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by awhitby 2mo ago
FWIW my guess is most people are aware, and do know that supermarket/drugstore acetaminophen / paracetamol is the same, in some relevant sense, as Tylenol / Panadol. It's not like the retailers lack marketing resources.
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by awhitby 5mo ago
Perhaps my reading is coloured by optimism but by my count, apart from peace, language, currency and (debatably) universal good taste, all of which seem a bit utopian (so maybe I’m a cynical optimist) we do—or are well on our way.
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by awhitby 1y ago
Another factor in this mix is frequency, which matters a lot, especially to business travellers. A once-daily supersonic flight might minimize “time in the air” while a once hourly mostly-economy 737 shuttle minimises “time away from home.”
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by awhitby 1y ago
This makes some good points. Slightly off its main topic, can iOS or an app treat Face ID and passcode auth differently, or are they completely unified? For example, it would make a lot of sense to treat them differently for Apple Pay fraud
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by awhitby 1y ago
There’s a good argument for not “leaving it to the market” for things like this: when you’re evaluating an apartment (to rent, or even to buy), it can be difficult to know what the soundproofing is like. Noise is maybe not life and death, b
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by awhitby 1y ago
You're very likely right there's no causation in that direction, but it seems entirely possible that we experience red as a vivid color in part because noticing blood is evolutionarily important.
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by awhitby 2y ago
One obvious thing is that some people are probably toasting a slice a week and others half a dozen a day. The parts don’t time out, they wear out, so that really matters. Another is that being cheap, there’s probably quite variable qualit
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by awhitby 3y ago
A more interesting question is do the cables (size, positioning, tension) vary by aircraft? Can any carrier-capable aircraft land on any carrier in the US fleet?
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by awhitby 3y ago
I don't really disagree. It's a naive analysis, but ignoring the opportunity cost of the time the owners put into a business, which I was replying to, is even more naive, and yet an extremely common mistake small business people m
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by awhitby 3y ago
You're missing something. From the post: > I don’t draw a salary, so the total amount I earned from TinyPilot in 2023 was $236k. and > Result: I worked 35-40 hours per week, a reduction from previous years, and traveled more than
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by awhitby 3y ago
That might be true for the simple case of following within a lane, although you only have to drive around to realize most drivers do not leave adequate following distance at all times to make this a pure physics problem. And neither is a go
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by awhitby 3y ago
They can vote with their vote too. If regulators do their job, grounded airplanes start to become quite a large expense for airlines and influence their fleet choices.
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by awhitby 3y ago
I come from a completely different background but am about the same age as the author. It sounds like many other commenters are in this same general bracket too. So are the sentiments expressed truly a period (or, maybe, cohort, given the p
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by awhitby 3y ago
This is important, because it forces a head-to-head comparison. Otherwise, what knowledge the judge has about the abilities of AI matters a lot. A well-informed 2023 person talking to ChatGPT will quickly establish that it's not a huma
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by awhitby 3y ago
If we follow the analogy the article gives for rebuilding the surface but not the tracks: > It’s like having a big, clunky jalopy that doesn’t go more than 20 miles an hour, but instead of replacing the engine, we’re going to give it a p
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by awhitby 3y ago
For one thing, AU 2-prong plugs have a much more physically secure connection than equivalent US plugs. The angled prongs mean there’s no rotational axis about which the plug can fall out. Of course it also means the prongs can’t really fol
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by awhitby 3y ago
> Zykluptogibbera > Quixilantrofen > Zylprenostim "If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: extreme tiredness; weakness; fever, sore throat, chills,..."
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by awhitby 3y ago
In what world is "knowing how much you spent" not a reasonable design requirement for a supermarket? Just to pick one user story, it's a lot harder to check / challenge an itemized receipt if you receive it hours later,
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by awhitby 4y ago
It's more complicated than that, because there is a substantial trade in fish export to China, where processing happens, followed by re-export back to the US. 2019 figures: * U.S. commercial fishermen landed 9.3 billion pounds of seafo
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by awhitby 4y ago
Whirlpool is headquartered in Michigan. This predates my telephone-using career, but my guess is that they published a local number that saved them paying the 800 fees for Michigan customers. Either those customers were fine with making (&a
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by awhitby 4y ago
It does if you consider self-selection: the competent person from big tech (i) can see a disaster a mile off (ii) has more to risk
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by awhitby 4y ago
The extra dimensionality of roads < seas < skies help a lot. Though I suppose various standard corridors and channels collapse those dimensions somewhat.
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by awhitby 4y ago
True as far as it goes, but the fair response to this is: who really cares how rich a country is, normalized to its size? In the If you care about the country as people, then median is better as you point out. But if you care about the coun
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by awhitby 4y ago
In retrospect it was at least arguably the right call, no? Suspend most research and resume when available processing power was orders of magnitude greater, a process that was independently driven by demands other than (and much greater tha
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by awhitby 4y ago
And 4 yr olds are harder to see for drivers. I guess rear cameras have probably made suburbia safer for unaccompanied small children (less reversing out of drive risk) but the growth in large trucks with poor visibility [0] has probably oth
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by awhitby 4y ago
It's a good cumulative measure of activity that might be spread over a day. Living in a dense urban area I can easily accumulate 5000 steps just running a few errands. It's a bit harder to track and add up segments of "moving
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by awhitby 4y ago
"Slowly abandoning capabilities that your body used to have" is inevitable. Everyone will do this at a different rate and on a different time profile, but everyone will do it, and everyone will eventually reach capability = zero.
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by awhitby 5y ago
I will try to message this directly, since this thread is old now: I solved this, figuring out the file structure and encoding from the examples. I was totally wrong about the printer idea I suggested in another reply. MARLEY.CHT, for examp
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by awhitby 5y ago
I would guess the CHT files are commands for text output on a dot matrix printer, or a format pretty close to that. * The MARLEY songs are laid out in two columns (side A, side B) from left to right then top to bottom, which suggests its pr
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by awhitby 5y ago
But Gates is not "every billionaire, politician, celebrity, and crackpot on the planet" on this issue. He stepped away from day to day involvement in Microsoft in 2008, and it seems that since then his major focus has been his fou

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