Beldin

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by Beldin 4y ago
As an outsider, it's really weird to see the intense debates over the supreme court couched in terms of political points of view. I mean, that's what elections should be about... it really comes across as if Americans have given
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by Beldin 4y ago
You might as well ask why Wall Street doesn't prefer trains with 3 cars and 1 loc. Much safer - but not optimising their profits. A guy who hitches a 4th car beats everyone. So trains are optimised for profit. Now if your trains never
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by Beldin 4y ago
> ... I wonder what I should test on if I want someone correctly smart. Why would you want that? Look for someone who can (and is happy/eager to) learn *from you*. Edit: smart isn't bad, but it's not much of a signal - th
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by Beldin 4y ago
Isn't the point of equality that systemic inequalities in these 4 points cannot exclusively be addressed by addressing them in isolation? That's what I thought at any rate - that correcting the system without touching outcomes is
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by Beldin 4y ago
Which can be turned into a tank: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-this-fish-ou...
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by Beldin 4y ago
My reading was this should be read as "the colloquial term X is typically used to designate objects that fall in military jargon in the class Y". That is: GP translates from colloquial to jargon. Since these are different, in part
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by Beldin 4y ago
Meuh. I have a light-coloured beard and modest growth. Daily shaves are more than adequate - due to the light colour, a spot missed one or two days is practically invisible. Hell, you can hardly see the beard until 10 or so days of non-sha
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by Beldin 4y ago
I don't think Aliexpress sells fornicating women. I have no clue why anyone would type in that - if anyone is looking for adult-oriented entertainment, add "dvd" or "film" (both have exact same spelling + meaning in
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by Beldin 4y ago
Wait till you find out about "Buffy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy
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by Beldin 4y ago
In all fairness: there is a difference between the original creator coming up with his/her own beloved continuation of a beloved project, and a soulless money grab by leveraging name recognition with an existing fan base. Irrespective
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by Beldin 4y ago
Back in the days, my students gaming group organised "one-shot" weekends. One session, 4hrs or so, story finished. Repeat 4 times, weekend done. It was great fun and a great way to get exposure to new (to us) systems. I can't
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by Beldin 4y ago
> I am disappointed to see creators who don't even really need to, are resorting to click bait titles and thumbnails now. Veritasium has a video on clickbait of itself - basically: it works and is more or less necessary to satisfy
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by Beldin 4y ago
For anyone wondering what a "double boiler" is: it's cooking au bain marie .
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by Beldin 4y ago
!$ substitutes the last command's arguments, if memory serves.
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by Beldin 4y ago
I'll take a stab. An odd number is a number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9. - ends in a 1: times 3 + 1: it now ends in a 4, which is even, and thus reduces to the even case. - ends in a 3: tomes 3 is 9, + 1: ends in a 0; even again. -
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by Beldin 4y ago
White dwarfs and neutron stars are both "stellar corpses", the remnant of stars. White dwarfs roughly cram the Sun's mass into an Earth-sized sphere, neutron stars cram that amount of mass into a sphere of about 10km diameter
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by Beldin 4y ago
I've recently come across "The Eye of Horus", a paper + associated code base [1] analysing attacking transactions on smart contracts using DataLog (a subset of Prolog). Not all of it is written in DataLog, but the vulnerabili
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by Beldin 4y ago
Bitcoin has existed for about 13 years. Given its environmental impact, it's high time there was value beyond criminal money flow and gambling on exchange rates.
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by Beldin 4y ago
It is absurd, but such absurdity is needed to make the energy waste relatable. You could compare a blockchain transaction's energy use to that of a credit card payment. But that would not convey the scale difference.
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Electronic computers have essentially been around for a century. That's like saying cars have been around for more than a millennium, since the Romans and Egyptians already had horse-drawn carriages. World War 2 spurred innovat
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by Beldin 4y ago
Meta just posted billions in profit. Profit is not money spent on improving moderation. With such affluence flowing into coffers instead of investing in sorely needed improvements, GP is absolutely correct in the underlying premise: Faceb
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by Beldin 4y ago
Around here, monthly rent is as high as or higher than mortgage payments. With mortgage payments, you accrue ownership (for the "standard" mortgages around here). If you expect house prices to remain stable or increase during your
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by Beldin 4y ago
As that article mentions, data quality was abysmal. I once saw a remark about the error bars being larger than the supposed effect - though o cannot find it and think that might be overly harsh. The 1922 test of starlight deflection by the
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Imagine if... As someone whose daily drivers consist of decade-old flagship hardware, I don't need to. Outside software support, the main downside of my phone is battery. Maybe I should get a new one - it's from an era wher
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by Beldin 4y ago
Would you feel the same if this became the top watched video for weeks, with a lively comment section mostly leaning towards "omg that is so cool! I want to top this!!!"? I wouldn't - which is why I don't mind if it&#x2
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by Beldin 5y ago
This reminds me of a statement about yachting, roughly: if you want a cheaper hobby, you could always learn to enjoy burning $100 bills.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> when can you claim something as secure? Typically: don't do that. Nevertheless, if you insist: you can claim a certain abstraction of a system guarantees certain mathematically expressed requirements cannot be violated by a cert
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by Beldin 5y ago
Indeed, a public square with a potential reach of 2.2% of US population can probably not be realised anywhere locally (f2f). Back of the envelope guess is that would amount to 6-7 million people in one spot.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Stopping the import of Russian gas now instead of allowing more time does absolutely nothing for Ukraine except for a little bit of moral support, while tanking the German economy. Russia is already in a downward spiral. You truly be
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by Beldin 5y ago
> If you let less money circulate the system trough taxes and benefits less can go wrong. Bonus: less can go wrong administratively too. Case in point: ever since the Dutch tax office had to also give out these kinds of wellfare/a

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