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by devbent 2y ago
I had a dog growing up who'd try to move furniture back to its original location anytime we rearranged the room.
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by devbent 2y ago
> e-bike -- reliable, fast and fun, but zero exercise I disagree on the last point, I can turn the motor up or down, or all the way off, based on how much of a workout I want to get. Also the only reason I'm willing to bike around m
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by devbent 2y ago
I just dropped a bunch of money on a Bosch based bike because I was told they are very reliable. I'm going to be very annoyed if that turns out to not be the case....
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by devbent 2y ago
I also did badly in math for awhile, was forced to do it, then got really good at it again. Sometimes people have stumbling blocks in their learning, or they just need someone to sit their butt down in a chair and say "study for 3 hour
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by devbent 2y ago
I remember in 2nd grade I was sent to the principals office and was then, for whatever reason left alone. to sit there for about 2 or 3 hours. I quickly got bored and discovered a box of American history books under the chair I was told to
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by devbent 2y ago
Windows Mobile and Office is where I did my time. :D
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by devbent 2y ago
> If you've ever worked on a project with a 40 minute build I've worked on plenty of C++ code based that had a 2 day build time! If you were lucky, incremental builds only took a few hours.
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by devbent 2y ago
> complexity fighting against entropy. Life helps entropy along! Humans are great at taking organized things and reducing their energy states. There's actually an argument that says life is inevitable as a result of it the universe
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by devbent 2y ago
> I've been driving for 36 years now and have never had a tired damaged more than the very occasional puncture. I typically go through a tire a year. The city I live in (Seattle) will pay to replace the tire if the loss was due to a
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by devbent 2y ago
> Could it be instead that people did do the subgroup analysis, but didn't find a success predictor that was useful for the purposes of establishing medical standards of care or public health policy? If we are all being generous wit
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by devbent 2y ago
> HN and reddit will also immediately block self-promotion even if relevant to the audience ( HN doesn't block self promotion if it comes up as part of a conversation, e.g. "I'm having this technical problem." Re: &qu
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by devbent 2y ago
Diet studies can also fall into a similar trap. Huge sample size, but all food intake is self reported, or a tiny sample size where test subjects were locked into a chamber that measures all energy output from their body while being fed a c
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by devbent 2y ago
> Sorry, I've always been a dog person. Presumably not dachshunds who will happily crack the necks of any bunnies they come across. (Or any of the the other myriad of hunting breeds!)
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by devbent 2y ago
> Most Americans can barely afford a used car, let alone new, and you are suggesting they should rent a car at additional cost to supplant the EV they never wanted in the first place, I am saying Americans who are choosing between buying
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by devbent 2y ago
Just rent an IC or hybrid for longer trips. If you buy a lower range battery and save 5k on the purchase price, well if you go on 2 road trips a year at $500 of rental cost per trip, you're looking at 5 year of rentals, not counting th
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by devbent 2y ago
> We should be automating hard labor so we can focus on art and human interaction We have being doing that for over 100 years now. Look at industrial productivity per worker, it skyrocketed throughout the 20th century. It has plateaued o
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by devbent 2y ago
> Now it needs actual good products. I asked chatgpt for recommended food pairings for a soup I made today. It did a great job. Chatgpt also helped me debug a home automation issue I'd been having for over a year with some smart lig
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by devbent 2y ago
> The next someone gets excited about installing a shiny new heat pump in a place that can get very cold (which includes parts of Arizona!), remember that its coefficient of performance can get quite low on a cold winter night, Ground lo
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by devbent 2y ago
I'm a big keto proponent but even so, I have to mention that cutting our shitty foods, with or without keto, losing weight, and moving more, are likely stronger causes of improved mood than Keto itself. I'm not saying keto can&#x2
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by devbent 2y ago
> And I personally think this and the general decline in mental resilience we see in society is strongly correlated with decline in religion Explain China, which didn't face any similar problems until this same generation, despite h
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by devbent 2y ago
I just talked to a neighbor, he said his startup has the exact same clause in their employment contracts! Huh I should read mine.
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by devbent 2y ago
> Presumably Sam Altman has 20 IQ points on me. I've read your posts for years on HN, don't undersell yourself. Many CEOs don't know what is their company's contracts, nor do they think about it. While it is laudable
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by devbent 2y ago
I went from very active on multiple subreddits to barely posting once every few months. Instead of answering programming questions or helping people get in shape I'm on other sites doing other things. Changes like that are hard to meas
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by devbent 2y ago
> Yep, it feels like them being a monopoly effectively kills every incentive for them to try harder. Microsoft at its worst had insanely good enterprise level support. Even small business owners had access to paid premium support options
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by devbent 2y ago
Sugar alcohols are naturally occuring in many foods. There are also many different types, some of which cause some people stomach problems. (Personally I can eat an entire bag of sugar free gummies w/o any ill effect, ymmv!)
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by devbent 2y ago
OpenAI's problem is demonstrating how much value their tools add to a worker's productivity. However calculating how much value a worker has in an organization is already a mostly unsolved problem for humanity, so it is no surpris
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by devbent 2y ago
> Shorter periods of exposure to space radiation and microgravity could help mitigate its effects on the human body. Of course once astronauts are on mars they will still be exposed to radiation, until some sort of shielding can be built
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by devbent 2y ago
The University of Washington is an absurdly competitive school to get into for certain majors, so it is very reasonable to expect that even highly performing students might have to go to an out of state school if they want to go to a tier 1
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by devbent 2y ago
I remember back in the 90s being able to paste a file from, iirc, Corel Draw, into MS word, click on it, and the full set of drawing tools showed up. OLE was the opposite of silod apps. It was also a serious resource hog and that above bit
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by devbent 2y ago
> Nameplate tuition is meaningless as the average student pays less than $5,000 in tuition at 4-year public schools. The problem here is any parents capable of saving 30k a year for college are in an income bracket that instantly disqual

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