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by xvedejas 2y ago
Even on the equator, sunrise and sunset times will vary by +/-15 minutes, because solar days are not of equal length. But yeah, close enough for imprecise use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Well, there's also the rate of new drug and procedure discovery. I've heard it quipped that Americans are subsidizing the discovery of new medical techniques for the rest of the world. Whether that's worth a higher cost is ar
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by xvedejas 2y ago
They're thinking about when you sample from the same noise distribution, averaging gives an unbiased estimator of the mean. But when you know one SNR is higher than the other, maybe this doesn't hold? But maybe if you transform th
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Most people don't work out enough, or don't eat well enough. If we had some kind of intervention that would easily cause people to work out, we would use that intervention. If we had some kind of intervention that would easily cau
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by xvedejas 2y ago
It just makes one wonder, what is the point of categories of Nobel prizes? Should they instead hand out half a dozen or so prizes each year for whatever is most important to them?
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Yes, and I'll also note that the secondary stress seems to be on the second syllable. That is, the second syllable is not reduced like in the UK. So it's pronounced most commonly in the US more like "Anne Chovy" than &qu
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by xvedejas 2y ago
This is known as a "paradoxical" reaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Is there a way snafu could be redesigned not to rename Error to Snafu in custom error variants? It's annoying for like IDE reasons, but maybe technically challenging to fix.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I personally have used it because it can provide backtraces in stable Rust. It also can be used either similarly to anyhow (with the `whatever` macro) or more like thiserror (with explicit errors as enum variants). I don't have experie
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by xvedejas 2y ago
How many children are expected to eventually die from plastic?
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by xvedejas 2y ago
"Truth or Consequences" is a place in New Mexico, so at least on theme.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Brainfuck isn't maximizing difficulty, it's just a turing tarpit, maximizing a narrow definition of simplicity. If you want to see a language that maximizes difficulty, take a look at INTERCAL or Malbolge.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
At least visiting other parts of Manhattan -- I'm thinking for example LES -- there is definitely constant traffic and exhaust. Doesn't really matter if it's gridlock or not, moving cars emit more sound and fumes than idling
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Right, I mean to say he didn't see it in high definition / in person, as it sounded like you were suggesting the movie should have done.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
No, it didn't bother me; Oppenheimer himself never saw the devastation, he only could imagine it. It seems suiting for what the film was doing, to focus on his inner emotional state.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
You might be confusing types and traits (typeclasses) here; it's not about `YourType` but rather when you want to make a Vec of heterogenous types that share a trait. That's when the question of object safety (and needing a vtable
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by xvedejas 2y ago
As a cyclist/pedestrian I'm used to drivers ignoring me anyway, YMMV
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by xvedejas 2y ago
The 1% worst human drivers are really quite unpredictable. You're never certain with any human driver whether they're going to drive like a maniac, but you do know you're not getting that with a Waymo.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
They're the present here in SF, driving every day and more safely than the humans do. And as a human driver, I can testify that these streets are not particularly easy to drive on.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
It’s prudish tendencies like outlawing apartments with no windows that force folks like me, who don't care for safety anyway, to compete for housing with families who do need safety. but unironically; it'd be much safer than the s
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by xvedejas 2y ago
KDE is still great! I continue to see improvements and KDE6 has some killer features like KDE Connect. (we still don't talk about KDE4 though)
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Could it also be that in NYC you just put trash bags directly on the sidewalk/street? It's very unusual to see, as a visitor.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Or do what many urban areas do efficiently: make it easy to commute by train. Even a bus commute cuts down the tire pollution per commuter significantly. Building more housing near job centers can help both shorten commutes and make mass tr
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by xvedejas 3y ago
The problem is the kind of taxation, not the amount. Beyond the fact that property tax is less of a burden on economic activity than income tax, it's also the case that property tax is less likely to bankrupt the state because of reduc
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by xvedejas 3y ago
it's LiFePO4 (aka LFP, Lithium Iron Phosphate), unless there's a new Polonium version I haven't heard of
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by xvedejas 3y ago
I used to think so too, but the case for Len Sassaman is similarly strong.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
If the units are different, you do need to come up with a conversation between them, or you're implicitly saying it's 1-to-1
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Complex numbers multiplied by an imaginary number rotate preserving magnitude. In this sense they have the same units.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
My colleague lives in a European city which has undergone a building boom, and it was surprising to me how density doesn't just mean more people per area, but also more area per person. A very spacious apartment is much more affordable
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by xvedejas 3y ago
In an ideal world, housing wouldn't be built immediately on major transit lines, but a (walkable) short distance away. Alas, city planners seem dead-set that new construction must _only_ happen within a block of major roads or train li

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