avn2109

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by avn2109 3mo ago
Key point though is that Kalshi and similar prediction market betting apps are parimutuel, unlike traditional sportsbooks/Draftkings etc where punters bet against the house. This greatly changes (improves) the incentives for the house,
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by avn2109 10mo ago
OSX's command-space spotlight search has been degrading functionally (at least on my machines) for literally years now. It peaked around ~2012, when it would reliably search the full text of all documents on my local hard drive quickly
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by avn2109 10mo ago
I took this seriously and thought back to the most recent actually-useful-bugfixes-and-security-improvements release that I can remember. OSX Snow Leopard perhaps?
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by avn2109 11mo ago
Super pro comment, should be much higher.
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by avn2109 11mo ago
There is a new generation of bike locks which have the shackle wrapped in a composite coating that mostly destroys angle grinder cutting discs and similar cutting tools. This is likely the best current outdoor bike locking approach as it re
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by avn2109 11mo ago
A nickel!?? Good heavens probably the whole pack full doesn't even cost a nickel to manufacture. Manufacturing cost per cigarette must surely be waaay under a penny. Disregarding marketing and distribution expenses of course.
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by avn2109 11mo ago
Underrated point! Heavier EV's typically burn through tires and wear components in the suspension faster.
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by avn2109 11mo ago
That's really a derivative work of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel [0]. [0] https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
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by avn2109 11mo ago
Surely they do damage proportional to the fourth power of the contact pressure on the tire contact patch, not the fourth power of the overall vehicle weight, right? So adding axles or wider tires etc mitigates this.
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by avn2109 1y ago
Still not wide enough. If anybody has wider reccos in big sizes other than "oddball" brand, I'm all ears.
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by avn2109 1y ago
LLM's are useful because they can recommend several famous/well-known books (or even chapters of books) that are relevant to a particular topic. Then you can also use the LLM to illuminate the inevitable points of confusion and sh
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by avn2109 1y ago
If you have any evidence for the claim that "many parts of DoD" are being exploded/defunded, it would be really interesting to see that. As far as I can see, just the opposite is true; the military industrial complex looks li
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by avn2109 1y ago
Intel's C-suite is gonna pick up this line of reasoning soon! "It's not our fault the stock crashed and the fabs don't run and TSMC is eating our lunch, blame Trump instead!"
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by avn2109 1y ago
>> ... spends the normalized equivalent of America’s defense spending... I'd be interested in seeing the numbers for that claim broken down if you can cite them. From napkin math it seems hard to make the budgets line up, unless
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by avn2109 1y ago
Yes! By far the biggest feature here is "no infotainment" which leads directly to "hard controls for HVAC," that alone is a killer feature! They should double down on that concept and make the truck work perfectly with n
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by avn2109 1y ago
This is the HN comment I didn't know I needed.
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by avn2109 1y ago
It's kinda both sometimes haha
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by avn2109 2y ago
Apparently the "big grill era" design chief departed semirecently, but the design inertia will continue through another model year or two, just due to lead times.
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by avn2109 2y ago
Controversial take: On a population level, the negatives of smoking are at least partially mitigated by the "smoking suppresses obesity" side effect. Obesity is such a huge (pun not intended) public health issue in modern America
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by avn2109 2y ago
> "... slapping a coat of culture war paint on it - and then selling it as a new scandal..." Astounding level of misdirection/cope here, bordering on non-factual. Did we just read the same article? This is the textbook exa
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by avn2109 2y ago
The million dollar salary thing is compelling. I would certainly switch careers from ML engineering for a million bucks of cash comp, especially in a low CoL location :) Also, the "30 years old" thing mentioned in the GP seems ex
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by avn2109 2y ago
You should write more about this on a blog or something, it's interesting and you seem knowledgeable.
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by avn2109 2y ago
>> "...it never actually happened?" The premise of the article is not at all that cargo cults never happened. Instead, the article acknowledges that cargo cults happened, but claims they are misunderstood and often ill-doc
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by avn2109 2y ago
FWIW, 6% is clearly "Hollywood accounting," just look at the stock chart. No business with six percent margins has stock performance like UNH.
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by avn2109 2y ago
By far the most interesting aspect of this tale is the sudden rush of evidence (news stories, internet videos etc) that insurers have abruptly started paying claims which were previously denied or mired in paperwork. The comments of e.g. [0
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by avn2109 2y ago
Plot twist, I'm actually undercover as you.
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by avn2109 2y ago
Gosh you're totally right, the article has pitched this as a problem unique to Twitter, but of course Facebook and Tiktok et al have the same thing going on, with minor variations on the theme.
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by avn2109 2y ago
IMHO more likely that TFA's author is a product of the modern University system, which is to say strong on postmodern critical theory and light on arithmetic.
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by avn2109 2y ago
Surely there is somebody with enough brains in the Pentagon to diversify their supplier base away from the moribund Boeing-esque incumbents, right? If they haven't learnt this lesson post-SpaceX, when are they going to figure it out? A
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by avn2109 2y ago
Get a squat rack and a rolling bench! It unlocks many good lifts and is probably the sweet spot on the "exercises per unit of gym equipment" curve. A case for this approach to garage gyms is made in super-detail in [0]. [0] https

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