JR1427

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by JR1427 3y ago
I didn't mean that it "staining less" is the correct formal definition, only that thinking of it as "stain less" rather than "stainless" is a more useful definition to keep in mind, as all steel will stain
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by JR1427 3y ago
Yes, I think from time to time that would be nice. I don't have to drive long distances much, and if I do, it's usually for pleasure, not work, so I'm usually happy to be driving. For short distances I think I'd find it
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by JR1427 3y ago
Such a great line!
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by JR1427 3y ago
My pet theory is that people simply don't really want self-driving cars. Maybe we just like driving ourselves, even if by some definition it is "irrational"?
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by JR1427 3y ago
That's why it's called stain-less. It stains less. (But still stains.)
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by JR1427 3y ago
it's a feature, not a bug. Looks more rugged and manly...
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by JR1427 3y ago
I was mainly just challenging the assertion that having children, with at least part of the motivation being care in old age, is selfish. I interpreted this as not "I will have children so my children can look after me", but rathe
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by JR1427 3y ago
Isn't it even more selfish to not have kids, and still expect someone else's kids to look after you when you're old?
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by JR1427 3y ago
yes, I also applied for a couple of data science jobs, but that field didn't seem promising so I gave up quickly.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I wasn't thinking of general dev jobs. In fact, when I moved from science to dev, a friendly manager I knew recommended that I take all my previous career stuff off my CV unless it was directly software-related. In my experience applyi
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by JR1427 3y ago
p.s. if you do want a life scientist who is also a dev, let me know! https://www.jake-reich.co.uk/cv
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by JR1427 3y ago
I consider myself a generalist (not just professionally, but also in my other diverse interests). I have a Life Science background (PhD and post-doc), and now work as a dev writing data vis toolkits in JS/TS. I thought people would be
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by JR1427 3y ago
This will become a collector's item, as they will be very rare, the others having ended up in landfill, and this era of AI will be looked at as comical. Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!
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by JR1427 3y ago
This happens to me naturally in winter. The only problem is trying not to disturb my wife and daughter, so I usually try and resist it.
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by JR1427 3y ago
For those who didn't know the term (like me): Skeuomorphism is a term most often used in graphical user interface design to describe interface objects that mimic their real-world counterparts in how they appear and/or how the user
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by JR1427 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation! (edit - this was meant genuinely, not sarcastically) Slightly sad to have been downvoted, though, just for making a tentative suggestion (note use of question mark) :'(
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by JR1427 3y ago
Convert to unix times, and do the calculation with those?
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by JR1427 3y ago
Ha, no way! All this time I thought this was him being silly! (For the record, the banana did NOT split nicely)
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by JR1427 3y ago
If this turns out to not be true, and just said for the amusement of thinking of all the people jiggling their keys at insects, it reminds me of something a friend in high-school said to me: "If you peel a banana, take a bite off the t
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by JR1427 3y ago
oh, maybe there isn't! I wouldn't know, as I can't downvote anything :p
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by JR1427 3y ago
This article doesn't really say a lot, and it presumably just a plug for the book. I'd downvote, but don't have the reputation.
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by JR1427 3y ago
It's interesting reading the comments that are from a US perspective, where there are vast amounts of untamed land for wildlife and recreation. Many US commenters are highlighting that they would rather that cities be cities, because t
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by JR1427 3y ago
I don't think the author suggested that planting trees is trivial. It might not be trivial, but it absolutely can be done. I think you are correct, though, that we want to avoid planting trees for the sake of it, and ending up with are
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by JR1427 3y ago
I wasn't fishing for anything. I'm not sure what I could even be fishing for, by commenting on HN?
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by JR1427 3y ago
I don't have access to the article - my comment was about the figures specifically, as they were posted on Twitter (where I can see them. I don't have an FT subscription). I'm critical/suspicious whenever a complex topic
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by JR1427 3y ago
Oh, and JBM is absolutely fishing for something by posting on Twitter. Otherwise, why would he post it?
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by JR1427 3y ago
I'm not saying it's clickbait in the sense of "this one amazing trick to shrink belly fat", but it still trying to show something surprising (people find graphs showing things they know boring). Don't over estimate
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by JR1427 3y ago
The problem with these kinds of statistical snippets that papers like the FT produce, is that they are fishing for some kind of shocking/surprising easy to understand finding. That doesn't mean that such statistics and charts actu
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by JR1427 3y ago
I agree. The last time I read something by JBM, he had said that "people who don't have a passport (a sign that they have not recently travelled abroad) were more likely to vote Brexit" To me, he was implying that ignorance o
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by JR1427 3y ago
Sorry to hear that your UC is hard to live with. I was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago during my first flare, after I had a COVID-like illness. I've been taking mesalazine ever since, and am grateful every day for another day without symp

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