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by bkanber 3y ago
I actually like the google podcasts app. It's simple, it works, no ads, does everything I need it to do. Sigh. RIP.
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by bkanber 3y ago
ChatGPT is a wrapper to the GPT Completion API with some sane defaults. With a new beta feature you can edit the system prompt via ChatGPT, but you still can't adjust the other parameters you can reach with the API.
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by bkanber 3y ago
I run a big web property with great SEO ranking, and captcha definitely does not deter the spam. A lot of this spam is posted by actual humans.
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by bkanber 4y ago
Calling them a liar publicly when you didn't have all the context definitely counts as asking them to do emotional labor for you.
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by bkanber 4y ago
This type of interaction is exactly why I stopped running communities online. People thrust their expectations upon you and then expect you to do either mental labor to meet those expectations, or emotional labor to make amends for not meet
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by bkanber 4y ago
Tidal Labs | Remote (USA) | Full Time | Small Team Hiring: JS/React and PHP (7.4+) engineers. Both full-stack and client services engineering. We've been around for 12 years and quietly power various types of digital brand-meet-pe
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by bkanber 4y ago
In this day and age we generally try to eschew gender roles. People who want status will seek status regardless of their gender or relationship status.
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by bkanber 4y ago
Another option is Laravel Lumen
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by bkanber 4y ago
> I get that PHP has a bad rep Have you ever tried reading perl code?
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by bkanber 4y ago
Was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847283 If so, it existed for a while but shut down years ago.
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by bkanber 4y ago
IMO most people are pretty clueless and self-absorbed (myself included). This guy is just pretty open and honest about it. And it's not like he didn't learn his lessons. That bit about realizing how Martin wasn't on his perso
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by bkanber 5y ago
This is the exact technique I used to save up and pay for a wedding and a house. Consider your savings/investments as one of your monthly bills. Set a maximum balance for your checking account, everything in excess of that goes into
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by bkanber 5y ago
Lots of criticism and 'suggestions' here... I think this game is great!
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by bkanber 5y ago
It makes me sad that the top comment on a really cool new motor design is a gripe about units.
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by bkanber 5y ago
It looks like the same company, and that looks like the same person too
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by bkanber 5y ago
> What makes me really scratch my head is why otherwise reasonable people don't vote with their wallet and still buy this things This shouldn't make you scratch your head though... other people value different things than you d
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by bkanber 5y ago
:D I don't actually care about hibernate. But after it came out on Windows and worked well enough, and Linux started introducing it, it became a meme to laugh at how bad linux suspend/hibernate is
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by bkanber 5y ago
My stock Ubuntu LTS desktop crashes all the time, about 3x a week. Still can't figure out why. I love linux, have used 4 different distros as my daily driver for the last 15-20 years or so. Yet still my linux-using friends and I have t
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by bkanber 5y ago
Docker or kubernetes or any other orchestration software of your choice on EC2
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by bkanber 5y ago
I read the TBP trilogy a few years back, and I can't stop thinking about The Dark Forest. That's one of the marks of a great book, IMO. I can't get it out of my head.
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by bkanber 5y ago
lol. No bet. Not because I doubt my position (I see an aerogel-inspired material working out). Rather because the 50 year timeline that I would feel safe betting on is basically my end-of-life. I'm not really interested in paying out a
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by bkanber 5y ago
:) Not a problem! Your experience hangs a lantern on one of the problems in academia. The authors of that paper did not intend to mislead -- this paper was published in 2011, likely written in 2010, only a handful of years after Michelin&#x
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by bkanber 5y ago
Funny -- I presented a paper at that very same conference! Mine was 2011-01-0755. The money shot is here. Note that '5.5 kg/ton' refers to the rolling resistance of the tire. > At this point the 5.5 kg/ton value is st
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by bkanber 5y ago
... you don't actually have any reason to assume it won't happen other than blind pessimism. So let's just agree to disagree.
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by bkanber 5y ago
> I wonder why this sort of vibration can't be addressed with shock absorbers in the seats? Not at all naive, because it is addressed with shock absorbers in the seats; that is one of the very many tools NVH engineers use. :) But
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by bkanber 5y ago
That's a pretty clever thought in general, but yours is only a first approximation. First, permeation decreases with pressure, at different rates for the two gases. If you consider only this fact you will find that the partial pressu
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by bkanber 5y ago
What? I don't understand what you mean by that.
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by bkanber 5y ago
I also want to add, since this is more of a deep auto-industry thing, that NVH testing is almost like longitudinal health studies. NVH engineers actually have charts of which specific frequencies our internal organs resonate at . For a l
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by bkanber 5y ago
For two tires with equal interior volume, the rolling resistance of a tweel will be much much greater than the rolling resistance of a normal tire. That said, tweels are typically designed to be much thinner and have much less interior volu
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by bkanber 5y ago
My guess is parent comment misspoke and meant pure nitrogen -- which does indeed help with tire pressure. The ideal gas law still applies, so there will be seasonal changes in pressure, but there will be much less exfiltration (via 'pe

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