wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
> I just recognize that that isn't possible in my situation without spending a significant amount of time/energy I'd argue the main reason it is isn't possible is because of poor town planning decisions made by govern
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If all the externalities involved in having everyone use cars for every trip where they don't feel like walking are managed (including health impacts from pollution, sedentary lifestyles etc., time wasted sitting in rush hour traffic,
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Suburbs are simply incompatible with these ideas Indeed. But you seem convinced it's the idea of walking to fulfill basic daily needs that's the problem...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are paper bags for groceries a thing in any country other than the US?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
However all those migrants were basically a free source of human skill - i.e. another country poured their resources into nurturing and educating them, now the country they immigrate to gets to reap all the rewards. So it's hard to see
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Age is one of the worst proxies for human intelligence Whoever suggested it was a good one? I would never support any attempt to block older voters from participating in democracy, but it can be an issue if a particular demographic, pa
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You could make voting compulsory for everyone under retirement age. Which in Australia translates to making it voluntary for everyone over said age, an idea I think you could sell pretty well - however most here have been used to voting all
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Studies of how remaining hunter/gatherer tribes around the world have/had been living suggests that's not really true - shelter, food and leisure time were almost always readily available. What wasn't was modern medical
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I gather average productivity growth in most developed countries has been around 2 or 2.5% for the past 60 or so years, working out to at best 3.5 times what it was in the 50s or 60s. Which still makes it reasonable to ask why it's not
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about the coffee, everyone knows it's avocado toast that really destroys your chance of affording housing.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Er, no, I specifically said iOS plus AppStore and Android plus PlayStore, as it's from there that users get the functionality that's not part of the core-OS, and even allowing for the apps Apple & Google publish themselves
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by wizofaus 3y ago
A super app presumably has a dedicated product manager with some sort of vision and control of what goes into what features are available. You could hardly say the same of iOS+AppStore or Android+Playstore. Note that I'm not the least
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That last statement might hold for "recent past" (last 10 or 15 years, say), but the one recent top 40 hit that stood out for me has a 50s type vibe (Until I Found You, Stephen Sanchez). I'm not particularly a fan of that sty
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Peak of 70 postings a month? Surely that'd be the threshold for "largely abandoned" for almost any forum these days...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And those with issues reading text at crazy low contrast...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Kardashian But honestly I can't say excessive discussion of subjects I have no real interest in is the reason I avoid most online discussion forms (incl. social media). An HN thread about a Ka
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by wizofaus 3y ago
HN doesn't count?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wonder what % of wikipedia articles do have substantial portions of AI-generated text by now (and is it really a problem, providing the information is accurate - in fact in most cases I can't even imagine caring too much either way i
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It did say the list included "wannabe" billionaires.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm even guilty of writing client code that just retries on failing to parse the response, precisely because the server I was working with randomly would return empty/corrupt responses for no discernible reason (it was actually Am
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by wizofaus 3y ago
To be fair in some cases rate-limiting could be triggered by a server-side issue, technically there's a 529 error for that, but I can't recall seeing it used. But 4xx errors should exist as an indication to clients that there&#x2
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That last suggestion (of returning 200 but with a message explaining that usage limit has been reached) seems odd to me - I'm not saying I haven't seen code that simply retries on any error but that could just as well include an e
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I thought "remember this device" more typically worked via a combination of browser fingerprinting (which can be pretty sophisticated, e.g. even relying on rendering behaviours) and local storage, which may or may not involve cook
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I've often been struck by the fact that often login via password requires 2FA but password reset doesn't (unless of course it works via email that itself requires 2FA to log into). At least some authentication systems now never bo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are you suggesting he was even right to die young?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> then captures the burned carbon instead of emitting it? Presumably the only reason they would is if they could get paid carbon credits for doing so.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Oops, just re-read this and realised I'd misread the comment I was replying to, it wasn't taking about range at all, so feel free to ignore the first part of my reply!
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wouldn't go that far but I have to agree it's trying to be too clever for its own good, and ends up just being an annoying way to read text. Probably would've been better as a video clip.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's Not actually all that much among pop singers though. Most successful male artists tend to have quite high natural singing voices and females fairly low. And at any
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm not sure what to believe, but the curious thing is even years later the repository in question doesn't seem to have been taken down.

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