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by austinjp 3y ago
"Highly optimised" depends what you're optimising for.
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It's a shame that "Marxism" is a trigger-word for some folks, because there's been a lot of writing on this problem for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production AI and associated
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Here are a few options to consider. First, Google Scholar. If you're logged into Google it will make a handful of recommendations on its front page. I've not really paid attention to how good the recommendations are. It says they&
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Scientists discover how brain cells die in Alzheimer’s(bbc.com)
27 points by austinjp 3y ago|3 comments
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Just build a second machine to power the first!
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Possibly a tangent, but I'd suggest that happiness and suffering are not opposites, so aren't both "x" in your function. Someone might choose to maximise their personal happiness even knowing that their personal sufferin
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Wow, I watched that with the sound off and was surprised it's actually a car manufacturer's ad. What a misfire. In turn, that reminded me of this legendary ad misfire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_(c
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Limiting access to services that were previously available is certainly not progress.
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Scooter workaround: Have multiple apps for multiple providers on one phone. I've done this plenty of times e.g. when one of us has a dead phone. Obviously only works if your city has multiple scooter providers :)
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I'm not sure this is laggard behaviour. Laggards are defined as having no thought leadership qualities, they are literally late to the party. There's an argument that this is quite the reverse: it's innovative behaviour since
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Dude, come on. You can surely see where this line of argument leads. Are you seriously defending a society that continually and arbitrarily raises the barriers to accessing services? On what criteria are those barriers raised? Those decisio
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Comparing a smartphone to a hat is like comparing a Tesla to a sock. It doesn't illuminate the conversation at all, it's a straw-man in the extreme. Some people don't want smartphones. Some people can't get hold of them.
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I would genuinely enjoy reading published science that supports your proposition. I've not seen much, if any.
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Nice, although the pertinent quote is: "This article doesn't provide all the answers – the best answer will vary according to the needs of the application, and in most cases, it may be difficult to find a 'perfect' solut
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It might be worth checking some of the fly.io work: https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
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I'd take the candy without watching the ad, for the same reason I refuse to use loyalty cards. Both the ads and loyalty cards are worth more to the supermarket than they are to me. They're basically ripping me off while pretending
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> these people are quite literally fighting for less government control. How can that be construed as fascist? At risk of derailing this thread... It's entirely possible for someone to fight against government control in specific a
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As a sibling has noted, the paper you cite does not support your claim. In fact, it doesn't even mention wildfires. The authors suggest that existing predictors of Hawaiian precipitation need to be updated so they're more accurate
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Um, just no. Escalating punishment, and including physical punishment, is a guaranteed way to induce extreme problems. Prisons are packed with people who lived that life, listen to some interviews. Breaking people leaves broken people who b
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Funny, that's a variety of Russell's Teapot, which stemmed from philosophical arguments about religion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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by austinjp 3y ago
Thanks for that, I hadn't noticed that my browser had been redirected courtesy of the wi-fi I'm currently using. Too late to edit unfortunately. But yes, that's the canonical link.
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Room-temperature superconductor 'breakthrough' met with scepticism(institutions.newscientist.com)
1 points by austinjp 3y ago|2 comments
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The article briefly notes his association with Symbolism, you might like some of the other Symbolist artists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts) Personally I enjoy Odilon Redon: https://en.m.wi
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Tangential: I was going to suggest "protocoli(s|z)ed" instead of protocollar, but I Googled "protocollar statements" just to check and found 2 things. First, this page was the top result! Second, "protocolar"
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by austinjp 3y ago
I love lazygit, until I start typing a commit message only to find that I hadn't selected any files, and lazygit has processed each key-press as a command, and my repo is some bizarre state :) But anyway, I typically have it sitting qu
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Not necessarily: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
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Yeah, I don't really disagree. I'm somewhat splitting philosophical hairs here, but "if we didn't have to support metabolisms" etc those lifeforms/artifacts would not be "us". In that sense, our bio
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I think the point is that punishments aren't always effective, and rewards can be difficult to identify.
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I know 'me too' comments are not welcome here, so my justification for this reply is that it highlights an apparent minority of folks here who really struggle with all the standard tools for so-called procrastination and so-called
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You are not alone! I never experience positive feelings when crossing an item off a to-do list. It feels like a slow creeping death to me. Walling oneself into a tomb - exactly.

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