alexvoda

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by alexvoda 4y ago
Offtopic, it confuses me how "cervical" refers both to something related to a neck vertebrae and to something related to the female reproductive system. How did we end up with this homonym?
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Also happend near Italy. Italy went further and declared formal war on the new country. It is the only war Italy has won.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Two more examples: The context dependent buttons on old feature phones The red/green/yellow/blue buttons on old TV remotes for Teletext
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Indeed, while I also often prefer to use a card, I believe it is essential to retain cash as legal tender.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I do not agree that it can not be described. Maybe said group lacks the means to describe it, but I believe objectively there should be a way to describe it and maybe even isolate it. Is it specific only to Mozart's music? What if we u
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I would say this is a great counter to your link. Of course, in this case there was preexisting knowledge. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32428032
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by alexvoda 4y ago
In that case, since the ship sailed to China not form China, I find it surprising that the ship arrived full in China. I thought China exports dwarf their imports, and there would have been plenty of times a ship returns below full capacity
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Indeed, but I believe, that is not the mindset of a person programming in an extremely constrained environment. Care for correctness is younger than "ls". For all intents and purposes at the time, it was a hack but it worked, and
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I was not aware of that behaviour. I agree that should not happen. Or the user should be asked if they want that. This should very much be under the control of the system and the apps the user chooses to manage the system. In a capability-b
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Exactly, the logic is that "...", "....", "..*", etc. do not exist and besides users should have the common sense to not name stuff like that. Therefore it is much easier to just use the easier to write (assemb
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by alexvoda 4y ago
You may indeed prefer an empty canvas you have full control over. However, creating these folders by default is actually beneficial to most users. Most users (especially the vast majority that transitioned from Windows) expect these folder
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Your friend is running Fedora. Apt command not found in path.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
The clusters are called ice (cubes). You can make them in a tray in freezer. They are great in the summer.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Can't tell if sarcasm or serious.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Do American parking lots have trees? Pictures I have seen are usually barren asphalt wastelands.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
The HoAs in the US are crazy. Why are they against PV?
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by alexvoda 4y ago
The Great Oxigenation Event is a terraforming level event. We are not yet capable of such a large scale manipulation. Nuclear winter is at most comparable to a supervolcano or an asteroid impact. Also, if you consider asteroids to be natura
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I would argue there is great cognitive harm in anthropomorphizing. And it very much does not simplify anything, quite the opposite. I do believe the notion of metaorganisms is useful. A human can be considered an emerging metaorganism forme
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I would still argue that it is not that straight forward and that the term compiler in the context of computer science was defined during simpler times and since then the field has expanded making classification challenging. I might try to
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by alexvoda 4y ago
In my country, Angst is the name of a sausage manufacturer.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Now you see! NASA is a conspiracy! This is proof the earth is flat like a chorizo slice! /s
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I am now tempted to spend time creating a deep fake of Larry Ellison singing happy birthday to Curio-chan. On the other hand, I feel I would be insulting Curio-chan.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Indeed. I am also in this situation. The refusal to adopt even the idea of metaphors is incredibly frustrating. And metaphors that are used less than every single day are quickly forgotten.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I also avoided the Lenovo because of the many, especially software, 1st gen rough edges, but the (Surface Neo) form factor is very appealing. Part of that form factor is the included magnetic wireless keyboard. We actually had touch-enabled
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by alexvoda 4y ago
The "know it when you see it" kind of argument is cognitively vacuous. You are simply creating word salad using such an argument. A dolphin you enabled to talk is in no meaningfull way a post-dolphin, it is still a dolphin. The po
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by alexvoda 4y ago
No, it sounds like life in general. 99.999% of the humans in history were not talented or interesting enough to produce any artistic works or scientific research. 99.9999...% of the organisms that exist or ever existed are not special enoug
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by alexvoda 4y ago
With regards to asteroids, the question is when, not if. The probability that none of the known or unknown space objects will ever collide with Earth until the sun exhausts it's fuel is incredibly slim. Of course, an asteroid collision
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by alexvoda 4y ago
And so another suicidal terrorist sect will be born. I am flabbergasted that you lack the selfawareness to realise you are part of the very evil you decry. Not in the suicidal way, thinking that you need to be destroyed allong with all othe
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Cats are the most active hunters for pleasure doing so far more often than humans. I am not even entirely sure that herding is uniquely human.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
This is Platonic philosophy. The dichotomy between the world of ideas where ideals and perfection is the default and the material world where everything is a corrupted version of an idea.

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