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by uranium 10mo ago
Waymo's usually something like 50% more expensive than Lyft in SF, in my experience. But the drivers don't tailgate, have colds, listen to your conversation (AFAIK)...I'll generally opt for Waymo now if I have a choice. The
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by uranium 1y ago
It was the same in the '90s. Something like a third didn't make it through in 4 years, although a long tail managed it in 5 or more.
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by uranium 1y ago
Yep. Bright light does the same thing. Also, in dim light, I'd expect this to make it pretty hard to see. My optometrist mentioned it to me, but neither of us could see the point.
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by uranium 2y ago
"Downtime for maintenance is part of normal operations, making this a far more forgiving early application of fusion, unlike the grid where every down hour is lost revenue." Planned maintenance, sure, but unplanned maintenance mea
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by uranium 2y ago
As one ridiculous-pong writer to another, I love your work. I really enjoy this kind of technical performance art, both to write and to view. It may also be part of why I juggle: "There must be a harder way to do this."
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by uranium 2y ago
TANSTAAFL After spreads, tracking error, and overhead, it'll be really hard to beat a Vanguard index fund.
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by uranium 2y ago
I implemented pong as a cellular automaton [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155205 ]. It was a fun synthesis of skills I'd built on a bunch of previous projects, some of them professional, many of them actually
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by uranium 2y ago
They still have to renew your prescription for you. If you're running out in 5/7 of a month, but only getting renewed monthly, you're just changing the granularity, not the dose.
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by uranium 2y ago
That's a great list; while not explicitly writing them out, we raise our kids by similar rules, and I think it's been a huge help. #1 is huge. We also explicitly answer any question they ask (barring privacy concerns). The answ
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by uranium 2y ago
This is beautiful; the motion of the legs reminds me of some giant scuttling insect. I'd love to have a coffee table like that. I wouldn't even want the motor, actually. It looks like you can just push it and have it walk smoot
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by uranium 2y ago
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's resograph: https://wiki.lspace.org/Riktor
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by uranium 2y ago
It's a name-brand fan bought at a local showroom a decade ago. IIRC it was under $1000 at the time.
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by uranium 2y ago
Efficacy is also going to vary with usage. I've got a 900CFM fan, but I can still smoke up the kitchen pretty badly if I sear on the front burner, even with the fan on high. However, if I use the back burner, even with the fan on low
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by uranium 2y ago
It's a cheap portable, with no calibration possible. I have no idea what effect pressure would have on it, unfortunately.
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by uranium 2y ago
I tried something similar last week [ https://guitar2tabs.klang.io ], so I just ran yours with the same song [Surfin St. Helens by The Volcanos] to see how they compared. * Lamucal did better on the chords--to my ear they're
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by uranium 2y ago
I carried a CO2 meter on a flight recently, to use CO2 as a proxy for COVID risk. The levels were quite high for the whole flight--over 1000 pretty much the whole time iirc and worse on the tarmac.
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by uranium 3y ago
There are geared unicycles, e.g. https://krisholm.com/en/gear/component/kh-schlumpf Folks I know who've used them liked them because they took the place of both a 24" and a 36" wheel, in one un
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by uranium 3y ago
Same--folks are generally interested and/or amused. It's been ages since I unicycled in public [I'm not great at it], but none of what's been posted here about reactions surprises me.
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by uranium 3y ago
How odd. I was just thinking of this story the other day. I'd heard it read on NPR maybe 25 years ago, and then just happened to think of it and look it up and read it last week. Now it's on HN. Whenever things like happen I wonde
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by uranium 3y ago
Bodies vary. Years ago my partner of the time and I did low carb at the same time, eating a lot of the same meals, of course. We both lost weight. We both ran. I felt great and had a lot of energy. They felt miserable for the whole mul
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by uranium 3y ago
We were considering a Hyundai Kona after seeing someone online just yank the modem without an issue. The first dealer I worked with said he could have their service department do it, but then couldn't get the model I wanted. The seco
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by uranium 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230928005434/https://www.wired...
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by uranium 3y ago
I've been shopping for a new car recently, and got it down to the Chevy Bolt and the Hyundai Kona [because I want long-range electric and have a narrow garage]. On the Bolt it looks like you can just yank a fuse to kill the cellular r
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by uranium 3y ago
That's lovely--really elegant lines. Also, congratulations!
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by uranium 3y ago
Let's wait for the news cycle and science to settle: https://peterattiamd.com/more-hype-than-substance-erythritol...
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by uranium 3y ago
American bread certainly does go moldy, but the sugar absorbs moisture and keeps the bread softer longer. That being said, I'd much rather they used less. At this point it's pretty hard to buy a hamburger bun around here [SF] tha
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by uranium 3y ago
If the wholesale price is down, and the retail price has yet to fall, someone in the middle must be making a profit. The article seems to imply that nobody is, but the margin must be going somewhere.
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by uranium 3y ago
I've been a member of a number of juggling clubs over the years. If you're not into juggling, I'm sure there are other kinds of clubs around, but if you're a juggler or juggling-curious, they're great. They tend t
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by uranium 3y ago
Lots of grocers will have hard sausages, cheeses, olives, and nuts. It's not as easy as chips and food bars, I'll grant you, but it's doable.
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by uranium 3y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the energy savings of LEDs may not actually be what you expect. We heat our home something like 330 days of the year. If we use LED bulbs instead of incandescents, we just have to

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