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by webel0 3y ago
> all of the above is sourced from Cochrane: Britannia’s Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas Thats pretty much what they did. I do sort of like the idea of sharing less-than-perfectly-polished writing. But it does make for an odd read.
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by webel0 3y ago
Adobe acrobat (and maybe reader) is really the only app that fully supports the full PDF spec as understood by the authors of the spec. There are ridiculous parts of the spec that allow support for things like JS, etc.
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by webel0 3y ago
Better NHTSA testing/benchmarks/regulations would help the entire industry at this point. After the cruise debacle, we need more than just, “our internal metrics show.”
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by webel0 3y ago
I am still reading but have the exact same question. The production value is high. The url is simply “retool.com/pipes” (I.e. not just another blog).
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by webel0 3y ago
> 2. Far more people each day die in GM's not-self-driving vehicles. Why are they not firing people over that? First, you need to consider accidents per mile driven. Second, you need to consider accidents attributable to the manufac
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Microsoft Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2023(wsj.com)
4 points by webel0 3y ago|3 comments
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by webel0 3y ago
This is quite interesting because you can imagine that lobbyists would argue that standardization would “stymie innovation.” If F1 does it why can’t you?
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by webel0 3y ago
This can be used as a dark pattern. If you want a user to use a particular setting (e.g. “Customize my ad experience.”) you can just make it unclear which they’re choosing.
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by webel0 3y ago
A big offender here is (was?) instagram’s privacy settings. I recall trying to help my mom turn her profile to be private and we were both confused: does the blue mean it is private or not?
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by webel0 3y ago
Yes, I keep on thinking that a premium market will develop for Toyota and Honda cars from roughly ~2006-2010. Those cars were the height of internal combustion technology without all of the electronics.
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by webel0 3y ago
It depends on how realistic one is being. In a perfect world? Maybe. In the actual world? I think a lot of people get to a point in their career where they want a solid, steady paycheck with minimal drama. There are also a lot of “deep tech
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by webel0 3y ago
One area where BMI is known to not be as accurate is people who have high muscle mass. I don’t think this can explain everything but it seems like it could contribute to understanding this statistic.
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by webel0 3y ago
To elaborate: the easiest way to stay apolitical is to never say anything. But that’s no way to live. Depending on the context you may want to be more or less opinionated or - alternatively- know when to say nothing v saying something.
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by webel0 3y ago
In what context? Work? friends? Family? I don’t think it is possible to always be apolitical. I think there are many instances where you need to be aware of what sort of political statement you are making.
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by webel0 3y ago
Hmm, it appears that they relied on the quality control of forum moderators but didn’t do any of their own QC? From the methods section: > The database of drug narratives from Erowid’s “experience vault” is entirely anonymous. Rigorous q
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by webel0 3y ago
There was also a piece in the nyt this morning [0]. Seems like someone was rushing for a scoop (what scoop? This is old news.) or someone’s PR firm is getting results. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/bu
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by webel0 3y ago
The journalist's phrasing surrounding his quote did seem to do this. But his actual quote did not.
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by webel0 3y ago
* assuming you already have a boat.
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by webel0 3y ago
I’m bad at reading zeros but isn’t that a bit over 2 billion with a b?
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Exhibits 3, 4, and 5 – datacolada(datacolada.org)
1 points by webel0 3y ago|0 comments
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by webel0 3y ago
YoY price inflation (cpi) was 3.7% in August. The fed does not think price inflation is under control by any means. Wage inflation will only peak if workers roll over and let employers take advantage of them.
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by webel0 3y ago
A third reason Apple doesn’t increase their bounties: they don’t need to. There is no secure phone on the market. Your only options are insecure phone (iOS, android, whatever) or no phone at all. So while it might be nice to be able to clai
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by webel0 3y ago
This seems similar to observing that vertical and horizontal stripes on clothes (and the width of the stripes) can affect how one perceives a silhouette.
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by webel0 3y ago
This essay seems to be nothing more than a rehash of, “Does history have a replication crisis?”
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by webel0 3y ago
Waymo crashes are far more common than I would guess given the news coverage of Cruise's issues. I can't see the full article, though, so this might be a reflection of 1.) larger fleet, 2.) longer time running in the city.
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Map shows every crash involving driverless cars in San Francisco(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by webel0 3y ago|1 comments
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by webel0 3y ago
Julia is much younger. Matlab is closed source. I haven’t touched it since I had a uni license.
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by webel0 3y ago
IIRC only their autocompletion recipes are. Not the actual application itself.
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by webel0 3y ago
This is the third notetaking post I've seen on here in the past 48 hours. Is something happening in this space? Or is this just the whole "feed your notes to an LLM then $$$" thing?
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County highway: A magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper(countyhighway.com)
3 points by webel0 3y ago|0 comments

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