sndean

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by sndean 8mo ago
That’s fine and it is of course security theater / jobs program. I was put off by the feigning of disability to avoid a scanner and/or some inconvenience. This kind of behavior is okay, even great, but please come up with a more t
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by sndean 8mo ago
I, too, dislike walking far. Here’s how I faked my way into a handicap parking tag.
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by sndean 9mo ago
I thought the same thing but noticed my dark mode extension changed the dark gray font into light gray. It looks fine to me with that extension turned off. Not sure if that happened to you.
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by sndean 9mo ago
My first thought was Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) to do this in Emacs via R, but I bet there are many alternatives.
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by sndean 10mo ago
The smartest thing to do would be to check your car’s windows for any indication (the AAA report, page 19, cited in the article has examples) of whether they’re laminated or tempered. AFAICT, whether my new-ish Subaru Ascent’s windows are l
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by sndean 10mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you had (or are having) a good day. Or if it wasn’t good—stressful, tiring, etc.—here’s to hoping for some great sleep. I don’t remember kids being out of school for so long around Thanksgiving when I was young
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by sndean 10mo ago
Blackrock and Vanguard own surprisingly large portions of Rheinmetall, Siemens, Airbus, SAP and other German government/defense/security contractors. If avoiding their investments is the goal, there’s a lot of work to do.
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MiseryMap(flightaware.com)
3 points by sndean 10mo ago|0 comments
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by sndean 11mo ago
Could estimate ~1% (+/- 1%) given the Graphene user estimates [1] and the tens of millions of Pixels sold at this point. [1] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21946-grapheneos-popularity...
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by sndean 11mo ago
As someone who has worked on bubbles from a bioengineering/synthetic biology perspective, it is definitely play at some level. Like “what happens if we freeze dry them?” And of course determining which extremely specific kind works bes
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by sndean 1y ago
I don’t doubt that some Americans are deported each year from South Korea but I was unable to find any examples in the news other than this one in 2017. I wonder how regular it really is, or maybe it doesn’t get reported by any news source?
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by sndean 1y ago
On page 8 of the supplemental material, they pasted some R code, at least. Hopefully that code runs once you load the packages they reference. I wish they made it easier to download and start working with the data, though. It’s from a natio
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by sndean 1y ago
This is more of an issue with there being a low number of cases (both < 300) for of those two Neurodevelopmental Outcomes categories than anything else.
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by sndean 1y ago
Yeah an apparatus like that and work out that benzene had a very different carbon dioxide to water ratio than something like hexane.
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by sndean 1y ago
This might be referenced in one of the replies but basically 1) it doesn’t have the normal verse-chorus structure, 2) not really any drums, 3) the chord progression don’t follow an obvious pattern for the time and genre, and 4) the end just
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by sndean 1y ago
Just related to Pet Sounds, I remember God Only Knows has been cited by Paul McCartney and others as their favorite song of all time. Even though the song is very odd in many ways.
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by sndean 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is brand name? Like Kleenex. Non-tech people might not search for LLM, generative AI, etc. ChatGPT may just be what people have heard of. I’m assuming OpenAI has a large advantage over Anthropic, and the name helps
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by sndean 1y ago
> a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. Is this similar to the Peter principle, though? And not that it is exactly that concept, but that book is from 1969. People have been making this observation for a while. In this con
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by sndean 1y ago
> Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you know what? That’s fine. In fact, it’s great. It makes you happy, what else is needed? You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy. We are all go
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by sndean 1y ago
The Great Toyota War is interesting to read about. Libya spent billions and lost ~800 tanks to Chad’s Hiluxes and Land Cruisers. Specifically the Battle of Fada was very lopsided with Chad dominating. If you ‘s/Toyota/drones/
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by sndean 1y ago
Using Claude Opus 4, this was the first time I've gotten any of these models to produce functioning Dyalog APL that does something relatively complicated. And it actually runs without errors. Crazy (at least to me).
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Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest with AI Costs on the Rise(bloomberg.com)
13 points by sndean 1y ago|4 comments
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by sndean 1y ago
Same here, plus if you’re traveling with extended family (like siblings’ families) the total price can become insane in a hotel. And feeding all of those people is cheaper if you have a normal sized kitchen. I just wish more Airbnbs had rea
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by sndean 1y ago
Yeah, ignoring the OT, 70k in the Bay Area is ~40k in Omaha, Ann Arbor, Orlando, etc [1]. Without the OT it's more like 30k. And if your brain, like mine, hasn't adjusted to inflation yet, that's ~23k in 2019 dollars [2]. [1]
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by sndean 1y ago
Can anyone recommend a decent Backblaze alternative in case things really go south? Not so much for storage but for the automated computer backups that I have Backblaze doing. I'm okay paying more than Backblaze's $9/month.
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by sndean 1y ago
I think so, or at least they have Hindenburg alumni working for them: https://x.com/NateHindenburg/status/1900596203156304371
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by sndean 1y ago
Same here. I was trying to insert “on one hand” or similar before the comma, but that’s too small.
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by sndean 1y ago
> No, America was never Canada's friend. I'm inclined to agree simply because "friend" is too gentle of a term. But, if that's true, then which country has America really been friends with? It seems like if not C
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Important information to all residents of Sweden – In case of crisis or war [pdf](rib.msb.se)
95 points by sndean 2y ago|36 comments
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Robots are taking over marathons in China(runningmagazine.ca)
2 points by sndean 2y ago|0 comments

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