JR1427

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by JR1427 6mo ago
I have cut myself once, and only once with a sharp knife. I was about 7 years old, and my grandfather gave me a new (sharp!) Swiss army knife.
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by JR1427 6mo ago
> It's basically rabid conservation and tragedy of the commons writ large How is this like "tragedy of the commons"?
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by JR1427 7mo ago
Call it what you want, but a new life stage begins when we have serious responsibility for another human. For some this comes early, like a "child" looking after a sick parent. For others (like me) this comes with having children.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
AWS Graviton and Microsoft Cobalt are arm-based.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
> if I had my way, job interviews would be exclusively audio only. The problem just shifts. People with attractive voices would then have an advantage.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
Something people often don't consider is the limited resources for doing science - time, money, etc. The positive side to "bias" is intuition. This is where a bias ("I'm pretty sure it'll turn out to work like
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by JR1427 7mo ago
This would just be impractical. Nothing would ever get done. Too many potential experiments.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
I buy 95% of my books second hand. Secondhand book stores are also usually much more interesting than even good new stores.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
Hopefully this wouldn't trigger autoimmune conditions.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
The current state of terms and conditions is a clear failure of modern law. No one is reading them, and it would be practically impossible to do so. Signing something you cannot practically read and understand clearly does not mean you actu
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by JR1427 7mo ago
This is what I find interesting - the response from most companies is "we will need fewer engineers because of AI", not "we can build more things because of AI". What is driving companies to want to get rid of people, ra
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by JR1427 7mo ago
Sure! https://once-upon-a-boot.github.io/?action=view-event&timest...
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by JR1427 7mo ago
Looks just like stylised shaggy fur to me.
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by JR1427 7mo ago
I tried to load a couple of traces and got a pop-up saying "Oops, something went wrong. Please file a bug."
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by JR1427 8mo ago
> Since everyone can vote, I want the whole populace to be informed, even poor people. So then only rich people get to decide what they make available for free to poor people. I don't think this is adding anything new to the way the
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by JR1427 8mo ago
I'm a bit surprised about the fact that the somewhat related magnetic stirrer [1] never made it in to mainstream kitchens. I used these a lot during my PhD, and can imagine them being handy in the kitchen. I suppose one difference is t
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by JR1427 8mo ago
Use the excellent eBird and Merlin apps instead.
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by JR1427 8mo ago
Yup, just get rid of the apps you don't need, and you remove the problems with smart phones.
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by JR1427 9mo ago
This reminds me of a video I watch recently of a comfortably off guy who decided to try and do a long-distance cycle with just £100. He could afford not to rely on others, but instead he let people buy him food, give him a bed, etc. This di
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by JR1427 9mo ago
You don't even need a macro lens. I used a kit zoom lens and some lens spacers, bought used for £60. (I did my post-doc on slime mould decision-making)
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by JR1427 10mo ago
> Funnily enough, everything ran at about the same speed as it does now. I've often thought about how certain properties of humans impacts the tech we make and accept. For instance, to a human, something happening in a couple of sec
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by JR1427 1y ago
I really wish their was a setting to tune feed "volatility". This also drive me crazy. Sometimes I'll be marking something as "not interested", but that time with it spent auto-playing is enough for my feed to turn
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by JR1427 1y ago
There is probably something you are naturally better at, but it might not be something that is very visible, like juggling, or playing guitar. It might be something like being patient with people. Also, do you have things that you are reall
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by JR1427 1y ago
This is really cool - thanks for posting!
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by JR1427 1y ago
I wonder if they target boats using depth sounders? You could imagine the noise might be annoying or aggravating to orcas.
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by JR1427 1y ago
So does the mix now call for slightly smaller eggs? Or has the mix changed to still work with the same number of eggs? If the former, that is stupid. If the latter, then the flavour/consistency is bound to change.
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by JR1427 1y ago
EDIT: "mark", not "make"
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by JR1427 1y ago
It feels like it would be better to make strings as safe, and only log ones that have been marked as such.
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by JR1427 1y ago
I have long been telling people the story of how I taught myself to like tomatoes. It really worked. I have loved tomatoes since that fateful day when I was about 17. Until then, I would bite something with tomato already anticipating that
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by JR1427 1y ago
"Never remove what you don't understand" also springs to mind.

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