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by D-Coder 4y ago
"They’ve analyzed the data from the experiment to prove that they achieved it (i.e. ruling out all possible other explanations)." All possible other explanations that they have thought of .
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"High intensity physical activity..." is exactly one of the things I DON'T want. Any programming position that wants me out of my chair for exercise... nope. I'll deal with exercise and nutrition on my own time, thank
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by D-Coder 4y ago
If a large company (let's say Walmart) offered free recharging for EVs in their parking lots, that might bring more customers in. Your car needs an hour for recharging, might as well be right in front of the store.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"Fsh".
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by D-Coder 4y ago
It's very funny. Every chapter has something. From Chapter 48 (about two pages long): And when Harry had offered that hypothesis, Draco had claimed that he could remember a story - Harry hoped to Cthulhu that this one story was just a
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"At present, the Czech Republic is working on the design of their own non-nuclear aircraft carriers. Planned to build at least two aircraft carriers." Neither Wikipedia nor a quick DDG have anything about this. Fake site probably.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
I worked with Wangs back in the day, in BASIC. I remember reading the manual for a customer's machine (2200T? aka "Model T", or maybe 2200VP, aka "2200 very profitable"). The manual indicated that several disk opera
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Reproductive cycle for humans is about 15 years. Dogs: two years. Cats: one year. So they have had a few times as many generations to evolve. (All numbers approximate.)
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by D-Coder 4y ago
All sites broke on my machine this morning. I reset the router... and HN was still down. <sniff>
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by D-Coder 4y ago
The article points to https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/06/22/st... , which says: In his continued push against the “indoctrination” of students, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signe
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by D-Coder 4y ago
On the other hand, each human needs to individually figure out (or be taught) how to deal with each corner case. When an AI system learns it, the company can "teach" the entire fleet all at once.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Yes, but people can stay home and do that, they don't have to come to Amsterdam.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
And once you've covered the entire planet with trees... what do you do with the next year's 500 megatons of CO2?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Early in my career, I learned that if I wasn't sure how something was supposed to work, I needed to ask sooner rather than later, because it was unlikely to get clearer all by itself. No matter how ignorant it made me look.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
For a while, I was taking an anti-coagulant whose packaging could only be opened with a very sharp blade. <sigh> I suppose a small explosive charge might have worked too but never tried it...
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by D-Coder 4y ago
I suspect that in any society where this exists, the government will end up making it available for everyone... or will be voted out / overthrown for a government that will.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"Give me liberty AND give me death"? I'd prefer to solve the despot problem in a way that doesn't involve me getting dead. Several countries have managed to not have despots for long periods.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
An intelligence leak.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> Centuries ago almost no one lived long enough to die from heart disease, cancer, or dementia. Right, they were dying of infections, starvation, childbirth and cholera, appendicitis and anthrax, typhoid and typhus, polio and tetanus. Ar
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by D-Coder 4y ago
But the different conversion rates for each kingdom/duchy/province/parish were a nightmare even then.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
So, like a LD50... (The dose of something that kills half of the lab rats: 50% lethal dose.)
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Moving to double-clicking a folder replaces the open folder and _moves everything around_... argh! I want a visual UI to leave things just where I put them, dammit! Not to mention 30 years of muscle memory when they implemented that — witho
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> The segfault just said "Please attach these files to the bug report" with no more info. The message should include the URL. Sounds like a bug that should be reported.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
This is sarcasm, right? Right?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Somehow this doesn't match your username.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
The canonical joke is the complaint about substring censorship: "There are three English football teams that always fall victim to overzealous censorship: Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Manchester Fucking United."
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by D-Coder 4y ago
My experience with Labrador Retrievers is that they will eat anything, on the assumption that if it doesn't agree with them, they can always puke it up at 3AM.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
FYI, LiveCode (livecode.com) is a powerful Hypercard descendant. Runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux. My daily-personal-use programs are in LiveCode. (Previously known as Revolution and RunRev.)
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Right, but hopefully you have time to re-do everything after the fire and water. Until that happens, the cabinet is doing its job.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> you have quite a low view of people's ability to make decisions for themselves if you think being shown ads is manipulation. The ENTIRE POINT of an ad is manipulation. Advertisers wouldn't bother if people always ignored ads.

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