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by themeiguoren 3y ago
Climber’s right doesn’t make sense to me as distinguished from looker’s right, since both perform the named activity facing the slope.
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Only if you stick your fridge in your doorframe and vent it outside. Otherwise it’s just a resistive heater. :)
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
For the first link I think it’s pretty bad as-is, but would be much better if you distinguished the new “more” items in some way. Eg different colored text (and make the “more” button match that formatting). That way you don’t need to re-sc
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
This is my own ignorance, but what determines the power carrying capacity of a wire besides melting from the resistance? Could you transmit a lot more wattage through that same line when superconducting?
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Who want to calculate a fraction in their head? My method for this: * Pick the lower integer square root (5) * The distance from 25 to 33 is over half the distance from 25 to 36. * Eyeball that that little over half on a mental picture of s
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
As a controls engineer, this is still the best one-stop shop I’ve found for making PIDs a lot more usable & robust. There’s a few things I’d add but this covers the major bases.
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
If you’ve ever been at sea and tried to use seawater to cook pasta, you’ll realize that it’s too much salt. 1:1 seawater to fresh water turns out perfect (and saves your fresh water).
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Fiduciary duty is more what you call guidelines than rules. It’s there to a) prevent blatant fraud; misguided/rash/anti-shareholder-sentiment decisions are not prosecutable, and b) give a board a reason to oust someone. The former
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
To break down why this picker is bad, here are several UX snags I immediately ran into. 1) It was not obvious how to set minutes, and I spent several seconds trying to get the hour hand to go in between hours. 2) When I let go and it snappe
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
I’m responsible for the death of tens of thousands of animals. Granted due to the size of pigs and cows it’s likely only a single digit number of mammals, but it was also only done for the trivial purpose of my own culinary pleasure. Imagin
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
I find it almost satirical that a guide on an imminent nuclear disaster is a 13-page pdf of dense text. If the producers of this guide are serious about their mission, this needs to be condensed into a flowchart with short statements and pl
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Written up as a blog post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Has anyone fact-checked this story? Did the author actually do a bogus study, or did he save time and money by photoshopping some fake news articles and write a fun story about not believing things at face value?
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Does it have to be a cost sink? Charge $20 every time you have to field a support call and you fund your call center while also killing the expected value of scammers trying to spoof their way in. And that’d be a pretty easy sell for a publ
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Draw parallels to other domains where those axioms come into conflict, to try and get some references on how to weigh them. Eventually you just live with the fact that some people have different moral axioms and weightings. It’s a big part
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Mechanical Turk proves the business model, you just need to gamify the experience for people.
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
People have no idea what a base rate is. And they don’t realize that the world for young people who didn’t go to college is even sketchier - those numbers just don’t get held up as a spear to attack institutions with.
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Controls engineer here. The author’s control theory knowledge is correct - a RHP zero indicates that corrective action will begin in the wrong direction (which the article compares well with countersteering on a bike). The technical term is
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
I like focusing on the failure rate instead - going from 14% to 12% is a pretty big jump.
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
This is great as long as you aren’t fighting your local environment. So much green has no place in desert cities where water tables are plummeting. (Looking at you, Vegas and Phoenix)
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Agreed. If the issue is that recycling plastic is uneconomical and so it gets shipped out to places that pollute it, the solution is for the recycling centers to stop shipping it out. Or just accept metal-only recycling. This is something t
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
Weight is also a proxy for how much energy it took to make a product. If you only use your metal or glass straw / jar / etc that weighs 5x what a plastic one does a single time, you aren’t saving anything. Yes the metal one can be
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by themeiguoren 4y ago
The anthropic principle is my favorite mind-hole to spelunk down.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
What were the expectations and what are they measuring that exceeds that? I haven’t seen any comparison of the metrics. From my memory, the JWST was roughly a 10x upgrade relative to Hubble in each of spectral resolution, angular resolution
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
This is how I visualize numbers. 5 and 10 are the primary blocks. 7 is a 5 with a 2 on top that could either slide off or take 3 from another number. Great to see it being taught.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Stick you fingers in the space between your ear and your head, and you can feel the muscles moving there. That should really help with building a mind-muscle connection since it’s hard to get feedback otherwise.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
I’m glad you’re feeling better, but it’s worth pointing out to everyone else that food sensitivity tests are total bullshit. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/igg-food-intolerance-tests-...
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Autoformatters are hell for 2d arrays of data where the columns have meaning and you want them to be aligned (time series, matrix math). It’s my only real gripe.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Cars would also look a lot safer if you didn’t look at the top slice of riskiest drivers. Apples to apples.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
I’ve got a specific LinkedIn hack - my name on it is Firstname “Nickname” Lastname. If I get a message addressed to Firstname or to Nickname, I know someone actually read it before sending and I’ll respond. If it’s to Firstname “Nickname”,

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