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Stance for board sports is nearly even, one analysis shows 56% regular vs 44% goofy [1]. It's not like handedness at all. Not sure why one was designated "normal" and the other "weird" when it's so close. My guess is that there was a very small group of skaters that came up with the name, and by chance most of them happened to be regular.

1. https://blog.benw.xyz/2013/11/the-real-goofy-vs-regular-a-lo...

If you use OpenSCAD I highly recommend using BOSL along with it: https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL/wiki. It's essentially a standard library for OpenSCAD full of incredibly useful things. For example, adding a radius=2 fillet to a 5x5x5 cube is just:

cuboid([5,5,5], fillet=2);

That isn't a feeling though, it's a thing they think. It's a judgement on the actions of others.

The blue is nicer if you do that. Technology Connections has made 3 videos over the last 5 years mostly centering around how he hates the blue led lights used in holiday lights. I think I've only seen the 2 yr old one, but now that I have I can't unsee it. The blue is just too blue. If you see a set that is all blue instead of multi-color it's unbearable. It's just too blue. White light in blue plastic is where it's at.

https://youtu.be/PBFPJ3_6ZWs?si=sTeRrqQ5umHsNCgz https://youtu.be/cQgcTkXacAc?si=CDj0G9Sh7S-wbLjN https://youtu.be/va1rzP2xIx4?si=cAp65hnmwtkrXgDc

PP does not contain BPA. You might be thinking of PC.

IDK seems fine to me.

> we also wouldn’t express someone being very focused as “being on Adderall”, or a very creative idea as being “on shrooms” in a scientific publication.

We don't because nobody does, and many people might not know what you mean.

We must be thinking of different things because imo carbon taxes are the most direct way to internalize the externality. Crude oil, coal, and natural gas now cost more, proportional to their GHG potential, and the free market figures out how to minimize the cost.

It gets tricky when importing finished goods and with non-fuel sources of GHG, but it's way less complicated and more effective than any of the other proposals.

I think it's a little unfair to call people idiots for something that's extremely hardwired into their brains.

Yeah, that's literally what they said.

I can't be sure that other people feel in the same way that I do. I assume they do because they act like it and so I go along with it.

If I can't be 100% sure that people feel in the same way that I do, then asking that same question for robots is totally pointless.

The warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2 custom maps line tower wars and winter maul wars fit that bill. You each have to build a maze as well as send units. Units increase your recurring income but also give fixed money for the opponent if they can kill them. Getting units through your opponent's maze takes their lives but also denies them the fixed income making fall behind in income further.

There are definitely people who will move every single thing out of a house in a weekend for free. That's how storage unit auctions are done, and buyers even pay for it.

They already have user contributed imagery. In parks, Google usually maps the paths but you can see dots off the paths for user added points.

Ads must be relevant to be shown. The casino ad would probably not be shown at all, but even if it were they would have to pay more than Sony.

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Yes, we made our own. Our company was third to market.

I managed a Bitcoin mining operation a long time ago. We made machines that made 50% of their BTC in the first month of their operation, and the remaining 50% over the next 5 months. After that they cost more to run than they produced.

The accountants wouldn't believe us when we told them that the machines were worthless after only 6 months.

Offering a non-zero level of trust to a corporation shouldn't be considered idiotic.

What's really idiotic is defending a corporation's deceptive business practices by saying anyone who gets tricked is an idiot who deserved to get tricked.

I used to feel that way, but eventually figured out a set of design principles that took care of the parts of the game that were stressing me out. Turning off biters, building with a main bus, making a mall for yourself, and building with extra space so you can hack easily will go a long way to reducing the "ahh I'm gonna have to redesign this whole thing" stress.

That other people have feelings?

I'm not suggesting it's deterministic.

People have been saying that if driverless cars are safer than humans by any amount we should allow them. I'm saying they should be much safer than humans before we allow them.

The public will not tolerate car manufacturers killing 10's of thousands of people per year just because they are very slightly statistically safer than the average human driver.

The problem is that it's a different set of people who will die with self driving cars. Imagine the trolley problem but instead of 5 vs 1 it's 30,000 vs 29,000. The 30,000 people get hit by the trolley and die if you don't pull the lever, and a completely different set of 29,000 people die. People who did not do anything wrong. People who had no chance to fix the situation. Sure, it's 1,000 fewer people, but none of those 29,000 people did anything wrong. They were all killed by the self driving systems made by car manufacturers.

Regardless of whether or not you personally would pull the lever, you have to admit it's not the same as saving 1,000 lives.

I realize that, but 1 month vs 6 months? It's not just that the infrastructure is all different, ramping up on a codebase is extremely time consuming itself. You're going to have that at any other large tech company.

If it's a tiny startup on mostly greenfield stuff then sure, but that's also not a reasonable proxy for the rest of the industry.

IDK what your experience is, but in my experience at Google it would take about 6 months before I could consider someone "reasonably productive". Or maybe it takes about 6 months before I'm confident that they are actually underperforming.

A week is just enough time to get a cursory understanding of the product and tooling and fix a newbie bug.

Solidity was not mentioned in the article or this comment thread (aside from your comment).

I worked at Google in KIR for the past 5 years. You calling the working conditions "atrocious" is hilarious. This is why people call Googlers entitled.

True, but you can use that argument against most forms of entertainment. Books, movies, video games, DND, sports, etc... VR is just another thing people can do in their leisure time.

Everyone here is freaking out "oh no, Facebook is going to make something so entertaining society will collapse". I would be so proud of myself if I created something so entertaining society collapsed, lol.

You know what's worse than the world of ready player one? The world of ready player one where there is no VR.

I don't think creating fully immersive VR is inherently bad.

This is so incredible! I just tried this out with a few of my models and I can vouch for the order of magnitude.