matthewowen

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by matthewowen 2mo ago
Coffee shops do a lot of things. Do they make good espresso? Do they do good brewed coffee? Is their cold brew good? Do they have good pastries? Do they do good milk based drinks? Do they offer milk substitutes? Do the staff make you feel i
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
You could literally have a blank piece of paper with the word "coffee" printed on it in times new roman and it would look better than off ratio AI slop graphics. It's not a case where better necessarily costs more. I also thi
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
It's very hard to operate an espresso machine. If you want to pull good shots you need to be adjusting grind (etc) every day and throughout the day. So it's a case where you have to check and adjust output continuously. So for me
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
Ironically, you just made even more inferences than I did!
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
I was talking to my daughter a few weeks ago about a coffee shop that was opening soon and I said that based on the posters in the window it probably wouldn’t be very good. She didn’t really understand how I could draw that conclusion and I
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
I was about to say caldigit and then you called them out. I have had a TS3 for six years and it still going strong and I have had basically zero compatibility issues across a range of (Mac) devices and peripherals.
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
The majority of the US population lives at latitudes that would be affected by the “sun rises after 8am in winter” problem. As I said before, changing the clocks is a much more efficient approach than getting every school and workplace (etc
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
The “savings” in “daylight savings” doesn’t refer to the winter part of the schedule. It refers to the summer part, where daylight that occurs during typical “sleeping” hours is “saved” by shifting the clocks so it occurs in the evening ins
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by matthewowen 2mo ago
This is a bad change. I think it’s bad for kids to have to walk to school before sunrise. Fundamentally it is useful to have more sunlight later in the evenings in the summer. It’s also useful to have sunlight early enough in the morning fo
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by matthewowen 4mo ago
85% of the world population lives outside of developed nations. 27% of the world's workforce is in agriculture (contrast to the US where it is 1-2%). 15% in manufacturing. A lot of people work in "services" (especially in hig
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by matthewowen 4mo ago
if you got rid of the badges and showed me the exterior shot i'd say "oh, is that one of those cheap chinese EVs everyone is talking about?"
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by matthewowen 4mo ago
Philadelphia is absolutely an option, but it depends on the neighborhood. Eg if you live in the penn alexander, greenfield, or meredith catchments you have a great elementary/middle school and there are lot of kids of late elementary&#
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by matthewowen 4mo ago
interestingly, i think there's also a u vs non-u thing here: jam is a u word, preserve is non-u
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by matthewowen 7mo ago
I think that having some difficulty and having to "bloody your forehead" acts as a filter that you cared enough to put a lot of effort into it. From a consumer side, someone having spent a lot of time on something certainly isn&#x
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by matthewowen 9mo ago
I think this is an odd idea. For a lot of reasons, but one is simply that higher level languages _tend_ to be terser, and context window matters for LLMs. Expressing more in less is valuable.
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by matthewowen 9mo ago
Ironically, grand juries refusing to indict frivolous political charges has been in the news quite a lot in the past couple of months. It's true that jury trials have a less than perfect history of applying justice (though of course I
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by matthewowen 10mo ago
It's sort of hard to judge this. The article mostly focuses on ChatGPT uses, but hard to say if ChatGPT is going to be the main revenue driver. It could be! Also unclear if the underlying report is underconsidering the other products.
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by matthewowen 1y ago
but cycling races are won by being able to put out a critical extra 50 watts for a few minutes at a key point in the race. I don't think anyone is trying to motor the whole way up a climb, but I can imagine how you could have a useful
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by matthewowen 1y ago
there's probably just as much doping in distance running but it's easier to evade (top athletes spend most of the year in countries that have limited interest in testing)
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by matthewowen 1y ago
> Standard with ads, which is distorting because ads have a different cost and benefit (more expensive and lucrative in the US). Standard Standard is 14.99€ in France, £12.99 in the UK, $17.99 in the US. so it's 30 cents cheaper per
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by matthewowen 1y ago
> netflix and co Standard plan is £5.99 in UK, €7.99 in france, $7.99 in the US. So the US is the cheapest of those after currency conversion > cinema US median price in 2022: $10.53. In the UK, £7.69 == $10.54 (uncanny tbh) > groc
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by matthewowen 1y ago
IME it's a big part of it for a lot of people. People don't buy a car for what they do with it every day, they buy it for what they do with it a few times a year. If you have a boat on a trailer, you buy a vehicle that can pull th
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by matthewowen 1y ago
> GDP per capita doesn't mean what you think it does. Everything being overpriced in the US, and everything needing to have a middleman inflates GDP figures. Take health insurance, Americans pay multiple times what Europeans pay, to
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by matthewowen 1y ago
The problem (which Sotomayor raises in her dissent, pages 94 and 95 of the PDF) is that it may never reach the supreme court: > There is a serious question, moreover, whether this Court will ever get the chance to rule on the constitutio
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by matthewowen 1y ago
This is why it's bad. Large incumbents can manage this and then in steady state it's the same. But for any new entrants that need to rapidly grow their engineering teams, it's a huge disadvantage. We don't need more thin
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by matthewowen 1y ago
I live near UPenn. Some locals call the end of the academic year "Penn Christmas". I definitely see some resentment, but having made an international move in my life I have sympathy for it. You need to buy things to live, shipping
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by matthewowen 1y ago
Partly it’s a long distance thing, especially at the lower end of the market. Imagine you want to move your possessions to somewhere that’s three days drive away. Generally speaking, you need a team in location a to pack, a driver, and a t
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by matthewowen 1y ago
Do people in Spanish cities with strong grids (eg Barcelona) not also use the local language equivalent of "blocks" as a term? I would be surprised if not. It's a fundamentally convenient term in any area that has a repeated
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by matthewowen 1y ago
> segregation (since poorer people both tend to be minorities and tend to not have capacity/time to jump through lottery hoops) charter schools tend to have _more_ minority students than public schools. eg in philadelphia, charter s
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by matthewowen 1y ago
It's in Born to Run.

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