a1pulley

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by a1pulley 11mo ago
This is (anecdotally) not true for families in the highest income decile (in California). Kids are pushed harder to learn things earlier than when I was growing up. For example, nearly all of my kid's classmates could read before they
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by a1pulley 1y ago
"I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs." This seems a bit hyperbolic. In the mid to late 2000s, only 5 of the 15 close grad student friends I had at Caltech didn't g
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by a1pulley 1y ago
Forgotten by some, maybe, but there are many Iranian-American and Armenian-American families with medlar trees in their suburban LA yards. It is sold at Paradise Nursery in Chatsworth.
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by a1pulley 3y ago
> Reportedly the leadership of SpaceX manages him like he's a medieval boy king A family friend who works closely with Elon at SpaceX puts it like, "you have to make him believe that your technical conclusions and recommendatio
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by a1pulley 3y ago
> translates natural language prompt to Google Ads Query Language I'm curious—did your translation layer change in light of ChatGPT? Are you still using the one you wrote 6 months ago?
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by a1pulley 4y ago
If I were inclined to rob houses, I would find the challenge and risk of robbing houses here quite interesting. Apart from the fact that all roads in go through manned gates, this is the most republican city in SoCal. In translation: most o
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I came here to say the same as the sibling comment. Why not slow down? That is what happens in my city: residents drive slowly because they don't want to hit a neighbor.
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I'm fond of warm, yellow hues for indoor spaces. If I were forced to choose a color for outdoor lighting, I would go for the same. However, white vs. yellow has already played out in some areas: https://www.latimes.com/
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by a1pulley 4y ago
> If I live in such a place, I expect to be able to walk on sidewalks without a flashlight. We don't have any sidewalks. People either take trails adjacent to roads or walk on the roads themselves. Everyone is aware that pedestrians
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by a1pulley 4y ago
> Do people walking on foot carry torches? It depends. If there's a full moon out, I often walk without a light. It's wonderful. Otherwise, I use a headlamp. > Doesn't this cause issues? No. I think the main effect is t
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by a1pulley 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Hills,_California
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by a1pulley 4y ago
HOAs have their downsides, but I do really appreciate one of my CC&Rs: in my ~4 square mile city, we are not allowed to have exterior lights apart from ones to illuminate driveways and patios. Moreover, there are no street lights in the
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by a1pulley 4y ago
The alternative is gating on soft skills and job experience. Do you really think it's easier for privileged kids to game our industry's admissions tests? A poor kid would have a much harder time developing soft skills and getting
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Does anyone have experience with going to a "school within a school" for "gifted and talented" kids? I was trying to figure out why I don't remember any bullying from my middle school or high school, when it dawned
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I was a physics major until I stumbled across the jargon file online. It was an, "aha, my people!" moment. It was already showing its age then—nearly 20 years ago!—but sucked me into CS where I was much happier.
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I grew my first giant pumpkin this year. Unfortunately, it's a bit too small for me to sit in—it's only about 500 lbs [1]. I will know for sure next Saturday when I move it to a contest. I think I'll be able to grow a larger
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Ethics have a cultural and temporal context: if you believe strongly enough in the expansionary imperative of humanity, you would gift the generational ship's inhabitants with a suitable religion.
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Where'd you get used hardware? That's awesome. I moved to a new house, so I'm again in the market for solar hardware!
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Our electricity usage increased significantly when we realized that predictable temperatures result in better infant/toddler naps, so the "post-installation" numbers below are for more kWh than the "pre-installation&quot
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I got a couple of quotes for an installation in late 2019, balked, and tried to install and permit the panels myself. I'd never tried a "physical side project" or home-improvement project, but I found it surprisingly straight
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I'm willing to spend, say, 5 or 10x what one would at Uniqlo or Old Navy to buy quality garments that will last a long time and be socially acceptable in upper middle class west coast cliques—i.e., I don't need tailored suits in m
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I am. To be more specific, I have X dollars in a Robinhood cash sweep account because it paid the highest interest rate 6 weeks ago, where X >> whatever I get paid biweekly. Now I want to move X dollars to Wealthfront, but I'd ra
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Ask HN: Is there a service to programmatically allocate cash to savings accounts
3 points by a1pulley 4y ago|2 comments
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by a1pulley 4y ago
No worries. I unfortunately had to make my own cheating accusations when I TA'd other classes... Reading some of these old proofs is a little cringe-inducing. Masking cluelessness with the royal we doesn't work very well :-)
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Chinmay was a TA for CS38—the required algorithms class for the computer science major at Caltech. I saved that class for the final quarter of my senior year. After finishing my last exam, I drove up to the Eastern Sierra to hike Caltech Pe
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by a1pulley 4y ago
Yolk color is a function of xanthophyll in the diet. Backyard chickens tend to get food scraps that contain more xanthophyll than there is in commercial feed, which is why backyard eggs yolks tend to be more orange. If you want more orange
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Ask HN: What's a good resource for developing my own accessory structure plans?
2 points by a1pulley 4y ago|1 comments
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by a1pulley 4y ago
I think you mean "free solo climbing," not "free climbing." Free climbing means climbing with a rope and belayer but without artificial aid, like etriers or jumars.
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by a1pulley 4y ago
> People doing low voltage cat6 wiring make bank. Friend of mine got quoted 10k to run wires in his single family house, and that was w/o any walls up. Someone on Nextdoor was confused about how to "add those jack things"
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by a1pulley 5y ago
SpaceX has been doing this for years, albeit at a lower cadence. There are predictable pros and cons: lack of confidence in the "independently derived" price—it's easier to trust the market—but shares imbued with some nonzero

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