I wonder if this is the etymology of the lovely speakeasy "Bourbon and Branch" in SF?
Readit Newscecilpl2 commented on Bourbon and Branch Water (2013) flemingsbond.com/bourbon-... · Posted by u/mirthlessend
OK, it's true that its stock price is high enough that the market has priced it above the rest of the entire automotive industry. but that price will undoubtedly crash, and it's not the biggest car company by any realistic or stable metric.
they've been slashing their prices and they make cars which catch fire. they've been around a decade and they still haven't turned a profit.
and again, what's the huge payoff going to be with Twitter?
> they've been slashing their prices
And yet still have margins of >20%, dramatically higher than any other manufacturer.
> and they make cars which catch fire
At a rate roughly 10% of gasoline-powered cars.
> they still haven't turned a profit
They've been profitable since Q2 2020.
cecilpl2 commented on NASA unveils new moon suit forth.news/threads/6411f1... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
I feel like over the past few decades I have seen tons of news like this or that at least feels like this where there is some announcement about tangible progress that is made towards our returning to the moon -- some new prototype capsule announcement, a new unveiling of a rocket plan, the new suits, the "biosphere" stuff, etc. -- only to then see a published time horizon for the moon return which seems to always be "five years out." Any reason to expect THIS time around is different?
Artemis 2 is scheduled to send a crew around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 is scheduled to land a crew in 2025.
SLS has already launched its test flight. Starship HLS (the lander) is funded and in development.
I have a different use case, involving wearing them in the house: listen to what my girlfriend says, use some ML to analyze whether I need to know it and if so, put it on the display.
She has a different "speech mode" than I: she speaks while I'm reading or washing the dishes or whatever, and sometimes it's to herself, sometimes to Siri, and sometimes it's something she wants me to know.
There is a simple wetware solution, which is that she learns to say your name before saying something she wants you to know.
cecilpl2 commented on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013) audioasylum.com/messages/... · Posted by u/Paul_S
Tarot cards are a genuinely helpful method of probing one's psyche and I've used them to benefit in my daily life.
I know many people who use them but none believe they have a magical power. They're projectives, like a Rorsach test.
The card will give you something abstract and you fill in the blanks. What your mind fills in can be quite elucidating. Your feeling as well, in terms of gladness or disappointment at what card you pull, can also give you insight into what issues you'd rather think about.
The demonization of tarot in my mind mostly stems from internalised misogyny and a desire on the societal level to paint anything which appeals mostly to women as "kooky," "overly emotional,". "illogical" and "unscientific" (projectives are well studied and used in clinical settings).
Douglas Adams on horoscopes:
> In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.
the use of finite means to express an unlimited array of thoughts
This is statement so ridiculous it verges on not even being worthy of being called unfalsifiable. It's plain old personal incredulity that because Chomsky cannot comprehend there are limits to human thought, human thought must be infinitely various, and because he uses language to describe thought, language must also be infinitely various. Thought is not infinitely various and language is even less so. This is blatantly obvious from even every day experience. How could language express an unlimited array of thoughts when language cannot even fully express the experience of eating a chicken nugget? Can language express all your thoughts when looking at a sunrise? When embracing your lover after a hard day? Language is the best tool we have but that doesn't stop it from being an extremely limited form of communication.
There are an infinite number of real numbers, and yet "blue" is not a real number.
A set can be infinite and yet not contain all things.
I want to believe, but I doubt. Even if they do, I may not bother buying it considering they have taken after EA for offering the shell game and then packaging up things inspired by modders as DLC. $256.00
The only way skylines 2 gets released is if they find a way to ramp this behavior up.
All game companies end up the same way in the end. Capitalism demands it.
cecilpl2 commented on Explore Wikipedia's New Look wikimediafoundation.org/w... · Posted by u/zebracanevra
> When you are logged in to Wikipedia, the updated header will move with you as you scroll
We need to stage some kind of intervention with web designers. There can't be a single person on the planet who actually likes this anti-feature. Why on Earth do they keep doing it?
Because most people like it and it improves metrics.
From the discussion on sticky header [0],
> Our preliminary results show that an overwhelming majority of test participants reported positive experience with a sticky header. Participants mentioned they enjoyed the ability to access important functionality from any part of the page.
> Overall, there was an average 15% decrease in scrolls per session by logged-in users on the 15 pilot wikis in the treatment group (with the new sticky header), compared to the control group (without the sticky header). This indicates that our hypothesis was correct - adding the sticky header to the page reduced the need to scroll to the top of the page significantly.
> there was a 2.8% and a 6.8% increase in the percent of people who were able to successfully complete at least one edit using the edit button within the sticky header,
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
cecilpl2 commented on Ask HN: Do you or someone you know give money to your parents? · Posted by u/DoYOuGiveMoney
That's fine. Getting perspective from different countries is useful.
Just give them as much money as you want and don't worry about the tax consequences, since there is no gift tax.
I am assuming you are in Canada.
Music festivals with camping are magical ways to build community and inspire yourself around other like minded and curious people. I never attended these events until a near death experience prioritized my love of dancing in my early 30. Now nearly 10 years later I'm even more convinced this is the way.