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by snickell 6y ago
I suspect there will be a fairly long lasting middle step: an AI piloted "mini jet fighter". Say 4x smaller, but faster and more maneuverable by virtue of not having to protect a human pilot, and still capable of carrying existing
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by snickell 6y ago
TL;DR send per episode alerts as per agreed, but include a prominent easy "click here to switch to a monthly episode summary alert" link in the messages, splitting your list into two lists. Now mail without anxiety. 1) 1% unsubscr
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by snickell 6y ago
Exactly.
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by snickell 6y ago
I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised to see those portions of Europe "back in the hut" again in December. That said, it does seem like if you're on the lookout, have very low case numbers, and are doing strong con
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by snickell 6y ago
It wouldn't change the number you know, it would just change who it is. Its more like 'you're pretty unlikely to know a youngish person who dies of covid19' (of course, we have large anecdata sample sizes on the internet
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by snickell 6y ago
yes, exactly my questions Should we become more risk averse as population grows because the numbers of deaths become so staggering? Or is percentage deaths a more relevant measure? If you have 10000 people in your medieval media sphere, and
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by snickell 6y ago
0.026% dead As per normal, absolute numbers can be misleading to very smart humans when we have trouble intuiting about vast numbers like "100 million". If the goal is to convey scale accurately, its generally recommended to defau
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by snickell 6y ago
Is there an easy way to filter in RightGIF for "images that will auto-expand in slack and not be too big", I hate guessing in Giphy if my chosen image is gonna be too big to auto-expand.
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by snickell 6y ago
Damnit, now I have tayebbayri.com burned into my monitor... ;-)
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by snickell 6y ago
Very cool work, particularly important is the text quality improvements. Could you talk about the approach to improving text quality is? Are you implementing projected font hinting by any chance?
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by snickell 7y ago
Remove limited liability as a concept: stop funding the extrinsic risks of large corporate actors. Don't shield stockholders from criminal and unethical acts committed in the organization's name. Watch the incentives change and on
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by snickell 7y ago
Hey brother, I've been in some rough places too. Wanna talk? Might not feel like you do... but some chance you'll feel 5% better after. I'll be up for another hour, feel free to email me on a temp email and I'll write ba
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by snickell 8y ago
> Can't drain the swamp you didn't know existed. I.e the corruption has become so blatant as to be more widely acknowledged. I think there's an interesting possibility of "hitting rock bottom" and recovering, vs
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by snickell 8y ago
CeresImaging.net | Scientific Tools Python Engineer | FULL-TIME | Oakland / Bay Area | ONSITE We're looking for a software engineer (or code-savvy scientist) to work on developing, maintaining and improving our image processing an
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by snickell 13y ago
Is there a way from this data to calculate the frequency of the wave(s)? Bandwidth? Or otherwise characterize the signal that is causing the polarization? Is that even a meaningful question in this case?
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by snickell 13y ago
I want to work in [some forms of] a society with 99% unemployment rate, owing to advances in automation. It may be realistic in such a society to expect that the 1% still 'working' are going to be very good at their jobs, and doing it prima
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by snickell 14y ago
How to meditate: a simple, permissive, breathing meditation. A nearly-identical form of this meditation can be found in most 'meditation-based' systems. Its pretty universal. What you do: 1) Sit in a comfortable position, without shifting