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New comment by safgasCVS in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

safgasCVS — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:22:57 +0000

My view is a more charitable one assuming there is some grand strategy going on but I think you are more on the money. It's just hard to accept that the administration really is so comically corrupt and incompetent

New comment by safgasCVS in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

safgasCVS — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:31:20 +0000

May I propose a tinfoil hat perspective on tariffing China: America is prepping the ground for a full war with China. That's the only position that make sense to me other than the obvious "these guys are all corrupt idiots". I don't know which is which but at least the war perspective makes more sense to me. I believe we are at the propaganda stage where allies will be 'encouraged' into adopting similar positions and portraying China as a global threat. Nations such as India, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia are already encouraged to act highly aggressively towards China whenever possible. Given most of those countries political elite worship America and long to send their kids to Harvard they will comply and willingly allow their countries to be used as cannon fodder to maintain Western hegemony. The sweet-talking of Russia is an attempt to recreate the Sino-Russian split during the cold war and at least ensure Russia doesn't fight alongside China in a war. None of this is related to bringing jobs back, nation building or caring one bit about blue collar workers. its an attempt to maintain the American global hegemony that China very clearly threatens. If Trump and his close supporters can get filthy rich from this then all the better.

New comment by safgasCVS in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

safgasCVS — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:54:02 +0000

America's unwavering support for a lunatic country openly and joyously committing acts of unspeakable horrors probably not helping. Your president boasted on twitter about mass murdering a village tribal gathering. Wonderful country you got there

New comment by safgasCVS in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

safgasCVS — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:26:07 +0000

Why should I care if the tool I use to write boiler-plate code and suggest marinade recipes for chicken is censored? Theres plenty of censorship in chatgpt and Grok if you bring up topics involving US imperialism. It's quite an entitled view to believe this thing given to you for free needs to respect the beliefs widely held in your country but no where else.

New comment by safgasCVS in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

safgasCVS — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:06:23 +0000

Way beyond my skills to say. I just use a reseller who’s been around for years and has decent trust pilot reviews. I wouldn’t use Amazon though!

New comment by safgasCVS in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

safgasCVS — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:03:49 +0000

CJS CD Keys. I used them before years ago for Visio 2019 and windows 10 pro. Both still purring away nicely

New comment by safgasCVS in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

safgasCVS — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:09:19 +0000

Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour

New comment by safgasCVS in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

safgasCVS — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 08:53:03 +0000

It took less than a day to determine it was Russia and not only that but this specific ship that cut the cable. Yet years after the largest industrial sabotage and environmental disaster in recent memory (Nord Stream 2) absolutely no investigations into who caused that one and that story has been completely forgotten

New comment by safgasCVS in "FireDucks: Pandas but Faster"

safgasCVS — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:01:59 +0000

I’m sad that R’s tidy syntax is not copied more widely in the python world. Dplyr is incredibly intuitive most don’t ever bother reading the instructions you can look at a handful of examples and you’ve got the gist of it. Polars despite its speed is still verbose and inconsistent while pandas is seemingly a collection of random spells.

New comment by safgasCVS in "Sweden Is a NATO Member"

safgasCVS — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:41:35 +0000

Lemme be the guy who farts in the elevator. Sweden has managed to avoid entangling itself in military conflicts around the world for centuries and by joining NATO it’s got itself security but at the expense of potentially involving itself in conflicts regardless if Swedes want to be involved or not. Anyways it seems popular in Sweden but the naive lefty in me still thinks it’s a shame at the collective high-fiving

New comment by safgasCVS in "Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment"

safgasCVS — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:58:50 +0000

The scales of money in Ivy League schools are just staggering. It’s not a university but a hedge fund that dabbles in education

New comment by safgasCVS in "The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018)"

safgasCVS — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 06:40:34 +0000

- P-value is the result of a hypothesis test with the question being "is this effect size 0". The p-value is the probability of seeing the observed data under the assumption of the effect being zero.

- The R^2 is a measure of how well the regression model 'explains' the observed data so to speak.

- The effect size is contained in the coefficients assuming near perfect independence between the variables

New comment by safgasCVS in "The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018)"

safgasCVS — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:29:26 +0000

Adjusted R^2 of 0.14. Call me a cynic

New comment by safgasCVS in "Tesla lags auto industry in quality, finds new J.D. Power study"

safgasCVS — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:50:34 +0000

Having priced warranty insurance products in the past, the relative cost of repairs standardised by new vehicle value at the time of sale, JD power ranks were not bad proxies but bit and miss for their mid-field. Toyota being below average in reliability? Not in warranty claims it isn’t. Porsche usually does well on JD power but their actual warranty bills (again, standardised for their price) are very high. JD is mostly based oN subjective impressions and electrical niggles in the first 90 days of ownership (niggles including difficulty of operation not necessarily failures). If they have changed the method since I last checked my apologies for spouting nonsense

New comment by safgasCVS in "Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle"

safgasCVS — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:16:56 +0000

Don’t single Tesla out on this. No car manages to get its official mpg/EPA rating in real-world driving conditions. Some get closer than others and some manufacturers (eg Fiat) designed their motors in a way that maximises their performance on standardised tests. The gap between how ‘hard’ the car has to work to achieve the real world driving conditions vs test conditions plays a big part in the differential. Smaller motors with forced inductions are the worst offenders. Larger motors are more honest citizens.

New comment by safgasCVS in "Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed"

safgasCVS — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:22:37 +0000

Insurance policies such as these are priced very simplistically for practical reasons allowing the product to be distributed widely on systems that may not be internet-connected at the time of sale. The pricing can be made more accurate reducing the potential for arbitrage but that needs to be traded off the additional overheads and ease of sale. Its not that insurers are stupid its more that we know some things are easier-solved with anti-fraud measures than fancier Rube Goldberg machines

New comment by safgasCVS in "New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal combustion around longer"

safgasCVS — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:09:28 +0000

I don’t disagree with you but I see that as an aside. Millions of people don’t need 2.5 ton SUVs to cart themselves to and from the shops. Yes ok BEV will do it better but we have had scales for longer than we’d had batteries

New comment by safgasCVS in "New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal combustion around longer"

safgasCVS — Tue, 26 May 2020 09:35:55 +0000

ICE motors have been evolving for over a century now so the improvements will become ever smaller. Despite that slowdown in progress, the energy density advantage of fuel over batteries still vast. Regulation should, in my opinion, be be aggressively pushing towards reducing vehicle size and weight instead of focusing on the fuel. Having a 2 ton car to move a 60kg person from stop light to stop light is just insane

New comment by safgasCVS in "New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal combustion around longer"

safgasCVS — Tue, 26 May 2020 08:30:05 +0000

Between this, camless motors, motors that can switch between different combustion cycles and variable compression ratios there is technically still a lot of improvement to be had. Whether or not the political climate will allow those improvements to come forth is unfortunately uncertain

New comment by safgasCVS in "Our approach to the future relationship with the EU [pdf]"

safgasCVS — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:43:17 +0000

Unless there is someone here who can shed more light all I can see is from way the EU members treated Greece it made it very clear the EU was never going to let the U.K. leave and profit from the deal.