Ntrails

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by Ntrails 3mo ago
I've never had a steam update take more than 30secs. Game updates can take a lot longer if you need them (ie multiplayer) to play. idk
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
Most commonly ime the application domain may only be some small fraction of the database which is designed/optimised for a much broader dataset.
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> Investment gains are not work Say, for example, my job is allocating capital across the S&P 500. My work is picking the stocks, the fruits of my labour are excess returns. Are those excess returns not work? What are they?
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
Compared to the 40 ft led screen blaring images out to everyone 24h a day in central London I will take the newspaper any day. Drives me nuts
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> It is the devices. It's 100% the devices. That anyone is pretending otherwise is mind boggling to me.
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
A goose was protecting its young as some (crows/ravens/idk) hopped around close on the ground. Mama hissed and flapped a little. Crows back off a bit. Meanwhile another crow flies in, picks up a gosling by the neck (i swear ther
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> Psychology is the study of the psyche of white male psychology students Huh? Maybe my uni was an outlier / it is a UK thing, but there were ~99 female and 1 male psych students in my year. This was not considered unusual.
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
Man, at the rate I can generate pancakes I fear four children would murder me and just drink the batter raw. Though maybe I'd buy a second pan in advance xD
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> Cheaper / free childcare, better parental leave policies, and cheaper cost of living so that people who want to be stay at home parents can have that option. As GP states, heavily pushing subsidies has not been shown to work. The
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
For talking heads/opinion you have, I would say, two choices: - Retired people with historic experience. The longer since they were actively involved in the sector, the less useful they will be of course. There is also going to
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> It's mostly the result of hiring too many stupid product managers and engineers that don't give a shit. If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix it. Except, they hired all these people and expect them to do Stuff. What are they
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
I just own a standard catering one and it always bemuses me how people suffer with the shit sold in supermarkets
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> Might not be as strong or fast [..] knows how to do it smartly. Friend of mine worked in Prisons for a while, and has a way of telling the difference between people with a lot of muscle and people who know how leverage their musculatur
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> This is basically required for clueless (and even not so clueless) users. I can actually confess that this hit me. Almost nothing on my phone has permission to use my camera, including my web browser (why???). I assume this was done
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
PE remains a source of complete fascination for me. The game is clearly rigged to produce bad outcomes at a societal level (eg no company loaded up with debt to finance buybacks/dividends and just eps ended up in a better long term fi
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
> Law Enforcement often gets frustrated at chasing the smarter ones and gives up, moving on to easier prey - and ideally getting them to plead to the other crimes I can't solve as part of a nice plea deal. Great for the stats.
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
The good news is that my VBA calls out to some old compiled(?) fortran for the matrix maths that I'd otherwise be too slow to run!
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
I'd be way more sold if I could pass in a static dump of my library music and get a handful of suggestions to demonstrate value.
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by Ntrails 4mo ago
Buy a house without grass :)
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
Yeah, this is a no brainer (and I think most banks let you verify via the app rather than personal info) to avoid the annoying uncertainty (but note my mother would not be able to handle that I expect)
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
Those seem like bold assumptions about % of startups created by green card holders? I feel like the better argument is that the greencard holder was the best candidate and thus will be more productive in the role. It is just efficient resou
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
> because your friends and family are using it No. My family was _not_ using it. The people who attended the same university were. Some of the change was when everyone had to moderate their output for different social contexts/a
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
> people to squat in gigantic houses that they don't need In the Uk, at least, stamp duty is an obvious and infuriating driver of either buying big early or never downsizing. I did the former, parents do the latter. Easy to solve t
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
Honestly take me back to time ordered forums. Threads, voting, algorithms were all a mistake.
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
I'm pleased to see other people also use Knight Capital as the boogieman. Super fun talk
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
> Second, why are we rushing everywhere? Why can't we just take it slow? I assign _zero_ value to walking between the train and my house. When I get home I can play video games / make food / read a book / play music
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
> Give people random but genuine complements. It's nice. It costs nothing. It makes both of us feel good. I'm worried it'll come off as creepy/weird so I never do. I've seen the power of other people doing it,
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
But then it would not have been a "Pune" or "play on words"
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by Ntrails 5mo ago
My fathers different but related saying: Better to be late than dead on time.
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by Ntrails 6mo ago
> Are we in a better place because the EU forced it. You betcha. That's the point. Speak for yourself, I've gained nothing but annoyance. (I'm willing to accept a theoretical greater good argument - but I'm not prec

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