hwbehrens

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by hwbehrens 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority [Edit: Interesting that there are multiple effects, e.g. the sibling comment, that refer to similar but distinct phenomena!]
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
As one example, here is a relatively well-cited study from 1994: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014616729420200... Note that interpretations of "dominance" tend to vary, it seems, betw
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
From my perspective, the biggest differentiator is that Matrix allows users to remove the centralized coordinator from their chat provider. That is, I can run my own Matrix server, where my users can chat with each other, without any intera
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
> Without advocacy, conferences, documentation and tutorials, Matrix would become a niche protocol used by a few enthusiasts for side projects, whilst big proprietary and siloed networks continue to hold the world’s communications. Adv
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
I partially agree, and I'm generally in favor of doing our part to help dang and keep the level of conversation high. With that being said, I read the parent post slightly differently. I took their post as an implicit request that comm
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
From my reading (IANAL), there are three types of occupational fraud: asset misappropriation, corruption, and financial statement fraud. Since job posting are interpreted as a positive signal but are not (it seems) typically and explicitl
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
> There are obviously still people working in German law enforcement today, who think that harassing a node-operator NGO would somehow lead to the de-anonymization of individual tor users. This is not why. > As a consequence, I am
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
This is a "modest proposal" for sure. No legitimate thrust toward domestication would cherry pick such an esoteric example as "threading wires in automobile manufacturing facilities" . Take the (very real) fox domestica
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
Historically, Google has served as the fallback for pretty poor performance from Siri on knowledge tasks, which to this day often falls back to web search results. But, if Bing (especially circa 2016) were that search provider, it would lea
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
This correlation is often referred to as the 'hygiene hypothesis' by researchers. The underlying cause is still being understood; you can find an article comparing two theories here [0]. [0]: https://www.nature.com&#x2F
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
> If you are hurt by arsenic you can sue the person who harmed you. You can try, but you'll probably be dead before your estate wins the case. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contaminat..
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
Truly, dang is the "secret sauce" in maintaining the HN ethos. It certainly helps that the commenters do their part to reflect the ecosystem that they want, but it's easy to underestimate the important role that even a little
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! I checked them both out, but for me iTerm is still a better fit. I think of my Mac terminal as my viewer into the lower level, and not as the lower level, and the batteries-included approach that iTerm ta
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
> the attitude of the developer in the response has certainly convinced me to never become one If you are a Mac user and not using (or at least considering) iTerm2, you are doing yourself a disservice. It is by far the best terminal emul
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
What is the expectation here? That the companies would refuse to comply with an (apparently legal) governmental information request? What justification would they use? Wire and especially Proton seem to have gone to the limits of their abil
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
Emphasis on 'standardized' -- the 2 in LPCAMM2 is indeed meant to refer to the second generation of LPCAMM, but it's the first generation that has been approved as a JEDEC standard (and therefore, the first one that most peop
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
Like the GP (and most people, I assume) I really value my mental faculties, but more relevant in my opinion is that in terms of time and often money, your collective knowledge and education is probably the most expensive thing you've i
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
I don't think that was the grandparent's premise, but I actually think that it's not unreasonable to expect experts to be able to boil down their ideas for non-experts. We know it must be possible, because they themselves arr
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
I have one, and I can corroborate your experience that its Bluetooth connection was atrocious . However, after a number of (nail-biting, fritzy) firmware updates, it's pretty good now. It helps that the default behavior is pretty much
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure that's where the line begins Based on what? From my perspective, the easiest way to design such a system would be to create entries for every 'actor' in the system, feed in as much data as you can
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by hwbehrens 2y ago
In short, yes, because the preservation of human life supersedes other religious considerations. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619987/
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
Table 3 here [0] provides a breakdown of drug discovery by country and by expenditure. In terms of number of drugs discovered, the US leads with 66%, followed by Canada, the UK, Germany, and Belgium in that order. [0]: https://ww
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
> a full human being If I can indulge in a bit of what-aboutism to promote discussion, how would you classify animals? Do they deserve respect, and if so, what characteristic qualifies them? If such a characteristic (e.g. the ability t
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
Do you have any plans to release a desktop-compatible bundle?
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
The weak point is always the network connection. My cameras are PoE backed with a UPS, and the footage is replicated locally and to the cloud, but that replication still requires a network connection (which is also on battery). So, if someo
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
> Are US people using iMessage for this? Often, yes.
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
I think it's a historical artifact -- by the time that iMessage launched, the US was well into the phase of free, unlimited texting, so there was no barrier to "just texting". Since there was also no barrier (in terms of co
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
I think it will be more like the proliferation of noise-cancelling headphones; it's not about what it brings (music, dialog, etc) but about what it blocks out (the ambient sounds). Yes, you can watch a movie on a plane now, but with a
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
Just as a frame of reference, the most severe typhoon to directly hit Taipei seems to be Typhoon Morakot, which recorded wind speeds of 150 km/h (90 mph). The most severe tornado to hit Oklahoma seems to be from 1999, in which wind rea
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by hwbehrens 3y ago
I prefer digital gauges to physical ones, primarily because I can customize which ones are displayed. For example, on my previous car, roughly 40% of the cluster was populated by a tachometer that is totally unnecessary for the underpower

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