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by wwweston 4y ago
Speaking of coax -- does anyone know if there's a way to hang multiple wireless access points off of coax run through the home, or would one have to get multiple modems to make this work? I've run into a couple of housing situatio
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Well it's/twas terrible language so no wonder you have no trust The reason someone who was shaped by working in PHP might not trust long-running processes probably has less to do with any specific shortcomings of it as a lan
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by wwweston 4y ago
> But you also have to realize that belief is also a choice Depends on what you mean by "belief." I don't think "belief" as "perceived model / understood facts about the universe" is a choice any m
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by wwweston 4y ago
I'm part of a religious community, and while I agree that community and a sense of mutual care can arise from religious beliefs... the idea that it's the answer seems pretty iffy to me, especially considering that religious comm
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by wwweston 4y ago
The most likely near-term way LLMs could help would be generating hypotheses about illness and treatment which would then be considered by a doctor who can understand when the LLM is mammalizing fish so to speak.
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by wwweston 4y ago
Metafilter is a pretty interesting case -- deliberately limiting growth seems to have worked out pretty well for the site over most of its existence, and growth goals have always been about other qualities than sheer numbers. It doesn'
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Having personally experienced the delays and issues with SW earlier this year I can suggest not flying them other than direct flights And it seems to me they've cut direct flights -- still plentiful on many of the hops (say, LAS &
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by wwweston 4y ago
If this isn't by design, it's by very happy accidental engagement with the fact that when it comes to media and related things, the time physical copies of it matter most are gifting-times. It just feels more genuinely gift-y to
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by wwweston 4y ago
> sometimes starting a new airline is simpler than trying to fix an old one... Now there's a truly total rewrite...
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by wwweston 4y ago
Other Reddit discussion (with the occasional insider chiming in): https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/zwd1fq/u4sammich_ex... https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/z
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by wwweston 4y ago
I'm willing to believe I'm the problem with news (I don't pay for any directly, though I don't generally run adblockers), but the movies... I watch more non-sequels/spinoffs/remakes than I do franchise films. P
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by wwweston 4y ago
When I look at the link, it seems to contain a spreadsheet with no information, but let's say $150k is true. Market prices of homes in places like Freemont tend to run from the high 6 figures through the low 7. Knock off $150k and we h
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by wwweston 4y ago
Aren't most of these towns smack dab in the middle of 100 year floodplain problems?
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by wwweston 4y ago
The demand for new housing in California is high enough to absorb pretty significant costs and I'd be willing to bet regulatory expense is not even in the top 3 factors driving building costs (and definitely not the top 2), so sayin
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by wwweston 4y ago
I don't think anyone finds recurrence relations, closed form expressions, or their derivation controversial or disagreeable in any way. On the other hand, the implication that Lisp textbooks -- or other language texts that use fibonacc
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Rather, mathematics is a tool for understanding phenomena in the world: the motion of the planets, the patterns in data, the perception of color, or any of a myriad things in the world that might be understood better by manipulating eq
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by wwweston 4y ago
This is a fair illustration of some failure modes for that choice. I took the other road: during my 20s and early 30s I spent a lot of time chasing meaning while minimizing expenses and the time I put into jobs and other explicitly career-f
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by wwweston 4y ago
I definitely like the shorter line, but the reduced friction from not having to unpack your bags with laptops, take off your shoes, and walk-through scanner instead of pose-for-the-scan-then-wait scanner is worth it alone , even if you do
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by wwweston 4y ago
The assumption that a 2005 CR-V in reasonable condition is a $3k car was probably a decent one 3 years ago. Less so now if my recent auto shopping is any indication. I like driving older cars into the well-maintained 200-300k mile range mys
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by wwweston 4y ago
Imagine complaining about people posting links as a response on the internet . If carefully taking in their contents is an inconvenience for you, I’ll spell it out: the general narrative you’re invoking about twitter was always paired with
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by wwweston 4y ago
I wish. Which platforms is Richard Spencer currently not welcome on?
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by wwweston 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/22/twitter-a...
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by wwweston 4y ago
Whatever social media’s problems have been, they absolutely have not included making political opinions unavailable — there is no platform on which every political identity hasn’t been represented.
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by wwweston 4y ago
> You have to trust You may want to look into the etymology of "trust." That's one of several indicators that you're actually relying on the concept of truth in your comments here -- there's really no getting aro
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by wwweston 4y ago
How do you know what a non-wasteful allocation of those valuable resources is without truth? An accurate understanding of reality is certainly not the only factor in achieving fitness & status, and I'd even believe at a certain poi
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by wwweston 4y ago
Automatability may make an output ubiquitous to the point where marginal value for any given output is small, but if it was really "worthless" no one would bother automating it in the first place. We automated a lot of arithmeti
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by wwweston 4y ago
Really like this comment -- dovetails nicely with Bill Gates "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose," and helps illuminate the fundamental problem: status insulates you from account
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by wwweston 4y ago
It's very hard to be smart all the time, and you don't have to be stupid to be wrong.
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by wwweston 4y ago
On the plus side, this sounds a lot like the kind of mistake a human engineer would make.
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by wwweston 4y ago
As serious as infectious disease is, I'm not even sure it's the biggest impact: the venn diagram of endcap products and products likely to contribute to metabolic syndromes is probably pretty close to a circle. At least the pandem

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