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Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
> Following the Dobbs ruling, researchers observed an abrupt increase of 58 sterilization procedures for women, averaging around 5.31 procedures per month per 100,000 individuals
For perspective, if this rate persisted forever (it's probably a one-time bump) then (assuming a life expectancy of 76) about 4.8% of the population would have undergone this procedure.
Comment · 2 years ago
As long as this took him less than 90 minutes it would be a higher hourly rate of income. Not to mention that doing this would not reduce his other earnings.
Or maybe he did it for the thrill.
Comment · 2 years ago
I code in C# and use a ton of LINQ when writing business logic. It's FP-ish enough to avoid logic mistakes. The mediator design pattern, which is kind of bringing another FP paradigm to the OO world, also features heavily.
Comment · 2 years ago
I find real-time audio mixers super interesting. A lot about writing your own can seem easy, until you find yourself in a fight against latency. If you hit 30ms you're dead, the mixer will become almost useless in a live setting. That's why the big expensive equipment hasn't been replaced by iPads. The highly regarded commercial SQ mixers [0] have 0.7ms end-to-end latency thanks to an FPGA inside.
I also firmly believe that, in the future, everything will be connected via Dante [1], which will be another example of commodity(-ish) computer networks eating everything.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yet another great example of America's 87% telling the 13% how they should live.
Comment · 3 years ago
No. Don't screw with nature, it doesn't end well.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't attend one, but I have stepped foot in some. Compared to an 'average' (200 person) church, the big ones have more refined music, teaching, and user experience. I guess it's easier to put more effort into content when the user base is 2,000 or 20,000, versus 200.
Comment · 3 years ago
The article says the original estimate was for tracks between 4 cities, not 2.
Comment · 3 years ago
If solution is defined as benefit(option)/cost(option) >= 100 (which I think you do) then there are solutions.
If solution is defined as benefit > 0 for cost == 0, then there are no solutions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Interestingly, winter has the highest windspeed of all seasons, summer the lowest.
Comment · 3 years ago
This brings to mind his advice that is basically 'If you want 10 good songs, write 30'.
His method remind me of Nail Gaiman: "And I think it's really important for a writer to have a compost heap. Everything you read, things that you write, the things that you listen to, people you encounter-- they can all go on the compost heap. And they will rot down. And out of them grow beautiful stories."
(And of course the pottery teacher story.)
Probably not at a large scale, although similar situations have led to odd headlines like 'Florida's manatees are addicted to power plants'.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240328-floridas-manatee...