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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'm reading it as referring to a setting where the car will brake some amount (instead of coasting) if you completely let go of the pedals, and as being a claim that the commenter can't maintain speed but gets stuck in a cycle of
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Effectiveness of regenerative braking depends on having an extremely large battery that can sink enough current to stop the car. An EV can do that, hybrids at best help the brakes out some. You just can't charge the battery fast
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> big SUVs rolling by with exactly one person in them My mini-suv seems to be getting about double the gas milage my old normal car did.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Here is an article that (1) lambasts the 2023 Sackett ruling that a swampy back yard is actually not a navigable waterway; and (2) says that that decision teed up the 2024 Loper decision that got all the headlines: https://minn
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> It was a doctrine that if the agency (staffed by domain experts responsible for resolving the ambiguity) This is not an accurate description of what agencies are meant to be experts in. Their expertise is meant to be in how best to a
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well there was that one court ruling that said agencies have to stick to what Congress actually authorized them to do rather than having free reign to reinterpret their own authorizations however they want.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Haven't they always, from day one, insisted that their primary goal was to encourage (force) automation of certificate maintenance, as a mechanism to make tls ubiquitous (mandatory everywhere)?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> since there is a finite capacity for building housing (based on available builders - i.e. capital and manpower). This is the only actually relevant point in the post. And the only situation where it can be true is if ability to build
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Which is an argument that this is not truly gouging - there's just a demand surge and a supply crunch and the market responds the same way as if it was a business conference in town. So then real price gouging is... what, when
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I'll assume good faith here: This tells me that you think that treating housing supply as a relevant factor to the price of housing is a stupidly obvious error. > So they don't necessarily "prevent housing construc
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Sound like these earliest written laws (that we know about, so far) were meant to answer problems people had with some previous laws.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
- why? - aiui sanctions tend to not be super effective at forcing improvements, so again why? - as opposed to what? - sounds silly, details plz? - this is foolish and would not have the effects that proponents seem to think it would - this
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Of course Airbnbs are also a real problem in general with the way they increase the scarcity of housing, What's the actual mechanism for airbnbs to prevent housing construction?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Some operations are commutative (order does not matter: addition, multiplication, etc.) Fun fact: order does matter for addition. (When adding many floating-point numbers with widely varying exponents.)
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Saying that something is good (or bad) feels more like an "ought" statement than a proper "is" statement, ie not in a category that's capable of being a lie.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The Catholic Church is still around, and historically had a pretty major influence on academia.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well are we talking literally (under the old definition, not the new definition that the kids are apparently using these days) or metaphorically?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
This name is already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> other than by cobbling together a lot of unreliable ones and hoping the emergent behaviour No, there's math to calculate that without having to rely on hope.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Isn't the industry still growing pretty quickly? If five years is enough to count as "senior", most won't be that good just because they haven't had time to get good yet. And any segment that's big enough or
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Speaking of normalizing bad habits, does anyone else remember when you were supposed to only ever enter your password into a site if you'd entered the address yourself (or used a bookmark), because if some other site had redirected you
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> And you wouldn't expect the bad bots to play nicely just because you asked them. Well, yes, the point is to tell the bots what you've decided to consider "bad" and will ban them for. So that they can avoid doing t
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I would think they'd be correlated enough to mess up the numbers a little.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
>>> “A lot of people are thinking about reading in terms of pretty narrow definitions of comprehension,” says Forzani. “But of course we want kids to be able to make inferences and interpretations beyond just literal interpretatio
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
You're saying that weapons are designed by incompetents, and that enthusiasts have a reasoned understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the latest thing they're going "ooh shiny" about.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Given that that's a task you want to do, it's at least the right kind of task (language processing) for an LLM. The proposals from the comment starting this thread aren't. If grant classification is trying to drive a car no
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
My library has quite a few games I haven't played, but most are from bundles that cost as much as or slightly less than the other bundle parts I actually did want. A couple are from friends posting keys from bundles, and then I got sid
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
My understanding is that that's the result of the tinkering that's already been done to tone things down a bit.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I’ve long believed that police officers should be required to carry private liability insurance, just like professionals in many other high risk fields. If an officer is uninsurable, they should be unhireable, plain and simple. Repeat
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Would something like mandating a significant amount of ethanol (from corn) in gasoline be an effective way to so this?

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