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From March.
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+1 here for mentioning "building something [physical] that .. works" as part of a cognitively healthy mix.
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I have no basis for disagreement (although how many "only humans can" statements have fallen over the years). I wonder if a human proclivity towards organized sports could contribute, though. Organized sport also suggests organi
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> because it requires COGNITION FWIW, one set of snippets from Joe Rogan on YT included this statement: I believe academics underestimate just how mental it is to get through a hard workout.
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Wow, the tiny physics engine is that advanced?
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Did she solve the mystery of Who killed the stock price?
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Yes, folded once between the cover and spine. My one consolation is that it was probably Jowett's translations of Plato -- on the possibility that that would have been less likely to go straight to trash at Goodwill.
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Dumb question, but how could you even be allowed to change your name on a verified account (old blue check), without some re-verification?
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RE: buzz about a new version of Windows Terminal, which "takes characters and draws them on a screen": "How far has software and software development fallen to where that's even a notable thing." ... "The wor
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I believe I accidently left a few hundred dollars along the spine of one hardcover I donated to Goodwill. Speaking of spines of books, last I saw it mentioned, archive.org apparently wasn't digitizing an image of the spline edge of boo
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Haven't confirmed it, but I recently read that one early sign can be loss of smell. I suppose various potential warnings could be on some range(s) in terms of time-in-advance (and diagnostic certainty).
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The link as I find it is to a thread moderately excoriating scientists for remaining silent while somewhat-implicated researchers and journals practiced something of a coverup in favor of a natural origins hypothesis. The post title here co
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Blue, grey, official ... Pretty soon it will be as bad as USB labeling strategy.
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Is there any application of Goodhart's law to competing in elections? "Getting a winning number of votes" seems to be one kind of metric. How might a system adapt?
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Yes, e.g. what if you are quoting something with italics in the original text? For older texts in English, italics might easily indicate a word or phrase in a non-English language. Showing that with semantic "emphasis" might conve
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Is there any Peter Principle for all this? "Every programmer will be given more difficult assignments until they are a 0.4X programmer."
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I'm attempting to join Github Copilot and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Intend to give new meaning to crashing your code.
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Monitoring your kid's purchases? Homeland Security: Just another free service we offer
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One gloss on comparative philosophy: *nix: Extendable command line (via C, etc) plus shell scripts Emacs: Extendable command line (via Lisp) plus keymaps
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All of the online first-hand reviews are positive. Name that bias
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> small business, solo IT Years ago I imagined such a thing as "Programmer in the corner syndrome". This is where you are the only person interacting with considerable complexity and fragility, and no one else in the office eve
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FWIW, when I was thinking more about text-based literate circuit design, one of the advantages I thought of was to leave ample place to comment upon selection rationale for (and subsequent experience with) particular components.
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Optional feature of the "Basic Bottle" entry-level design: If you unscrew the yellow top, natural convective cooling in the summer.
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One comment on YT asked: I wonder if Michio, after getting rebuffed here, went home and considered changing fields. Tempted to reply: He changed fields a long time ago.
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Decades ago, HBR described a study suggesting that CEOs do not have portable talent, if not followed by their team.
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An electician, an electronics engineer, and a plumber walk into a sushi bar ...
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Related: I once saw it claimed that wooden cutting boards had better-than-expected antiseptic properties (better than with plastic IIRC), despite knife marks providing locations to harbor debris.
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> parallel counts by each candidate I have often imagined having say two scanners in physical sequence (so passing through a ballet is a single operation), and having more than one (competing) recorder for the output of each scanner head
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> going to be fucking rich It is the year 316720, and the majority of intergallactic trade is in left-handed and right-handed sugar.
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Not to be confused with Ankiflow , where you bring your repetitive tasks together with timed repetition.

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