SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
I think you're misunderstanding GP. This definitely refutes the theory that insects are trying to escape towards the light, because, as the article shows, insects don't head directly for the light, but instead move orthogonal to i
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by SamBam 3y ago
> That sounds like proprietary copyright wherein third parties are allowed to view, but not modify, the source code, to me. ... Except that they're literally allowed to modify the source code?
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by SamBam 3y ago
> I think it's pretty objective at this point that an icon based toggle should show the current state, not the state that tapping on the icon will produce. What about a play button? On YouTube, or any music app, the button will show
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by SamBam 3y ago
But that doesn't address the neuroplasticity that's possible with this kind of learning. It's not just a matter of training yourself, is that, when you train yourself, the movements become natural, and feel like a reasonabl
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by SamBam 3y ago
So this is international, but is the aim for it to be used by an international audience? e.g. if a Brazilian were lamenting the fact that UrbanDictionary is in English, is this site for them? Because right now when I explore the entries, al
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by SamBam 3y ago
One thing I'm very interested in, as a grad student who has to consume a huge number of PDFs, is whether there are good tools for converting existing PDFs to portable EPUBs or HTML documents. If I use, for instance, CloudConvert [1], I
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by SamBam 3y ago
If you're using this technique to 3D print a key to match a specific keyway, you probably already aren't the average person.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Except that this set describes the attack directions, not the motion directions. The difference is in the shape of the pawns. I think this one is quite interesting, as showing lines of threat.
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by SamBam 3y ago
This is definitely interesting. However, their diagram at the bottom makes me wish they had done another test site to model a sink near a toilet. While the lid-closed position still allows plenty of aerosolized water to emerge from the side
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by SamBam 3y ago
Man, thanks for the rabbit hole. I spent a while there, both trying to find my old site (I don't recall which directory under Area51 it was in, and it may never have been archived) and just reliving it. Memory is weird. Somehow viewing
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm confused. How do you send the request URL, and how do you receive the encrypted secret? If the answer is "email, chat, text, Whatsapp" or whatever, them why not just send the secret plaintext? If anyone can get into any o
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by SamBam 3y ago
No, I think the question is: if you're passing the URLs via email, WhatsApp, or anything else, then if that system is compromised then you've revealed the secret. If you trust that system not to be compromised, then you may as wel
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by SamBam 3y ago
Cool, and thanks for search! I think you may have slightly over-sold the study, though -- or at least what you remembered from it. My reading of the first study was that they took a simulated version of a relatively large (2000 node) neutra
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's the standard developer story. 50 hours into development, you're like, wait, how long would it have taken to go to each album and click Select All->Download?
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by SamBam 3y ago
I wonder if anyone has even analysed the carbon footprint of those big fans scrubbing CO2 from the air to find out if/when they'll ever even recover the CO2 spent building them.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Can you find that study?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Would the royal household also have decorative brass stone masons' chisels, carpenters' planes, doctors' scalpels, and farmers' sickles? I don't really buy that theory. Do we have any other examples of fancy decorat
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yeah, this seems confusing. Obviously his brain has a solid understanding of language, and he even recently learned a new language (Spanish Sign Language) so learning another language should be possible. It sounds like the researchers are s
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't really buy that theory. There's no explanation for why it needs to be this very-hard-to-cast bronze dodecahedron, instead of just a wooden board with pegs and holes, which is all that would be needed for the video above.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, in general, yes that is true in biology. The energy required to maintain bodily structures mean that they tend to be relevant to evolutionary fitness. There are very few structures that are entirely irrelevant, even if the specific
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by SamBam 3y ago
That's a hypothesis, certainly not a solved problem. There in't any other evidence for it, besides someone finding that it could kind of work, and some inference about where it was found. Currently there's no explanation for
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by SamBam 3y ago
Presumably this is opening up that much land for potential use, not putting diggers on the ground to start setting up panels tomorrow. The next phases will be deciding where to actually put individual farms.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yes, thank you, that is what I was trying to express.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Right, but the point is that certain plants and mammals do produce these independently. Humans don't require smoking weed to get enough cannabinoids into their system to get their brain to actually work. Likewise poppies aren't
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yes, sure, we're all playing with amino acids in order to create proteins that can then synthesize complex things. This doesn't mean that it's easy to create the pathways that create these complex things. The synthesis of opi
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by SamBam 3y ago
Indeed, it's a reasonable argument that fungi evolved these molecules specifically to affect animal's brains. After all, we can see specific behaviors that help spores spread, like the zombie ants. I think marijuana or poppies hav
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by SamBam 3y ago
I have always been fascinated in the fact that psychedelics, and, indeed, any plant-based molecule that can mimic a neurotransmitter, exists. Us and plants aren't creating the same molecule because we share a common ancestor. There are
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by SamBam 3y ago
I believe GP was referring to the Ello founder Budnitz, who said that line, as the "dick." I agree. He was responding to perfectly justified -- and accurate -- criticism by saying how sad it is to be a person with such views of th
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by SamBam 3y ago
I looked back in my history and found one from just last week: https://www.google.com/search?q=wevideo+%22masking%22 The top hits do not include the word "masking" in then as far as I can see (although I'm in
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by SamBam 3y ago
I've found that quoting single words doesn't even do anything anymore. Quoting phrases still usually keeps them together, although does not always work.

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