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by timr 6mo ago
> I don't think it's really helpful to tell people they're holding it wrong I’m not saying that. If anything, it really doesn’t matter much what model you use, and it’s only a case of “you’re holding it wrong” in the sen
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by timr 6mo ago
I largely agree. But that goes back to my point (albeit with mixed metaphors): there are lots of people who are just hitting things with a jackhammer in lieu of understanding how to properly use a hammer. I basically never just yolo large
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by timr 6mo ago
> Haiku is most definitely not fine for the code bases that I work on. Sonnet is probably fine for most daily tasks, but Opus is still needed to find that pesky bug you've been chasing, or to thoroughly review your PR. Yeah, I hear
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by timr 6mo ago
Reading the comments here drives home an industry wide problem with these tools: people are just using the latest and most expensive models because they can , and because they’re cargo-culting. This is perhaps the first time that software
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by timr 6mo ago
There are a lot of folks who do not want to hear anything truthful if it violates their sense of national justice. I don't have a dog in the fight. I just think the current "solution" is blunt, and will end up damaging both t
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by timr 6mo ago
> And second - it’s really hard to participate in society if you can’t speak the language. I think this creates resentment for both Japanese citizens and foreign residents alike. I basically agree, but there are two problems with this: 1
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by timr 6mo ago
Of course it's many things, but people who claim that the US is especially dense, or especially sparse, or especially geographically difficult (LOL!) compared to Japan (and therefore cannot build rail) are deeply unserious commenters.
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by timr 6mo ago
Maybe. Japan has plenty of freight by rail, but you can’t look at (say) the California high-speed rail debacle and blame that on cargo.
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by timr 6mo ago
> Japanese construction is a lot more robust than American housing, and also tends to have extremely good soundproofing on windows and doors. Oh, you’re definitely engaging in Magical Japan, here. While building standards have certainl
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by timr 6mo ago
Not where I am standing right now! (I mean, maybe you’re right in some places, but it’s certainly not everywhere. Ironically, I happened to be standing next to a completely empty crossing, gates down, bonging away, while reading your commen
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by timr 6mo ago
I've heard people say that, but I find it hard to believe. I think I'd go nuts. And sure, they don't take 10 minutes to pass, but the busy lines (like the Seibu line I mentioned) are running at least 2-3 trains every 10 minut
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by timr 6mo ago
> The density of the NE is nothing like what you see elsewhere in the world, especially Asia, and Japan and China specifically. Yeah, I defy anyone who claims the US can't build trains "because of density" to fly to Tokyo,
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by timr 6mo ago
> At 350F and above, however, it starts off-gassing carbonyl fluoride, carbonyl difluoride, hydrogen fluoride, and various fluorinated alkanes and alkenes Wrong units. Starts happening at around ~250 C (~480F), not 350F. Completely depol
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by timr 6mo ago
> Teflon gives off fumes which contain byproducts including breakdowns back into PFAS compounds. Completely incorrect. Overheating (aka "burning") completely destroys the molecule, and releases small molecule gases, like hydro
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by timr 6mo ago
This has nothing to do with PFAS. When you heat teflon to 500C+, the molecules break down into small molecule fluorinated gases. These molecules are not PFAS, in any way.
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by timr 6mo ago
> Overheat them, which means the stuff gets into the air. Many many pet birds have died of this only because they're more susceptible And again, this has nothing to do with PFAS or PFOA. The principle cause is a complete breakdown
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by timr 6mo ago
> People cook with teflon-coated pans for the tiny convenience over a nitrided, ceramic, or seasoned cast iron pan. ...which has absolutely nothing to do with the PFOA that you might reasonably be concerned about. Teflon is chemicall
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by timr 6mo ago
OK.
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by timr 6mo ago
it's a Japanese word for "weird". I'm guessing that OP is a bit of an Otaku (aka "obsessed with Japan") -- which is either ironic or completely appropriate.
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by timr 6mo ago
I don't know how you know that, but even that argument is a straw man, unless you're asserting that all of the other currencies declined in value equally against whatever theoretical good(s) you're holding out as the object
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by timr 6mo ago
> He hasn't kept ahead of the destruction of the dollar very well. The dollar is trading pretty much at 30-year historic highs relative to all other currencies. You have to go back to ~2000 to find a stronger era, and then the 1980s
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by timr 7mo ago
Well, in this case, it tells you that you may have contaminated the sample with your lab setup.
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Allbirds, once valued at $4B, just sold its assets for next to nothing(msn.com)
9 points by timr 7mo ago|3 comments
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by timr 7mo ago
You can argue that current market multiples are higher than 1929 [1] - and they're certainly high - but this also ignores the mechanism that drove that crash, focusing only on the symptoms . We simply aren't doing the kind of con
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by timr 7mo ago
> What do you mean? Contamination and mis-measurement of control samples is a thing that actually happens all the time, and invalidates experiments when discovered. The entire point of a control is to test for that sort of contaminatio
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by timr 7mo ago
> This is like saying "miles per gallon" when discussing weight. "nanomolar detection levels"...microplastics are individual particles identified by spectroscopy, reported as particles per mm^2. "Nanomolar"
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by timr 7mo ago
Many papers in this field are missing obvious controls, but you’re correct that controls alone are insufficient to solve this problem. When you are taking measurements at the detection limit of any molecule that is widespread in the envir
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by timr 7mo ago
Uh, yeah. I know what the word means. See my response to the other comment where you say the same thing.
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by timr 7mo ago
There’s also the possibility that some of us actually, you know…have subject-matter expertise.
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by timr 7mo ago
Because it’s an inverted claim of falsification it works for literally anything (I cannot prove that X will absolutely not hurt you), but you get pilloried if you put something in the blank that the herd happens to support. We’ve reached th

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