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by _dain_ 3y ago
In real Lisp code you'd likely indent it something like this: (% (- (+ (* x 2) 1) 3) x) This makes the structure clearer, although it's still wasteful of space, and you still have t
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This is the first "smart home" thing that actually seems interesting to me. It's still kinda nuts how much arcane bureaucracy is needed simply to make two computers in the same room talk to each other, and nobody else. Why ca
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> Here's a weird idea. Bundle materials into tuition expenses. I think that's how it's done in the UK? I don't remember paying out the wazoo for my course books. If I did have to pay it would have been some nominal
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>I don't know why we don't introduce elementary group theory at an earlier age. Whenever someone says "we should teach X earlier", that necessarily means we have to teach some Y later, unless you want to add more ho
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by _dain_ 3y ago
A whole lot of "I think", "I believe," "I feel". No reference to existing educational research on what works and what doesn't. >This isn’t a call to give up, though: instead, we should teach maths diff
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by _dain_ 3y ago
When this gets posted on HN, most of the comments are about how it's more common for answerers to incorrectly suggest that it's an XY problem, when it really isn't. I think this is because most HN commenters are pretty good a
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>the developments are all pitched at hyper wealthy individuals, whether retirement individuals with £500k to spunk on a 1-bed per my example or people from outside the region who are buying holiday homes at similarly inflated values. I
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Even when you own the land it's hard to get anything built. Planning permission, legal disputes, nimbys, nimbys, nimbys. Developers take on a lot of risk when they do this; they might end up owning a very pretty parcel of land that is
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices. How does an entirely multiple-choice mathemat
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>the real confirmation will come from either an insider leak (unlikely) Already happened years ago, see elsewhere in this thread. There's also the Vela incident, for which one of the few plausible explanations is an Israeli-SouthA
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Knowledge is determined by official government sources now? We know they have the bomb, nothing in Middle Eastern geopolitics makes sense except in light of this fact. It's like a black hole that you can observe by how it bends the lig
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by _dain_ 3y ago
There's no labour shortage -- or rather there is, but it's not the relevant causal factor. There's a lack of housing supply in places with good jobs. People have to dump so much of their hard earned cash into rent that it dis
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by _dain_ 3y ago
identical twins reared together vs apart, their IQs correlate more with their twin's than with the SES of the adoptive family. high quality studies have found that the additive heritability of IQ is somewhere around 0.8-0.9, that'
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>pdqsort (for pattern-defeating quicksort) I'm sad that it's not "pretty darn quicksort"
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>Take a look code at the other extreme can you imagine writing down verbose Java code line by line using quill and ink? Not Java, but I have done productive brainstorming sessions where I handwrite Python or R onto paper, to figure out
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by _dain_ 3y ago
not every language uses i++. increment operators are a language design antipattern anyway, not some fundamental knowledge.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
I can only offer anecdote and no concrete measurements. But I've used bad terminal emulators and good ones, and I can really notice the difference. When the letters appear even a few frames after they should, there's a definite (i
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>It is more about rejecting purely decorative elements and working directly with the structural elements and building material. No, that's what they claimed they were doing. The reality was different.
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>Brutalism is an academic justification of the brutalisation of the working class, who invariably were the ones who ended up living in cheaply constructed Brutalist architecture. The middle and upper classes (and the architects) keep to
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>I actually like that - nature easily integrates it back into itself. Water infiltration causes mould and other nasty problems for the people inside, and it makes the exterior physically crumble apart. It's not a thing to be celeb
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by _dain_ 3y ago
I would not call the GDS design "brutalist". As the linked article says, brutalism is about "raw [content/architecture], true to its construction". In other words, it's an aesthetic movement that pretends it&#x
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Took me a long time to realize the spreadable kind of "butter" that comes in a tub isn't properly butter. They put all kinds of additives in to make it spreadable, usually seed oils. For example, Lurpak spreadable "butte
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Formerly Chuck Art
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by _dain_ 4y ago
In 2022 there were 118 pedestrian fatalities in NYC. What proportion do you suppose was caused by cyclists?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>1. Coal was turned on because France messed up their nuclear fleet ... and they would not have needed to do this in the first place if Germany's nuclear fleet hadn't already been crippled on purpose . You cannot deliberate
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>The reactors in Germany were well past their lifetime, some had serious security concerns, and weren't maintained to allow for continued operations. This was a political choice, not technical. It was entirely possible to extend t
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The same "green" politicians who forced the shutdown of a perfectly good fleet of carbon-free nuclear reactors, meaning Germany's dependence on coal is increasing , now more than a third. All the energy-saving software in th
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Robert Habeck (Invidious link), provided insight into current political activities and stressed that energy-efficiency isn't getting the required attention yet. if you didn't shut down your nuclear reactors you wouldn't
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's already cheaper to fly between UK cities via Barcelona than to take the train; in ten years time it'll be cheaper to go from London to Edinburgh via the L2 Lagrange point.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>You know how someone walking down the street might give you a collection of vectors over a field, and ask questions about the subspace the vectors generate? they can be very insistent but legally you don't have to answer them.

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