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by ajuc 2y ago
I've seen it used as an excuse to change the subject. "Oh you wanted to say that X but you said Y, which is obviously wrong, so let me answer X instead" when Y was a perfectly valid proposition. What is "steel" and
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by ajuc 2y ago
> If that’s the case why do the Celsius thermostats I used while on vacation in Canada use 0.5C increments? Probably because they were made for US and changed the labels? I've never seen a thermostat with 0.5 C increments in Europe.
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by ajuc 2y ago
My parents care a lot about "przymrozek" - which is when it gets sub-zero C at night and you need to cover the plants and close the greenhouse doors and put a heater there so the plants survive. They give warnings in radio when th
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by ajuc 2y ago
The difference between -1 C and +1 C is VASTLY more important in daily life than the difference between 26.5 and 27 C. Farmers, drivers, people with gardens need to know if it will get subzero at night. Nobody cares if it's 26.5 C or 2
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by ajuc 2y ago
Depends on the language. Century being 3 syllables really makes it long in English, but it's still 5 syllables vs 5 syllables. In Polish: [lata] tysiącsiedemsetne (6 [+2] syllables) vs osiemnasty wiek (5 syllables).
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by ajuc 2y ago
Changing the name changes nothing. The distinction will remain useful and people will invent a new word. If what we currently call technical skills is unfairly overvalued - the evaluation needs to change, not the name. Similarly you don&#x2
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by ajuc 2y ago
I hurt my hand once when I had a dream I was playing basketball and I woke up in the middle of throwing a 3-pointer - so I "jumped" and raised my hands in my bed and hit my hand against the wall. > Mostly I can get a small hop
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by ajuc 2y ago
Once you can't reproduce and can't help with reproduction evolution doesn't care if you stay fit.
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Is it actually done? Or did it download 999/1000 bytes and then hang? The label on the progress bar should be "12345 out of 23456 files copied" and not 53% for this reason. That way you can see if it hanged even if the p
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by ajuc 2y ago
If there's no downside you just do your worst. Look at it from the perspective of the president near the end of their term.
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by ajuc 2y ago
I think the part of our brains that enjoys music only has short-term memory and is experiencing the pattern-breaking surprise every time, even if you remember the song consciously. I'd say it's even over time trained to recognize
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by ajuc 2y ago
Another example is music. Music needs to have a repetitive pattern, but it shouldn't be too repetitive or it's boring. The best combination is to establish some patterns by repetition, then break these patterns and introduce new o
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by ajuc 2y ago
I understand what's wrong with IRC. I don't understand what was wrong with Jabber.
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by ajuc 2y ago
They are imaginary in the same way that Banach Tarski theorem is a paradox.
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Imaginary numbers are just 2D vectors. You meant complex numbers. I wrote "imaginary numbers" on purpose. > The imaginary part isnt any more mysterious than the real part. What's surprising is that imaginary numbers a
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by ajuc 2y ago
Would you say that about imaginary numbers too?
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's not teaching "fire burns", it's teaching "whatever authority tells you - you should do, even if you really want to investigate for yourself, because you'll die". Which I call obedience. And yeah - it&
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by ajuc 2y ago
A lot of fairy tales are just there to scare children into obedience. Probably most of them.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Suffering is the point. It's like exercises in math or push-ups - if you find a way to do them effortlessly you won't develop the skills you are training for. I agree they suck tho.
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by ajuc 2y ago
If you want quantititive information it's better to use a table anyway - precisely because it doesn't mislead you about the internal distribution.
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by ajuc 2y ago
You can drive 1 hour, buy AR-15 in wallmart and go back without any border controls. Gun control needs to be a nation-wide policy, and it needs to be implemented with all the common-sense measures like buying back the guns from population -
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by ajuc 2y ago
> I still don't understand why everyone seems happy to conflate "intelligence" with fact-retrieval? Because it's useful and impossible till very recently.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Simplistic version of this is just asking the question in 2 ways - ask for confirmation that the answer is no, then ask for confirmation that the answer is yes :) If it's sure it won't confirm it both ways.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Some businesses are migrating to Java 11 as we speak :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Gun control and public healthcare.
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by ajuc 2y ago
I remember I could recognize the sound floppy disk drives made when they encountered read error, so I knew before the error message appeared that I had to go copy the floppy again :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
I'm Polish, I've never learnt any foreign Slavic languages, but I can mostly understand Ukrainian, Belarusian and Slovak from passive exposure on a few trips. The experience is weird - when I first went to Ukraine I couldn't
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by ajuc 2y ago
The only way anything "escapes" from black holes is Hawking Radiation - virtual pairs of particles that appear and disappear constantly - can be split when they happen on event horizon - and that slowly drains the energy from blac
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by ajuc 2y ago
So if I understand correctly the black hole was there already, doing nothing, and then some matter was passing near it and started falling inside, releasing the surplus energy as radiation in the proccess?
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by ajuc 2y ago
Obviously they are. If consciousness even means anything. They have theory of mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRsq9pe9Hc

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