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by pablobaz 14d ago
Left sided drive trains are tried every so often in track cycling with supposed aerodynamic advantages for travelling around the track. See: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/japan-unveils-new-olympic...
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by pablobaz 2mo ago
The bear case being set at 40% of employee costs is still quite wild.
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by pablobaz 5mo ago
Sorry to hear about your aunt. My condolences. I think your misinterpreted my intent, I would dearly love a good diagnostic test for ME/CFS and agree research has been hugely underfunded. I have followed closely the research for many y
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by pablobaz 5mo ago
I think I would need to see testing on a control group of housebound patients with other conditions to believe this. It's easy for ME testing to pick up markers for being housebound and limited exercise for an extended period of time.
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by pablobaz 6mo ago
which bits of this do you think llm based agents can't do?
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The Bet on Juniors just got Better(tidyfirst.substack.com)
1 points by pablobaz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by pablobaz 1y ago
Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Anscombe :-)
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by pablobaz 1y ago
That could work. 15 managers doing 10 1:1 meetings each isn't so hard. It can get tricky with people being on vacation etc. But very possible and normal.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pit0OkNp7s8 This Irish Sheep farmer is my favorite example of a hard to understand Irish accent. I've lived nearby to this location and can attest that it is quite common.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
Some of the west of Ireland accent also reflects pronunciation prior to the Great Vowel Shift . For example pronouncing "tea" as "tay" and "meat" as "mate" https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by pablobaz 2y ago
If the child had practiced on a balance bike for balance and a tricycle for pedalling it all comes together quite easily.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
In my experience with very large codebases, a common problem is devs trying to improve random things. This is well intentioned. But in a large old codebase finding things to improve is trivial - there are thousands of them. Finding and judg
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by pablobaz 2y ago
What you are seeing is probably cold induced vasodilation https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4843861/ Incidentally there are some studies that show you get better at it with more frequent exposure. I have ka
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by pablobaz 2y ago
As the article discusses you don't need to ban alcohol you can just make it more awkward: - tax it - restrict the sales by age, location and time(see Nordic countries for a really strict version of this) - minimum unit pricing - warni
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by pablobaz 2y ago
It goes deeper than that. Fundamental forces have chirality. This was a little controversial when first discovered.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
That's nice! Another one is remembering the phrase: Can I have a large container of coffee please sir.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
As a kid we didn't have duvets. It was all sheets and blankets. Duvets were a bit new-fangled so it's not surprising the knowledge wasn't passed down.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
IME lots of people just try stuff the duvet in and then shake it to get it in the right place.
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by pablobaz 2y ago
My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you a
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by pablobaz 3y ago
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building This is a great book for larger team sizes. https://amzn.eu/d/hnEQvsV
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by pablobaz 3y ago
> "Using the power of Google Tensor G3, Video Boost on Pixel 8 Pro uploads your videos to the cloud where our computational photography models adjust color, lighting, stabilization and graininess."* I wonder why the power of Te
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by pablobaz 3y ago
So many words but so little actual information as to how the increased consumption is now possible.
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by pablobaz 3y ago
>The difference between the rushed 10mins you get with the NHS and the considered 30mins you get private is amazing. You leave feeling like you’ve been taken care of and all your questions have been answered. This is true for fairly simp
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by pablobaz 3y ago
A friend once explained his philosophy to me, that I find helpful: "Once you've written it, it's just code. Someone can always find a better way or improvements and that's fine" I think the second sentence is true f
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by pablobaz 3y ago
Living there you are also beside a great river wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67_(standing_wave)
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Highcharts GPT: Create real charts with simple prompts(highcharts.com)
1 points by pablobaz 3y ago|1 comments
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ArcticDB: A high performance, serverless DataFrame database(github.com)
2 points by pablobaz 4y ago|0 comments
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Introducing ArcticDB: Powering data science at Man Group(medium.com)
3 points by pablobaz 4y ago|1 comments
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by pablobaz 4y ago
It's often more to provide backup and justification for a decision. Even if it then goes wrong you can say "Deloitte told me to do it". While this may be true, it still doesn't take away two strengths consultants can bri
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Compute is easy, memory is harder and harder(nextplatform.com)
9 points by pablobaz 4y ago|0 comments

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