GuB-42

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3001.
by GuB-42 4y ago
I didn't realize it was more than 50% ads, more than most websites we consider terrible nowadays. I think one reason is that back then, it was the way of keeping in touch with the commercial offering. Now, there are millions of review
3002.
by GuB-42 4y ago
It is not about confusion, it is about convenience. I like the idea that water boils at 100°C since it is maybe the most important temperature in cooking. I like the fact that I can measure 500mL of water on a scale as 500g (and other liqui
3003.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Celsius is better for cooking, the Fahrenheit scale is better for hot weather, for colder weather, I prefer Celsius, around 0°C means water is freezing, so, snow, ice, etc... Feet or inches are, I think, a bit more human friendly than meter
3004.
by GuB-42 4y ago
> Sr Research Scientist at Google. Opinions are my own (she/her) So, just the ramblings of a random person on the internet. Nothing to see here. She may work in the field, but that's just her opinion, not some technical insight
3005.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Gold has always been valuable in all civilizations I am aware of. It is rare, compact, easy to work with, hard to counterfeit due to its density, resistant to chemicals and doesn't degrade over time. And though it is subjective, most p
3006.
by GuB-42 4y ago
That's why they are getting bunkers. Stocked with fuel, food, water and weapons. Maybe money will be worthless, but their bunker will be valuable. And people will happily serve them for a place in that bunker. And about money, rich pep
3007.
by GuB-42 4y ago
But LSD was a "big pharma" solution and Sandoz tried to sell it as a pharmaceutical for at least a decade. There is a lot of problems with "big pharma" but being against cheap and effective permanent solutions is not one
3008.
by GuB-42 4y ago
I guess that well behaved devices took offense of being put in the same category as printers. And I understand them.
3009.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Not just people, nature is pretty scary too. For example, Kurzgesagt made videos about the Lyssa virus (rabies) and the brain-eating amoeba, two among many.
3010.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Junji Ito is awesome, in both senses of the word. I love "Junji Ito's Cat Diary". It is a collection of slice-of-life stories about his cat, but drawn in his usual style. The cutest things, told in the most horrifying way.
3011.
by GuB-42 4y ago
> Indeed while putting a price on human life is extremely taboo, the fact is that in situations where such a price must be determined, it usually comes out to the low tens of millions of USD. I think astronaut lives are much more expensi
3012.
by GuB-42 4y ago
And there is Ook!, a language for Orangutans. It is a joke language that is equivalent to brainfuck, and doesn't contain the word "monkey". https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
3013.
by GuB-42 4y ago
I suspect some of it is just censoring for the sake of censoring. It is a common problem, if your job is to inspect something and you find nothing wrong, how do you show that you did your job? Here is an anecdote: in the game "Battle C
3014.
by GuB-42 4y ago
The problem with these fad methodologies is that it either works, or you are not doing it properly. The methodology can't be wrong. It is like saying that C programs never crash, because if they crash, it means you are not using C prop
3015.
by GuB-42 4y ago
It depends, the followup is often unimpressive. Many people who did really impressive things in their youth ended up with quite mundane lives. I mean it along the lines of "at 17, she is doing AI on IR images, at 30 she will be fixing
3016.
by GuB-42 4y ago
And cryptocurrencies, and everything by Elon Musk, and Kubernetes, and AI, and search engines, and privacy, and China, and... Trash comments everywhere (but also good ones).
3017.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Same, but it is more and more annoying to root your phone with all these banking apps blocking rooted phones. And now, with the new security standards (which are good), banks insist on having you install their proprietary app just to author
3018.
by GuB-42 4y ago
The time on an airplane or in other transport or general waiting can still be significant. I generally don't play games on vacations, but travel time is an exception, and I sometimes carry a console just for that reason. The (3)DS is p
3019.
by GuB-42 4y ago
The most obvious heuristic is to look at the reputation of the journal that publishes it. That's the reason we still have these overpriced journals. The "publishing" part is easy now, it is just a matter of putting a pdf on a
3020.
by GuB-42 4y ago
You don't need to be part of the "community" to use a mechanical keyboard, it doesn't have to be a hobby, normally mechanical keyboards don't need maintenance and last longer than rubber domes. As for choosing the r
3021.
by GuB-42 4y ago
It is the first time I hear this and it can explain things. Do you have references? One oddity I noticed is that among the people I know, the fittest and most physically active had the worst "mild" covid, which surprised me since
3022.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Prisons serve more than on purpose: reinsertion and punishment are two of them, but another one I think is the most important is that it limits the ability for dangerous individuals to do harm. I would rather have murderers and rapists behi
3023.
by GuB-42 4y ago
The software is written in Haskell. I don't know much about it but it doesn't look like a bad choice. Remember that it is just a compiler / test tool, it is not the embedded part, that would be the target. I don't think
3024.
by GuB-42 4y ago
What chat software do you use? I find Discord to be among the best when it comes to UX. Not perfect (and it is still an Electron app) but when you have atrocities like MS Teams, it passes off as good. In case you are wondering, I don't
3025.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Digital billboards use thousands of watts, overall, that's several times the energy consumption of a typical household, the power bill is thousands of euros a year. So I guess that's worth it, even if some additional hardware is r
3026.
by GuB-42 4y ago
I don't mind the idea of changing the default search engine to DDG, but not in a stable release, do that in testing. It is opinionated choice, not a bug fix, and definitely not a security update (severity: wishlist). I don't have
3027.
by GuB-42 4y ago
My feed is also terrible, even posts from good friends are terrible (as in: Facebook show me their worst). Lots of spam, chains, etc... I interact very little with Facebook, and while I have friends, I am not part of any group. It is essent
3028.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Privacy and ads/spam are different things. DDG has ads based on your search query, that's how they make money. The difference is that they don't profile you, at least that's what they say. You can spam and respect people
3029.
by GuB-42 4y ago
You also have the choice in Perl, because of course, it is Perl. The old way of doing it was setting the $[ variable to 1. You can actually set it to any value, in case you prefer to start your arrays at 42. It is now deprecated but you now
3030.
by GuB-42 4y ago
Accurate emulation is extremely hard, even for ancient hardware. See this article from 2011 for example: https://arstechnica.netblogpro.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-t... It takes a 3 GHz CPU to emulate the SNE

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