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by adriand 2y ago
From the article: > This is leading to what Germans call “vorauseilender Gehorsam,” or “preemptive obedience,” as one non-CDC scientist commented. And why is this term German? Do, perhaps, the Germans have unique experience and insight i
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by adriand 2y ago
“The species named after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles the head of the new Bathynomus species.” B Vaderi…pretty funny.
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by adriand 2y ago
I read it after college when I first started working with Rails 1 after I joined a friend’s company. Funny to think that was almost two decades ago. I still remember the quirky art style, although I will admit to preferring a more prosaic b
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by adriand 2y ago
A few weeks before the time change that happened last fall, I had to debug an issue in our production environment related to something that got scheduled at, IIRC, 1:30 am "local time" and due to some date-handling code that didn&
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by adriand 2y ago
Sure, but the facts matter. Making millions of dollars by operating a marketplace for illegal drugs is not even close to the same ballpark as protesting a draconian anti-homeless law, let alone resisting genocide! The only reasonable argume
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> addicts would have access to regulated, pharmaceutical grade heroin We tried that, it was called the opioid epidemic and Purdue was the pharmacist. We had readily available, doctor-prescribed, high quality narcotics available to anyone
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by adriand 2y ago
Is it unjust to prohibit the sale of illegal drugs, weapons, etc.? Society has good reasons for regulating certain goods. I regularly see people in my community who are enslaved by fentanyl and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. The soci
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by adriand 2y ago
> used as a standard to calculate “laytime” and “demurge” (myriad of fees associated when a ship docks into a port). Nitpick: I think you mean “demurrage”: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demurrage.asp
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by adriand 2y ago
Someone wrote, "Because it's punk rock" and I think that sums it up. It's an act of rebellion.
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What I love is that apparently tons of Americans are signing up for a different Chinese social video app whose name is being translated as “Red Note”. I would love if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama a
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Could it work based on deviance from norms? Like a setting where you say, I’m okay with up to two standard deviations from our typical write volume but that’s it? Or, alternatively, just let me set the size of the volume. Treat it like a ha
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by adriand 2y ago
I totally agree. You should be able to choose to have things shut down rather go past a limit. I don’t have a single client that would choose $70k versus, say, a couple hours downtime while we figure out what is happening with a resource th
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by adriand 2y ago
> Terraria? Yes!
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by adriand 2y ago
I can't remember where I read this, but I came across someone talking about the fact that these AAA photo realistic games are hugely expensive to make, but if you look at what young people are spending their time playing, they're
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by adriand 2y ago
Great point. Niche to me, but not to thee. I was unaware. This is actually one of the frustrating things about the LLMs - they don’t tell you when what you asked for is outside their training data!
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These are rightwing talking points with little relationship to the facts. Under the Trudeau government Canada has produced record amounts of oil and gas. Canada is one of the top four oil producers in the world . [1] Canada has problems bu
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by adriand 2y ago
Fascinating video. I watched almost the whole thing without planning to, I got sucked in. This is one of those examples of software that reminds me of my struggle to understand how LLMs are passing code evaluations that culminate with peopl
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I live in southern Ontario which is mostly like this too. There is occasional flooding but minor compared to other places, and occasional major snowstorms, but the worst natural disaster I can recall in a half century here was an “ice storm
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by adriand 2y ago
The author of the article starts out asking, "why would someone throw them out like that?" Now we have the answer.
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> they should just unlock some land in the Himalayas or Rockies to replace this observatory That "just" is sure doing a lot of work in this suggestion.
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I’m curious about the open source nature of this and how you / people in general manage a project where you are hosting it and need to maintain its security, but are also presumably merging pull requests as people contribute to the pro
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I was having this problem as well, but I kept trying, and then I got it. I found the finger trick was useful to initially sort of calibrate the focal distance but overall didn't really help me that much. Here is what worked for me. I u
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Thank you, that looks super helpful!
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Fair enough. I should try it, although I have a pretty good grasp of how subtractive synths work. What about FM synthesis, do you have any suggestions on that? I find it the least intuitive by far, not that my experience extends to many oth
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by adriand 2y ago
No it isn't, the original post is "Learning Synths", not "Learning Synthesis". It actually is a tutorial on how you might go about programming an acid patch (or a bass, or a wind instrument, or whatever).
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I personally believe that at some point, many people will realize that the majority of the people with economic means are the people who are able to concentrate and don’t waste all their time. Note that I don’t mean the super wealthy, I’m r
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To what extent do people in this line of work feel fear as they do it? Is it mainly suitable for those rare people who either don’t feel fear, or the less-rare people who are looking for a rush, or does it just become mundane after sufficie
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Why did he feel he had to run? Did he owe people money?
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That’s not the full context of what is in the article. The full sentence is: > Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates, though a housing crunch has frayed
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I find this incredibly exciting. There could be some truly remarkable works whose contents are about to be revealed, and we don’t really know what we might find. Histories of the ancient (more ancient) world. Accounts of contact with cultur

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