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Comment · 1 month ago

The article is saying that there is a lot of rape happening.

Comment · 7 months ago

Your comment inspired me to vibe code https://calcubest.com/other/shuttle to see how fast the space shuttle travels between world cities. Pretty darn fast.

(also my first time trying to vibe code with Gemini as opposed to Claude and I don't know if I noticed a big difference, which probably makes sense for such a simple project).

Comment · 8 months ago

https://www.languagetransfer.org is an excellent free source for learning grammar. It will get you really far in terms of understanding the rules of a language. From there it's a lot of memorization of vocabulary.

For me, learning Spanish required flash cards (https://calcubest.com/languages/spanish/tenses) to actually memorize which conjugation rule applies to which tense. But Language Transfer was definitely what made the rules click.

Comment · 9 months ago

This seems different. With a knife the stabbing is done by the human. That would be akin to a paintbrush or camera or something being used to create CSAM.

Here you have a model that is actually creating the CSAM.

It seems more similar to a robot that is told to go kill someone and does so. Sure, someone told the robot to do something, but the creators of the robot really should have to put some safeguards to prevent it.

Comment · 1 year ago

That's funny because to me 1% of all electricity seems like a huge number.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is good feedback. Is there a single resource you would recommend for someone somewhat interested in game design?

Comment · 1 year ago

What you are referring to is called "white flight" and the causes were more complex than crime or immigration.

The casual link between immigration and crime is generally agreed to be false. So whatever you read that claimed immigration caused crime to go up seems incorrect.

Comment · 1 year ago

I've been thinking about the natural handicaps certain sports teams have. Things like weather, elevation, travel distance in a season, etc.

I think it's interesting to think about how much something like that might affect the career of an athlete, especially early in their career or someone who is on the margin of getting into professional sports. Would choosing to play at a university that has a lot of natural handicaps be the difference between making it into pro sports? I wonder.

Anyway, I ended up making a page showing how much baseball teams in MLB have to travel this season: https://calcubest.com/sports/mlb2025 which I think does an OK job of highlighting how much less time athletes playing on central division teams have to travel.

Comment · 1 year ago

"In 2023, numbers released by UNOOSA showed that only 11 percent of the world's astronauts are women"

Comment · 1 year ago

I can second this. That's the program I started with. I'm now training for a half marathon using https://www.baa.org/races/baa-half-marathon/train/leveltwo and I've shaved like a minute off my mile pace while increasing my milage from 6 mile runs to 12 mile runs.

There's lots of programs for running and most of them seem good for improving performance.

Comment · 1 year ago

I have a couple friends who were big outdoor types who became software engineers and then after making some money for a few years went and found more outdoorsy jobs (think forest service jobs).

The point is not that an outdoorsy job is great for you, but that you may want to consider what kind of things make you happy and see if you can find a job doing something like that. These folks loved being outdoors before become engineers and were happy to go back to being outdoors for work.

Comment · 1 year ago

You're not the only one. I recently took up running and didn't particularly like any of the existing running pace calculators, so I made my own: https://calcubest.com/health/runningpace

And then kinda realized that there were others I wanted to have, and a few I thought others might want, so I added more.

A calculator is simple enough that it's fun to work on one when I need a break from something more complex but want to be able to do something other than doom scrolling. So now every couple of weeks I add another one.

Comment · 4 years ago

It is. It’s one reason why the job market for experienced developers may be hot while juior developers are unable to find work. A company has little incentive to train someone who will likely quit.

Comment · 4 years ago

There are many such organizations that are active at a city or county level (eg https://sfbike.org/) and there are others at state level and even one or two at national level (https://www.bikeleague.org/). In my experience the most resources and most effective advocacy happen on the local level. I’d love to see national or state level organizations get more resources though.

Comment · 4 years ago

This seems to assume that the 10 strangers are not someone else’s children.

My understanding of utilitarianism is that other factors than keeping someone alive should be considered. Is it utilitarian to save 10 elderly people over the life of a child? It might not be, depending on how long the elderly are expected to live, and if the remainder of their lives is as valuable as those of a child (eg, will their remaining years be unproductive and sickly due to age, while the child’s life may be full of productivity and health).