Psyladine

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by Psyladine 5y ago
As much as any culture takes its system of beliefs and underlayment of culture seriously.
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by Psyladine 5y ago
The first time you smash your thumb with the hammer you curse out loud, put ice on it, watch the blood darken under your nail and suck air in every time you try to curl it after. The fourth or fifth time, you cuss when it happens, shake you
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by Psyladine 5y ago
The literal origin of Dune was managing the ecologically destructive propagative nature of desertification.
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by Psyladine 5y ago
It doesn't need to be a good idea. It needs to be the next step in the branch; consider being in a conversation when some interruption happens. Interruption resolves, you say "and now back to...what was I saying?" In that mom
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by Psyladine 5y ago
I was going to comment on the Coptic connection; Hieroglyphs would have remained a mystery due to their basically vowel-less structure; it was an interpreted language[0]. I wonder to what extent this AI could crack that connection, since we
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Just options. VBA is there as well. Excel's virtue is not specializing in any specific task, but being versatile enough to express a multitude of business solutions. 'Excel is my database' wasn't always a punchline. That
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Anything solved by tableau is as easily solved by Excel, which likewise supports direct SQL connections. The template graphs & incorporation of function logic, for versatility & business availability make it no contest. Though Table
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by Psyladine 5y ago
For those interested I also highly recommend Veritasium's video[1] as an excellent explainer as well, especially regarding the roots of imaginary/complex numbers in geometry. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUz
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by Psyladine 6y ago
If you want to read Russian literature, you don't have to be Russian ('but it wouldn't hurt!'), you have to want to read Russian literature, i.e. learn the language and have sufficient interest in the material to seek ou
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by Psyladine 6y ago
No-one gambles to increase risk. Waging a bet against a payout is only superficially different from waging a premium against a catastrophe.
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by Psyladine 6y ago
I enjoyed reading that the paranoia of the Soviets that it was a western plot was justified, but as their allies bought the technology it gave second hand information from Moscow anyways.
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by Psyladine 6y ago
A user giving feedback has already paid for the service in one way or another. You might counter with future services, but that's a function of market share, which is not served by customer satisfaction but by customer convenience. Dat
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by Psyladine 6y ago
>They had joined for far less and during far more stressful conditions. The classic chicken & pig scenario.
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by Psyladine 6y ago
I bet if you put a doctor/cop/peer/teacher/parent/total stranger next to the person it would change the stimuli as well. We're social creatures and to suggest actions are atomic is simplistic. Even a small chil
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by Psyladine 6y ago
The communication only exists if the receiver is there to witness the "hello"?
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by Psyladine 6y ago
If not, at least when they decommission the old carriers we can have some serious monster truck rallies.
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by Psyladine 6y ago
>"A mailing list of an illegal online service was sent to the SQLPD hot-line. Please submit all records email addresses' details. Please make sure there are no duplicates." typo
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by Psyladine 6y ago
A societal failure for a society that no longer exists, maybe. The world of the 80s, 90s & early 00s is gone. You can't let your children wander the neighborhoods, kids don't have rituals of social achievement with clear stake
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by Psyladine 6y ago
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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by Psyladine 6y ago
>You have to wonder what drove people to collaborate for 15 centuries in building this construct. Good fences make good neighbors.
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by Psyladine 6y ago
"A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames,
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by Psyladine 6y ago
As a kid I tried getting a BASIC program working on the TI994A, and poorly communicated that to the math/library/tech teacher at my school, who in a moment of disinterested frustration told me you're either born a programmer
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by Psyladine 6y ago
>The Army is really serious stuff, it's ok to hint at adventure, self-improvement, fraternity but at the core it must appeal to 'duty' and or kind of communitarian obligation/commitment or it's the wrong message.
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by Psyladine 7y ago
>You, you're some rando coming up talking about stuff that makes you look incompetent. Or worse, threatening to make his choices look incompetent.
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by Psyladine 7y ago
>lifetime upgrades of licensed software "we initially made a higher priced plan to get more from our customers for the same, since we'd have supported all our customers anyway since broken or dated software would have put us ou
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by Psyladine 7y ago
>The difference between Spaniards and Germans is smaller than you might expect. Isn't that the point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
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by Psyladine 7y ago
it's true of any industry or organizational structure that is considered a cost center. As for your examples, those are all boolean - they either do it successfully or they don't, and if they do, it's what they are paid for,
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by Psyladine 7y ago
It's not IT/software, it's in every field, it's called shitwork, that you don't get credit for, but catch hell if it isn't. e.g. "what do we pay all these janitors for when this place looks spotless?"
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by Psyladine 7y ago
>Agreed. There was an article on HN about the demise of psychiatric care in US written from the inside by a psychiatrist. I can't find it though. thelastpsychiatrist.com has criticism of modern psychiatry as well.
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by Psyladine 7y ago
Perfidy, in some contexts, means a promise to act in good faith but with intention to subvert the effort.

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