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Sorry to hear that. Sister had an aneurysm a couple years ago. They coiled it, lasted two weeks, then gone. Best wishes for your father and your family.

Put another way, if spending maybe $100, maybe even a couple hundred bucks, might save you thousands, is it really that bad of an idea? For the first few years?

Nice. Looks like it satisfies all the requirements detailed here [0]. Also, good discussion of the major difficulty dealing with money here [1].

[0] https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08-22-how-to-deal-with-money-in...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/wmqv3q/standards_for_...

Why stop at groceries? Make everything variably priced. Vary the prices enough so that no matter how much or little you work, in the end everyone's costs (and wealth) are equal. Da komrade!

Kudos to you. I would be quite flattered to have built a thing that competes with what a small startup built.

lol 5200lbs curb weight

don’t care how good the suspension is, that thing ain’t getting around corners very well

In behavioral psych terms what you've identified would technically be referred to as "rate of responding." Its identification as the primary focus of observation in the clinical setting ( and in fact a variable even worth examining!) might be Skinner's greatest contribution to the field.

Never found anything better than Fireworks for the user who only rarely needs to make basic edits to images

they're taking the piss

Two readings are relevant here:

1) Tragedy of the Commons by Harding

2) Overshoot by William Catton

There is a sliver of hope that we can successfully decommission fossil fuel energy and master climate engineering, i.e. employ technology to solve global, systemic problems created by technology. But it is hard today to distinguish optimism from delusion.

Oh well, better luck next time humans…

five week, five days a week radiation? was this "proton" radiation treatment?

Watching TV at home "wastes energy." Going out to dinner "wastes energy." Doing anything except working on a cure for cancer "wastes energy." In fact, even people working on a cure for cancer or a covid vaccine will only see the fruits of their righteous labor used to enable millions to....waste energy.

This is literally the worst argument against crypto.

The energy "waste" argument against Bitcoin is really one of the silliest there is. One man's waste is another's treasure.

"Unlike other economic activities, the bitcoin scheme produces absolutely nothing for all this waste."

Does playing video games "produce absolutely nothing?" Some would say so, others would say not, that it produces positive emotions in players. But the entire ecosystem of gaming no doubt "wastes" more energy than bitcoin mining. Who gets to decide, to decree, what constitutes "waste?" That it's ok to engage in certain activities, like gaming, which some people would classify as "waste," but not ok to engage in others.

And the climate change argument as the cherry on top. Time to power down everything then. No more bitcoin mining, no more cars, no more travel, watching movies, it's all "wasteful." Shut it all down.

I didn't like the way Utah was moving though

Can you elaborate on this if you can spare the time? Genuinely curious...

I think Andrew Gelman raised some serious concerns with that study.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...

https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224446581513940999

https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224448902629249024

https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224450329673994245

https://mobile.twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/11978972081...

SPJ is an absolute beast, though whenever I hear a talk of his all I can think of is the Impressive Clergyman.

I have zero artistic ability. My father is a very accomplished amateur artist. I've got into this discussion with him several times. Rather than Pollock's work, the best exemplar supporting the argument that artistic value is arbitrary is, in my opinion, Rothko's color field paintings [1]. My father explained to me that the reason it's in the Smithsonian is because he did something no one else had ever done before, he reduced the traditional landscape painting to it's absolute minimum. Same thing for Pollock, he did something no one else had ever done before. At least according to a very small clique of New York Jews. (Joking. Kind of. Not being anti-semitic, I'm an atheist Jew.)

Of course, the fact that this guy [2] is not also in the Smithsonian is strong evidence that it is in fact completely arbitrary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_field [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSZs7H24UY

These days, holding all other factors constant, SV companies will generally hire {gay|female|trans|minority} candidates before {male|white|indian|asian}. So companies are apparently not at all concerned about hiring members of protected classes, rather they prefer to hire them.

Now, if you want to make the argument that older employees don't boost the companies D&I numbers, while at the same incurring the risk of a protected class, that's a subtly different argument....

Buyback Derangement Syndrome

https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_ma...

They might be off base on this one....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...

Indeed.

https://www.ajjmanhattan.com/instructors

98% of orders are canceled limit orders. The average duration an order is open ranges from 1.5 to 20 or 30 seconds, depending on the time frame you look at. The entire market is "spoofing." It's crypto not NYSE.

Worth linking to PZ Meyers takedown of Kurzweil's ignorance of biology. [1]

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/21/kurzweil-still...

For me, Clojure is the most satisfying language to write in. The design of the language feels impeccable most of the time. Working in the repl, with all of your application code loaded into the runtime, sitting in an adjacent terminal or editor tab, is immensely satisfying, much like the experience of a craftsman working with hand tools. Unfortunately, I find Clojure code to suffer in terms of readability, and I think it suffers from the same problem all dynamic languages suffer from, they just don't scale to larger applications and teams as well as static languages do. Proof of this is the fact that pretty much every dynamic language out there eventually looks to graft something like a static type system on after the fact. Basically I think people advocating Clojure outside the context of small, high ability teams are (mistakenly imho) prioritizing write mode over read mode.

The "Clojurians don't like testing" meme probably has more to do with Rich Hickey's famous "guard rail programming" [1] comment than anything else. Of course, even at the time, the joke within the community was, "Yes, Rich Hickey doesn't need to write tests....you do!"

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy (15:30)

The cool kids are quickly abandoning scalaz for cats [1], in fact the exodus may already essentially be complete, as evidenced by the author's subsequent work [2]. I guess that's what happens when your project just attracts too many _ssholes.

[1] https://github.com/non/cats

[2] http://eed3si9n.com/herding-cats/

Suspension has seen less advancement than tires imo. And the greater the lean angle the less the suspension is actually working. If the bike could lean to 90 degrees the suspension would not work at all. This is why motorcycle handling is still something of a black art rather than pure science, because at full lean much of the "suspension" comes from frame, fork, and swingarm flex, rather than actual damping.