ever a democracy in recent times, the author draws clear, specific parallels to the erosion of checks and balances that are interesting and informative.
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Thanks! Really enjoyed that post as well.
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I'm surprised to not see a mention of "This is Water", the commencement speech by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College, which thesis is that the point of a liberal arts education is to help you escape your default setting.
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I preferred it because I considered the point of Civ to be building up your economy/tech such that you were superior to your opponents, and then using that economic/technological advantage to out-produce them in military and defea

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