Beldin

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by Beldin 4y ago
Talk to Pakistan about that.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Even worse: not all of them are moved!
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by Beldin 4y ago
Similarly: open office cannot print on Tuesdays. https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html (Date embedded in printjob and parsed by the wrong filter)
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by Beldin 4y ago
It doesn't, no. I'm currently supervising 2 PhD students whose last name is alphabetically later than mine. I explained my reasons for my preference to them; that's how far I'll go. With one, we've had multiple coll
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by Beldin 4y ago
When I was a PhD student, my papers almost always had author order alphabetical. I later learned that other fields cared about "first author". At first, I couldn't believe it - it's so obviously ripe for abuse. But I fo
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by Beldin 4y ago
The idea is to only charge for flights upon checkin. There are a myriad of problems with this, to name two: - an attacker could easily book many flights without checking in. This would cause the airline to fly at a loss. - customers do not
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by Beldin 4y ago
That was my point: while you may have some/strong inhibitions due to this name, I don't. To me, "git" is far worse - probably because of gaps in my English, but still. You don't get why they don't change the na
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by Beldin 4y ago
For context: I am not a native English speaker. My command of the English language is more than adequate for writing academic texts in English (ie, research). I am aware of "gimp" as a derogatory term, but it pops up so infrequent
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by Beldin 4y ago
Around here[1], it used to take about 7 years. With the energy prices skyrocketing, that will probably be less, even if material and install costs are now higher. [1] EU; I gathered that solar is significantly more expensive in the US.
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by Beldin 4y ago
A bit off-topic, but: does the FAA really have authority over airspace up to 10 meters high? For non-commercial self-created craft operated by their constructor? When used far from civilisation?
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Has Twitter ever been in the news for properly making even a thousand people successful from scratch really ever in the product's life? There was the Arab Spring ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
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by Beldin 4y ago
> My high school diploma wasn't good enough to get into a software engineering university in my country (the Netherlands), so I had to wait ... I also hadn't heard of the (Dutch) Open Universiteit in 2001, but it allows anyon
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by Beldin 4y ago
That's the one actual value of bitcoin / cryptocurrencies: we can be fairly sure that no one broke the used hashing algorithms (1). The valuation of these coins is such that not just any individual, but even a state actor would ju
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by Beldin 4y ago
You definitely want to add test cases for arrays with mixed-type values and for non-arrays. Yeah, the latter should be caught by an isArray() check... which is the whole point.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Funny, I'm on the opposite side of the furniture-buying spectrum. Enough quality to last a while, but cheap enough to be a spur-of-the-moment decision and to not regret its end of life. Probably related to life phase: my parents picke
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by Beldin 4y ago
If you prefer physical books, join the library. Around here, it's really cheap (or even free, I forgot) for kids. Which is great!... till you turn 18. The adult fare is less government-sponsored and would need a regular reading habit
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by Beldin 4y ago
Sorry; in a nutshell: "don't be a dick". e.g. [1]. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wheatons-law
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by Beldin 4y ago
> "Officials should have requested TikTok content producers to respect the sanctity of the religious places, instead of banning something outright.” No, they really should not. Apply Will Wheaton's Rule; in case of doubt (whe
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by Beldin 4y ago
It has - 5 or so years ago, non-smart TVs were more expensive than the same ones with "smartness".
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by Beldin 4y ago
> This is the age-old ethical question "do people deserve more reward for their time when they do higher-leverage work?" Indeed. And I would argue that society answers this question already, in the form of teacher salaries. T
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by Beldin 4y ago
Unlike sibling comments, I completely agree. $300k is (around here) over 7x the mode of income [1]. That's a significant amount (basically the yearly income of 7 "regular joes") and raises (to me) the ethical question of whet
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by Beldin 4y ago
...explicitly claiming to do this. I don't know that subreddit; in general this sort of thing could become the thing being bragged about in a community, irrespective of reality.
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by Beldin 4y ago
> you won't hear that kind of comment from person that tries to share something good with world. First, not every literary thing worth sharing with the world needs to be at the intellectual level of Donald Duck magazine. Second, s
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by Beldin 4y ago
That used to be the case. It's why they rose to dominance (that and the "no extra crap on the page"). Nowadays, Google's search results are pretty meuh. However, the domain has become much more adversarial with many com
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by Beldin 4y ago
If you have 10,000* tokens (* changed for easy square rooting), you can give 1 candidate 100 votes. Suppose you split your tokens over 100 accounts with 100 tokens each (100 × 100 = 10,000 - so your total number of tokens hasn't change
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by Beldin 4y ago
Errr... many questions can just vary numbers a bit. There's very little value to knowing that the inverse of 3 mod 7 won't be asked this exam - it's trivial to change the numbers and test the same knowledge with a slightly bu
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by Beldin 4y ago
Note that your situation does not match the ones of the blog post. The article discusses several easily comparable options with clear valuation to the subject. Your situation describes a choice with incomplete information between two altern
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by Beldin 4y ago
The article is a bit fast and loose with its data. Borssele indeed has limited high-energy radioactive waste; the article omits that there is also low-energy radioactive waste - a lot more, in fact. Similarly, recycling may be a problem for
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. True. It only implies that it could be broken. You may not see the value in usernames, but that doesn't mean there is none. It's a variant of C
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by Beldin 4y ago
If you want to start from the presumption someone is guilty until proven innocent, you end up reasoning like you did there. Which is a very strong case for the presumption of innocence: it is not up to the defence to prove how something ha

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