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by 781 8y ago
We tried to teach various animals language and mostly failed. Thus there is indeed a class difference between humans and the rest of animals. The rest of animals seem incapable of this ability, even when we try our best to teach them.
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by 781 8y ago
Not really: > While most owners contacted by CTV News said they don’t want groups renting out the homes, the rentals present a cheaper housing alternative for students and young professionals. Huge mansions rented to a single person.
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That would still fall on Boeing, it would be their responsibility to make it clear that what was acceptable in the past (broken AoA sensor) is not anymore.
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Not Invented Here Syndrome, level: over 9000 Since he mentioned wanting some 3D/gaming stuff, I randomly checked out his vector3 class. It's not usable, due to the usage of float8. Games use float4. And since it's not templat
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by 781 8y ago
OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.
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Your comment hilariously proves the point. Ask the kids what they think about today's mainstream music. They will say it's amazing. Who do you think drives the charts? Yes, yes, I know, you are or you know a couple youngsters who
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by 781 8y ago
So you think that someone saying that Python or C++ is superior to COBOL is ageist.
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> The cost-benefit of learning something new vs spending that time either learning more of what I'm already in... That's a good point. But you also need to consider it from the point of view of the person sitting across the tab
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But the phenomenon I'm talking about is well established in psychology: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/20141...
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> He was interviewed by a younger engineer who told him, “I’m always surprised when older programmers keep up on technology.” As someone relatively old, I've been in a lot of developer interviews. I also noticed that older programme
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> but it's not necessarily releasing all that it can back to the system either. That's exactly the point of swapping. Memory which was not used in a (relatively) long time is taken away forcefully from the process if there is m
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by 781 8y ago
In even more modern systems, with NVMe NAND storage, even swapping is ok.
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> How easily can the OS take the memory back from Chrome to run something else (that one is easy, it can not, except on the last case scenario where it kills process). It actually can. It's called swapping. An amazing technology fro
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A civilization using this method might not use optical systems to focus the beam like we do, but might individually fire precisely aimed photons.
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by 781 8y ago
Talk about a decadent society, where you hire 15 people to sculpt in ice, instead of being paid to do something a little more productive.
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by 781 8y ago
Here is your citation: https://www.sciencealert.com/replication-results-reproducibi...
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by 781 8y ago
It's not triviality. How many people do you really think care about Elymaic script? Or about Nandinagari?
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by 781 8y ago
PCI Express is already working at those data rates.
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by 781 8y ago
QML is just a teaser. Once you taste it you'll want the real thing and you'll move to Electron.
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by 781 8y ago
Bold prediction: it will be a total flop. A tiny minority of people want a keyboard at the price of a bulky device
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by 781 8y ago
A ton of people use GMail for their crypto accounts. Claiming that someone at Google stole the funds is quite an extraordinary claim. You should have more proof than just the seed being sent to their spellchecker.
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by 781 8y ago
Some guitar shops have a list of songs which you are absolutely forbidden to sing if trying on their guitars: https://i.imgur.com/Pzd3lIk.png https://i.imgur.com/qXkEUZl.jpg
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by 781 8y ago
We don't need an army. It should be completely dismantled. The Army budget should be spent on social causes.
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> Think about it for a second: there is someone buying and selling, consistently at known price points. This happens all the time in the stock market. Look at the SPY stock which tracks the S&P 500 index. At everypoint in time, anyon
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by 781 8y ago
There are a lot of crazy people in the world. The internet now allows you to reach and trigger them. This is not victim blaming, just like police advice to "not show valuable possessions when walking through the bad part of the city&qu
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People struggled for 40 years to make a blue LED. Even if quantum computers required near zero temperatures, superconductors and such stuff, there is no reason why you couldn't have all that in a no-serviceable-parts-inside box if the
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by 781 8y ago
So Europeans were sending 2 euro coins for recycling to China. The kind with two metals, white metal in the center surrounded by a yellow metal ring. To destroy them first, they just punched out the center inner white metal. Enterprising Ch
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I'm pretty sure animals have much bigger issues to worry about than outside temperature, like loss of habitat.
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I'll add another one: put solar control film on you sun facing windows. I was surprised by how it turned a greenhouse like room in an acceptable one - it prevents solar heat getting into the room and making it hotter than outside.
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There was a great article about this recently which basically says that modern architecture schools drills into you that any sort of ornamentation is a sin. It also made another interesting point: modern buildings have no context, if you se

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