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Detroit rap rock neatly broke along the prevailing political tendencies in the US 1. Kid Rock is the MAGA candidate. This makes sense: he was the scion the owner of many car dealerships and grew up in a house with an apple orchard and a hor
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Here's the thing about "fucking magnets; how do they work?" How do magnets work? No less a science communicator than Richard Feynman—he of the rubber sheet gravity spacetime analogy—had no analogy to communicate why ferromagn
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And that archetypal soccer ball design is called the Telstar and named for a communications satellite, fun fact. I think before 1968 the volleyball shape was more popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Telstar
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I do use it. Before the way config worked changed I had hold/tap control/double-quote working. But they changed the way config works and I didn’t bother to fix that because I made a keyboard that does what I want exactly and when
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Win what tomorrow? An election? There's no election tomorrow. A coup? Intriguing! Probably take a while though. Volunteer doing what? Donate to what? Boycott what with what demands? What's the most successful boycott in your esti
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No match for detection, but do countermeasures exist? Can torpedos target them? Do the ships in question carry such torpedos, or any kind of torpedo?
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make caps lock control on hold, double quote on tap. Make control hyperkey on hold, angle bracket on tap. My keyboard firmware is very odd. This is not easily done with soft remaps to the point that I don't bother trying.
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This got me curious, and yeah it turns out Elm's dictionary implementation uses values, not pointers when retrieving values. elm repl ---- Elm 0.19.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Say :help f
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maybe it's that multiple bit patterns can be NaN and these are two different ones? In IEEE-754, a number with all the exponent bits set to 1 is +/-infinity if the fraction bits are all zero, otherwise it's NaN. So these could
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> I suspect the escort ships would be fine though. They can defend themselves. From underwater drones? Does that technology exist?
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Started doing what? Distributing Maoist literature and rifles, or donating to Act Blue, or something in the middle?
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The pathological case with scheduling is: It's 2015. You live in NYC. Your pal in Santiago, Chile says "hey next time you're here let's hang out." You say "great, I have a business trip there next April. Let&#x
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It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w" transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew transliteratio
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Bubble tea is a library for handling TUIs using the Elm architecture, often abbreviated TEA: a model type, a message type, an update function that refreshes the model and emits side effects, and a view function that renders the UI given the
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Fun finance fact: "time on a machine that makes a precious commodity" is the first known futures contract, although in _Debt_ David Graeber posits that futures contracts are the original form of currency. The concrete example I&#x
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Once I did a little bike training and looking at my power curve, I was incredibly impressed by how cheap energy is. 100W is an all day number, 200W less so, 300W is exactly 20 minutes when I do an FTP test. 400W is 4x Tour de France winner
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I remember when Adobe Creative Suite came out (I think?) and Australian said that a first class flight to Los Angeles and the American price were less than the Australian price. Hoping Bruce or Sheila [1] Cunningham [2] can chime in [1] ht
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If you're into Haskell prior art, there's postgresql-typed https://hackage.haskell.org/package/postgresql-typed-0.6.2.5... where you write queries, it safely(?) puts in your variables, and you automatically g
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We have this with our frontend code through elm-review. There are a great many rules for it with fixes, and we write some specifically for our app too. They then run pre-push so you get feedback early that you need to fix things. The real k
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> I had been keeping a simple food log for years at that point > It is also fairly easy to keep a running net for the day Right, so there it is: whatever you did to get to a calorie deficit you need to keep doing to be calorie neutral
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> most people who succeed at significant weight loss while taking GLP-1 drugs regain most or all of the weight within a couple years if they stop taking the drugs. Anecdata: I've gone from 260lb down to a minimum of 198ish, up to ma
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Every business leader who makes money is a Marxian! Capturing the surplus value of the labor of others is how a business makes money and that is a value neutral statement.
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I used to (idly) consider play-doh with thermite in it on the hood of the car double parked in the bike lane. But then I moved to NYC where nothing would be possible without a little double parking happening.
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A related talk is Richard Feldman's "Making Impossible States Impossible." Richard wrote a number of Elm packages and is the creator of the Roc language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
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Best I can do is that the middleman took the sweetheart deal conviction for solicitation at face value, and did not know it was a plea down from crimes against children? IDK
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They also declared that a shoelace is a machine gun until they declared that it's not https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/ctdm3/oldie_but_goody... https://imgur.com/7N6zc
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There are bribing and HFT opportunities here too. The fix developer is incentivized to wait until the last possible moment to take the position "the PR addressing the bug will be merged by the date" so that the contract will be th
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All we need to do is create Kalshi contracts! Users bet that a fix won't be created for Issue 123 by date XYZ, developers take the other side of the contract and then do the best kind of insider trading: changing the facts on the groun
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I wonder if Candide is the prototype of this.
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