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by Affric 3y ago
And our political systems are making rational choices based on the internal logic of the actors and the information available to them. No direct benefit from any of the solutions to 50% of the population so not popular, direct returns to bu
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by Affric 3y ago
Themes. Open source. Running executable code without review. This isn’t only a KDE problem but I think it very much is a KDE trap. I think it’s a little like flying an aircraft. If you’re not doing the maintenance and safety checks then you
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by Affric 3y ago
This is not just Paris but drivers are the same on the inside. The in my experience difference is enforcement. A higher proportion of cyclists believe they will get away with breaking rules and so you see much more of it. Once it’s a norm t
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by Affric 3y ago
Probably otter like to an extent. Would be interesting if the first thing they ventured into shallow seas for was ammonites though.
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by Affric 3y ago
To Trump's credit he took action against the 737 Max in a timely manner and came out against Boeing as hard as I believe a POTUS could.
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by Affric 3y ago
Great photo selection with the shifty looking seal (gotta love the whites of caniform eyes) and a nice little summary of the article. One thing about zoology and animal morphology is that we all know how important feeding is for animals but
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by Affric 3y ago
lol… this comment just makes me remember that how likely you are to die is determined by an estimate of what a company can get away with by an actuary.
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by Affric 3y ago
They are looking for signs of life. Anything they see that is not certainly a sign of life will be treated as a potential sign of life. It's special because it's 72 seconds of 0.001% in years of 0.000000000000000000001%
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by Affric 3y ago
Yep. This is so fucking true. You need an intellectual/cultural life to be creative. People to copy from. Imagine an author told you they had written more words than they had ever read? You’d think them mad.
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by Affric 3y ago
Good catch. It's unskilled. People will still be performing feats of dexterity, strength, courage, and genius in the future. They won't be shoving books into a woodchipper.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s all about values. I have been on teams where Python based approaches were discounted due to “speed” and “industry best practice” and then had the very same engineers create programs that are slow by design in a “fast” language and intr
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by Affric 3y ago
When people say Nix is declarative do they mean like SQL/Prolog?
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s interesting because they got so much right but they just couldn’t quite imagine the computer so they have humans pulling levers, remotely operating machinery, being carried by advanced surveillance helicopters… Perhaps this hints that
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by Affric 3y ago
When we teach students we have to balance employability, pedagogical utility, interest, and learning curve. The majority of students won’t need to know C to be employable. Teaching an Algos course in JS helps web dev. In Python helps data s
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by Affric 3y ago
Below the performance you would like by a long way. Always improving.
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by Affric 3y ago
I have been playing around with SymPy for the last couple of weeks because the CompSci department (not entirely uncontroversially) wants to become Python native for the students to make the courses more accessible. I have been looking into
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by Affric 3y ago
No, I mean I am yet to meet a person who has done development on SymPy (that I can recall) but I know a few academics that came from working for Wolfram on Mathematica itself. Thank you for allowing me to disambiguate.
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by Affric 3y ago
Yep. Know a few in the math department that have worked on Mathematic. Don’t know any who have worked on SymPy.
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by Affric 3y ago
I mean, integrating is one of the operations you might want particular help with. Especially for integrands without elementary function integrals.
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by Affric 3y ago
100% The final part of my comment got cut off by my tab switching behaviour but it was along the lines of “I find it hard to believe that even the most passionate hacker or tinkerer could become an adult and not have realised most people ar
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by Affric 3y ago
Identity politics and polarisation. It turns out that defining your beliefs based on your identity rather than identity based on your beliefs is rather popular. Has been for a long time.
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by Affric 3y ago
I have always hated how almost everywhere I go I get told “no one can know everything/no one cares how a plain works so long as it works” for me that’s fundamentally untrue. But I have heard it said so many times and seen so many peopl
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by Affric 3y ago
We actually can affect development patterns, deforestation, and afforestation through democracy. I am not against Miyawaki forests but I think we need to recognise they are largely for people. They vastly improve important metrics for us bu
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by Affric 3y ago
arm = acorn RISC machines -> advanced RISC machines
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by Affric 3y ago
> font rendering Apple’s strong suit is this kind of attention to detail. You may not like their UI but they know how to make it look beautiful. The attention to detail on fonts etc is amazing.
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by Affric 3y ago
> I hope they start showing up everywhere. For people in urban hellscapes? Yes. For non-human animals? More complicated. These sorts for forests are generally dominated by “edge species”. Edge species generally do relatively well out of
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by Affric 3y ago
The images and captions made me read the article. Fantastic. Thought provoking.
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> that even I can develop This gives away that you are not a regular consumer.
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by Affric 3y ago
I am actually a moderately happy Apple user. The old phone I have is good. The smart watch works well for my needs. The laptop is light, quiet, cool, and I spend most of my productive time in a terminal. I don’t really care about my phone a
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> minuscule detail Well done. Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.

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