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by drewmate 3mo ago
The same is basically true for most other sports in the US too, and yet there are still high-level Americans. Certainly baseball (which other countries do still play in a limited fashion), hockey and football. With football we are undispute
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by drewmate 7mo ago
I feel this in my own life. From well before my working years I had a message ingrained into me: “Do not count on social security to be around when you retire.” It’s probably not all so drastic as that, but for me (and many other American m
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by drewmate 7mo ago
Unfortunately, many of our urban areas have already been planned (for better or worse) for cars and not the density that makes public transit viable. Autonomous cars will solve a host of problems for the old, young, mobility limited, and ju
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by drewmate 9mo ago
Women and children aren’t inherently dangerous. If you just avoid eye contact and keep to yourself, you should be fine
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by drewmate 9mo ago
I'm not sure what the answer is for housing, but there are tons of factors that go in to the growth of cost there. For one, the people making the buying decision aren't comparing DR Horton to Lennar. Usually, they're thinki
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by drewmate 10mo ago
Apparently there are companies trying similar things in the US - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/11/13/cloud-seedin... First I'd heard of it... though Salt Lake City did just have its
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by drewmate 2y ago
I suspect it’s a byproduct of Google’s internal launch process which may require more work or longer processes for launching something in different jurisdictions. So it’s probably not an active decision that they couldn’t legally do this in
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by drewmate 2y ago
Fellow Googler here. I'm the exception that proves the rule. After 7 years of Macbook and Linux devices, I needed Windows for a special project, so I got a "gWindows" device and found it very well supported. Aside from the s
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by drewmate 2y ago
It's just easier to iterate and improve on a coding specialist AI when that is also the skill required to iterate on said AI. Products that build on general LLM tech are already being used in other fields. For example, my lawyer friend
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by drewmate 3y ago
> 550 of 700 employees Including Ilya Sutskever who is (according to the posted document) among the 550 undersigned to that document. It's pretty clear this is a fast-moving situation, and we've only been able to speculate a
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by drewmate 3y ago
Some pretty delightful (ab)use of ZWJ[0] to come up with unique new "characters": * nail and gear flag [1] * united federation of planets flag (star trek) [2] * HAL 9000 [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z
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by drewmate 3y ago
It seems pretty self evident that China would not be in favor of military action to enforce climate goals. GP's point was that still developing nations are going to continue producing CO2 regardless of what electric grids look in OECD
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by drewmate 3y ago
Another major stumbling block for train signals once you get the basics down is segment length. Signals indicate whether the next segment is occupied, not whether any given train will fit in there (and potentially block a segment or interse
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by drewmate 3y ago
As referenced by GP - it's a list of inventions from the podcast '50 Things That Made the Modern Economy.' [0] The first series is my favorite podcast of all time. They're short (~8 minutes, iirc) but pack a lot of inter
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ProjectionLab just reached $100k ARR(indiehackers.com)
1 points by drewmate 3y ago|0 comments
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by drewmate 4y ago
I think this is a dangerous dream to have. The reality will probably be that the water cooler (or some virtual equivalent) will still be integral to career development, just maybe not yours. People are inherently social and no workplace wil
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by drewmate 4y ago
I think the walled garden is the whole point here, and you are not the target for this app. It’s no coincidence that the sample they show on their devices is for a student (high school?) newspaper. This is like the blue texts in iMessage. G
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by drewmate 4y ago
In case the named web colors aren't enough, we're making excellent progress naming every color in the RGB space. https://colornames.org/
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by drewmate 4y ago
This is an interesting conversation to peruse while watching an NFL (American football) game being played in Munich. [0] I’m not sure why the NFL does a few of these games (overseas, more often in London) each year. The stadium seems full,
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by drewmate 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Yg64e
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by drewmate 4y ago
I think it's a psychological quirk related to loss aversion[0]. Essentially, we view a house as belonging to the owner the moment the ink dries on the mortgage papers and losing a house is objectively a painful thing. Most people don
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Big Tech Founders Are America’s False Idols(theatlantic.com)
15 points by drewmate 4y ago|2 comments
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What’s Holding Back Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner?(wsj.com)
1 points by drewmate 4y ago|0 comments
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by drewmate 4y ago
Check trimbo's reply below for the stats, but this assertion is simply not true. Wyoming's rate of violent crime per 100k population was 234 last year (8th lowest among US states) compared to rates of 538 for New York City and 71
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Where Counties Are Growing(census.gov)
2 points by drewmate 4y ago|1 comments
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by drewmate 4y ago
Wages may be rising nominally, but now I'm fighting against hyperinflation of housing costs in ~10 metro areas. It's not so bad if your house is going up in value so you always have a down payment ready, but it's made it ver
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by drewmate 5y ago
By all means continue to use your browser of choice, but Chrome does offer the same functionality for as many search engines as you'd like [1]. By default, the keyword for search engines you've used before is just the domain name
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by drewmate 5y ago
Pretty decent support for mono and C# in Godot 3.x. It’s not perfect, but most things are well supported. There is a proposal to move everything to .NET 6, but it has been delayed until after the big Godot 4.0 release (4.1 next year at the
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The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries(bloomberg.com)
2 points by drewmate 5y ago|1 comments
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Diverging Diamond Interchange: Untangling the Left Turns(youtube.com)
2 points by drewmate 5y ago|0 comments

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