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by toss1 1y ago
I wouldn't measure traction merely by counts of occasional users — which measures only lowest common denominator. Much more important is quantity and quality of use by those do make it a part of their personal or work lives — measuring
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by toss1 1y ago
>>We suffer from a problem that engineers want nothing to do with politics. More on point, we suffer from a problem that far too many people of all walks of life want nothing to do with politics. Plato made the most accurate point 230
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by toss1 1y ago
>>I think I'd rather they keep innovating Yes, but innovating and then killing the innovations, e.g., most recently Pocket, is not really innovating in any useful sense. When something like Pocket starts getting traction then ge
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Cellular Entity Between Virus and Cell, encodes replication/not metabolism(sciencealert.com)
7 points by toss1 1y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
For sure, important to be kind to yourself. But screaming "I'm a winner" doesn't do it either, and is perhaps even more undermining Everyone knows if you yourself have to say "I'm randomPositiveAttribute",
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, but the analysis is wrong The way they analyze it is: "Here are the zones where people feel comfortable driving faster — so let's go there and write more tickets!" The right way to analyze it is: "Here are the zones
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Washington State Patrol to Find Speeding Hot Spots Using Harvested Phone Data(roadandtrack.com)
13 points by toss1 1y ago|7 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
Just checked, their website lists 0.28 mm, 0.38, 0.5, 0.7, and 1.0 mm, with examples of each. [0] What pens do you find best and what is your use-case? [0] https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Uni-Jetstream-A-Comprehensive-G...
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by toss1 1y ago
Note that this combination is a very synergistic combination of crops to grow together, and is millennia old. "The Three Sisters planting method, commonly known as companion planting, entails growing corn, beans, and squash together in
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Chinese AI outfits smuggle suitcases of hard drives to evade US chip(tomshardware.com)
1 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
That sounds like a good idea but the physics mean you have a far greater likelihood of painfully regretting that choice; "It seemed like a good idea at the time" will be no solace. Using an example of a 350kt airburst on NukeMap[0
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by toss1 1y ago
The "Dragon Drones" also drop thermite [0], a material with massively exothermic high temperature 2000°C+ redox reaction, which can melt through most metals. Thermite is often used to weld rail tracks [1]. [0] https://e
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by toss1 1y ago
The best solution for me was to type with the left hand and switch from a mouse to a Logitech MX Ergo thumb-trackball — the key advantage is it can sit inside the sling and instantly give me full functionality. My use case was shoulder surg
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, how, when, & where you focus your eyes is very key to performance. In your case, it seems like the last-second-focus both let your eye track the ball better to your paddle, then focusing on the target let your reflex aim take ove
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by toss1 1y ago
He is primarily selling the Placebo Effect. All kinds of fancy "research" and "reasons" it will work, and the marks\\\\customers put in a financial and emotional investment in it working, so expect it to work. Seems just
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by toss1 1y ago
When you are learning a high-performance activity like a sport or musical instrument, the good coaches always get you to focus on only one or at most two things at any time. The key value of a coach is their ability to assess your skills an
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by toss1 1y ago
One organization has already monopolistic power. It encourages, with monetary rewards thousands to change careers to build properties "written by people for people", with a clear exchange: "you build good human content, we&#x
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by toss1 1y ago
Small quibble: Google is at the top of the food chain of surveillance capitalism, but Palantir, quietly aggregating every bit of available info to profile and make predictions about every person, is truly the apex predator of that food chai
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by toss1 1y ago
Our flicker fusion rate is different for the fovea and nearby central vision vs the peripheral vision. The central vision is slower-response, higher-resolution, and of course color vision. The peripheral vision is monochrome and has a much
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by toss1 1y ago
Stock price is not market capitalization. 30-Aug-2000 GE was $580.94 billion It's never gotten above around half that valuation since. Most key divisions were sold off. You can get "GE" label appliances, but it is a Chinese
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by toss1 1y ago
Interesting to hear another story how software was devalued at GE. During that time my software company was brought in to bid on a project for GE. Cool project, making a repository for technical drawings going back a century; turns out they
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by toss1 1y ago
Seems we need to define what is meant by "gamification" in this context. If we're just talking about tracking and making visible streaks, vocab words learned, tenses mastered, etc. that seems fine; little different than in fi
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An LLM trapped on inferior hardware and infused with existential dread – for art(xda-developers.com)
4 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
THIS!! The ability to estimate within an order of magnitude or within 2X is vastly more valuable, and beyond being able to have a sense of whether the "official" answer is likely accurate or off by orders of magnitude. During mos
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by toss1 1y ago
And, just this morning's headlines: The President makes a direct threat to Apple, that specifically their products will be made in the US or he will put a 25% tariff on them This is nothing resembling policy or democracy. This is strai
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by toss1 1y ago
So, which version of "government waste" propaganda do you believe? The $2Trillion, $1 Trillion, $150 Billion (7/1000 of the initial claim), or any of the other mostly disproven by their own documents claims in the few $10b r
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by toss1 1y ago
No. It is so inaccurate that you either have serious problems with reading comprehension or are being deliberately disingenuous in order to destroy the conversation as if your Red Team is right. The GP comment was about both the specific &q
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Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Size, Scientists Discover(sciencealert.com)
7 points by toss1 1y ago|2 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
That is trivially true, but stop both-sides-ing it with false equivalency. At this point, the major party in power is doing all they can to undermine democracy and strip-mine the country for their own benefit and that of their few multi-bil
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OpenAI's Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear(theatlantic.com)
2 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments

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