Eerie

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by Eerie 10y ago
Electric cars are SSDs, ICE cars are HDDs. See what I mean?
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by Eerie 10y ago
Mercury is NOT tidally locked to face the sun. Jeez, are you banned from Google?
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by Eerie 10y ago
>That is defined with atomic specificity. All gene-encoded proteins are defined with atomic specificity. Well, atomic specificity as long as you ignore the existence of stable nuclear isotopes.
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by Eerie 10y ago
>It's typically 150 hours per class and it's not something you do after coming exhausted home from work either. Assuming you can only invest, lets say, 5 hours on the weekend, it will be 30 weeks per class, summing up to ~1.5 c
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by Eerie 10y ago
>Obviously that's only two data points, but it's broadly representative of the general trend. NO, IT IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANYTHING. So many things changed between 1931 and 2013, and the circumstances surrounding ESB and 1WT
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by Eerie 10y ago
Is Betteridge's law of headlines always correct? Click here to find out!
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by Eerie 10y ago
>They are actively seeking to erode 2nd amendment rights. 1. There are countries in the world that are better than USA on multiple metrics, and they don't have 2nd amendment rights at all. What say you? 2. Your gun will avail you ab
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by Eerie 10y ago
>I am simply saying that cannabis has a very dark side to it which robs young people of a lot of their productivity and ambition. Who said productivity and ambition are absolute values? Are there some tablets of stone somewhere?
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by Eerie 10y ago
You can produce gas underwater, though, and build things inside a gas bubble.
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by Eerie 10y ago
> But I think there will always be someone who will just provide a free service to get rid of friction as much as possible and monetize via ads. Nowadays it's extremely cheap to run an app. Blocking the ads is cheaper.
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by Eerie 10y ago
UGH. Scientists are not getting funds to repeat result.
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by Eerie 10y ago
imfinewiththis.jpg
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by Eerie 10y ago
You know what`s funny? Our entire universe could be a Boltzmann Universe, that spontaneously appeared just three minutes ago. Happy Birthday, everyone!
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by Eerie 10y ago
What's the advantage of doing pointer arithmetics as opposed to incrementing index variable, like I did?
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by Eerie 10y ago
LessWrong is a self-selected community. It won't scale.
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by Eerie 10y ago
Why single FB? Internet in general gives anyone an enormous ability (well, potential, really) to spread misinformation.
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by Eerie 10y ago
The best example of such a network is Wikipedia . Draw from that any conclusions you want.
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by Eerie 10y ago
>Here `iter` is a pointer. We dereference it and increment the result. This adds 1 to every value in the `foo` vector. Huh? How is `iter` related to foo? When you go ` iter += 1` aren't you just incrementing the variable behind iter
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by Eerie 10y ago
>But you didn't quite get away with it. The C++ code increments the value in the array through the iterator, while the above Rust increments the iterator (err, index) itself. So it doesn't produce the same result. I have to adm
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by Eerie 10y ago
let mut foo = vec!(1, 2, 3); for mut iter in 0..foo.len() { iter += 1; foo[0] += iter; } No unsafe required, I think.
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by Eerie 10y ago
"probably" So, there's a chance?
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by Eerie 10y ago
Praise his noodly appendage!
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by Eerie 10y ago
You can write your own code in stable Rust while using tooling that works on nightly. Rustup.rs makes it very easy to switch between stable and nightly.
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by Eerie 10y ago
>So if I unjustly imprison you, and the only way for you to escape is by killing me Completely wrong analogy. The killing doesn't help you escape at all, it just angers the jailer (who you can't touch anyway).
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by Eerie 10y ago
http://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by Eerie 10y ago
Twitter is not obligated to provide users with free speech.
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by Eerie 10y ago
>If you listen carefully in the storm of excitement you can hear a faint voice who still remebers the core of the business: Provide the service and don't fuck with the customer. The people looking at images for free are NOT THE CUST
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by Eerie 10y ago
Counter-argument: Wikipedia.
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by Eerie 10y ago
Or you use the XKCD 606 method, and save tons of money.
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by Eerie 10y ago
>So let's go wild - what if Apple succeeds in making siri a true AI, with a great personality With human rights?

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