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by timr 1y ago
Title is not accurate. They're allowing personal shipments under $100, and the rest can be shipped via their UGX service. It sounds like JP doesn't want to deal with the customs paperwork at scale (edit: also the deposits).
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by timr 1y ago
Writing stuff in a file is not “memory” (particularly if I have to do it), and in any case, it consumes context. Overrun the context window, and the tool doesn’t know about what is lost. There are various hacks these tools take to cram mo
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by timr 1y ago
Humans have a limited short-term memory. Humans do not literally forget everything they've ever learned after each Q&A cycle. (Though now that I think of it, I might start interrupting people with “SUMMARIZING CONVERSATION HISTOR
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by timr 1y ago
It depends very much on your use case, language popularity, experience coding, and the size of your project. If you work on a large, legacy code base in COBOL, it's going to be much harder than working on a toy greenfield application i
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by timr 1y ago
> Last year I dug into this and found it's not unusual. Many software companies hire smart people as CPO, Product Director, or Head of Product because they have leadership skills, people skills, and some knowledge of the industry. B
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by timr 1y ago
> Interestingly, that's the "trick" behind a lot of the seemingly magic skill of geo guessers. The best players have played so much, that they now "see" things that a regular person wouldn't even consider to
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by timr 1y ago
Title (and title of the paper) are ridiculously editorialized. More accurate description of the contents would be “aerosol reductions in marine shipping lead to increased global temperatures”
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by timr 1y ago
That is what happens in the later stages of monopoly. In any case, my point wasn't about vet clinics, it was about the business financial properties that lead to monopoly. Even a business model as mundane as the local veterinary practi
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by timr 1y ago
Vet clinics have a moat (exactly as you're implying): the customer relationship. That relationship, plus optimization on the fixed costs, gives an incentive to acquire the practice, maintain the staff as employees, and collect the oper
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by timr 1y ago
"Tech startups" that make enough money to be interesting [1], but do not have the property of being a winner-take-all market, are the truly magical unicorns of software. If you have one, you should covet it and guard it viciously,
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by timr 1y ago
Maybe you're right that it's all just hard-headed stubbornness from fluent people. But I (and all other learners of Japanese) started by reading hiragana, and only later did we move to mixed script -- this is by necessity. Yet e
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by timr 1y ago
No you don’t. There’s actually a lot of research showing that native English speakers don’t read letters, they read word shapes. And people who read fastest read in even larger groups of words, to the point of eliding segments of sentences
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by timr 1y ago
> the Kanji also help as a clue to the meaning, but that is entirely a non-native problem I think. Not sure what you mean by that. It's almost a daily occurrence that someone tries to explain a word's meaning by drawing invisib
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by timr 1y ago
It is substantially harder and slower to read a stream of hiragana than to read a stream of hiragana and kanji. I don't know if you know anything about the language, but it's not because of homophones (though that is certainly imp
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by timr 1y ago
WaniKani at least teaches words. Spending almost a year of your life doing nothing other than learning "meanings" of individual Kanji is...well, I guess some people just really get addicted to that mechanical feeling of progress?
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by timr 1y ago
I went to an old-school language school where I was forced to take tests in handwritten Japanese. I probably still have some of that in my brain, but like you, I almost completely abandoned it as soon as I didn't have to take language
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by timr 1y ago
Being able to read but not write Kanji is so common that it's a meme amongst Japanese people -- to the point where it's a game. For example, here you can watch some Japanese television people play a game where they compete to writ
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by timr 1y ago
OK, so let me be even more explicit: for those who continue to want to connect this to recent changes in the US political system , the relationship is tenuous, at best.
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by timr 1y ago
From the other link on the front page about this subject [1]: > Illegal cattle smuggling, long considered one of the most efficient money-laundering routes for the drug cartels which terrorised San Pedro Sula, is regarded as the main rea
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by timr 1y ago
> The "wrong" answers all have a bit of truth to them, but aren't the whole picture. As with many complex mathematical models, it is difficult to convert the math into English and maintain precisely the correct meaning. Ex
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by timr 1y ago
One is common knowledge, taught in every elementary school. The other is not.
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by timr 1y ago
The fact that you have to invoke integrals and the Kutta condition to make your explanation is exactly what is wrong with it. Is it correct? Yes. Is it intuitive to someone who doesn’t have a background in calculus, physics and fluid dynami
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by timr 1y ago
I’m not “missing” it. I’m just not fixated on it. The answer got all of the following correct: * lift is created by pressure differential * pressure differential is created by difference in airspeed over the top of the wing * shape of the
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by timr 1y ago
I am a biologist (biochemistry, but close enough). I don’t have a problem with what you wrote. It’s not the same thing at all, though. We don’t know what “got life started”, and that’s the realm of faith. This is more like saying that “evol
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by timr 1y ago
> So I worry that you think that the equal transit time thing is true, Wow. Thanks for your worry, but it's not a problem. I do understand the difference, and yet it doesn't have anything to do with the argument I'm making
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by timr 1y ago
I grant your broader point, but extrapolating from this marketing copy is not a great example. The real question is, if you go back to the bot following this conversation and you challenge it, does it generate the more correct answer?
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by timr 1y ago
> right, the other is that if you remove every incorrect statement from the AI "explanation", the answer it would have given is "airplane wings generate lift because they are shaped to generate lift". ...only if you o
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by timr 1y ago
Again, you're not wrong, it's just irrelevant for most audiences. The very fact that you have to say this: > Yes geometry has an effect but there is zero reason to believe leading edge particles, at the same time point, must
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by timr 1y ago
I'm not saying that particular point is wrong. I'm saying that for most people, it doesn't matter, and the reason the "fallacy" persists is because it's a good enough explanation for the layman that is easy to
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by timr 1y ago
Except it isn't "completely wrong". The article the OP links to says it explicitly: > “What actually causes lift is introducing a shape into the airflow, which curves the streamlines and introduces pressure changes – lower

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