Horffupolde

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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Do you know how many failed societies had the arrogance of thinking that way?
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Follow the religion of your father and go to their place of worship.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
How is this different from Prolog?
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Yes, I agree that Python can feel “dirty”, although not necessarily “bloated.”
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Can you convince me to use Java? I’ve never used it (only C++, Python, CL) but it feels bloated and dirty.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
This phenomenon is known as “respiratory sinus arrhythmia” (RSA).
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
You are free to do that. UPC is a private standard.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Written that way torque is already the scalar product between force and arm. What you are missing is actually an angular displacement.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Europeans are a resentful bunch.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Correlates to being poor, or at least not being rich.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
It’s the eternal paradox of life.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
It’s just a brief counterexample aiming to challenge the parent’s argument that the relative cost of a material is determined by the relative abundance of its constituent elements.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Diamonds are made of just carbon.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Hope she remembers to use a lead apron.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
I don’t like how you can’t reason about commands. It’s all like do-magic-spell-etc without an intuition.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
People don’t understand that “physical activity” is just a part of life itself as primates. Only in modern times have we separated “life” from “physical activity”.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
A factor of 1e11, while large, is commonly found in chemistry where most phenomena have a log relationship. The standard pH scale, for example, already spans 14 orders of magnitude.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
You develop an intuition and general understanding. It’s like a carpenter sees a chair and can understand how it was built. He doesn’t have to remember every combination of pieces. With chemistry it’s the same. You just see it.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Hint: hands are very difficult to draw. Also faces and that’s why most cartoons are animals.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
He just means that junior developers don’t understand hyperboles because they don’t have the intuition yet.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Stop calling yourself hacker.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
If skin colors differ how can you possibly expect to obtain the same result?
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
It’s the same with wildfires. The obsession and panic around small fires makes me cringe.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Why should one have to explain themselves?
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
Learn Landau’s course in original Russian. Pass The Test. You are ahead of most PhDs now.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
This is confusing the representation of something for the thing itself. It’s like thinking that the word John is enough to know the person John.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
I would argue that position-symmetry is not unexpected in a chaotic system. Symmetry means that one of your dimensions is redundant.
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by Horffupolde 3y ago
“Sandbagging” fits better.