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The original study was flawed I’m afraid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091803

pre-commit hooks are awful, they get in the way of interactive rebasing. pre-push is where they belong; save a round-trip through CI.

I want this for pedestrians and cyclists at intersections, and particularly HAWK beacons.

I’d highly recommend looking up “Situational leadership” if you’re worried about coming off as micro-managing. You need to adapt how you’re mentoring based on the mentees skill and…

I’d say Matt O’Dowd of PBS Space Time is the closest to Levine’s role?

Gotta love the confidence to casually think every physicist for the past 100 years is an idiot.

One of the best commencement speeches I’ve seen.

A couple of little Apple Watch apps - a drinks counter that calculates approx BAC, and a timer for stretching that gives a 5s pause between stretches.

Coupling / decoupling at high frequencies would be a challenge for sure - but seems achievable in a world of fully autonomous vehicles that can communicate.

I don’t think the second part (about length of the train) is accurate at all. Yes, a train made of pods roughly car sized would be longer, but only roughly 3x. If you look at the d…

Oh wow! I’ve wanted this for ages, even started making it myself at some point!

Heh - I'm using ChatGPT for the same thing! Works 10X better than Rocket Money, which was supposed to be an improvement on Mint but meh.

Blow up the pokies

Look for an old Dick Smith kit?

In Brisbane, the Jacarandas in bloom meant it was exam time

I journal ~daily since having kids. I feel the same way - it gives me peace knowing I can look back in time later and relive just a little what I was feeling today.

Unfortunately prop 13 broke that dynamic, among other ill effects.

I live on a street in Berkeley that was not red-lined, so it has single family homes and fourplexes. It’s great, we love it. You can choose to be miserable but it’s got nothing to …

The first time I used DuoLingo, I was just trying to get through the tree, without really learning, and that was useless. Now I have a different technique: I’ll only listen (never …

Have you looked at Next Chapter at all? I know several folks who have come through and have amazing careers at tech firms: https://www.nextchapterproject.org/

Building market rate housing lowers prices, as housing generally follows the demand-supply curve. https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/market-rate-development-...

I just tried with ChatGPT 3.5 & 4, they both got the correct answer…

Facebook built a datacenter in Luleå, near the arctic circle.

This data set should be expanded to include 100 of his peers who started trading at the same time.