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by strken 1y ago
Multiple nights, and often in less-travelled areas of Australia where there's no guarantee other people will find us if something goes wrong. It would be a bit insane carrying 10kg base weight on a day walk unless you had kids. That we
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by strken 1y ago
I've been told that there's a legal loophole where freight trains are built to be too large to fit into overtaking loops, and so don't need to use them.
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by strken 1y ago
For me, a not-particularly-lightweight hiker with a 10kg base weight, that list includes: - a knife - a first-aid kit with some niche stuff like big gauze pads, electrolytes, strapping tape, etc. - quarter of a roll of toilet paper - a comp
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by strken 1y ago
You can have two SUVs, a heated garage, and also ride a bike or take the train to work. You can get a reasonable second hand bike for under $100 here and probably in most of the US, it's not like you need to sacrifice the garage heatin
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by strken 1y ago
I can read upside down, but it's an acquired skill. I can't read at a 90 degree angle without difficulty, although I could probably learn to. It's not that I don't see the map from the other side, it's that when it&
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by strken 1y ago
Steady on now: there's an interesting psychological effect going on. A well known art exercise is to draw a subject upside down, particularly a person or a scene with a clear usual orientation. When you take something you're very
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by strken 1y ago
I had taste before AI and I have taste now. I am not convinced by arguments like "I have noticed that people who [belief that applies to the majority of the population being discussed] also do [negative thing that is also incredibly co
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by strken 1y ago
There's behaviour at an individual/group level that is only explained by selection at a lower level. Consider the placenta releasing allocrine hormones during pregnancy while the mother's body increases insulin levels, or con
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by strken 1y ago
Sure, but none of us have to read all the way through every article that hits the front page, or take it to heart when the article is about a rich person. One of my friends has given up on finding a software job and become a handyman to mak
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by strken 1y ago
Blog posts are aimed at an audience, HN is an audience, and in both cases the audience in question is a technical one with an above-average number of well-paid professionals. The whole framing that the blog post "reeks of privilege&quo
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by strken 1y ago
I don't know if "ghost kitchens are dying" means much. The commercial model of a ghost kitchen as an assembly line for low quality low price high throughput food delivered by expensive couriers on demand is dying, yes, and go
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by strken 1y ago
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) are effective at reducing negative thinking, although they don't come in pill form.
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not sure what information you're trying to impart here, because I was talking about nativism in hiring practices and this has nothing to do with what I wrote. I agree that Indians get fucked by the US when it comes to immigrat
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by strken 1y ago
Levels.fyi puts the median software engineering salary in San Francisco at USD$238000, while the median where I currently live is USD$90000. That's 2.6x higher. Yeah, I get it. The multiplier on the salary has gone down from 3.6x to 2.
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by strken 1y ago
As an Australian, I've seen recruiters from the US, Europe, Hong Kong, and Dubai. I think such offers are reflective of who pays more than Australia rather than nativism. Since tech wages in the US are the highest anywhere in the world
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by strken 1y ago
That's blatantly wrong. Hydro stands out in the data as being the cheapest reliable carbon neutral option (wind and solar aren't reliable, and when you factor in storage to make them reliable then they're not cheap). Hydro re
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by strken 1y ago
It would matter because sleeping in a moving car in traffic in the middle of a city sucks in comparison to sleeping in a parked car in a quiet street on the outskirts, and also uses more fuel and wears out the car faster. There's no ga
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not an American, I'm an Australian. Our gun deaths sit at 0.9 per 100000 people instead of 14 per 100000 and I approve of our gun laws. In that sense, I guess I'd say that roughly 6% of this gun death was okay. In a broad
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by strken 1y ago
"Some gun deaths are okay" is saying the quiet part out loud, but it's not wrong. When you let a large group of people have access to something dangerous then some number of them will die and kill using the dangerous thing, w
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by strken 1y ago
To me, whether there's enough space for cars and walkability are both part of how dense a city is. Leaving room for cars must make a city less dense and usually less pleasant for pedestrians as well; in the same way, a suburban area wi
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by strken 1y ago
Does it? How do you know?
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I dunno why you'd tell your self-driving van to do laps for eight hours when it could just drive somewhere outside the city and park, unless you live in a city where the commute time is more than four hours each way.
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not as familiar with the US, but Australia moved from requiring teachers to complete a 1-year graduate diploma, to a 2-year master of education. This is effectively doubling the commitment for someone to transfer into teaching from
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by strken 1y ago
My settlers landed on a welcoming utopian post-scarcity post-singularity alien world whose inhabitants had centuries of engagement with the AI and had extended an offer of asylum, then somehow lost 271 people to cold and to poisonous plants
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I thought it was a neat concept but I'm surprised they took it directly into mass production. I thought they'd take the design language and make something a bit more mainstream with it. The matte steel body and the unbroken slope
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The problem is that commercial ad-supported websites force themselves into all available online spaces: search results, discords, social media, affiliate links on blogs. The only way to stop them doing so is to take away their source of rev
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by strken 1y ago
> the article doesn't give any compelling argument to answer this Is "[w]hen code is not tested, how do you know you didn’t break anything?" not a compelling argument to your boss?
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I'm not an expert, but I was under the impression that while water is often involved in forming deposits of uranium ores, they can also form because of volcanic activity alone. Maybe bruce511 thinks such deposits are likely to be rare,
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Can't you eventually mine and enrich uranium on Mars itself?
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There's something that makes me sad about the thought of an engineer, sitting at a desk, thinking "I can't fix the fifteen second frobnizzle page load time because otherwise they'll make me fix the performance of everyt

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