MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 1y ago
More likely unrecorded environmental factors (temperature, humidity, etc.)
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Just because someone has a degree and a job in the field doesn't mean they understand how science works. Prescriptive biology is even sillier than prescriptive linguistics.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> Labor reduction in fast food doesn't necessarily look like 'automation' > It's things like self-ordering, machines that make change (if cash > handling still matters), conveyor ovens/charbroilers, more ce
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
It is. Typically over 30%, higher in fast food. https://www.5out.io/post/a-detailed-breakdown-of-restaurant-...
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Bollocks. The first point is nonsensical ("sure, the free market system keeps making new stuff, but what happens when we run out of stuff to pay for it with?"); it's like a bad Yogi Berra pastiche, expecting that we as a soci
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Degree less than 6? If m < 3n that means there are three times as many edges as nodes, and each edge connect to two vertices. So 2d square latices would still benefit. But yeah, not a total domination.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
She isn't "returning" the plane, she's landing it somewhere and he's finding out it's there later. And she isn't "fixing" it, she's replacing bits (the battery and headphones) he removed to
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
The computers, yes. The experience of using them, no. There is a joy to having a tool that lets you do what you never could before that has been buried along the way in layers of petty annoyances and digital micro aggressions. As you say,
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Totally agree with the core of your position. But the two perspectives are complementary, and perhaps even more deeply linked. Initial attempts to alleviate any shortage are likely to result in a decrease in quality; initial attempts to im
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
they were delicious so sweet and so cold :)
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Fresh plums right off the tree taste significantly better than the ones you can get in the produce isle, which are in turn better than canned, which are themselves still better than re-hydrated prunes. In scaling out computation to the mass
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That isn't what "dynamics" means. Dynamics is about how things change in response to other things changing (when people say "it's a dynamic situation" they mean it could change significantly in response to vari
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Yeah, that's why we haven't created any new goods since we embraced capitalism—the whole thing is just parasitic on the labor of the masses, and doesn't really add anything. </sarcasm> Seriously, you might want to
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
So yeah, we are talking about different things. Your position sounds cogent and may well be a more accurate description of Hungarian (e.g. that its long/short vowels are more like Latin than English). I don't know Hungarian, so I
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Not in the sense _you_ are talking about perhaps? Typically, when people talk about "long" and "short" vowels they are referring to a combination of duration and pronunciation (e.g. English "bat" vs. "bate
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Hold on a second here; how is the anion of a soluble metal salt going to affect what happens to the cation after they separate?
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
From your source (page up a bit): "Hungarian has seven pairs of corresponding short and long vowels. Their phonetic values do not exactly match up with each other, so ⟨e⟩ represents /ɛ/ and ⟨é⟩ represents /eː/; like
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Except the only reason code "rots" is that the environment keeps changing as people chase the latest shiny thing. Moreover, it rots _faster_ once the assumption that everyone is going to constantly update get established, since i
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Wow. That was strangely...something. Simultaneously not what I expected and yet just nailing the vibe of vibe slop frustration.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Actually, it's called Cunningham's Law. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law (I'm really hoping you were intentionally setting up the straight line for that joke; if not, sincerest apologie
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
There's a trick question people starting out in investment get asked: "An asset has fallen 90% in the past year. How far can it fall from its present value in the coming year?" Just because it was shovelware, doesn't me
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Oh come on, there are only 8.5±0.5-3, so 5 or 6 possibilities. Go through the list, Mercury through Pluto, mentally saying "I find ____ interesting" and notice which one gives you an eye roll/chuckle/groan.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Some physicist once said "I endeavor to never write more clearly than I think"; in the same way, history probably shouldn't be presented more vividly than it's understood. (We already have this problem with people remem
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… > …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. I guess if this bothers you (and I can see how it might) you can take some small comfort in thinking that (due to ens
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
No matter how tempting the straight line, I will not make the joke.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That plus the numerous spelling, grammatical and logic errors make it hard to take seriously. If there's actually a case to be made here, you would think we'd have a source that didn't read like there should be fleck of spitt
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Sadly, that's at least partially true. But rebuilding on a sight where a home was destroyed eliminates the information value (that this site isn't safe from tsunami) and the coverage is far from uniform/regular (so you can&#
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
If I were Toyota, I'd sue.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That suggests a possibly better strategy (though very long term): pepper the portion of the landscape believed to be safe with "it is safe to build here" monoliths, each as stable as a typical building, and over time only the ones
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
When arcade machines needed to cycle players to keep the the quarters flowing, it created a aesthetic in game design that took a decade or more to shake when we switched to an economic model that rewarded keeping players on the site; in tha

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