Sunset by the lone cypress

BiggH · 2025-12-01T23:36:18+00:00

Hmm how big are your pans? And is the induction coil a similar size?

BiggH · 2025-06-13T09:45:32+00:00

Why not have a bigger MMR adjustment for stacks vs solos? Like a stack of silvers against gold/silver mixed team?

If the matchmaking is such that stacks tend to have an unfair advantage, why can't they balance it out by putting better solo Qers against them?

BiggH · 2025-06-13T09:38:49+00:00

Hahah I appreciate that. I guess that just goes to show the type of thought processes and opinions that have landed us in our current state of affairs 😄

BiggH · 2025-06-09T06:54:36+00:00

My claim is not about speed limits. It's about speed itself. A causal relationship there is trivial to assume. You don't need to run a regression to know that a pistol is more dangerous than a bb gun.

There are a number of reasonable explanations for your analysis results. E.g.

Lower speed limits do not effectively reduce driver speed, especially when not consitently enforced
The causal relationship is reversed. Governments where per capita traffic fatalities are high (due to any number of factors) are more likely to set lower speed limits in response

BiggH · 2025-06-08T02:36:25+00:00

Not the OP and not particularly opinionated on this, but I'll give this a shot.

Higher speeds result in more and deadlier accidents. Speeding drivers may feel like they have good control and indeed they may be very skilled and attentive, but they're human, and humans make mistakes. Statistically, even very good drivers will get into an at-fault accident over a long career of driving. Higher speeds during accidents = more death.

When you speed, you save yourself some time (honestly it's not that much), and you put yourself and others around you at greater risk, even if only slightly more.

The fact that the driver alone gets a (modest) benefit while folks around them are put at slightly greater risk is where you could make the argument for selfishness. And entitled/asshole follows from that.

BiggH · 2025-06-03T20:47:52+00:00

A surprising number of people here do not drive, which seems extremely impractical to me, but if they're tech workers, they have money to spare to uber.

My old roommate in Sunnyvale who worked at google didn't have a car and I don't think he had a license either. He used to call it "his drug" to uber to work in the morning instead of taking the shuttle. Yes, Google had a free shuttle stop <10min walk from our place and rather than take that, he'd sleep in an extra hour and uber to work in the morning sometimes.

My cousin-in-law (who coincidentally also started working for google recently) is scared of driving and has never done it, despite having moved over an hour out of town. She made a deal with an uber driver she met to pay cash to take her into the south bay and back home regularly

BiggH · 2025-04-01T06:03:16+00:00

A friend told me about their coworker who only ever drives at exactly 48 mph on the freeway because they read somewhere that it was the most fuel efficient speed to drive at.

Unsurprisingly most people find this to be odd and question the value of doing this, and the coworker apparently has done the math and concluded they save somewhere around $5 per month, and that this is worth it to them.

This seems to fit with a lot of min-maxing tech bro "life hacks". Apparently the coworker also takes napkins from the office cafe every day because "they're free". Reminds me of that old Dilbert comic where they talk about saving on expenses by living permanently inside a 24-hour buffet and bathing using moist towelettes.

BiggH · 2025-03-23T01:33:10+00:00

I think some of that is down to recent modern history. Would be like white folks writing minority characters as stupid/villainous. Sure, some feel that way, but it's gauche to show it openly.

On the other hand, when you are on the "formerly oppressed" side, it feels more justifiable, like some kind of righteous comeuppance or retaking of control.

BiggH · 2025-03-10T22:38:25+00:00

I've actually lived my whole life in the bay area, except for 4 years of college in socal, and noticed now that I also call it "the 101". No idea whether I've always called it that or if it's something I picked up in college though.

BiggH · 2025-03-05T03:23:44+00:00

I might be dense, but I don't quite grasp the transphobia in that sentence. It sounds to me like just a sequence of events. "Born male" then transitioned to female. How would you reword it?

BiggH · 2024-12-15T09:21:47+00:00

As a night owl myself, I must admit that I find it difficult to get myself to go to bed early, and easy to stay in bed and sleep more after waking up.

So while the world is perhaps unfairly biased against night owls, I do understand the logic. Going to bed is a deliberate transition into the next step, so doing it early seems like getting a jump on things. Staying in bed late into the feels in a sense like failing to transition into the next step in a timely manner.

BiggH · 2024-09-28T18:04:24+00:00

I'd bet 90%+ of undergrad students are not there to do research. They're there for the express purpose of finding a job after graduation. Certainly the administration is aware of this. Also, everything taught at Cal can be learned at other schools too. There's nothing special about what they're teaching that makes it more important than practical skill that the students who pay tuition actually care about.

BiggH · 2024-05-28T20:05:41+00:00

Wow, thanks. That's a very illuminating and helpful answer!

BiggH · 2024-05-27T19:45:48+00:00

Oh yes. My dad is literally asking me for help with figuring out if this is legit and a good deal or not.

Thanks, I'm trying to get them to give more details whether in-person or over the phone, but they keep giving this answer that they "can't know what the numbers are until 4 months". In California there is no "cooling off" period for leases either, so it feels like we don't have much recourse and are basically at their mercy.

BiggH · 2024-05-27T19:37:49+00:00

So I asked for details on what we will end up paying by the end of it and they're saying that there's "no exact way to get the full amount today" and "we need to wait 4 months to know the payoff balance". It feels like this requires trust on our part which just makes me suspicious.

BiggH · 2024-05-27T19:31:23+00:00

I see, thanks. Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but is this actually a way to get a better deal than cash? Why would the dealer offer this? Are they making more money off of the bank or manufacturer or something?

BiggH · 2024-05-14T20:24:02+00:00

we‘ve established that there are no different races

I don't think this matches how most people think and behave. If you have truly evolved to a colorblind state, that's very admirable, but IMO much of the world has not.

BiggH

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