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New comment by ddfs123 in "Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water"

ddfs123 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:55:51 +0000

That's great and all but as a content creator, she has an incentive to create sensational, viral content. Which also introduce bias like exaggeration of the risk. Being financial independent does not exclude this type of bias.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

ddfs123 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:21:02 +0000

>Also, I would group kids by subject, and not by age.

I would be cautious with this, they may have the same academic ability but a large gap in social skills.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

ddfs123 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:11:30 +0000

Even for non-emergency, the short amount of time before a health issue turn serious means that it's already hard for you to take second opinion.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera"

ddfs123 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:18:54 +0000

I think it's just that naturally nobody is keeping 100% eye contact ( except maybe like TV news reporter ), it feels like an interrogation.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Kudzu, the vine that never ate the South (2015)"

ddfs123 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:29:57 +0000

My recent most favourite quote is "Anything is edible at least once".

New comment by ddfs123 in "Why TCP needs 3 handshakes"

ddfs123 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:26:31 +0000

I've consider it to be 4 handshakes but the middle 2 are merged.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature"

ddfs123 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:28:41 +0000

I got some message like "XML error" and just denied out of meeting lots of time.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature"

ddfs123 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:27:41 +0000

Slack's huddle just straight up block Firefox for me ( 130.0.1, Fedora ).

New comment by ddfs123 in "Do AI companies work?"

ddfs123 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:20:54 +0000

>I wouldn't be able to simply look at some text and give you an accurate word count.

I actually think you would, lots of time I've been surprised by how accurate people can eye-ball stuffs.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature"

ddfs123 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:30:23 +0000

Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent

New comment by ddfs123 in "Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience"

ddfs123 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:30:03 +0000

> In reality the modal life expectancy of adults (most common age of death other than 0) has been pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history-

I am pretty sure this is wrong. East Asian cultures celebrate 60th birthday as becoming very elderly, and if you live to the 70s it's almost as if you achieved Buddhahood.

New comment by ddfs123 in "In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules"

ddfs123 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:16:43 +0000

That was my Physics too, but Chemistry just completely glanced over the history. Same thing with Mathematics, no backstory of mathematicians. I guess that either 1. Physics History is short enough, well-recorded, or 2. Physicists really like teaching their history.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

ddfs123 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:52:46 +0000

Yup, and I think the only guarantee for a remote-first workplace is if the whole company ( or at least the whole engineering dept. ) is spread out enough that there is no possible plan for an in-office setup.

Seems like most these types are building niche products (e.g.: tailscale) and not just SaaS or CRUD-with-AI ?

New comment by ddfs123 in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

ddfs123 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:18:06 +0000

I think it's relative on how long you stare at the blue pallet. The longer I stare the longer the burn-in and more flush time is required.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests"

ddfs123 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:10:16 +0000

League of Legends.

Just knowing that your combo can finish an opponent can switches your situation from very passive to very aggressive. Also some jungle / gank timing require clock math.

I think most serious / pro players memorize the numbers already. But casual players like me still have do head math.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

ddfs123 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:56:23 +0000

Yup, having 1-2 days to care for your home is just that good.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests"

ddfs123 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:17:05 +0000

>we all know now how wrong that was.

How wrong was it ? I find myself having to do head math every time I playing video games.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Show HN: Icebreaking AI. A free tool to help you find close friends"

ddfs123 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:44:33 +0000

I am sorry but the AI reads like a job interview. Obviously because that's the kind of content you get on the internet.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Greppability is an underrated code metric"

ddfs123 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 03:56:42 +0000

Unless you have syntax-aware grep support, I don't see how searching nested key json could be better. But grep is the default installed. Not to mention ad-hoc languages that does not have any IDE support.

New comment by ddfs123 in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

ddfs123 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:19:26 +0000

I like that the test refresh your eyes with a random noise. But I think it should be a bit longer. My eyes still have a bit residue from previous color.