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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, but Russia is my enemy, and should be the enemy of everyone who cares about a liberal world order based on law, not might. And in the case of RT, they had left even the pretence of journalism a long time ago. But I agree with those that
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Why the scare quotes you put around “the enemy“?
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The problem will get better, even if the direct effect of no pesticide home gardens of course is negligible. But it helps change the mindset of people. People who live in garden with a diversity of wildlife, who find joy in the butterflies
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Are taxi drivers mechanics because they work in and with their cars all day? And while it’s not inaccurate to call Newport a self help author, he has studied, thought, and written about the subject for many years.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
That’s such a weird take. It’s like saying that I know more about repairing my car than the mechanic because I drive it every day. That the executives of Samsung run the company doesn’t mean that they are experts in how the brains of their
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Best in which ways?
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
The two groups looks for very different things in the media. One care deeply about it and appreciates many different aspects of it, and sometimes the intellectual challenge is part of it. They are utterly bored by most books and films. The
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
That is not my understanding of what “not replicable” means. My understanding is “attempted to replicate, but didn’t get any significant results supporting the original conclusion”. There’s nothing that says that the new results are incons
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
It hardly matters what sources you are using if you filter it through something that has less understanding than a two year old, if any, no matter how eloquent it can express itself.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
We used to have Kommunala Musikskolan, where kids for a relatively low fee could learn to play music. In the year 2000 it had 335 000 pupils (at the time the population of Sweden was less than 9 million people).
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
> Temperamentally, we are nomadic animals. Well fed and prosperous people tend to stay in place. I’d say it has been hunger that has been driving people all over the globe rather than temperament.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Trial and error is usually a bad idea in all kinds of programming.
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So do table variables and temp tables.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
> If you don't need threads in development OR production, you might as well do SELECT * from users and do the join in your imperative code. Except that it most likely will be orders of magnitude slower. Most databases are very good
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Are they really producing the same sets in different factories? It would surprise me.
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> Which then gets transmitted by the surface of the phone to the rest of the phone. But this is a very different situation than when you have an external force acting equally on all the atoms equally, and you will, as you correctly point
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
So far California (at least used to) and the EU seem to do more than the rest of the world together.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Steel is very common, and there are many bicycles made mostly of wood (while not particularly common today).
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
> It reads nonzero when you are standing on Earth because of electromagnetic repulsion between your atoms and the atoms in the floor. It works because there's an external force pushing on the surface of the phone, and not equally on
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
> Yes. Electromagnetism, weak, and strong interactions all make the acceleration meter register nonzero, even if the act "equally" on all parts of an object. I’m genuinely curious how that acceleration meter would work. There w
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
The only disadvantage I can see is that you’d have your birthday in the same day of the week every year. If you are born on a Monday, you’ll celebrate on a Monday every year in your life.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
It is. Of course the bank checks my income for the last few years before it gives me a loan. I also recently got a possible employer to admit that he checked my preceding years taxed income before giving me an offer.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
> Over a long career I've found that you do the best estimate you can with the information provided. Then multiply by 4. Sounds extreme, but you're still likely to be short a bit. Me myself rely on Hofstadter's Law: It alw
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
I can estimate people’s skill levels within different areas, but only get a very rough estimate of their general intelligence.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Those cookie warnings make me immediately close every website that doesn't make it very easy to opt out from tracking. I don't think I miss much, since the correlation between websites that tries to make as much as possible from e
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
The motivation for Lisp was very different though. And Lisps don’t have reputation for being easy to either read or write.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
It has been one of my favourites for a long time too. It quite much sums up why I’m not worried about no code, low code, or any of the current flavours of AI. The original fallacy seems to be the belief that what is hard with programming is
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
Yes, processes that are bad for the environment is cheaper. I find that a failing of the capitalist system, not the recycling process. If externalities were properly priced, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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by Ma8ee 3y ago
I did that once with an acquaintance that insisted on swimming across a not that small lake. The problem was that she was a much better swimmer than I was, and I almost exhausted myself trying to keep up.
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The recycling reduces the amount of oil that goes into new plastic, which eventually will be incinerated and contribute to the climate crisis.

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