adamjb

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   by adamjb 6y ago

   OpenTTD has an android port but no ios port (something to do with GPL iirc)
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   I used to feel the same way until I decided to actually use my twitter account on a regular basis, which probably means it's on some level objectively terrible. But now I've learnt the logic of how to navigate twitter I find it ve
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   Napoleonic forces invaded Switzerland and established a client state. Napoleon and 40,000 men quite famously crossed the Alps from Switzerland (base camp at Martigny) as part of the Italian campaign in 1800, as depicted in [0] and [1]. [0]
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   Ah yes, neoclassical facades, the defining feature of brutalism. https://res.cloudinary.com/schoolprison/7_pexlbe.jpg
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   Dreams made a whole lot more sense to me when I learnt about idea of the brain as a predictive processing machine. It asserts that the brain works as a sort of recursive two-sided process, with theory creation on one side and evidence colle
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   Central Javanese culture is intensely non-confrontational so you can't really read anything into it.
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   There's been mainstream coverage of it, including in the WSJ, e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/west-point-annapolis-officials-...
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   Here's the rejected PEP for operator overloading. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0335/ and deferred PEP for rich comparison chaining specifically https://www.python.org/dev/peps
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   by adamjb 6y ago

   >many people choose majors that have no value to society I think you're missing the word "financial" there, going by the rest of your comment.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    One of the authors of the reviewed textbook has a three part response to this paper. >In this blog post, I provide a response to the specific points made in that paper and conclude that if it aims to be a fair ‘guide’ to MMT (even from a
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513209 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103156 It's worth going through the previous discussions for the recommendations of similar films
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    While I haven't read Freud's paper [0] myself, and I know that there are a couple of pop history/science accounts that say that [1], there are also a bunch that don't [2]. A bit of googling drags up this account by a guy
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Fun fact: Freud once spent a summer in Italy dissecting 400 eels in a futile search for their testes.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    It's very much precedented. The IRA would provide warnings for their bombings, with varying levels of success in averting civilian casualties.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    All the studies mentioned seem to focus on total crimes and not crimes per trip. I wonder if the (lack of) effect they observe is because of increased lighting leading to increased trips which leads to more crimes just because there are mor
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    There's a machine at my work named Schwarzenegger, which is just great.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    > 141. Google also has violated users’ privacy in other egregious ways when doing so is convenient for Google. For instance, shortly after Facebook acquired WhatsApp, in 2015, Facebook signed an exclusive agre
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Anarchists are part of the left. I think you're thinking of anarcho-capitalists who reject that sort of coercion. Which is not to say anarchists aren't against Obamacare, but it tends to be [0] more on the grounds that it's c
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Any disease that spreads in clusters will have its infections distributed in at least a similar way. Here's the best write up on that theme I've read: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Estimated OnlyFans income distribution: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1335726357548990464
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    GPS fixes improve over time as the ephemeris gets downloaded and updated so what he claims makes sense. A full ephemeris takes 30 seconds to broadcast from each satellite.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Nice concise write up of the same study here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305573
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Is "for people that value their eye sight" just a synonym for "defaults to dark mode"?
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    There was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_boom#1890s
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    People develop and possess credibility under pseudonyms all the time.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    Overall mortality tends to decline in recessions, so that could contribute too.
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    If you haven't seen it already you should check out Peter Norvig's 20-odd line toy spell checker, written over the course of a flight. https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    I don't know how hard they would be to come up with ex nihilo, but they're fairly straightforward to prove if you know that logb(x) = log(x)/log(b) and log(x^y)=y * log(x). For logy√z(z) = y logy√z(z) = log(z)/log(z^1&#x
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    by adamjb 6y ago

    The decibel is defined as a tenth of the log10 of power, so power doubles every ~3dB. Amplitude and pressure are proportional to the root of power, so amplitude doubles every ~6db. Loudness is roughly proportional to the root of amplitude