taeric

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by taeric 7mo ago
For extra amusement, try living near a farm or a school. Public parks can also be a surprise if you don't like the sound of people playing. Add a court, and things get fun.
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by taeric 7mo ago
I think the general strategy for a long time in the tech world was to have as many of the programmers as you could under your umbrella. You don't necessarily know what you are racing towards, but the general feel was you knew that pro
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by taeric 7mo ago
It reminds me of Google Plus. I think you could make parallels to how heavily some of the tech companies were pushing ML?
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by taeric 7mo ago
Absolutely the same. And it isn't like I have a good internal timer, as I am not good at judging how long I have been somewhere.
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by taeric 7mo ago
I haven't used an alarm clock in my adult life. I don't remember using them when I was younger, but think that is just not remembering. I'm not convinced everyone can just wake up, but I am increasingly convinced it is more
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by taeric 7mo ago
To add to your point, not only will you find that the patterns of consumption look somewhat stable, but that this cancer did like all other cancers in the last 50 years and plummeted in incidence.
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by taeric 7mo ago
It was not true of all cancers two decades ago. Which is largely my point. Things are better than they were 50 years ago. Including this. Should we try and make sure we don't reverse that progress? Absolutely. And it is notable th
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by taeric 7mo ago
It has ticked up 1-2 per 100k over the past few decades for that group. Zoom the chart out, and you would probably be excused for assuming it is flat with some noise. By all means, we should study this more. But the way folks are talking
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by taeric 7mo ago
This almost certainly speaks more to how much we have advanced on other cancers? The chart for total incidence shows it peaked in the 80s at about 70 per 100k and is down to about 40 per the same amount, now. Such that, yes, we can still g
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by taeric 7mo ago
Sadly typical of a lot of online commentary. People are rewarded for the "passion" of the response.
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by taeric 7mo ago
The trend has been down, even for this cancer. Such that I agree there were probably some big AHA moments. But I assert they almost certainly happened 50 years ago. My expectation is that it is less that there has been a growing trend of
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by taeric 7mo ago
Agreed. And again, fair that I was critiquing the headline. I think I just balked at the use of fractals there implying that they were, themselves, somehow contrasted to other descriptions. On things happening strangely at different scale
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by taeric 7mo ago
The headline feels off. Which, fair, headline. But "seeing fractals" feels like a cheat of saying, things have a similarity as you change scale. This could be true even if you think things reduce to strings/loops/whate
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by taeric 7mo ago
Wasn't this attributed pretty much directly to cleaning of the shipping lanes? With more direct sunlight on the ocean, we are getting warmer oceans. With warmer oceans, we get everything that goes along with that. I didn't see i
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by taeric 7mo ago
Agreed on the strength. I used to get annoyed with friends lambasting ikea furniture as not as strong as some custom built options. Nevermind they were strong enough for what they were designed for. Hilarious that cool factor won him over
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by taeric 7mo ago
The ridiculously dramatic drop in power we dedicate to lighting is one that is just tough for folks to internalize. As you said, used to, you could have ~10 lights in your house that would add to upwards of 1kw. Nowadays, you can have 50
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by taeric 7mo ago
Lead time for "how long until we can start using it" is one that is hard for a lot of folks to really take into consideration. There are terms for this, "earned value" and such. I have rarely seen them used in such a w
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by taeric 7mo ago
I confess I assumed that the spirit of that award was more in "using what you have" than it was in making a simpler solution? They definitely over indexed on how clever the door desks were, though. It is funny how much people ass
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by taeric 7mo ago
Only works during the day? Which, come to think of it, I'm not entirely clear how humans kept time at night long ago. I'm assuming they learned roughly where some constellations were?
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by taeric 7mo ago
I challenge the idea that 10 minutes is too large of a change? I accept that it was too many changes back when we didn't have smart phones/clocks controlling the vast majority of time pieces. Even most cars, nowadays, set themsel
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by taeric 7mo ago
Sadly, this isn't really right. Humanity settled on solar time. For somewhat obvious reasons. Alas, I don't see my preferred method of changing the clock by 10 minutes every month taking hold. Basically ever. :D I also don&#x27
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by taeric 7mo ago
No. This works if you are able to tell a work of fiction and don't have to provide evidence. And it works because we all know that repetition and practice are, in fact, important. So it feels believable that having people just repeat
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by taeric 7mo ago
Apologies, I meant my point to be that navigating a place is more helped with AR techniques than it is VR ones. Which, as you say here, is less helped by 3D rendering than it is other things. Indeed, I meant that to be my point. Do I thin
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by taeric 7mo ago
I could see this as an argument for a heads up display. So, good for projecting directions onto a windshield or for having the glasses thing. But this? I don't see how a VR world helps anyone navigate the real world. That is, you s
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by taeric 7mo ago
While I agree something like this sounds really neat, I am curious what the value proposition is? Pointedly, is it any higher than doing the same thing in a video game in a fantasy world?
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by taeric 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't think that is generally viewed as a good thing, though? And I would not be surprised to learn California has some stricter rules on it. (Would honestly not be surprised to find out some of these "banned" items
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by taeric 7mo ago
I confess I don't know what to make of this. Without seeing the reasons why these are banned, what is the point? Would be like lamenting how you can't use asbestos. Sure, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
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by taeric 7mo ago
The PSP version of this game was a lot of fun, if frustrating in how the "random spawn" of enemies really cut against some of the difficulty. In particular, it would really suck to have a random spawn come in where your jump was
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by taeric 7mo ago
Read differently, the United States needs more of a forcing function to get people to take the bus and less focus on convenience. You can maybe frame it as this story does that it is the time cost of the stops. This somewhat completely ign
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by taeric 7mo ago
This makes me think a tool that lets me know how much of the engagement I was seeing was from bots would be huge.

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