pweezy

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by pweezy 10mo ago
To me, "Tip for AI skeptics" reads as shorthand for "Tip for those of you who classify as AI skeptics". That is why the meta commentary about identity politics made complete sense to me. It's simply observing that t
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by pweezy 2y ago
Agreed. It feels like the FAA and related government agencies have a rule set based on now-outdated assumptions about the difficulty and cost of space launches. Even just a couple of decades ago, it was never thought that this number of sat
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by pweezy 2y ago
I learned about this from the audiobook version of The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Maybe that is what you're thinking of?
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by pweezy 3y ago
This is a regionalism in parts of the US, which I’ve seen described as Pittsburgh and its surroundings. I come across it often and struggle with cognitive dissonance every time - I know of the regionalism but it feels so strongly like a gla
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by pweezy 4y ago
This isn’t true - the cap on SALT tax deduction hasn’t changed since it was put in place in 2017. Some members of congress, apparently from both major parties, are proposing legislation to raise the cap from $10,000 to $100,000 or otherwise
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by pweezy 4y ago
Excellent, clear answer. Thank you.
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by pweezy 4y ago
China is a nuclear power and neither the US nor China is interested in MAD. Any attacks on Japanese territory would probably lead to a hot war with the US, but almost certainly not nuclear annihilation.
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by pweezy 4y ago
China overtaking the US seems a lot more likely based on sheer numbers. China’s population is over 4x larger than that of the US. So China “just” needs to reach a GDP per capita of 25% to have a larger economy than the US. This metric has b
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by pweezy 4y ago
Mostly off-topic, but I love the scale used for score bars on this site. Each category has a scale from 0 to {highest score of all devices of this class}. So every category where the current phone is the best has a 100% full bar. Where it’s
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by pweezy 4y ago
This kind of communication seems like an interesting problem for Starlink (or other satellite internet constellations) to solve. What if the satellites had extra antennas pointed outwards and relayed the data back to the ground at high band
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by pweezy 4y ago
Same! Their “agony” sorting (basically sorted flights by a combination of # of stops, total hours, and price) was a breakthrough at the time. It seems to be factored into most flight searches today, even though it’s not labeled as such.
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by pweezy 4y ago
ITA powered the backend flight search functionality for virtually every OTA, even if the ITA Matrix website wasn’t popular among end users.
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by pweezy 4y ago
> It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left, whereas shell only requires it on the right Interesting - it makes it look like Bash uses $ to “read” from the variable, while in PHP/Perl $ only indicates that the rest of
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by pweezy 5y ago
It’s not the same thing, but brings to mind Ken Thomason’s famous “Reflections on Trusting Trust” [0] from 1984. That describes a concept, over several stages, where a compiler can be made to change the behavior of programs it compiles in a
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by pweezy 5y ago
From the original article: > Fugger charged residents one Rheinischer gulden a year, the equivalent of one month's salary at the time.
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by pweezy 5y ago
XKCD's "Earth Temperature Timeline" is an excellent visualization of this: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Scientists Believe These Photos Show Mushrooms on Mars–and Proof of Life(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by pweezy 5y ago|1 comments
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by pweezy 6y ago
This is really cool! Curious if you've heard of or been put in touch with Prometheus Fuels - another YC company that's working on synthetic gasoline/diesel production using direct air capture ( https://news.ycombina
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by pweezy 7y ago
Ah, I remember those days - I had the same situation at home. As the article mentions, you could dial the 67 prefix to block your outgoing caller ID on an individual call. With the blocking-of-blocking, you had the opposite - the 82 prefi
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by pweezy 7y ago
I've been on the receiving end of this from one or two online invitation services (Paperless Post, maybe?). Had a friend say "can you come to my party or what? You're the only one that still hasn't opened the invitation
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by pweezy 7y ago
Having a dishwasher makes using a grater so much less dreadful - perhaps more than any other single kitchen implement. When I had a dishwasher at home we even got a Microplane zester. It's amazing how much flavor and aroma exists in le
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by pweezy 7y ago
It seems like Uber put in this "reaction delay" to prevent the cars from driving/maneuvering erratically (think excessive braking and avoidance turning). This, along with allowing the cars to drive on public roads at all befo
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by pweezy 7y ago
It must feel odd and incredibly difficult to control an exoskeleton (or any motion restoring device) without any proprioceptive or tactile feedback. I imagine it's like having someone else move your limbs, or for a paraplegic, like usi
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by pweezy 7y ago
I suspect the main reason this type of device tends to be more symmetrical in thickness is to carry an additional battery, needed to power the second display without shortening the total battery life of the device.
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by pweezy 7y ago
The article makes repeated mentions of the lack of persistence (rebooting the phone removes the exploit), suggesting this makes it very little of a security threat. However, most people reboot their phone very rarely: the occasional softwar
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Hello from 2050. We Avoided Worst of Climate Change – But Everything's Different(time.com)
12 points by pweezy 7y ago|10 comments
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by pweezy 7y ago
> I personally believe that great documentation was a big reason for PHP's success in the early days. I agree. The culture of user-submitted comments with helpful examples and clarifications on each documentation page was a big part
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by pweezy 7y ago
Check out the podcast "Business Wars" by Wondery. They have an 8-episode miniseries on Netflix vs. Blockbuster that I really enjoyed and highly recommend. It includes this story, as well as some of the other competitive developmen
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by pweezy 7y ago
Same here. I use a 12" MacBook "retina" (not air), which is an ultraportable with a weak CPU. Firefox is borderline unusable, even with uBlock Origin, unless you stick to only 1 or 2 tabs. High def video in YouTube really str
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by pweezy 7y ago
I've always thought that the main reason for Starbucks to push their card and reward program is to save on per-transaction credit card fees. By my understanding, in the US, typical merchant fees to accept a card are a flat $0.20-$0.30

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