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by _dain_ 2y ago
This is AI-slop clickbait rehashing a blogpost, itself rehashing some carnie nonsense from the 1910s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si-Te-Cah >A written report by James H. Hart, the first of two miners to excavate t
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What are these like for people with epilepsy or other sensitivities to rapid visual strobing?
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It's about the cardinality (number of possible values) of the compound type. The cardinality of a product type is the product of the cardinalities of its constituents. Likewise a sum type's cardinality is the sum of the cardinalit
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god I wish I could just snooze through the winter. wouldn't have to commute in the dark.
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Like I said, it's theology/eschatology, not necessarily the way things really are in that world. I don't want to spoil much further.
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It's also the background theology of the world of The Epiphany of Gliese 581 https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581 >And there were those that believed the Common Task was to resurrect the dead in computer simul
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you still shouldn't have it on your lap though. it's bad for your posture.
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Is that unusual?
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Not a myth. I went to school during the twilight of the conker. It absolutely died because risk-averse teachers banned it, to howls of protest from us kids.
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Why send the landing mechanism to space when it isn't needed there? Whatever kit you put on a rocket has to be brutally miniaturized to limit how much you eat into the payload mass. Also has to be rugged enough to withstand tremendous
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by _dain_ 2y ago
Manufacture and maintenance contracts for the Shuttle were deliberately spread out across many companies and states, especially in key congressional districts. It was a jobs programme; waste was a feature not a bug. Same thing for SLS.
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Colourblind employees would then become a spearphishing target.
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>How could it possibly be meant literally? Do you consider it possible for a rocket to be caught by a literal person with literal wooden sticks? in ordinary English there are many degrees of "literally".
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kudos, this is a much kinder reply than I was going to write.
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> incarceration is about optimizing for outcomes among the peaceful/orderly middle and higher classes. Actually I focus more on protecting the peaceful/orderly poor . Poor people are overwhelmingly law-abiding, but they suff
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>and for the record, I agree that a person found guilty of what they were arrested for 15 times should be incarcerated but you know damned well that most of the time it doesn't even go to trial. they're arrested, released, arre
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>The US already incarcerates vastly more people than most comparable nations because it has vastly more crime than comparable nations. you have to look at what happens to crime in the US over time, when you are more or less stringent a
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>Secondly it's less "boring" for developers and arguably less work. Humphrey: But what happens to us ? Bernard: Well, much less work. Humphrey: Yes! Much. Less. Work. So little that fullstack engineers might almost be a
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by _dain_ 2y ago
>If you use #!/bin/sh ... And I'm saying just don't do that! If you use #!/bin/sh, it won't work, so don't use #!/bin/sh ! You're writing Bash, so use #!/bin/bash! Bec
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Yes, also effect sizes of 4x and 8x are just ridiculously huge. I flat-out don't believe it. This study won't replicate.
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>You will understand why when you try this with /bin/sh on Debian/Ubuntu. Okay so just ... don't do that? You're meant to put /bin/bash in the shebang ... because it's a bash script. I don&#x27
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But are there even "sysadmins" anymore?
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Who? Name and shame them.
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Just adding onto this because I can't edit: it beggars belief that water supply would ever be a limiting factor for urban growth in England . It's preposterous that this is even an issue. Yes, Cambridgeshire is the driest regio
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The NIMBYs are the ones trying to stop the reservoir from being built. They created the problem they're complaining about. A big hole in the ground with water in it is not a complicated piece of infrastructure, but the planning system
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I don't know how NY is in comparison, but housing in Cambridge is almost as expensive as in London. A detached 3br starts at £700k. NIMBYs keep killing any expansion of supply.
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Alright someone has to be the skeptic: there's no fucking god damned way this works as well as the video suggests. There has to be enormous amounts of behind-the-scenes work to support this thing; the idea that it's self-hosting a
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>One can just infer lifetime by reading the code. Enormously load-bearing "just" there. And if there's a subtle lifetime bug ... ?
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Immune system won't help against air pollution from traffic and factories and forest fires.
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This is one of the three educational interventions with solid evidence of it working. The other two are air conditioning and free school lunches. People don't get excited over them though, because they have nothing to do with teachers

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