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by sowbug 3y ago
MSG is no more synthetic than tofu or yogurt.
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by sowbug 3y ago
If you're an engineering-process junkie, then cooking can feel like the most interesting parts of engineering stripped down to their essence. We strive for an ideal of immortality in our reusable, flexible code components, never quite
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by sowbug 3y ago
Asked ChatGPT to rephrase in plain English. Sure, I understand your point about not wanting to support the FDA, but simplifying the argument to "I care about saving lives while the FDA only cares about politics" oversimplifies th
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by sowbug 3y ago
I enthusiastically endorse this sentiment until I remember I'm a software engineer whose career depends pretty fundamentally on copyright law. As an industry, we sell things that make hardware more useful. That's what software is.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Cool! When I asked my eye doctor, he didn't have that term for me, but he did agree that the brain is pretty amazing.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I think the usual answer why that can't happen is that you're not paying just for the food, but for the ongoing expenses of the business: rent, labor, etc. Which means that you could order just a glass of tap water as your entire
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by sowbug 3y ago
If I'm understanding the article, then an aspect of variance is how much a sensor deviates from the wisdom of the crowds. So the 6.8 is harmless if it happens to be close to the right answer, and downweighted if not. Which, if correct,
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm nearsighted, and I have astigmatism. I've noticed that when I close one eye and look at something like a clock on the wall, each eye produces a differently distorted image. Each eye is a bit different. But when I look at the c
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by sowbug 3y ago
Kenji Lopez-Alt has published a good recipe for tavern-style pizza: https://www.seriouseats.com/crispy-bar-style-pizza-star-tave... . It takes a couple days from start to finish, but otherwise it's very easy to make.
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The pizza that’s taking over the US(seattletimes.com)
4 points by sowbug 3y ago|4 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
That's just a UI trick, isn't it? Make 5% display as 0%, and add a solemn-looking toggle switch to select the reserve battery. (According to a random source on the web, a Model Y battery weighs 1,770 pounds, so a perfectly efficie
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by sowbug 3y ago
It's a balance, for sure. It's great to get early feedback on both technical and product aspects of a project. But as you say, feedback can also kill the project if it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Or it can
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by sowbug 3y ago
> Software Design Intent document That's great. But having written it doesn't mean that everyone has read it. And not everyone who has read it will agree with it. Or maybe the person who you thought would champion it has left t
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by sowbug 3y ago
Other good nothings: Can you check in even a tiny change to the source-code repository? A new project's first commit often triggers a slew of politics: wait, you're building what ? Where's your design? Who approved this? Why
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by sowbug 3y ago
It took a while for the tinfoil-hat stance on privacy to catch on, but it's safe to say that today it has lost its fringe status. Similarly, it might still be years before we see widespread acceptance of the importance of an unrestrict
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by sowbug 3y ago
Thoughts are not crimes in free countries. What someone "might" do is irrelevant.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The relevant parties aren't the cashier and the buyer. They're the cashier and the business owner. The whole scheme is meant as a deterrent, not as a remedy. If the buyer observes that the cashier isn't ringing up the sale, a
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by sowbug 3y ago
If the merchant had another means to accept payment, sure. The sign has been around since the invention of the cash register, possibly even earlier.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm probably missing your point. The cops don't show up to every crime scene, but the chance they will is enough to deter crime.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Lots of retail businesses have a sign that reads "If you don't receive a receipt, your purchase is free!" It enlists the customer as an auditor to make sure the employee uses the POS system, rather than pocketing the customer
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by sowbug 3y ago
That is survivorship bias. You hear only from the customers who don't read it. (I like writing documentation.)
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by sowbug 3y ago
It was more than that. It tried to influence project priorities by characterizing the impact. The response stated that another way to influence priorities is to pay money. Nobody was being unreasonable. The follow-up email demonstrated low
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by sowbug 3y ago
Money supply (M0, M1, M2, etc.) is an important concept, no citation needed. Your quarrel seems be with the broad application of the term "market capitalization." From context, it's clear what people mean, much as it's c
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by sowbug 3y ago
Most testicular cancer is now reliably curable by harsh but effective chemotherapy. Mission accomplished? Not quite. Curative drugs such as cisplatin are scarce. Their patents are long-expired, so they're less profitable to manufacture
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by sowbug 3y ago
Not the linked page (which doesn't say what the product is, which is why I went looking for the home page). Both have a video, but only the home page autoplays. Chrome on Android.
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by sowbug 3y ago
A home page with an autoplay video. You'd think a music company would know better.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Maybe not physically, but logically you can, via an external GPU.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Something like browser certificate transparency, but for search warrants.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I think you'd need to be able to control the direction of each photon coming out of the screen, so that it landed in the intended place on the retina after going through the misshapen cornea/lens. That's basically what a corr
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by sowbug 3y ago
While reading the article, I can't help but get the impression that public transit in the US is for poor people. Lots of quotes and stats about income levels, hardships, etc. No wonder most US public transit is viewed as a last-resort

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