GoatOfAplomb

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by GoatOfAplomb 2mo ago
I think this set a record for me on how much article was available before the paywall.
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by GoatOfAplomb 2mo ago
I was recently a bit annoyed by ChatGPT responding with something like "I can't tell you how many times I've lost small tools in an engine bay" in an apparent attempt to commiserate.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3mo ago
> Placing one on a chip is like placing a hair on a surface the size of Paris, accurate to within a few streets. That sounds very easy, honestly.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3mo ago
I agree with everything in the video you linked (which is not surprising, given it's Ben Felix). That includes the parts about equities being less risky than bonds in very important ways, but also the parts about behavioral loss toler
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by GoatOfAplomb 5mo ago
Maybe you place a value on your time higher than $1.99 divided by the time it would take you to create it. Maybe you don't care to learn how to create an addon.
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by GoatOfAplomb 7mo ago
All this simulation buys a single vehicle that drives better. That failure was a fleet-wide event (overloading the remote assistance humans). That is, both are true: this high-fidelity simulation is valuable and it won't catch all fai
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by GoatOfAplomb 7mo ago
I wonder if my $20/mo subscription will last 10 minutes.
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by GoatOfAplomb 9mo ago
Fantastic read. I did most of my web development between 1998 and 2012. Reading this gave me both a trip down memory lane and a very digestible summary of what I've missed since then.
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by GoatOfAplomb 9mo ago
All the Spanish cities I've visited have looked "perfect", but there's a lot I don't see as a tourist, e.g. that Spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe (10.5%).
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
Looks promising. Thank you.
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look into it.
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
Typo fix: ynab.com
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
I'll certainly give this another look if you do. Good luck with it.
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
Right on. In this case, I used "private" to mean "the makers of this particular product don't have a ton of my financial information." I don't expect a product like this to prevent my government, or my broker
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by GoatOfAplomb 10mo ago
I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin o
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by GoatOfAplomb 1y ago
Pimsleur is the best thing I've found for my first ~30 hours of learning a language (Courses 1 and 2, basically). It gets to the (IMO) most important words/phrases/interactions first, and the spaced repetition works well for
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by GoatOfAplomb 1y ago
In any case, he did fit that into a book! If only barely. Edit: On further reflection, I suppose he didn't, if we consider the effort to span Gödel Escher Bach and I Am a Strange Loop.
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by GoatOfAplomb 1y ago
I don't understand how that is ableist. Would you be willing to explain your rationale?
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by GoatOfAplomb 1y ago
I think Fogbugz sort of tried this? I guess it still exists. But it certainly hasn't "won".
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
Waymo is doing alright in San Francisco as well. That's not directly comparable to Tokyo, either, but I expect it's a much less distant of a comparison than Phoenix.
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
That URL goes to the essay itself. Here's an earlier submission with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42355160
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
> late 90s and early 00s I remember going to Moulin Rouge without knowing it was a musical!
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
You could also just start with "What time is it?" and see what you get back, right?
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
FWIW these companies already invest pretty heavily in predicting the behavior of other agents (cars, pedestrians, squirrels...) in the vicinity. But clearly it is not publicly available or audited.
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by GoatOfAplomb 2y ago
See also "Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40947641 , for the perspective of someone impacted by this.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
I think it's a really cool idea. How To Invent Everything (by Ryan North) describes a water logic gate that works as either AND or XOR gate depending on which drain you look at. I have my doubts about pulling it off as he describes, t
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
With the latest PG&E rate hike, my off-peak rate is 33c/kwh and the highest peak rate in 66c. I think the national average is 19c? That seems like a pretty drastic difference to me.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
My first thought was a blink tag but I think we're on the same page.
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
>energy already stored in the car's battery can power home electronics at night. Will those extra charging cycles shorten the lifetime of my EV? It's one thing to have household batteries, which can be replaced on their own an
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by GoatOfAplomb 3y ago
> is probably because of lags those stuffs introduce There is likely some truth to this, but I think the bigger reason for these things is that Qualcomm can't be arsed.

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