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Yes, I have trialled this. I've found it works best with this workflow:

1. Summarise some prose (from a textbook) into bullet points
2. Convert these to flashcards
3. Make these flashcards more concise

I then verify they are correct/relevant, only keeping those that are worthwhile.
Haha yeah. Started seeing grays in my hair at 30, now they're starting to sprinkle into my beard just ever so slightly.

I'm too lazy to do anything about it. Wizard transformation has begun.
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My dream long-term would be completely separated infra for cars+buses and for bikes+scooters. Human-driven cars will be pointless except on backwoods trails or racetracks in any case.
I got a white "Skunk stripe" in my hair at 18. Didn't really see grey elsewhere until mid 30s.
I have been using it to do exactly that. However, as GPT is wrong on certain facts, I use it more for generating Anki-formatted text from learning sources that I provide myself.

For example, I’ll give it a paragraph from Wikipedia, then say, “generate 5 questions and answers from this text. Format the answers to be inside brackets like this: {{c1::Answer text}}.
Which in effect leads to everyone wanting more money. So everything starts costing more. Thus inflation goes up.
> Peoples’ curiosity ought not be labeled as stupid.

Correct. That is why I feel more comfortable asking "stupid" questions to chatGPT. I clarified a lot of concepts in economics through repeatedly asking questions about each concept that pop up in its answers and trying to push it to the limits of what can be defined, explained, etc. One cannot be sure of the truthfulness or soundness of the answers, but they may help.
Every fiber of your being is screaming 'prank!' every line you traverse in this article...
Be that as it may, Florida has a pretty large budget relative to other states. Not California, but it's definitely not poor either.
a (quasi) silver bullet solution, can have legitimate (individual) down sides
In your experience, does your heat pump dryer actually dry in a similar amount of time to a conventional electric dryer?
this sounds like Krokodil that they had in Russia
I mean, in this case, yes, but I am neither Russian nor a child of the USSR, and I know both Kvass and Kin-dza-dza (which I introduced to my wife, who was born in a post-soviet state). Not all that obscure!
Unfortunately that's not how the world economy works.

It's a nice notion but it's not going to happen.
I work at Google.

I work fully remote. I rarely work past 5pm. I have worked on a weekend I think one time in 10 years. I have had one "urgent problem, VP on the phone" situation in 10 years. I happily take off time in the middle of the day to handle various errands (vet appointments, etc). "I will have the time and energy to make dinner for my family every single day" was one of the first things I mentioned to my manager upon joining. All this despite managing a team and being the final escalation point for a fairly critical system.
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I don’t see any propaganda here. The Guardian lays out the facts and obtains quotes from both sides. Reporting a statistic is not propaganda.
Brownsberger is my state senator and he's actually pretty great, he works on things his constituents care about and I've seen him on public transit a number of times.

My only real critique of him is that he had too much faith in the MBTA getting battery electric busses up and running when voting to get rid of our trolleybus system (MBTA 71 and 73).
I think drawing a line between light and heavy drugs (high risk of overdose/harm/very addictive)

If you have to buy your weed from a dealer who also sells other stuff the chances that you might decide to try something more harmful one days are much higher than if you can get your weed in a legal store.
OP fails to mention total cost of producing the new heat pump and opportunity cost of disposal of the old heat unit.
Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion.

So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mastered, but even then after a while I'm prone to forget how to solve them. Perhaps there some way to combine the problem solving with the spaced repition? It seems like it would be far harder to make a deck for this and I don't think most flashcard software handles it very well.
>they commented 'that shouldn't be right' as if I had cheated society somehow by not having health consequences for being an alcoholic.

That's not my interpretation of it, which is that "that shouldn't be right" refers to an unexpected outcome given the assumptions, rather than some sort of sense of justice being violated.
I intuited this as well, which is why I stayed with gas heat.

These days I'm even wondering if wood heat with a high efficiency furnace makes sense. There are so many dead trees around me. The carbon is going to go back either way. In the case of decomposition, there may be other negative effects of leaving it on the ground compared to burning it.

I haven't given much thought to a way to capture the heat in a way that can be used later. Ideally I can build some giant container of sand with some cinderblock, run some copper through the sand, and heat both using the wood being burned. Then, I could pump water through the copper which is being passively heated from the sand into my existing hot water baseboard, but it's unlikely to be hot enough - oh well.

--

I actually looked at some old quotes I found for mini split installs before and after the tax credits Massachusetts introduced and *big shock*, the price of the installs increased about 90% of the tax credit.
What would have made the reporting better?
Also, Europe is much norther than America, so its generally the worst place on earth you could put solar panels.
How many environments are really out there where developers blissfully work in their microservices silo? There are a lot of happy promises and sunny-day theories, but in reality it's an awful mess, and you can't really get anything done without understanding the services hairball.

How are you supposed to fix a bug in your own service if you don't know how to set up a specific permutation of services locally in order to reproduce it?
"I bought Nero his very first fiddle!"
American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'
>> Of course it's extremely important to switch people to electrified heating systems, regardless of their efficiency.

You could use a gas fired heat pump. It won't work as an air conditioner, but it won't stress the grid and could even work when the power goes out.
Yes, I can provide more details on Secure OS boot support ROM and its implementation in IBM ThinkPad laptops.

Secure OS boot support ROM, also known as BIOS-based Trusted Computing or Secure Boot, is a security feature that was first introduced in IBM ThinkPad laptops in the early 2000s. The main purpose of this feature is to ensure that the boot process is secure and tamper-proof, by validating the digital signature of the bootloader and the operating system kernel before executing them.

The implementation of Secure OS boot support ROM in IBM ThinkPad laptops was based on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology, which is a hardware-based security solution that provides a secure storage for cryptographic keys and other sensitive data. IBM ThinkPad laptops that supported Secure OS boot support ROM had a TPM chip embedded in their motherboard, which stored the digital signature of the bootloader and the operating system kernel.

The reason why IBM had their own implementation of Secure OS boot support ROM, instead of using more standard solutions like UEFI Secure Boot, was due to the fact that UEFI was not yet widely adopted at the time. In addition, IBM had their own proprietary BIOS firmware that was specifically designed for ThinkPad laptops, and they wanted to maintain full control over the security features and ensure compatibility with their existing software and hardware.

Overall, Secure OS boot support ROM was a significant security enhancement for IBM ThinkPad laptops, as it helped to prevent unauthorized access and protect against malware attacks during the boot process. Its implementation was based on the TPM technology, which provided a secure storage for cryptographic keys, and it was designed to be compatible with IBM's proprietary BIOS firmware.
Why not?

The real heating demand can be observed up front and with the typical (or even exact) weather you can easily determine the efficiency of the heat pump.

Yeah expect some inaccuracies, but not this huge
> not using AC in the summer

Can you expand on this?

AC is 100% matched by the curve of solar energy input (sun -> heat -> AC cooling but also sun -> solar power), so presumably as we transition towards more and more solar, we should be using AC more.
Some people are better than others. If you are single with no kids that leaves a lot of time. If you have a relationship that takes time (assuming you want to maintain it), and kids are a large time sink (well worth it, but not if you count time or money). Of course different relationships have different needs. And different people have different budgets, if you are born rich maybe you don't need to work and so this isn't an evening hobby. Retired people also have more time for projects like this.

If you make it a point though most everyone can find an hour every day to do something like this despite the above. However for most of us it is easier to turn on the TV/youtube/read books/.... Even the more productive things like learn a foreign language, politically support a candidate, and the like. There is lots of competition for your limited time and most people won't make projects like this a priority. Some of the things above are worth doing on their own, some are just a waste of time. (though if you are nearly burned out you probably don't have the energy to spend on more than TV)
Making your own cards is a very important step
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As I understand work, an unfilled company job has a

total normalised workload: w

c requirements: r_c(person skill_c, time)

number of positions to fill: n

where

time[now, infinity] integrated:

sum over i:= 1 to c:

involvement of person ×

r_i(person skill_i)

= w

(solving for total involvement × requirement = total normalised workload,

because it's a boundary of inequality (>=100% of w))

That is applicable to set of all living people at the moment L

finds out about posting: A subset of L

would accept: B subset of L

beta(person) := how much of required workload will this person fill after integrating their (involvement x requirement) over their time there

time: 0 to inf (now until end of the universe)

involvement(t): -inf to inf (work units)

requirement_i(t): [0, 1] (in units inverse to work units)

(a capable and willing person who's not conscious will have involvement=0,

someone who only would work on weekends for a place that's closed on weekends will have person skill_attendance>0 on weekends, but requirement_attendance>0 only on workdays, a disjoint set)

a person with beta=1 fills the position until the position ceases to exist

basically nobody has beta=1, that happens probably only if trade becomes obsolete or position is e.g. to paint a specific room)

remaining workload after parting ways (company closed, person dead and/or universe ended):

w_r = w - beta(w)

if w_r = 0 then they never have to hire anyone for this position ever again

otherwise the hiring process repeats with w=w_r

Here, there's a start to formalizing the problem if someone is willing to look into this. It's my half an hour armchair take on this, because I figured it is all I can do. even if it's not anything at all, I tried and enjoyed the process.

I think my main point is, hiring processess seem to be very far from addressing the basic parameters of actual process of working somewhere in my view.

Let's get GPT-4 onto this maybe
What the heck does this website do to the back button?
This is why I couple my heat pump operation to solar output from my panels. Any time I can fully self power it is a 100% win. During the darkest and coldest months however, the existing gas boiler takes the lead.

My heat pump is 5 years old and has never leaked refrigerant. I also collect the condensate for the gardens.
"the last 30 years of anti nuclear opposition have lead to 1000s of deaths, 100000s of people less health and more cost then any theoretical nuclear accident."

Where are you pulling these numbers from? Your ass?

The last 30 years were also one of best times to be alive as an average person on the globe generally.

How nuclear idiots can spin everything negatively is pretty funny.
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Once IBM V86 is enabled, you can run DOS-based applications on your modern operating system like Windows XP. IBM V86 provides better performance than these emulators since it is a hardware-based solution and does not require emulation.

Some examples of things that made use of IBM V86 include legacy software and applications that were written for DOS-based systems, such as games, productivity software, and business applications. With IBM V86, users could run these applications on their modern 32-bit operating systems without the need for a separate DOS-based system or emulator software. This feature was particularly useful for business users who needed to run legacy software to maintain compatibility with existing systems and processes.
tit·ter [1]

verb give a short, half-suppressed laugh; giggle.
"her stutter caused the children to titter"

noun a short, half-suppressed laugh.
"there were titters from the gallery"

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Didn't Waymo start testing without backup drivers in Phoenix, which is exactly as you describe (and also has clear weather nearly every day)? I think they only moved on to SF after deciding things worked well enough there.
Are you L5 or L6?
Nomic are also the ones behind gpt4all. Such a powerhouse team. https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
That's usually the answer. Kennedy said it best: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
Many things could be made cheaper by eliminating liability risk.
> Alcohol consumption is proven unsafe to health, but it's not controversial. Adults have the right to choose risky behaviors

As long as they do have a choice yes. But that's not always the case with highly addictive substances.
> The problem with this is that it creates a perverse incentive for faculty to bring in large grants monetarily speaking, rather than to do good science per se.

And it creates a straight-forward incentive to do good science to so grantors give you big grants.
you are better of adding with a gas plant to the grid, which can be up to 84% efficient (if you reuse the heat generated by the turbine as well)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
Apple's Mac shipments fall more than 40%, worse than major rivals
a whole lot of stuff has been derived from ergot alkaloids. Albert Hoffmann alone found drugs to help women survive child birth before LSD stole the show.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637017/
I've used Anki to great effect on a number of different fields. Using it well it definitely skill you need to learn, but there's nothing quite like it. Strongly recommend.
I work at Culture Amp and have been involved in hiring decisions, including for people who were excited about Elm so happy to comment here. As others have guessed, this is an "indication" not a "rule", and it was more about people who were applying _only_ because of the tech stack, rather than a sense of wanting to build a quality product, or alignment to the company's mission (improving workplace cultures). We hired plenty of people who mentioned Elm. I mentioned Elm in my interview.

Part of the reason for this is very pragmatic: during the time when Elm was in common use at Culture Amp, almost all of the APIs that Elm would have been talking to were written in Ruby on Rails, and our engineers were expected to be able to contribute to work that required changes in both the Elm front end and the Rails API. If someone was a functional language purist, and only wanted to work in say Haskell on the backend... then they wouldn't enjoy being on one of our product teams where writing Ruby on Rails code was part of the day-to-day.
Im not sure what you're complaining about.

People left, thats not opinion it’s fact. Reporting facts isn't propaganda.

Policies have consequences. Governments are free to enact them and people are free to leave if they dont like them.
1970 right?
Because flare fittings are a concession to make install cheaper, not better. R410a and other similar refrigerants are very high pressure, and the fittings undergo significant thermal cycles. Flared copper tube is a bad design choice. IMO, going back to brazed tubing connections is the most rational choice.
In the US, the author would have had a sleep study done and it would have been diagnosed in a day. Do they not have those in the UK?
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Why do you think the manufacturers mislabeled efficiency has any relevance to how the installation team performed?
> perfectly safe

That's really an over-exaggeration at least if we're focusing on longterm effects.
I'm a big fan of making lots of cards, like you say you can just hit Easy and send them into next year, or conversely if you keep forgetting them and they're using up lots of time, just suspend or delete them.

When I couldn't remember a particular kanji in Japanese I used to make lots of cards that featured that kanji at the same time, and usually I'd review them all the same time, it's sort of cheating but it always seemed to help me remember the kanji in the end.
My heat pump drier dries a full load (8 kg) of cotton in about 4 hours. My only other experience was a huge, old unit when I lived in North America and I don't really remember if it was faster, but it absolutely destroyed any piece of cloth that wasn't resistant enough, especially anything with elastics.

My current one is as gentle as air drying, no destruction at all.
Are the manufacturers going to pay for that? Or is it going to be a regressive transfer from the rest of the taxpayers?
Successful compilation of UB is explicitly disallowed by the standard in a constexpr context
"the National Health System have yet to even send me a letter"

That's the crucial point here. Health care failed him, but luckily he was rich enough to privately purchase multiple medical devices just to try it they might help.
I don't get the outrage over this.

Software has always been built in layers, repurposed for other things. This seems like a great example.

And it did make sense in the context of 2010 because it let HP experiment with non-Windows environments.

In another world maybe one of these would have become super popular.
I just saw a fun YouTube video on this: https://youtu.be/vFNgd3pitAI (at 13m). I don't know how sound their reasons are, but it seems pretty well put together.

Basically you'd see the same thing from multiple locations, as the light emitted closest to you will hit you at the same time light emitted in the past from further away reaches you. It would construct as two objects going in opposite directions.
Obese people won't get on a bike, though, because it's too big of a step. An ebike is a decent gateway into weight loss.
Outlier profits are further evidence that the salespeople are underpaid and should seek to remedy that by collective action.
We used to write software for pretty high-traffic systems using what is now underpowered CPUs, less RAM, and antiquated databases. It should be easier now, NOT harder. Most of development I see today is resume-driven and not based in any pragmatism.
Nope, the toaster had a full load done in like an hour. The heat pump is like 3 hours. But the difference is the heat pump doesn't absolutely destroy my clothes. I'm noticing how much longer my clothes are lasting since switching. It's also so much quieter than the electric.

If you are the type of person who goes "oh crap I need to wash every piece of clothing RIGHT NOW" then heat pump isn't for you because of the time penalty.
There wouldn't have been any in Alsace in 1518
The federal income tax rate is nowhere near 50% for anyone, much less most Americans.
spaced repetition is dying for some amazing UX. it doesn't even really make sense for you to make flash cards. ideally they could be contextually created based on what you're viewing, e.g. you read a wikipedia article, it infers what you're reading from scroll position, takes content, makes cards, presents later, etc.
The IR port could be used for remote control level interactions with a LEGO Mindstorms RCX. That was a major use case for my high school handspring.
Yes that tachyon visualization is pretty good. Here a video of a hypersonic jet flyby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQydRIxoAU0

You cannot hear any sound as it approaches. When it is at the cameras location, you hear a boom as a lot of soundwaves hit you at nearly the same time. After that you hear a mix of the soundwaves that the jet produces while traveling away and the other part is the soundwaves arriving from earlier during the approach. Unfortunately we can't really distinguish between those with our ears though a machine could. With light you would see indeed the object suddenly appearing out of nowhere and then splitting into two. One traveling into the direction of time and one seemingly going backwards.

What makes things a bit weird are for example time dilation and length contraction. Our equations for those would result in imaginary numbers (e.g. with "i") and at least to me it's a bit unclear as to what that would mean.

It is also unclear to me if a particle traveling faster than light would still see light traveling at the speed of light from its frame of reference.

FTL comes with causality issues/paradoxes, the easiest to comprehend video on that topic that I've seen is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0M-wcHw5A

From the perspective of a being that can sense only sound the hypersonic traveling jet would be equally confusing - it could assume that there must be things happening in another dimension, one that it cannot sense/observe. And so one could theorize that an object being able to travel faster than light could exist in a dimension outside our 4 spacetime ones - one that we cannot observe directly.