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Show HN: Guitar Guru – A guitar valuation app using ML(apps.apple.com)
2 points by shatnersbassoon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by shatnersbassoon 11mo ago
what do you recommend instead?
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by shatnersbassoon 1y ago
IANAL (L=lumberjack) but it's clearly going to be cheaper if you can just chop it down, right? Quicker and less equipment required, less danger to life from having to climb and wield a chainsaw in an elevated position. Also, if you are
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by shatnersbassoon 2y ago
I think one of the blockers to this is a very high risk of bird strikes.
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by shatnersbassoon 2y ago
It's enough explosive to cause a 2m high tsunami in the estuary, iirc. Not an option.
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by shatnersbassoon 2y ago
2 related expressions: 1. Creeping Determinism - the idea that even magical leaps forward were somehow inevitable and were anticipated. 2. Nihil Admirari - the idea that wisdom is anticipating every possible thing that could happen, therefo
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by shatnersbassoon 2y ago
If you go to the Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca (home of the Bolivian navy), there is a statue with a sword pointing West saying something along the lines of "We are going to take back what is ours".
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by shatnersbassoon 2y ago
`TELETUBBIES = TeletubbiesCheat` Intriguing... what does this do?
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
It's presented in Gigawatts here, but I expect the actual metric is probably something like "Gigawatts available for 99th centile of duration of demand peaks", as this would allow you to talk about capacity in the same units
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
There's quite a big difference between the DNA you leave in a forensic sense all around you (which would take a lot of effort and expense for someone to gather against your will) versus serving it up on a plate in a format that is triv
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
Given the nature of the service, you should probably treat it as inherently pseudonymous. You're handing over irrevocable genetic data which will link you to relatives. Whatever their data protection assurances are, you have to imagine
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
"When a failsafe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe." J. Gall
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by shatnersbassoon 3y ago
> I'd like to see some stats to back this up, considering the IUCN has taken the bluefin off its "red list," No they haven't. Nothing gets taken off the Red List (e.g. the Brown Rat is on the Red List: https:/&#
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by shatnersbassoon 4y ago
I like the Alan Partridge definition of brainstorming: "An American technique where ideas are graded by how loudly the person who thought them up shouts" (paraphrase)
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by shatnersbassoon 4y ago
If you read enough of those "day in the life" articles in newspapers about the daily routine of famous/successful people, you realise that they are probably complete fabrications. Even if it's not for competition purpose
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by shatnersbassoon 4y ago
Not all our timber. In fact Scotland is ~73% self-sufficient in timber production. https://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/images/corporate/pdf/Hbook0...
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Where are my Kindle notes and highlights if I'm in the UK?(kindlenotes.co.uk)
2 points by shatnersbassoon 4y ago|1 comments
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by shatnersbassoon 4y ago
I made this single page site to resolve this obvious question, with the ridiculously obscure answer. I had searched for half an hour, and eventually found the page by guessing the UK URL from the US URL.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
Thomas Cromwell was the most prominent spymaster of Tudor times and letters to him feature heavily here. So not all of it is bulk surveillance, some of it seems to be old-fashioned human intelligence gathering.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
My point is that the claims in these studies are held to high standards by detractors, but when it comes to the critiques, just saying "developing countries have high prevalence of worms" is nowhere near that standard.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
^ 100%
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
Casually announcing that everyone in this city has worms on the basis of zero evidence and deciding you can therefore ignore this paper is not the win you think it is.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
Oh yes, the Cambodia that didn't turn communist in the 70s and execute millions of people for wearing glasses? Totally disincentivized.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
From the wired article: “It really boils my piss to be honest,” says Jack Hurley, a Leeds-based illustrator who says his main output is “daft seaside posters.”
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
If you know the step is there, you get used to avoiding tripping. It's not the final step, it's the penultimate step. Also everything else in the castle is straight and true, which would imply they knew how to measure things accur
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
I think your mental model of a castle is not quite correct. It's not necessarily a simple stone box. A lot of roofs lead to higher points, or to walls. Your mental model of what can happen in a castle is also not complete. It's no
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
-> Absence of evidence here means that while you can't rule it out, you can't positively state it either. Right, so calling it a "myth", as in the headline, is incorrect. That would imply that you know it to be false.
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
I don't think calling it a "myth" and "mythbusting" is agnostic. If the author was agnostic, they would call it a theory. The correct conclusion from the evidence is that we don't know. The incorrect conclusion
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by shatnersbassoon 5y ago
I think the documentation for medieval military architecture choices is extremely sparse. Most of the writers were monks, they weren't so interested in military matters. The author is making an "absence of evidence is evidence of

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