Mr_Minderbinder

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by Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago
If for no other reason than because this whole genre of commentary has become trite and moreover, is excessively tangential.
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Locomat – Recomputed Mathematical Tables(locomat.loria.fr)
2 points by Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 5mo ago
Yandex and TinEye satisfy all my reverse image search needs. Google Maps is the only Google service I use. There is simply no substitute for Street View and it is fantastically useful and interesting. Even so it is only a secondary option a
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Gode Cookery – Authentic Medieval Recipes(godecookery.com)
24 points by Mr_Minderbinder 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 5mo ago
> I mean honestly, how large is an English dictionary? 100 KiB? If it contains less than 50,000 words, perhaps, but most standard print dictionaries contain ~500,000 entries. The size of /usr/share/dict/words on my sy
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by Mr_Minderbinder 5mo ago
> In many cases the risk is literally zero... I presume this is hyperbole and that what you mean is almost or very near zero.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago
> I don’t get how anyone thought that would work… The original reasoning can be found in medical texts from the mid to late 19th century when it was first discussed. My recollection is not strong enough to repeat it with confidence but i
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by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago
New fads seem to be springing up to replace the old ones. The latest is the removal of the lingual frenulum in infants, supposedly to ameliorate breastfeeding difficulties. Yet it would seem that this is common and that there are natural me
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by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago
In those days circumcision was the cure.
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The PowerShell-Haters Handbook(telcontar.net)
16 points by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago|8 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago
> Example: The average height (a trait with very high heritability) of Dutch men is... I would not give too much credence to the various figures often given for the average height of men and women in x country without careful research, s
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by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago
> than the existing scenario they are in. In my personal experience that "scenario" is a wearisome but stable job with a good income that would afford a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Yet this unfortunate circumstance was
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FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer(nongnu.org)
146 points by Mr_Minderbinder 6mo ago|82 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 7mo ago
> improvements to Windows Update Even with their proposed “improvements” to Windows Update it would remain inferior in principle to what it was in Windows 7 (or 8 which I never used) and prior when you could “pause” updates indefinitely
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by Mr_Minderbinder 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
> Some people are calling it the "American century of humiliation" They should wait until some or all of the following things have happened: 1. Camp David is sacked, looted and burned to the ground by foreign troops. [1] 2. For
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
My views on this, which are mature and have been held for many years now, are mostly informed by the results obtained by Kenneth Regan and Guy Haworth in their paper “Intrinsic Chess Ratings” which, unless you have intelligence to the contr
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
> In terms of strength he's the weakest player to win in half a century even in absolute terms. Gukesh is arguably stronger than either of Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov and Ponomariov, who won the FIDE title before it was re-unified. Also
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
I have been into computer chess for many years and I was fully expecting those concessionary statements. I have seen enough programs in this lucrative genre where a lot of attention can be gained by fraudulently claiming you implemented che
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
> I understood that machine completely. This claim is frequently made about that era yet ignores the fact it was almost certainly running proprietary software.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
You may think that sounds right but I can assure you that convincing others that ~$29B of accessible pure cash or ~$83B of equity is really only worth $5B will be a more difficult venture. You can dispute the carrying value of Tesla's
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by Mr_Minderbinder 8mo ago
A 5B market cap would imply a P/E ratio of 1.3 and a P/FCF ratio of 0.8, which essentially would be saying “this business is only worth approximately what it made last year”. The corresponding multiples for other auto makers are t
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by Mr_Minderbinder 9mo ago
> YouTube is an absolute clown show. It's so bad that I'm certain Google devs are actively making it terrible on purpose. Exactly, which is why I thought this was a terrible and meaningless benchmark. It completely obfuscates t
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by Mr_Minderbinder 9mo ago
The latest version of Crafty has a significantly higher rating on CCRL than Fritz 10, the version that defeated Kramnik in 2006. He was the World Champion and was rated 2750 at the time. I do not know what source you used for Crafty’s ratin
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by Mr_Minderbinder 9mo ago
Why does the current design paradigm in image coding formats emphasise supporting as many features as possible in order to have “one image format to rule them all”? You do not see this in audio and does anybody think that Opus and FLAC shou
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by Mr_Minderbinder 10mo ago
> You can pretty much draw a parallel line with hardware advancement and the bloating of software. I do not think it is surprising that there is a Jevons paradox-like phenomena with computer memory and like other instances of it, it does
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by Mr_Minderbinder 10mo ago
> Over-focus on the highest possible quality This is not an issue in my view. I like the fact that I can download 100 MiB ultra-high resolution TIFF files of scans of photographs from the original negative from the Library of Congress an
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by Mr_Minderbinder 10mo ago
> Over the weekend, Rodrigo Arias Mallo, creator of the Dillo browser project... This is wrong, that is the current maintainer. Jorge Arellano Cid is the creator of Dillo.
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Alternative Internet Protocols(n0thanky0u.neocities.org)
9 points by Mr_Minderbinder 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 11mo ago
YouTube has gotten so bad that even normal people are complaining about it now. A middle-aged woman who volunteers with me was saying how she did not feel comfortable using YouTube due to the number of inappropriate ads. I ended up giving h

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