mostly_harmless

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by mostly_harmless 7d ago
skewed in the sense that 2-5% of the population is a terrible driver and 90-95% are sufficient. It's an outlier effect. Like the mean networth of a USA household is around $1 million dollars. But that figure alone gives you an extremel
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by mostly_harmless 7d ago
no. As per the link, that is 64% of <<distracted driver>> fatalities were "lost in thought". not 64% of <<all>> fatalities. Distracted driving is the 2nd or 3rd largest factor in fatal accidents (behind spe
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by mostly_harmless 8d ago
Fatality data is extremely skewed. 44% of drivers aren't using a seatbelt, 29% are speeding related, I recall alcohol involvement being about 30%, though it's not listed in the link I checked. About 20% of automobile fatalities ar
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by mostly_harmless 8d ago
Spelunky and Terraria do a good job with Procgen. Spelunky uses handcrafted chunks that are connected together like a puzzle. Each generation feels interesting because each chunk is interesting and they are just strung together into a uniqu
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by mostly_harmless 2mo ago
Can confirm they do this in Canada too. Though I'm not sure they have much of a presence outside of Quebec. It was very cool to try, and very much a "why doesn't everyone do this?" feature. I've never seen it anywhe
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by mostly_harmless 2mo ago
7 letter words are too long. I'm finding trouble thinking of any.
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by mostly_harmless 10mo ago
I'll add on that speeding is the biggest contributing factor in accidents. And accident outcomes get exponentially worse above 30mph. For every 10 mph of increased speed, the risk of dying in a crash doubles.
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by mostly_harmless 10mo ago
> you can wake your Steam Machine without leaving your couch. [using the built in steam controller wireless adapter]. This one simple thing is the only thing that makes my SteamDeck+Dock feel like a second class console. So far they only
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by mostly_harmless 1y ago
I don't hate Dyson because it's trendy, I hate Dyson because my $700 vacuum wont pick up cheerios; a common spill with toddlers.
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by mostly_harmless 2y ago
Somewhat related: I wanted to track watch time, and perhaps set a time limit with Plex and HomeAssistant. Has anyone come up with a solution I can cheat off of?
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by mostly_harmless 2y ago
It also ignores that they often own the suppliers. "Woops, our supplies raised the price, so we need to too."
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by mostly_harmless 2y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but why? I don't like that it exists, but isn't it self-contained? The main reason for cleaning it up seems to be quoted as [1], which oversimplfies to 'animals might eat plastic, and it affects them&#x
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by mostly_harmless 2y ago
I feel this way for photography, about filtering. If you take 1000 photos, only show people your 20-50 best. Now you are a good photographer.
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by mostly_harmless 3y ago
The most important part is this article is that this is the mean . The median net worth is $192,900 (as per the article). This just shows there is an extreme wealth disparity.
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
Yes, but not directly. If you listen to the last FOMC meeting, Powell mentions there will likely be significant weakening of the labor market and a rise of unemployment. As well as his famous "there will be pain" remarks. I don&#x
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
If you look on their website ( https://www.aerominetechnologies.com/ ) you can see there is a downward facing turbine hidden underneath
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
supposedly about a 1/3 of mortgages are variable in Canada. But more importantly, fixed mortgages are almost all 5 year terms (or less). That is, every 5 years you have to renew your rate (even though the mortgage amount is for 25 year
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
I don't know if it's moores law. except for servers, CPUs are mostly running near idle. My intuition would say tech saturation would make more of a difference. That is, worldwide pretty much everyone have now has adopted a compute
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
My theory behind this is there are many BTC holders with cap gains (or assets acquired through illegal methods) that can't easily cash out, and El Salvador's BTC support was a grab at capturing tourist revenue through state sponso
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
I think what's missing here is in case 1, it's not just the amount of money, but how much money is chasing each available good. You can imagine if the money supply doubles, a loaf of bread can be the same price as before if there
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by mostly_harmless 4y ago
and a commercial real estate crash would be bad for the company's bottom line
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
For those questioning the feasibility, 100% electric school buses are already on the road in Montreal. I see them frequently, and they seem to handle our crappy roads and winters fine.
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
I think with everything that is going on, everyone should be aware of the Russian book "Foundations of Geopolitics"[0]. It is a textbook that basically gives a blueprint on how they should take over the world. On how to deal with
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
One thing I haven't seen mention much is real estate. The "back-to-office" militants are usually corporate, and there's a lot of corporate money tried up with office real estate that would lose a lot of value if everythi
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
This only makes sense if you have positive-risk-adjusted-return investments you've been waiting to make. If you already have too much cash with no where to put it, borrowing more cash makes no sense.
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
"all that kenetic energy released when jumping off a building was formerly potential energy stored when walking up the stairs. How can that lead to life destroying conditions when life previously held that energy?" The rapid chang
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
There's a huge difference between warming over a couple tens of thousands of years (natural rate), and warming over a couple of decades (our current trajectory). That difference is the eradication of much of life on earth that is unabl
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
It looks like this is focused on primarily on executables, but there is a mention of libraries. I was looking into WASM libraries recently, specifically WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT), and my conclusion is that WASM libraries are experim
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
> "We don't sell your data and never will." Because your data is now freely available on the blockchain, forever.
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
I, and everyone else, has to pay taxes in USD. That will never replaced.

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