Scarblac

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by Scarblac 1y ago
When my kids move out, one of my plans is to finally start the first Advent of Code.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Yes, I think much of the research is trying to find out what thr cause is, and I agree itslikely to be that hyperpalatable part.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Meaningless how? A lot of significant effects were found, it can't be entirely meaningless.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Well, the supermarkets know know what the effect of their product placement is. If they change it, the customer buys different things, on average. So, we can say it's reasonable for people to do some research and pick the yoghurt they
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The thing is that, although the list used (the "Nova classification") is obviously somewhat arbitrary, the fact that everybody uses it makes research results comparable to each other.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
He's just saying that it's a fine video with these subtitles, so thr subtitles were fine. The accuracy of the translation isn't that important. Who knows, maybe it was a bad video initially that got improved by "wrong&qu
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Nah, it's global warming. Because fossil fuel is stupid useful and there's no way we're going to stop burning it. And then we get to the climate scenarios that aren't compatible with our current sophisticated civilizatio
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by Scarblac 1y ago
NumPy was pretty early, and it hit the sweet spot for science: free, fast, with a quick and dirty scripting language around it. Then the whole ecosystem that Python has nowadays was built on NumPy, and sending data from one library to anoth
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by Scarblac 1y ago
All Python types are reference types. The reference to None isn't included in the str type. There's no way to get an actual null reference, afaik. Variables always have some value, possibly None. (not sure what happens if you se
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I just don't see why any of your comment is relevant to the situation today, after Putin has been in power for 25 years. If something has a pro-Putin bias nowadays, that's a right wing bias, because he's clearly part of the r
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Economically, communism in Russia died with the Soviet Union. Putin leads a criminal oligarchy that concentrates all the country's wealth near him and his clique, like a modern czar. Putin returned the church to a prominent position, i
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by Scarblac 1y ago
If that page sides with Putin, then surely that's a right wing bias?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
> Genocide is defined under international law as a crime of intent. Israel was happy to sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as Hamas offered to return the hostages. Therefore Israel had no intent of removing the people of Gaza from Gaza,
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Our standard of living is destroying the planet and it needs to go down a lot anyway.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The part of the article I can read is about a contrast between the US and Europe.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
XHTML 1.0, the attempt to write HTML in XML. It came out in ~2000 and was a thing for some time while HTML 4 was also around.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
> but for ND it's learned behaviour that costs energy and conscious effort to do. And they feel like they have to do it because society is used to people effortlessly doing it all the time, so if you don't you're considere
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by Scarblac 1y ago
And people in other countries are just way poorer, live in a society where everybody is way poorer, and therefore they are happy with way lower wages.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The US is getting outcompeted by India, basically.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I really don't see how your comment has to do with his at all. You're both talking about completely different things, I think.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
But that's a trap, the money you "need" is partly decided by how much you have available. Once you're used to the money from a 40 day job it's hard to do with less, but other people manage fine because they never go
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by Scarblac 1y ago
> I will add that I'm plenty "smart" enough to understand that "10" comes before "9" in a strictly alphabetical sense Strictly speaking 9, 1 and 0 are not in the alphabet so can't be sorted alphabe
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Pick something that's getting popular elsewhere in the world but not yet in your country, and copy it?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I find it counter intuitive that the frequency of cheating matters. It's not something that happens randomly, people choose to. And if the #2 in the world decides to cheat it may be for different reasons than other players. But, of cou
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by Scarblac 1y ago
> although you would need some complex kind of encoding mechanism to make the representation terse enough to represent the common moves along with 7 promoted queens in the same 256-moves space. If you have an algorithm for generating the
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by Scarblac 1y ago
It's white to move. If black is in check with white to move, that makes the position illegal, and unreachable -- there's no possible legal move by black that led to this position where he is in check. Replacing one of the black pa
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The 50 moves rule also needs to be claimed by one of the players. However there is a 75 move rule and a 5 time repetition rule that are both automatic (don't need to be claimed).
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The 50 moves rule doesn't have be considered as it is optional. The players may claim, but they don't have to. So the game can continue. The 75 move rule is the exact same thing but mandatory. That has to be considered. (same th
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Maybe it decided it was a harmless plastic bag or something.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Atheism isn't a religion and as an atheist I find that an offensive statement. Nature existed before we did and will exist after us, it can't be true that it exists for us.

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