ImaCake

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by ImaCake 3y ago
Your reply could’ve been done without a personal attack.
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>but will it be maintained overall with all factors considered? Is a straight up death count not enough for you? Like seriously, there are few less ambigious outcomes in biostatistics than mortality. And by that measure, yes, short hard
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by ImaCake 3y ago
They did. The reason for going hard and fast on quarantine and lockdown is to make them as quick as possible. A reminder that this worked really well in Australia, Nz, South Korea, China, Vietnam, etc etc.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Its great when the book is reasonably priced and not obscure. For more obscure books its never clear if the book will be formatted correctly, contain all the content, or even be a legitimate book. I often try the sample and find if lacking
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by ImaCake 3y ago
There will be plenty of pro-climate action too. When people start dying in their millions from undeniable climate change then there are going to be a lot of angry people with nothing left to lose.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Not sure im reading you right but i assume ur just saying “it cant be done”? To which I would like to to point to decades of consensus on global warming and that, yes, the climate is absolutely over 1C warmer now than the mid 20th century.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Coal dust, sans radioactive stuff, and coal burning emissions also exact a terrible toll on respiratory health. A lot of people have died, or had much worse lives, thanks to the widespread use of coal.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Absolutely agree with this take. Coal power plants are a public health disaster on the scale of leaded petrol and no one talks about it. Even wind turbines have a terrible impact on birdlife. The arguments against nuclear are irrational; fu
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I imagine a mix of solar and natural gas. A lot of natural gas is mined in Western Australia and Australian mines tend to be in hot sunny places. Coal mining isn’t BHPs business so that seems unlikely.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
If that’s true then UPS management is not very smart. Thanks to changing demographics there is now a permanent worker shortage which has allowed these strikes to succeed. You can’t threaten to fire people when they know they can get hired b
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yeah I, subjectively, have experienced the same. But with the same caveat about having ADHD. What I find more substantial is my stress level correlates with what media I consume. Books, long form writing, or even just any text medium (as op
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by ImaCake 3y ago
ADHD has only been a recognized disorder for ~40 years. Its only been accepted by the medical community for about 5 to 10 years, depending on country. Its hardly surprising that diagnosis is increasing for something that has essentially bee
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This is a fool’s opinion. Spend some time reading what people diagnosed with ADHD say about their disorder. Medication merely makes them able to keep up some of the time.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Aren’t those little share buttons served via a CDN or third party anyway? All you need to do is swap out the image that the URL points to and any site that uses that URL suddenly starts serving the new image.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Mostly people don't think it's possible to scam your way into a job with that title. But that is a great reposte for "prompt engineer"; my coworker and I joke about being prompt engineers, but really we are technical p
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Until a year ago using DuckDuckGo instead of google felt like only an equal or inferior option. But at some recent point I have found that DDG has slightly improved and Google has gotten much, much worse. With DDG and Bing Chat, google&#x27
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I think this is common theme in eastern religions. I feel like I’ve also seen aspects of this in western philosophy. My disclaimer here is I am not well read in any of these topics! My more general insight is that humans have put a lot of w
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Ah right, so the models are subject to some serious overfitting then. Good proof of concept, but not useful in practice yet.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Aside from helping those with disabilities, what is stopping authorities using this as a lie detector? I assume the tech isn’t quite there yet.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention that you can keep a well featured todo list in a markdown file. My todo list setup is to have a todo.md open in VSCode along with the markdown extension (which has a shortcut for marking off `- [ ]` items
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Mmmm, ggplot has better defaults but I am still impressed by how bad the plots some people produce are. Absolutely agree on ggplot's ease of use, but that is partly a consequence of not needing to know how to program to use it.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
>Copilot really helps with R-based ggplot semantics and options because it's got so much to learn from. Not sure that would be true for the subtle differences in the ggplot clones I would suspect this wouldn't be much of a hurd
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I mean if it's vectorised then you can make a raster by screenshotting it? Looks like they support PNG at least: https://lets-plot.org/pages/api/lets_plot.ggsave.html?highli...
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by ImaCake 3y ago
The parent comment may find matplotlib approachable because they are a programmer already. A lot of science people are not programmers. So when they have to choose between matplotlib, where you will need to understand OOP, and ggplot, where
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Whatever ggplots flaws are, I haven't found matplotlib, base R, or any other plotting library to allow me to generate plots at essentially the speed I can type at. I can do that in ggplot without any help. I can only get close to tha
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This isn’t news to anyone who is a birdwatcher. Talk to anyone who has been watching for several years and they will all say the same; that they see less birds than they used to. Quantification is good, but its advocacy, rewilding, and cons
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I would say climate change has, so far, been the least relevant force for extinctions. Land development and over hunting have been the historical killers. As well as cats and other introduced species. Climate change is a red herring: we can
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. There is plenty of precedent for society level change leading to improvement. National parks, air quality, public health, etc.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Well its just an example to clarify that what is needed is some context for the incidence rate (i.e something to normalise for a fair comparison).
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by ImaCake 3y ago
The parent comment is saying that the 300% increase is tied to a 300% increase in amount of driveless car activity. In which case, of course incidents increased. If you add 3x as many normal cars on the road the traffic incidents would incr

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