JeffL

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by JeffL 2y ago
Totally agree. The response to complaining about bad AI in civ is usually about how players don't really want good AI, but for me as the AI randomly shuffles their units around outside your city you constantly pick them off with mutua
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by JeffL 2y ago
Tesla has lots of showrooms with cars, test drives, and sales people. If you're there and want to buy a car, they direct you to a computer with an Internet connection.
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by JeffL 2y ago
I agree with and appreciate your comment, but I do think there is some validity in the more broad usage of "socialism" that has come to be. To steel man the other sides argument, if you have to pay taxes on an asset, be that the
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by JeffL 2y ago
When you are new to it, yes. For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle. I use it extensively on roads I know it works well on, and use it sometim
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by JeffL 2y ago
I use FSD a lot and generally like and feel less stressed and safer. For me, since I dive mostly the same roads a lot, I know which roads and intersections FSD can handle correctly and which ones it can't, so I use it where it works a
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by JeffL 2y ago
I have FSD and totally agree with you. I use it about 90% of the time, feel less stressed and more safe. I feel like I have a good idea and where it might have an issue and am super vigilant in those situations but way more relaxed on tho
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by JeffL 2y ago
Insurance for the consumer is lowering your expected value to reduce variance. Gambling for the consumer is lowering your expected value to increase variance. The profit and operating costs for both casinos and insurance companies is the
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by JeffL 3y ago
Yes, I have it. It's great. I much prefer a quick swipe on the side of the touchscreen to having a giant physical gear selector wasting a ton of space. I honestly love just about everything about the UI of the refreshed Model S, from
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by JeffL 4y ago
The most fun I've had with ChatGPT is having it make up stories for my five year old with her as the main character. She loves it.
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by JeffL 4y ago
The main thing I'd want in a Civ AI is to be barely competant at combat. Right now, if you can get a couple archers up in time, you can beat an AI army that's 2-5x your size depending on the terrain. Yeah, it feels bad as a begi
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by JeffL 4y ago
That's what the developers say, but I think it's part true and part a cop out. The AI in Civ 5 & 6 is just so so bad, that it's only challenging when you play on the really hard modes that gives them all sorts of cheats.
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by JeffL 4y ago
To replace like for like, you go to a thrift store and buy a used shirt for $5. Or not. But a used shirt isn't worth the same as a new shirt.
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by JeffL 4y ago
Every version of the software is tested on thousands of situations in simulation before release and has to pass all the regression tests which are constantly being added to. Surely this is much better than a super limited real world test.
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by JeffL 5y ago
When I was looking at preschools for my daughter, there was no tuition info for the Montessori schools available until after the tours.
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by JeffL 5y ago
When companies generate cash flow from profits, three major things they do with that cash are 1) pay dividends, 2) stock buybacks, 3) reinvest in the company. Shareholder's prefer the company to engage in number 3 if the company can r
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by JeffL 5y ago
I mean, the companies that are talking about increasing user counts... the users generally are the product, or ads for those users are the product.
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by JeffL 5y ago
I think maybe you don't follow the companies closely enough. The poster you are replying to mentioned AMZN and TSLA. Amzn's core businesses are very profitable, but they are constantly reinvesting those profits into new areas whe
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by JeffL 5y ago
The older Tesla's do lose up to 30% range in the cold, but all the currently sold Teslas have heat pumps which largely fixed that problem. It's true that you won't get your rated range unless you're driving on the level
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by JeffL 5y ago
These cars are probably going to use the cheaper iron based batteries which are fine to charge to 100%.
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by JeffL 5y ago
Supposedly rental car companies keep their cars an average of 13 months and are constantly turning over their fleet. This order is over at least a year, so I imagined it's just that they will be buying Model 3's instead of whatev
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by JeffL 5y ago
The "good" Pickleballs, Franklin and Dura, seem to last a few to several days before cracking or warping while the "bad" ones that nobody wants to use because they are softer seem to last forever. It's a bit better
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by JeffL 5y ago
Most people do most of their charging at home. Our off peak cost at night is 5 cents per kWh. Much, much cheaper than superchargers.
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Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket(theguardian.com)
1 points by JeffL 5y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 5y ago
He said the more cars they sell, the more money they would lose without credits, which is a misconception.
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by JeffL 5y ago
Yes it's a misconception. Their profit margin on cars is consistently over 20%. They have large overhead costs that are more or less fixed like R&D that get amortized more and more as sales go up. They have massive net free cash
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by JeffL 6y ago
Yeah, when I forget and accidentally click on the Dropbox icon when I want my Dropbox folder and get whatever abomination it is that comes up now instead of the folder, I get real ragey. It's such an anti-consumer thing when companies
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Where is Jack Ma? Tech tycoon silent as China gets tough with his busines(cnn.com)
1 points by JeffL 6y ago|0 comments
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by JeffL 6y ago
I was driving on 280 once in clear weather and light traffic, and the car ahead of me suddenly swerved left, swerved right and went tumbling across all lanes and ended up upside down on the shoulder. It was a really bizarre thing to witne
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by JeffL 6y ago
Sandy Monroe has some reactions in this video: https://youtu.be/jKrFAcNgG40
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by JeffL 6y ago
Gambling at a casino is trading expected value for more variance of outcome. Insurance is trading expected value for less variance.

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