The problem is Google's AI results get even simple factual questions wrong all the time. Earlier today, I searched "pixel 10 wifi 7" because I was confused that GSMArena showed my Pixel 8 supports Wifi 7, but the Pixel…
> Libraries that were made independently usually fit together like a glove because they are all just maps/vectors in -> maps/vectors out. This is also the biggest weakness of Clojure (IMO). When everything is "just…
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any human who has been 100 pounds overweight for any amount of time that doesn't have an obesity-related comorbidity. Hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, etc are all…
If you haven't used it, how can you judge its quality level?
A top "5 in the world" city is obviously an outlier. It seems self-evident that simply turning off street lights in the vast majority of cities will not cause them to become world-leading bastions of calm and safety.
Physics is the poster child of a discipline that knows its foundations are wrong. Basically every physicist understands that our current theories are full of holes and a new way of thinking is needed. So I don't really…
During a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in my youth, we portaged through Party Lake. I am sad to report no revelry occurred. However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its name.
Right, I didn't mean to imply it was a US-only phenomenon -- plenty of countries have fundamental rights enshrined in their constitutions, with varying degrees of difficulty to amend. I was specifically responding to…
> Many democratic countries have similar fundamental laws that are explicitly hard to change or bypass. What exactly constitutes "hard to change"? In many countries, fundamental freedoms are regular legislation which…
The snippet you quoted does not support that objection, though. It is clear from context that the "book bans" referred to are in the realm of public education.
> The drivers don't trust the apps, and the app doesn't trust the drivers, so the thing has to be held together by surveillance and micromanagement. Exactly. And a large dose of gaming the system (or trying to), which…
Heat pumps are something like 5-6x as efficient as resistive electric heaters. So no surprise that your bill would be lower. Of course, heating an entire house with (non-heat-pump) electric heat in a cold climate is…
The "decent reasons" just sounds like snobbery or a reason to feel superior. Cars are cars, whether manual, automatic, CVT, whatever. Why should bikes be any different? I'm a big fan of two-wheeled transport in all its…
Except scooters are literally motorcycles? From Wikipedia: > A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, .... Scooters are often legally motorcycles as well. For example, I had to…
Sure. I was necessarily speaking in generalities. There are always exceptions.
To add to this, all it takes is one piece of legislation or one court order for the private registry to end up in the government's hands. Gun owners who fear a government-run registry should fear a privately-run one…
The interesting thing is that some of the "new" taboo words are only taboo for certain groups of people. The N-word has been reclaimed by people of color, but remains taboo for others to say. The F-slur is in the…
Setting aside gerrymandering (which is a huge issue), the reelection rate doesn't tell the whole story. By what margin are House candidates typically winning? I'm sure there are plenty of landslides, but also lots of…
The presidency is not the only election on the ballot. And if you ask people who don't vote why not, very few of them are going to mention the electoral college. I would wager most people who don't vote couldn't even…
This might work, but it also guarantees you will be first on the chopping block when layoffs come around. I have seen this happen first-hand multiple times: any employee with a special arrangement that doesn't meet what…
Surely Discord can't be counted as dark web? It's not web at all.
Where are you getting that statistic? I have seen considerably lower numbers. For example, [1] indicates only 1 in 60 rental homes are owned by private equity. That doesn't even include owner-occupied homes. [1]:…
Isn't that the beauty of open source? That we are empowered to make tools that fit our needs and the needs of our users? I don't see why open source tools should be intentionally crippled in the name of some sort of…
Right. Housing costs for most people are a function of asking price and interest rate. For a long time, we had high asking price and low interest rate. That was mostly acceptable to people. Low asking price and high…
Have you seen the price of housing? Mortgage payments are twice what they were in 2021 for the same house, largely due to high interest rates. Of course people want big rate cuts.
The problem is Google's AI results get even simple factual questions wrong all the time. Earlier today, I searched "pixel 10 wifi 7" because I was confused that GSMArena showed my Pixel 8 supports Wifi 7, but the Pixel…
> Libraries that were made independently usually fit together like a glove because they are all just maps/vectors in -> maps/vectors out. This is also the biggest weakness of Clojure (IMO). When everything is "just…
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any human who has been 100 pounds overweight for any amount of time that doesn't have an obesity-related comorbidity. Hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, etc are all…
If you haven't used it, how can you judge its quality level?
A top "5 in the world" city is obviously an outlier. It seems self-evident that simply turning off street lights in the vast majority of cities will not cause them to become world-leading bastions of calm and safety.
Physics is the poster child of a discipline that knows its foundations are wrong. Basically every physicist understands that our current theories are full of holes and a new way of thinking is needed. So I don't really…
During a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in my youth, we portaged through Party Lake. I am sad to report no revelry occurred. However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its name.
Right, I didn't mean to imply it was a US-only phenomenon -- plenty of countries have fundamental rights enshrined in their constitutions, with varying degrees of difficulty to amend. I was specifically responding to…
> Many democratic countries have similar fundamental laws that are explicitly hard to change or bypass. What exactly constitutes "hard to change"? In many countries, fundamental freedoms are regular legislation which…
The snippet you quoted does not support that objection, though. It is clear from context that the "book bans" referred to are in the realm of public education.
> The drivers don't trust the apps, and the app doesn't trust the drivers, so the thing has to be held together by surveillance and micromanagement. Exactly. And a large dose of gaming the system (or trying to), which…
Heat pumps are something like 5-6x as efficient as resistive electric heaters. So no surprise that your bill would be lower. Of course, heating an entire house with (non-heat-pump) electric heat in a cold climate is…
The "decent reasons" just sounds like snobbery or a reason to feel superior. Cars are cars, whether manual, automatic, CVT, whatever. Why should bikes be any different? I'm a big fan of two-wheeled transport in all its…
Except scooters are literally motorcycles? From Wikipedia: > A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, .... Scooters are often legally motorcycles as well. For example, I had to…
Sure. I was necessarily speaking in generalities. There are always exceptions.
To add to this, all it takes is one piece of legislation or one court order for the private registry to end up in the government's hands. Gun owners who fear a government-run registry should fear a privately-run one…
The interesting thing is that some of the "new" taboo words are only taboo for certain groups of people. The N-word has been reclaimed by people of color, but remains taboo for others to say. The F-slur is in the…
Setting aside gerrymandering (which is a huge issue), the reelection rate doesn't tell the whole story. By what margin are House candidates typically winning? I'm sure there are plenty of landslides, but also lots of…
The presidency is not the only election on the ballot. And if you ask people who don't vote why not, very few of them are going to mention the electoral college. I would wager most people who don't vote couldn't even…
This might work, but it also guarantees you will be first on the chopping block when layoffs come around. I have seen this happen first-hand multiple times: any employee with a special arrangement that doesn't meet what…
Surely Discord can't be counted as dark web? It's not web at all.
Where are you getting that statistic? I have seen considerably lower numbers. For example, [1] indicates only 1 in 60 rental homes are owned by private equity. That doesn't even include owner-occupied homes. [1]:…
Isn't that the beauty of open source? That we are empowered to make tools that fit our needs and the needs of our users? I don't see why open source tools should be intentionally crippled in the name of some sort of…
Right. Housing costs for most people are a function of asking price and interest rate. For a long time, we had high asking price and low interest rate. That was mostly acceptable to people. Low asking price and high…
Have you seen the price of housing? Mortgage payments are twice what they were in 2021 for the same house, largely due to high interest rates. Of course people want big rate cuts.