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I am still reading but have the exact same question. The production value is high. The url is simply “retool.com/pipes” (I.e. not just another blog).

> 2. Far more people each day die in GM's not-self-driving vehicles. Why are they not firing people over that?

First, you need to consider accidents per mile driven.

Second, you need to consider accidents attributable to the manufacturer as opposed to user error. In driverless, every accident is manufacturer error to some degree. Recalls are a decent proxy for manufacturer error in non-driverless. I'm sure that heads do roll at GM when a recall occurs.

This is quite interesting because you can imagine that lobbyists would argue that standardization would “stymie innovation.” If F1 does it why can’t you?

This can be used as a dark pattern. If you want a user to use a particular setting (e.g. “Customize my ad experience.”) you can just make it unclear which they’re choosing.

A big offender here is (was?) instagram’s privacy settings. I recall trying to help my mom turn her profile to be private and we were both confused: does the blue mean it is private or not?

Yes, I keep on thinking that a premium market will develop for Toyota and Honda cars from roughly ~2006-2010. Those cars were the height of internal combustion technology without all of the electronics.

It depends on how realistic one is being. In a perfect world? Maybe. In the actual world? I think a lot of people get to a point in their career where they want a solid, steady paycheck with minimal drama. There are also a lot of “deep tech” areas where it makes more sense to be in a larger firm than to be out on your own trying to do a startup or whatever.

One area where BMI is known to not be as accurate is people who have high muscle mass. I don’t think this can explain everything but it seems like it could contribute to understanding this statistic.

To elaborate: the easiest way to stay apolitical is to never say anything. But that’s no way to live. Depending on the context you may want to be more or less opinionated or - alternatively- know when to say nothing v saying something.

In what context? Work? friends? Family?

I don’t think it is possible to always be apolitical. I think there are many instances where you need to be aware of what sort of political statement you are making.

Hmm, it appears that they relied on the quality control of forum moderators but didn’t do any of their own QC?

From the methods section:

> The database of drug narratives from Erowid’s “experience vault” is entirely anonymous. Rigorous quality control is conducted by trained experts with careful consideration given to “quality, credibility, and focus on effects or outcomes” (www.erowid.org). By means of that mechanism, all reports that provided the basis for the present investigation have successfully exceeded a standard quality filter.

There was also a piece in the nyt this morning [0].

Seems like someone was rushing for a scoop (what scoop? This is old news.) or someone’s PR firm is getting results.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/business/the-harvard-prof...

The journalist's phrasing surrounding his quote did seem to do this. But his actual quote did not.

* assuming you already have a boat.

I’m bad at reading zeros but isn’t that a bit over 2 billion with a b?

YoY price inflation (cpi) was 3.7% in August. The fed does not think price inflation is under control by any means.

Wage inflation will only peak if workers roll over and let employers take advantage of them.

A third reason Apple doesn’t increase their bounties: they don’t need to. There is no secure phone on the market. Your only options are insecure phone (iOS, android, whatever) or no phone at all. So while it might be nice to be able to claim that you’re relatively secure, there’s very little to be gained by spending all of the resources required to buy up all exploits.

This seems similar to observing that vertical and horizontal stripes on clothes (and the width of the stripes) can affect how one perceives a silhouette.

This essay seems to be nothing more than a rehash of, “Does history have a replication crisis?”

Waymo crashes are far more common than I would guess given the news coverage of Cruise's issues. I can't see the full article, though, so this might be a reflection of 1.) larger fleet, 2.) longer time running in the city.

Julia is much younger.

Matlab is closed source. I haven’t touched it since I had a uni license.

IIRC only their autocompletion recipes are. Not the actual application itself.

This is the third notetaking post I've seen on here in the past 48 hours. Is something happening in this space? Or is this just the whole "feed your notes to an LLM then $$$" thing?

Thank you. I believe this answers my question:

> Individual participants were not blinded to their group assignment and upon giving consent were aware whether they were participating in the VIP intervention or control arm of the Trial.

So my read of the results is that participants who were interested in having a child (and were in an intervention school) selected into the VIP program. Participants in the control schools were a more random group.

I can’t read the full article. Does it say if students were permitted to opt into the class and, if so, whether they knew that the infant simulator project would be part of the class at enrollment time?

In my (US) high school, this project was done in home economics, which was an elective. But it sounds like these were standard health classes.

Am I correct to understand that this is actually an issue for these people?

As a programmer of far less exalted code, I’ve never felt like I was at risk of an RSI in my hands. (My neck is a different story.) I spend a lot more time thinking than typing. I wonder if this is because I program in a corporate setting, or if I’m just not as smart/fast at coding as these people, or if it is just a reflection of a different era in programming?

It is. And my question is that - given that it is a personality thing - how is Shopify dealing with it?

What is the policy for ad hoc huddles? If I’m spending more than 20% of my attention on a message thread, then I’m not being a productive programmer. At that point I just want to pick up the phone and talk to people (but not hang around and chat forever).

I’d like to see some stats on slack usage, Google docs activity, and jira ticket activity (or their equivalents) before and after this shift.

Basically: does this just mean that everything is migrating to written form? If so, is that good?

I like the effort that the artist put into designing objects that we might consider to be strictly functional. For example, his data collection device and even the suit he worse to do data collection.