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> while other content creators get a click automatically.

A number of times now Youtube has shown me a video recommendation that I ignored for days. The thumbnail with that stupid "gobsmacked" expression of the creator (:-O) with some dumb headline in big block letters ("IS GRAVITY A LIE?"). You know what I'm talking about.

Then I finally get around to looking at it closer, and it turns out it's one of my favorite channels with an awesome video! They went with the stupid title and thumbnail because "the algorithm demands it". The actual video itself is great.

These creators get an automatic click from me as well, except when I'm mislead by the thumnail and title into not even realizing it's one of them. Then it takes time for me to discover it. There's been a couple of times where the video I'm mentally spam-filtering appears on the HN front page, and it turns out to be a great video. But had I not seen it here, I would never have clicked on it.

> Roland Piquepaille

Wow! I haven't heard that name in nearly 20 years, but the instant I saw it I had a negative reaction. I didn't even know why at first until I read the rest of your sentence.

+5, Funny

Yeah I feel the same. I have an LG inverter and it’s absolutely fine. Definitely better than the 70s microwave I grew up with.

I sympathize a bit with those who would like to have physical knobs and simplicity. I’m not a fan of the capacitive touch buttons. They are easy to clean, so I understand why they’re popular, but it would feel nice to just spin a knob to 3:30 and press the start button.

And it was 1/10th the cost of the “good old days” models. I appreciate the cost-cutting that went into my microwave.

I nominate your comment as the start of the leaderboard. :)

I got 91% overall with 3 perfect splits.

You're not wrong. But for this to work, the therapists' notes must be forever sealed regardless of circumstance. The first time a pilot darts their plane into a mountainside, and the investigation reveals that they told their therapist about their suicidal thoughts, this precommitment policy will vanish. The therapist will be blamed for 174 deaths. The FAA will apologize for allowing pilots who express ideation to keep flying. Etc.

It's similar to telling your doctor about illicit drug use. Don't do it unless you really trust your doctor to (a) not take adverse implications from the disclosure and (b) not write it down anywhere. Chances of both (a) and (b) are tiny. So, just lie about illegal drugs when asked. Do your own work on making sure to avoid interactions between prescribed drugs and recreational ones.

n=33 ain't bad. That means you will have data on 33 Calibri participants, and you get 33 more Arial participants as well.

It's not obvious that he needs to be in the cockpit, rather it's obvious that there is no security threat to allowing a pilot to occupy the jump seat. The trust they're given to fly the plane is a superset of the trust required to be in the cockpit at all.

When I was a kid, we called it "multimedia". Encarta being the example that comes to mind. My school library had some other interactive encyclopedia that came on a 6–CD-ROM magazine changer (the Pioneer style, if you remember music CD changers). I remember being absolutely flabbergasted at the sheer amount of megabytes sitting in that unassuming disc magazine.

That term is really quaint these days, and it doesn't fully capture what you're talking about. IIRC, it was more prepackaged animations, photos, video, and music; rather than "dynamic code running on paper"

"Dynagraph"? Sorry, that's lame, but there's my entry.

Designer: "Ok, boss. All dimensions in CAD have been updated with a tolerance < 10 micron."

Tool and Die Maker: "Just finished honing all the stamps and dies to < 10 micron accuracy."

Industrial Engineer: "Got it. I have scheduled inspection of all stamps to occur after every 5 units produced to keep an eye on wear."

Assembly Line Worker: "These panel gaps are still all over the place."

Piece of Sheet Metal: "lol, I like to crinkle in unexpected and erratic ways!"

I'm in Southern California.

The city I live in is just about perfect with the light-controlled intersections. Seriously, I love this place. A few reasons:

1. At night, many of the intersections here go red for all directions, and will immediately turn green for a car as it approaches. If you're going the speed limit, you don't even need to slow down. (To be clear, it gives you a green before you would ordinarily need to start braking)

2. Protected left turn signals are only installed where they're appropriate. The last place I lived just threw them up at every single intersection in some sort of ass-covering maneuver. Here, if the intersection is low traffic and has good sight lines, then you make your left after yielding to oncoming traffic.

3. The timing is super tight. I regularly notice cross-traffic signals going to yellow just as the final car passes through the intersection. I'm not sitting there wondering, "Green for who??"

4. If I enter a protected left-turn lane while the cross traffic yellow is lit up, it'll still give me the arrow. Everywhere else I've lived, I'm "too late" and have to wait for an entire new cycle before I can go. But here, as I'm passing over the induction loop, the controller instantly queues me up before the oncoming thru traffic.

I've been half-joking that I'm going to write a love letter to the municpal traffic engineering department, but I really think I should. I just keep noticing their work, especially when I see how bad it is in surrounding cities.

And tellingly, you didn't call it a two-passenger vehicle, either :)

It's a "2-seater" because it would be confusing to count the driver's seat as a passenger seat.

If I tell you I left my sunglasses "on the passenger seat", I hope you don't respond, "Well? Which one?"

Those who live in Kerrville, TX are really lucky! They are smack dab in the middle of this year's eclipse as well as next year's total eclipse.

Haha, yup. No matter what method I choose, I give something up. I agree switches are usually the best, but it gets more complicated when I want to have configurable color temp and dimmability in the same fixture. Can't use a dimmer switch, because the smart bulb wants full power. Or I can use a dimmer that's operating as basically a remote for the bulb rather than a true current-interrupting switch. But now it needs to be able to fall back to real switch mode if the hub is offline.

(By the way, Philips Warm Glow bulbs are awesome for this. I use them in my dining room lamp connected to an Inovelli Z-wave dimmer. They get warmer the dimmer they go, mimicking how tungsten filaments work)

My current setup is a mix-n-match of all three types, using each one where it beats the other two for simplicity and predictability.

I have, yeah. A couple years ago I got a bunch of Tasmota-flashable ones, and I use them for the coffeemaker, a couple stereos, and one table lamp. Oh yeah, and the christmas lights. :)

My issue with those is that they fail the "normal person" test. A normal person will try to turn on a lamp and it will never work because the smart plug is off. But with a smart bulb, it'll come on after they twist the stem a couple times. (And it never gets noticed! People are used to 3-way style lamp sockets needing a couple clicks to turn regular bulbs on and off, so they don't really notice that they had to double twist the stem to get the light to turn on)

80% of my lights are smart bulbs rather than switches, and I agree with your take here. In my house I have the smarts in the switch itself wherever possible, but so much of my lighting is from floor and table lamps (that aren't plugged into switched outlets). In those cases, the bulb is the only thing I can "smarten", and it still will work via the stem on the lamp itself if the HA box goes away.

The main drawback is that this means I have to have the bulbs set to light up after power is restored. A middle-of-the-night power outage is fun when the entire house lights up at 3am :)

I've done a few new installs of lighting in my garage, driveway, and patio. Because that was "greenfield" work, I got to put smart switches in. If I ever rewire this house, I'll use that opportunity to do some more.

The threat of mantle-cooling from geothermal energy is about as likely as stopping the wind with too many windmills. Or stopping the rotation of the earth by everyone running east.

Total energy contained in the mantle is about 12 million million million million million Joules. 12 x 10^30 J.

If every person on Earth extracted a million watts every day, it would still take millions of years to deplete that heat.

> Comedy is about the unexpected -- leading a reader down a path and then changing directions in a way that provokes laughter, not confusion.

Yup. My favorite line was "Frankly, I think this all goes back to my childhood, when I would constantly bite people for no reason."

It just leaves the reader in midair. The started reading that sentence expecting an origin story of sorts, but the "origin" of this behavior is just some more history of unexplained biting.

I'm describing what I think is a predictable second-order effect of this explicit enumeration.

Prop 65 seemed like a fine idea. Let's make sure people know about the carcinogens in their daily lives! Oops, now that stupid sticker is on everything, because you've created a fear in the minds of retailers and manufacturers. It's entirely useless, nothing has improved, but now people spend additional time wasting paper and ink and resources to stay clear.

Or for a more recent backfire example, see the FDA's new rules on sesame seed labeling (https://reason.com/2023/07/28/fda-commissioner-no-one-envisi...)

The law itself thinks it's covering a hole in existing protections, so people are going to modify their behavior accordingly to make sure they don't get in trouble. What's the easiest way to do that? For Hindus already employed, they can take extra care to ask about a candidate's background to ensure they're not skewing their workforce. Indians applying for a job now get to check a box next their caste. Most will probably check "prefer not to say", or maybe they check whatever one they think will give them an advantage. For non-Hindus, they can just decide to hire Mike Smith, who doesn't even know what a caste is. There's this whole new thing that must be accounted for, and those doing the accounting will find the easiest path through it.

> The law would literally prohibit everyone from discriminating on the basis of caste. There's nothing arguable or debatable about that.

I'm not debating the literal law, I'm debating the effects of the law. Harsher sentencing for crack cocaine literally applied to everyone of all races. But... yeah, it was done that way to target Black offenders, sentencing them more harshly for a couple rocks than White stock brokers got for a kilo of powder.

Just because a law technically applies to all, doesn't mean it does so in practice.

This law does target Hindus. They may have a pervasive problem, but I'd prefer the solutions to be neutral to nationality or religion, like the ones we have now. Step up enforcement of existing laws so you can deal not only with caste-ism, but also sectarian strife among other groups. Shia or Sunni, Catholic or Protestant, Orthodox or Reformed, etc.

They would be the only group “exposed” to this law. The vast majority of non-Indian people in California have very little idea how caste works, and how to identify membership, etc.

So now there’s this new law that de facto only applies to a specific ethnicity of Californians. I guess you could argue that all Californians—regardless of their ethnicity—are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of caste. But to me that sounds a lot like “all Californians, both rich and poor, are prohibited from sleeping under a bridge.”

I can see hiring managers avoiding Indian candidates if they think it would add risk of future lawsuits from that candidate’s subordinates in the future.

(“Don’t hire him, he might use caste-ist decision-making when building his team.”)

In practice, only other South Asians would likely run afoul of this law, so they now have baggage that workers of other national origins would not have.

On the contrary, you want your fund to cover unlucky situations. By linking the size of the insurance to a random number, you cancel out unlucky external events with a lucky internal event, thereby ensuring proper coverage.

So long as the random value is truly random. Were there lava lamps in the FTX server room?

Wow. I have no idea how I confused that.

Yeah, the WiFi is improved. The Bluetooth is the same as it ever was.

I pardon your confusion.

I have an inverter microwave. Before I went crazy with APs around my house, that microwave would win the war; no zero-crossings to sneak a packet by it.

Now my bluetooth only drops when I'm fairly close to the microwave as it runs. (EDIT: my WiFi, not my Bluetooth)

> It's the axis intercept that's most bothersome.

Real quote from my grandmother: "I'm not afraid of flying or anything. I just wish they didn't have to get so close to the ground before landing!"

He's describing a particular kind of hybrid, where the ICE acts purely as a power generator. Most hybrids don't work this way. They tie the output shaft of the ICE into the powertrain directly, so it can operate the wheels by itself if needed.

This setup allows them to make the electric motors much smaller and let the triple-rotor engine lay down power for acceleration, while the small motors handle the cruising.

The MX-30 R-EV operates the way you describe (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42485033/mazda-mx-30-r-ev...)

With all due respect to Mr. Lewis, this quote is crap. I have no reason to believe that the robber baron's cruelty may sleep, nor that his cupidity might be satiated, nor that conscience enters into it for that robber baron.

A private monopoly is accountable to only the owner. May as well be feudalism. In a liberal democracy, government monopolies have accountability to the people. When that is subverted or corrupted, it sucks, but at least there's a mechanism.

There's no such mechanism with a private monopoly.

The timing changes everything. In a wash sale I immediately churn the asset with successively higher “selling” prices. In a buyback, the sale was many years ago, to someone else in the market. That’s makes all the difference.

Just like if I buy a share of AAPL in 2007, sell it in 2011, buy another one in 2015, and sell that one in 2023. I did absolutely no wash trading. I just entered and exited a position a couple of times.

Buy backs are a one-way event. They’re not a loop for the purposes of artificially increasing market cap. If the company decides to offer new shares for sale in five years, that doesn’t mean some sort of loop is formed. That’s a separate event.

Wash trading aims to increase (apparent) market cap by creating trades through insincere activities.