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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I vouched for this flagged to the point of being dead submission, so I'm going to explain why. Despite the fact that I have reservations of some of what the article is pointing at, the underlying premise I believe is made in good faith
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Not OP, but I agree with them. The word computer means multiple things. In one sense it the abstraction of universal computation. Imagine a world where actual physical computers didn't progress to universal computation, but were stuck
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I'm aware of the book and two things can be true at the same time. The clampdown in HK came at a time when Americans were least likely to lead a coordinated effort to punish it. China has been way less cautious over the past four or fi
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
When Trump was elected China had no better time to finally act. A destabilized and distracted west and political cover for actions as responses to Trump's aggressive on China tone. Even now, we're not out of the woods yet. The wes
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Not the person you're replying to, just a similarly perplexed Canadian. They're the only fast food joint I go to here in Canada when I'm not traveling (and, really, other than traveling that's maybe 5 to 10 times a year)
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Yes, my comment is only in regards to the two main towers. I didn't study tower 7 in detail, but from what I understand it was a building that had an interior backup generator with enough fuel for a week or two and that is what caused
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I studied structural engineering. The 2008 NIST report changed my view. Beforehand I thought the 9/11 A&E for Truth movement may have had some valid points. I suspected it was due to poor construction inspection or possibly corrupt
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
It basically depends on your perspective. To someone on earth watching the spaceship speed up to the speed of light, the spaceship looks like its contracting. To the person on the spaceship, the rest of the universe looks like it is approac
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Well it was at first. Even after Japan, the US Airforce considered nuking Korea, but were eventually convinced not to by the Marines and Army who argued that deploying nuclear weapons risked a similar move by the Soviets on the battlefield
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
In the '80s when my dad was a C-level at a major Canadian telcom the first thing he did was move the knowledge workers to the edge of the building where the private offices were and moved his setup to the middle of the floor. His reaso
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a Clubhouse contract developer. Opinions here and elsewhere my own. Yeah. Ten weeks for an Android app to meet feature parity with an iOS app that had over a year of development with millions of users is pretty astonish
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Oh, ok thanks for updating my view. I clearly remember hearing it was 99% but must be either misremembering or the original source was wrong. I'd still rather have re-use via glass or recycling via aluminum than plastic.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
In every part of Canada I've lived in there has been a well developed reuse system. In Ontario, for example, a beer bottle is used around 100 times on average. Reuse should be way better integrated into our systems. If I could bring a
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I love the Japanese, but there is a culture of deference that cuts both ways. In the right circumstances you get consistent high quality from a master that knows what he's doing and eager proteges trying their best to head their every
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I've done the same type of math over buying Apple gear and working for income vs buying Apple stock and just hanging out in Thailand or Chile teaching English on the weekends. Predicting the future is hard. Tesla almost went bankrupt m
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Well, sorta. In practice people don't use one line statements and it's considered unpythonic. So much so I forgot it was even possible, so you're right, I was wrong. Black converts it to a multiline statement. Also, the Ruby
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
It isn't really worth $192 per user. It's worth, say, $40 per user if there was an absolute certainty that they wouldn't grow their user base and just stay at fifty million users for the next hundred years. But with tech, the
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Why should I need an else statement to use an if statement?
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
It allows for certain classes of exploit and is not worth the cost for the negligible performance gain in 99.99% of the situations. Before there was a comment to disable them I would see codebases littered with .dup or .freeze.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I wish I could merge the parts of Ruby and Python I like while discarding the parts I don't. Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby and so was allowing non-self calls to methods from another method of the same class. Wit
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
When this becomes common for non-techie forums, I worry about what will happen to archive.org. I don't mind paying for news, but there really aught to be something better than what we have.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Ha! I didn't know that. Well, I feel a bit better now. Normally the old physics engine in my head could handle stuff, but that one was impossible. Thanks for sharing.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I feel like this whole page could be simplified to something along the lines of: We layer encryption. Want another layer? Add it yourself. It's pretty easy but don't come cryin' to us if you can't restore your data one d
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I know right? I also loved the times where I got to the math and all that internal intuition lined up completely. Torsional deformation for example. I almost blamed myself for not inventing the math myself it so obviously matched my intuiti
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I know this isn't going to sound as sexy as AlphaGo for plants, but I really think this is a classic multilinear optimization problem once you've properly labeled the data and defined the dynamics between the plants / other o
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Very few things surprised me as much as rail design when I was studying structural engineering. Surface tension and fluid dynamics were both trippy too, but I expected those things to be complicated and while surface tension blew my mind du
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I had to disable dark mode on macOS because of how bad dark mode was for so many sites. The common pattern is that they use some sort of framework that ships with dark mode by default, but then the designers override some of the CSS to make
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I didn't say there weren't other factors, there clearly are, but there are real differences in smarts between schools and to consider this controversial is something I think is more of a product of our present moment than somethin
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Any one student may happen to be a genius at a lower tier school, but comparing population averages, it's pretty clear that smarter pupils go to MIT or Harvard than less prestigious universities and I don't see why this would be c
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
My biggest annoyance with software documentation is when it only has simple examples and doesn't mention obvious corner cases or covers the case where there is one related object but doesn't cover the case where there are multip

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