yobbo

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by yobbo 5y ago
Probably because relationships (and opinions) nowadays are becoming more and more like fashion accessories - similar to shoes and sun glasses - stuff to put on instagram. You need the right "optics and sonics" to be a viable and v
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by yobbo 5y ago
Seems more likely that vinyl and polyester is from furniture and carpeting and such.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Junior folks bring ... ... arrogance, hunger for prestige and one-upmanship which leads to fixation on irrelevant outcomes, laziness in learning "old things", and rejection of instructions. But old folks can also do these thi
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by yobbo 5y ago
> at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it You're assuming that stress tolerance is at a fixed level in all humans, and that everyone who still "maintains sanity" must have lower absolu
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by yobbo 5y ago
> And 20k GBP will buy a lot more in your EU country Not in terms of computing, bandwidth, or google ads, etc.
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by yobbo 5y ago
If your goal of learning is for your own benefit, it's much easier than actually going to school and doing exams, assignments, and getting credits which involves a massive amount of formalities. A good starting point could be MIT OCW 1
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by yobbo 5y ago
Depending on how much water these boilers are supposed to heat, £10k still sounds a little high. The most economical solution for smaller houses is typically: air-to-air heat pump for indoor room temperature, and exhaust-air-to-water for wa
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by yobbo 5y ago
It might need a landing parachute on short or icy runways. The other concerns mentioned is that stealth is compromised with drop tanks which are needed for range. There might be other concerns?
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by yobbo 5y ago
Looking at pictures, it has two visible round jet nozzles which suggests it has much higher radar cross-section and IR-signature than F-35.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> with decently ranged AA missiles Those missiles are not cheap, and it would be unlikely for cheap Cessnas to get in range of an F-35. At long range the F-35 is difficult to observe by sensors that fit inside a Cessna. I believe it is p
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by yobbo 5y ago
> 20 Cessna 172s would be able to take out an F-35 No, they would not. I believe they would seem easy-mode target practice for the cannon.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Land itself isn't "productive" in our time the way arable land once was the key to wealth. Persistently rising housing prices does not mean that land is productive, it means mortgage rates are persistently too low. Taxing lan
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by yobbo 5y ago
People in the west, generally, choose to view the regime in Moscow as bearing most of the responsibility for the high level of inequality and poverty in Russia, through corruption and abuse. The beginnings of democracy in Ukraine demonstrat
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by yobbo 5y ago
> The only thing the Ukraine is providing Ukraine is providing leadership, initiative, and massive amounts of weaponry on their own. Zelensky is asking western governments for more every week. As for cannon fodder, civilian casualties ar
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by yobbo 5y ago
What we call "with western freedoms", you call "under western control". But you are wrong. The west will mostly ally itself (as best it can) with champions of its values, whether they be Ukrainians, Russians, or any othe
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by yobbo 5y ago
The elite in russia becomes wealthy by extracting natural resources from the vast territories of the russian federation's member republics. They need the distant republics and ethnic minorities to stay poor, dependent, and deferential
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by yobbo 5y ago
It seems likely that "gen z" americans have few clues about what historic and present day russia is, and generally about the land mass between Poland and Korea. They are just now waking up from two years of debating whether not we
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by yobbo 5y ago
His conclusions seem correct, but this is how I see the general anti-pattern: - Envision a product that seems great in fantasy and on paper, and the product category is still undefined - Invest into realizing this product before sufficient
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by yobbo 5y ago
This has been tried in research and works, with typical artefacts such as horses getting zebra-stripes if they stand in tall grass (or something like that ...)
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by yobbo 5y ago
> formats like JPEG are designed around human perception This isn't really true. JPEG is fourier or wavelet based. It will compress any image by discarding fourier coefficients, regardless if the input image makes sense to humans.
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by yobbo 5y ago
An alternative perspective to most other comments; be more disciplined, be more careful, work harder and longer, understand and make sense of things.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The vast majority of cars are not scrapped because mechanical failures in their ICE engines. Typically, materials in parts (rubber, gaskets, hoses, electric switches, interior, body/chassi rust) degrade to the point of stopping periphe
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by yobbo 5y ago
> fanbelts Belts are maintenance parts, and are extremely unlikely to break if changed on schedule. > flywheels You would need a shaped charge warhead to break a flywheel. > alternators and starters Electric motors and servos exi
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by yobbo 5y ago
Furthermore, the spot welds do not need sub-millimeter precision. The spot welders were once guided by hand and placed randomly along the panel joints.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The control would be to not show ads. This was tried in the article, with time as the variable to partition the control groups.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> [...] Turn off the ads, and the revenue goes away. This is the experiment from the article. It showed that ads did not affect revenue.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> is that you show two ads: one for the product and one for something irrelevant like a charity. This is would be another experiment that does not test what you need to in order to demonstrate some sort of causality.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> this person genuinely thinks that there is no way to measure an ad's performance while This is the case in many situations. The time between initial visit to site to conversion can be weeks, months, or years. Meanwhile, customers
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by yobbo 5y ago
Network weights would take up around 2TB. It also means at least 4TB of TPU/GPU memory required for training, or at least 50 Nvidia A100s.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> be an adult and understand what I want and communicate it ... This is as much a test of whether you are surrounded by adults. In many situations, asserting yourself can lead to disaster socially. In these cases avoidance is in fact the

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