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by _dain_ 4y ago
Let me introduce you to the SomethingAwful RIPline: a DIY amateur zipline which could accelerate children to 65mph. The vertical drop was 143 feet. Had anyone ridden this thing they would have been pasted. https://threadreaderapp
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Nope, and the "Universe 25" label should make you immediately suspicious about what happened in Universes 1-24. Those never got published. Gwern did some investigation into it: https://www.gwern.net/Mouse-Utopia A
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thought-terminating cliche.
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I already refuted it
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why do books and websites have margins between the text and the edge of the page? because a judicious amount of blank space between elements just looks nice and makes it easier to read. typographers and graphic designers think very hard abo
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Also UK here, I don't remember being taught how to hold a pen. Mine rests on the third knuckle of the ring finger, with the middle fingertip bracing the pen tip and the index fingertip bracing about a third of the way up. Then the uppe
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>Most people I've met that actually got jobs at top HFTs were quite curious about a lot of topics in school (and still are with extra time they have). yeah and that's the worst part, they take the brightest minds of the generat
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>What people who aren't fat do is intellectually recognize that "I could eat forever" feeling, and don't fall for it. That's where the willpower comes into play. This isn't how it is for me. Of course I&#x27
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>It's unfortunately normal for our biology to basically want to shove calories down our mouths all the time. Not for me. >I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas co
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It is actually prescribed sometimes.
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Adderall is amphetamine, not methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is occasionally prescribed when front-line treatments fail. In any case, the dosage is far below what is used recreationally. ADHD patients rarely get addicted to medically-presc
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Can you run a mile? Do ten pushups?
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> The body is an energy equation to be balanced. Physics defines that. Most equations don't fight back when you try to balance them. But this one does.
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>I'm not sure at what point in your life weight management was lauded as "easy". You have some tools in your toolbox on how to lose weight naturally (diet, exercise, different eating cycles) but you decided that these are
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This is called "accelerationism". It does not work. It is a maladaptive thought-pattern, nursed by people on the political fringe. The theory is that as things get worse and worse, there will come a moment when everyone suddenly &
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Makes perfect sense, thanks!
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>Current is always measured through a single point. It's a count of the charge flowing past a point per time unit. (What is charge? No one knows. "Charge" is just a name for the mysterious something that "voltage&quot
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Do you have links to those articles/videos?
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Yes. This can happen when the person you're talking to is in the right but is being arrogant/obnoxious/smug about it. Publicly agreeing would be rewarding rudeness. I don't think that's even such a bad thing; they m
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Borrowing exists to fix this problem, I believe you can do something like this? let f: File := openFile("filename.txt"); writeString(&!f, "first line"); writeString(&!f, "second line");
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Okay yes, I forgot about the GPL problem. That's a fair reason.
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+1 to this. I've been using it for a while. It doesn't do a great deal, the magic is that it removes just enough hassle from the shell scripting process that I write far more than I used to. - I don't have to worry about ac
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Ah great! So to summarize: - we destroy a linear value either by destructuring it ourselves, or by calling a cleanup function that transitively destructures it - we can make a type opaque to importers of our module, which precludes direct d
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Can you give some examples of what it looks like to destroy a linear value? Elsewhere in the thread you said the compiler doesn't privilege destructor functions over anything else. I'm a bit confused how it works. The function to
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That's treating the symptoms not the cause. The roads should be safe enough for kids to ride on.
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>Reminds me a bit of folks who steadfastly avoid SQL. You have to change the flow in your brain; there's more than one flavor of flow. For regex, it's the watching for single character match with optional modifier. For SQL, it&
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>Enter regular expressions. I have never, ever spontaneously composed a regex. I have to be very slow and deliberate. I have to recall the precise definition of every character in the regex as I read or write it. Sometimes I stare at a
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Other shapes have also been proposed: X-shaped for leadership I-shaped for individual depth-skill without communication skills tree-shaped for a person with depth in many areas or branches of a field Multiple Mountains shaped (coined
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>Many non-Linuxes, and some Linuxes too. which ones can't run bash? >Linux is not the whole world. Debian is not the whole Linux. Interactive shells on servers are not guaranteed to be available. Control over the installation ima
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posix is a messy codification of a situation that existed at a particular point in time. it didn't arrive ex nihilo. if enough people decide to just use bash, then that will be the new standard. we don't have to ask for some commi

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