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by Delk 4y ago
A lot of the value of various languages is in the cultural nuances that are both expressed by the language and a part of it. Sometimes the nuances are in the spoken form, and properly understanding all the nuances would require living among
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by Delk 4y ago
While it's true that (at least some of the) benefits of the office only work when others are there, I don't think it's quite black and white. Not all communication needs to (or even should) be all to all. I can benefit from b
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by Delk 4y ago
I've understood that it's better e.g. for the soles of hiking boots if the boots are used somewhat regularly. Polyurethane degrades due to hydrolysis, and apparently using the shoes regularly (and letting them air and dry properly
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by Delk 4y ago
> Performance criteria should only be measured by whether or not you lose money/customers from it. While I agree that performance optimization for no tangible benefit isn't generally useful, I find it quite cynical to think of
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by Delk 4y ago
I wonder what kind of a sentience a large language model could be, if it can. Sentience means being able to have subjective experience. But language alone shouldn't be enough for having the same kind of subjective experience we see in
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by Delk 4y ago
Why would it try to "prove" something, in the sense of trying to argue for a particular policy or opinion? Most research doesn't and shouldn't. No comment on dog behaviour or policy in a country I don't know, but ba
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by Delk 4y ago
That sounds very culturally dependent. I don't know where the other people in this discussion are based, though.
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by Delk 4y ago
Depending on which installment you played: https://www.gog.com/game/thief_gold https://www.gog.com/game/thief_2_the_metal_age There were also later installments in the series but I've underst
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by Delk 4y ago
> not using unneeded classes makes your code harder to read for many colleagues. E.g. if I have a python module universe my colleagues hate it if I import the module and call a function like universe.create() [instead of Universe().creat
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by Delk 4y ago
AFAIK, in therapy, the therapist's focus on giving advice correlates negatively with success. I imagine the relationship between the two might depend on the problem, interpersonal chemistry and various things I can't think of, but
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by Delk 4y ago
People kind of throw it around as if it were applicable advice for others, too. It's a good remark that it's effectively the emperor's diary instead, though. I didn't know that.
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by Delk 4y ago
I think GP's point might be that, if you tell an internalizer who is miserable -- and thus seeing the fault in themselves -- that it's bad to feel victimhood or a fault in others or in their circumstances, you might push them furt
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by Delk 4y ago
Which part of the memo or AdhemarVandamme's interpretation of it makes you think it's proportional to accuse both of them of racism, to the point of invoking white supremacists? (You aren't directly accusing AdhemarVandamme o
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by Delk 4y ago
On the other hand, I think one of the unique(?) elements of the game was perhaps because of the rather limited visual presentation. Betrayal at Krondor uses written descriptions of events and environments a lot. It felt natural, at least
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by Delk 4y ago
Usually and in most places, probably not [1]. Some processed food manufacturers have started using iodized salt in some of their products in recent years at least where I live, though. (Northern Europe) I don't know if that's an e
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by Delk 4y ago
I also think it's a great rule, and I don't really even follow hockey nowadays. Some people would probably say it's too random, has no place in serious top-level sports, or something. But to me it creates awesomely human mome
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by Delk 4y ago
It'd make absolute sense to play more tightly on defence when you've got an EBUG in your net as plain self-preservation. Of course the players may want to give extra support to the emergency guy out of sympathy as well, but if you
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by Delk 4y ago
> Why should I cater to luddites? Why should a particular way of doing things be automatically considered better just because it's new, to the point of calling people names if they don't agree? Why should superfluous or more co
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by Delk 4y ago
That's not really a choice for the visiting team to make. A team can only have two goalies dressed for a game. The emergency backup goalie rule (which is unique to the NHL, AFAIK) is that the home team has to have an emergency goalie b
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by Delk 4y ago
Technically, I'm not sure most people in Finland would interpret 2.175 as 2175 because the dot isn't generally used as a thousands separator either. If you want a thousands separator, it's usually just a single space. "2
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by Delk 4y ago
> But I still wonder why where are not more fire related deaths in Spain in that case. I wonder if it would be interesting to try and find out what the most common causes of fires are in different countries.
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by Delk 4y ago
> I know I'm rambling, I guess I'm saying is that even though I am skeptical of DID, or at least the mainstream depictions of DID, after making a tulpa I am a lot less skeptical of the subjective experience of DID. I'm und
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by Delk 4y ago
Things like Office 365 are also still pretty much a hard requirement at lots of offices. More enterprisey projects can definitely require working with all kinds of moderately complex technical or non-technical documents in Word or Excel. It
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by Delk 4y ago
As much as I kind of hate beating a dead horse, the driver and power issues on Linux are very much a matter of hardware choice. I suspend and hibernate my ThinkPad constantly, from once to several times a day, with no concerns. My uptimes a
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by Delk 4y ago
The combination of Unix, a polished user interface and a system that Just Works(TM) appeals to a lot of tech people. That combination at least used to be a kind of a holy grail.
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by Delk 5y ago
Wikipedia says "clipboard" was coined by Larry Tesler (in the 70's?)
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by Delk 5y ago
It's not that different than refraining from using non-POSIX syntax in shell scripts that are meant to be independent of a specific flavour of unix, or sticking with standard C rather than making assumptions that are only valid in one
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by Delk 5y ago
I like it that it includes subdirectories and doesn't just filter the current directory but I agree that including everything feels both counterintuitive and counterproductive. If you wanted to search the entire system, that would be
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by Delk 5y ago
Yeah, e-bikes seem to be a rather different deal in different countries in practice. The way the legislation sees e-bikes here is that the motor should be for assistance and comfort, and to enable somewhat longer commutes etc., not for bein
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by Delk 5y ago
That makes sense if e-bike speeds are as high as those of motorcycles in urban traffic. The video narrator mentions reaching a top speed of ~60 (km/h?) on a commute, which would be similar to a motor vehicle and much faster than what y

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