Data scientist producing wildfire risk assessments in electrical grids. Background: physics/math/econ Interests: systems/equilibrium/homelab/AI
Albany, CA
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It's so inconsistent the last five years.
Exact file name? "No results. Search the web."
Next week: here it is!
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They remove a bench from the sidewalk in weeks buy they can't seem to remove the thousands of cars parked on sidewalks in the hills.
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"Baby needs a new pair of shoes"
*rolls dice in craps game*
It's an anti-gambling sign.
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It's amazing how conservatives don't understand that the punk is primarily anti-fascist and anti-conformity.
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If you aren't using ChatGPT-4 to the hilt and getting rate limited every night after work, wtf are you even doing right now? This is straight magic. Rewriting bio-infomatics on a whim in the last 20 minutes...
Sure, I have to double check stuff... but then I just have it...
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You shouldn't be on the road if you think that escalating the situation is the way to make your child safe.
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The hilarious part is that the census resolution drops off at 200k and then entirely clips at 250k.
Basically that's the low-end for midcareer software around here.
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Oh, you missed this.
Even when it happened it was obviously a boon doggle.
People forget that one of the major incentives of capitalists is to just ask the public for land/right-of-ways for free.
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More than half.
Way way way more than half of human productivity is coming from the top half of kids in school.
Like 96% or more.
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1. He's probably not in the top 1%. Some dual doctor households are, but most aren't.
2. He is still probably in 96 or 97th % and can't manage money.
3. The billing plan still sucks.
They're all true.
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Remove street parking and all the visibility issues vanish.
Then you discover that your neighbors really want street parking and don't care about kids.
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The physics isn't wrong, but dear reader, this is a textbook example of tragedy of the commons.
There has been an arms race of people buying bigger and heavier vehicles and we are all 100% worse off because of it.
In a world where everyone drove golf carts, we'd all be safer.
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Nothing will prepare people for how terrible the office parks built over filled in wetlands are.
Parts of Santa Clara feel a little more built up, but again, it's like every low-rise office building at any randomly located interchange in the US.
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- Gaza is on the coast, what's the water table at, like 20-50 feet?
- Have you ever tried to dig a tunnel? You're not going 60 feet down with hand tools
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Look, an amount of RAM and a hard disk space that were standard 5-10 years ago in PCs!
Granted, build quality is a cut above, but seriously the base specs are pure price discrimination to get you to shell out $2-3k for something reasonably configured.
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I think you left out the part where the 100k salary is 96th-98th percentile for France, before payroll.
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By polishing a rounded piece of glass...
- Hand magnifyer
Use that to get a backer make:
- reading glasses
- Microscope (which are quite simple)
Use microscope for germ theory of disease and push hand washing/vermin control campaigns
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Great! Then road users can pay and pass that cost on directly, because if it's such a great value for their customers, they will pay the extra delivery fee.
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I'm from the East Bay and it always amazes me how it looks like low rent garbage down there.
Then I remember it is all built on silt and mud and lots of the 2 story buildings shouldn't go higher.
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Absolutely no one understands macro v micro.
"Mining this asteroid would make me rich" != "the world economy grew"
The best thing to mine in space is water and metals because that makes space more habitable = growing the pie.
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"But I've paid my dues!"
Some septuagenarian who has had their town's infrastructure paid 3x over by newcomers since they bought.
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Loss leader: come for the loss leader, stay for the other product.
Bloomberg news is not bringing people in who then buy Bloomberg terminal access
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So uh, you guys think that posting a 5 mph lower speed limit is going to prevent *checks newspaper* 100mph speeding?
Why don't you make the road physically incapable of supporting 100mph speeds?
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If he was threatening you, I'd nuke him.
If he was insulting you... meh. Maybe just his mom.
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Optics are astonishingly simple and their results are themselves astonishing.
You can sell glasses to the wealthy and win over academics with microscopes and telescopes.
Demonstrate the planets. See microbes.
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Code. Is logic explained.
Code is "do this because Y". Asking it to code something from english is asking it to translate between english and logical imperatives.
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You weren't kidding. There's an incredible number of unhinged maniacs in the comments who think that traffic laws are optional.
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I don't have time for that. Do you?
I will never buy a new car. Not because I can't afford one but because this kind of thing is so awful and predictable.
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I had the same experience when my dad was in a temporary rehab facility from an injury: It's 1 mile from X city! And no sidewalk along a high-speed feeder road.
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Because it is.
Primogeniture hasn't been a thing in forever.
Like 200-500 years most countries
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I'm in energy, the least sexy business.
Energy consumers are completely irrationally front-loaded towards price. They will purchase the cheapest AC regardless of long-run energy savings. They will sign the *worst* power purchase agreement that gives them a "free" install.
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Again, don't ask ChatGPT to *do* logic, ask it to explain logic and write it out in code.
Problem solved
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Counterpoint: your core idea is wrong because talent is heritable and talent is correlated with income.
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Japan: the country that literally locked the westerners out for centuries.
This lady needs to open a book.
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I buy and sell stocks when I start/stop using their products.
The last two years I started avoiding Amazon marketplace over quality and fraud.
Sell.
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There's a lot of people that think it's OK to do crimes in public with their 2.5 ton security blanket.
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I walked through downtown Oakland at night 4-5 nights per week when I lived there.
Never got mugged. Never saw a shooting.
Absolutely saw cars getting broken into.
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A lot of this is just two things: driving adoption and HVAC adoption.
You can only HVAC so much! You can only drive so far!
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"algorithms"
Bro, it's a keyword detector + user reports.
That is only an algorithm in the technical sense and not at all in the does-something-intelligent sense.
AI it is not.
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Everything they're doing is fine... but you really can injure yourself putting weight down like that.
I've changed 6-7 flats in my life and stood on the tire iron about 3-4x, I don't recommend it since if the tire iron cams out you can twist an ankle.
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Tell me you're the kind of guy who will shift all his personal costs onto other people without...
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Don't forget that some functions on windows are bugged and wake the machine at weird hours with no explanation or way to disable it.
From 2018-2022 my machine would regularly wake in the night and kill itself by morning.
Abysmal
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That's not how price wars work.
That guy is sitting on a warchest from rent extraction.
He can go all the way down to market level and beyond and just wait for you to die.
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That intersection is 90 feet wide, what is she supposed to do in the 2 seconds that happened? Run an impossibly fast 100m dash?
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> They are not benefitting anyone but themselves
You're describing 99% of all vehicles on the road. Bike or car.
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Community spaces aren't even built anymore. They're practically against code.
- Town squares/fountains
- Traditional housing over cafes and other meeting places
Instead kids and young adults hang out in Walmart parking lots.
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Maybe let's stop talking about Italy's experience and start talking about the experience of countries that have actually turned this around.
Let's talk about China and Korea.
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I am offended the central feature isn't the garage. How are they going to fit in with the rest of the neighborhood?
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I drive a 2009 Camry.
The approximate monthly cost of operation is $270 and that includes insurance, depreciation, fuel, and a 3 year average of all repairs (annual ~3250).
I have never had a car payment.
These folks have holes in their wallets.
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The price of Bitcoin is set by demand for Bitcoin. It is independent of mining until mining interferes with core mechanics:
- Block time instability because of mining interefence
- 51% attack probably rising
Etc
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Once or twice a week you spend 15-20 minutes at the local grocery store instead of 90 minutes at Costco every two weeks.
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None of that requires 25 year-old's to buy brand new or nearly new cars.
I do all that and more in a 2009 vehicle that costs me < 1/4 what those people are paying.
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The more you think about this situation the more insane it is that city policies basically cede downtown areas to people should be institutionalized.
Do you want a nice downtown?
Sorry, we have to respect the rights of the guy shouting at passerbys and defecating in the street.
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"It can't remember facts"
Stop asking it about facts!
Don't ask leading questions. Don't add context or color or urgency to your questions.
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Even truer if you go back 300 years. That would be around the point of peak European deforestation.
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What went wrong is the order capacity of most restaurants never supported order densities high enough to route it.
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I was today years old when I learned that. And I have been using task manager since 1995.
I feel like UI discoverability got better since then.
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This is the note my old cat would need to leave when going to the vet or groomwrs.
He would get attacked by the other cat every time he came home.
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