Avshalom

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by Avshalom 3y ago
I for one see no possible issues with the experimental method of: "we asked people to guess how much aspartame they consumed while pregnant a dozen years ago"
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by Avshalom 3y ago
there's a couple things going on there. Photsynthesis isn't absorbing much its ~1-2% efficiency (so mostly just waste heat) but plants are mostly water which has a high heat capacity so it warms slower than a kiln dried wood struc
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by Avshalom 3y ago
local humidity levels is just transpiration, which yeah in a valley trapping the humidity can create rain but that's not the same as this cloud seeding mechanism.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
That makes one unit of money less valuable than that same unit at some previous period of time. "Money" though is still just as required to not starve as it was in that past.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Is it a big business decision or is it just 9 out 2000.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
The thing is, it's 2023, we all "know" that every company's product get made in the same factory and there's just a fork at the end of the conveyor where they get different branding slapped on. So the gamble is that
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Paper is enormous and extremely high resolution. Even a shitty printer has a higher dpi than almost any screen and you can do get an almost arbitrarily large print at that dpi instead of constantly losing density. that's why we all kee
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I would like to see the actual quote from Patricia Rankin because [challenging] people's assumptions is not at all what science is about. I mean, sure sometimes it turns out that people's assumptions don't actually line up wi
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I dunno if she's a crank yet but having a youtube fan base (really just a fan base at all) in part built on her disagreements with other physicists means she's probably going to end up as one.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
>does not terminate, as expected okay but generally we want things to terminate. An infinite list of useless solutions is almost never what people want in an actual program. which also ties into the definition of "the output variabl
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by Avshalom 3y ago
ed is a line editor in the sense that all of it's commands act on a \n delimited line at a time (compare to say sam/acme's commands that act on a selection and treat \n as just any other character, I can't say much about
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I know this isn't an original nit-pick but a cli editor is like ed, this sounds like a screen editor.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
And they were pretty upfront about that when they started their Linux work. That said I'd bet they're pretty happy with that decision, I don't know that Linux has made them any money yet but Microsoft has definitely continued
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by Avshalom 3y ago
It occurs to me that there exists a fairly elegant UI trick to hide this: RiscOS had no save or load dialogs, everything was drag and drop to or from the file browser.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... works like that.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I stick to good all Simon Tatham https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/patt... (also available in most linux distros and both the android and apple stores)
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by Avshalom 3y ago
It's not Betty White but here's Fiona and family getting watermelons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWflUf6l9hc and here is the best hippo video on the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5S
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I mean they always start running towards me when they see me!
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Full disclosure: there is no amount of people being eaten by lions that will stop me from trying give one skritches. The one conspiratorial belief I hold is that all animals are my friend and someone is trying to keep them away from me.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
>the people we are talking to are not crackpots I hate to break it to you man, but in this dichotomy you're one of the crackpots.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I'm not opposed, broadly speaking I don't really support the idea of classified or secret information at all (in like a government context, I'm not going to tell you my birthday and social#) It just won't do anything. An
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by Avshalom 3y ago
I know that post goes into the ground but the mental image of them driving that around with that jeep for radar tests is delightful.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Nothing except "yep it's definitely aliens" will lead to "broad consensus" because no analysis will be considered evidence against aliens by the people who already believe it's aliens.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
The best way to spot a conspiracy theory (in the pejorative sense) is that a lack of evidence and evidence against the theory are treated as affirmative.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
that is not how socialism is defined.
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Caitlin McCormack Crochets a Speculative Future(thisiscolossal.com)
1 points by Avshalom 3y ago|0 comments
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by Avshalom 3y ago
>gain a deep understanding of it have you considered reading the book that explains the entire system?
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by Avshalom 3y ago
for Node there's also http://tau-prolog.org/
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Gibbs Free Energy is pretty much a hard physics limit. Trying to pull gold out of the ocean to pay for pulling salt out of the ocean is --again not a chemist but-- probably thermodynamically worse.
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by Avshalom 3y ago
Well I think generally a 60 line program fits in that spot of "write once, read never, start from scratch if it ever turns out to be inadequate" ... also known as the APL Zone

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