badtension

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by badtension 3y ago
This reminds me of a simple algorithm to determine which product to choose if all have similar ratings but varying number of votes - add one positive and one negative review and recalculate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8
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by badtension 3y ago
I am not talking about spending the leisure time but the amount of movement we need every day just to keep our bodies healthy. Sitting all the time is detrimental to us.
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by badtension 3y ago
Objectively we are still animals that need at least some movement. The environment described by the parent is hostile to our most basic needs.
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by badtension 3y ago
I'd encourage a strong "progressive tax" that could for example follow the power law: you get log(x) of what your influence is. Getting to 1x (let's say a median pay in a given country) should be pretty easy but to get s
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by badtension 3y ago
What's stopping them from advertising exactly that? Usable everyday range being 200km and occasional max range 500km for prolonged life of the battery pack? Just inform the customer instead of doing the advertising mumbo-jumbo.
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by badtension 3y ago
Why do you mock me and take it out of context? > As long as it's not a forced choice, the user/player downloads the game at their own will, knows exactly what they are getting Most ads are not about informing us but manipulatin
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by badtension 3y ago
Nowadays an informed choice is an illusion. We are all manipulated beyond belief in all kinds of decisions. Tell people what design choices were taken to maximize profits, what specialists were consulted, what went on behind closed doors, w
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by badtension 3y ago
There are so many people that only think in extremes - we should go all in on nuclear and there's no other way. They are the ones that ignore limitations that parent mentioned. Their fantasy will not work and strong opposition to renew
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by badtension 3y ago
Faster but only for strings larger than hundreds of megabytes?
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by badtension 3y ago
You could always make it progressive to effectively disallow spending more than X tonnes per year per person. Additional tax money could be spent in remedying the effects of GW or making the transition faster.
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by badtension 3y ago
It's linked directly in chapter "Rebound effects?" under footnote 7 although the link seems to be crooked. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...
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by badtension 3y ago
And yet you didn't answer them at all.
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by badtension 3y ago
Oh man well said, I had this uneasy feeling while reading your comment. I think the world is fucked, especially in how it's planting incentives in our brains. For girls it's clothes, make-up, being fit. For guys it's cars, ga
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by badtension 3y ago
I wonder what kind of business this is? Is everyone paid the same salary? Sounds like a great place to work, I wonder how does it look like in practice.
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by badtension 3y ago
No, but this is a very niche thing to know and if I remember correctly gcc has a widely used specific extension for that which would not be accepted in that case.
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by badtension 3y ago
Static variable sure but there are many other examples, like returning a C fixed-size array from a function. I had this question asked and they specifically insisted on being compliant with the standards and not using an out-argument. This
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by badtension 3y ago
I am amazed how many people take their fortunes for granted and then preach about how they "worked harder than anyone else hence deserve much more than the others". You have to be incredibly lucky to get to that point. In case of
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by badtension 3y ago
Being afraid of failure and the impostor syndrome. You mark the territory and lower the expectations to look better in the end (even if only in your own eyes). A ton of people do it, it's hard to get out of it.
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by badtension 3y ago
This is much worse than TV, if you had told me that 10 years ago I would have laughed.
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by badtension 3y ago
That's why we shouldn't optimize everything, the longer I live the more I understand that overoptimization is the root of all evil. We should analyse what we are doing and how we are changing things in the long term, monitor the s
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by badtension 3y ago
Looks like this is the best moment to move to the fediverse. Each country to have its own instances and accounts for all public institutions and governors.
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by badtension 3y ago
> No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid. Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy.
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by badtension 3y ago
Don't remember since I browse random stuff that don't absorb me too much as I fall asleep. The only thing I know is it was some religion related crap... seriously. Like a protestant sermon or something.
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by badtension 3y ago
I listen to some podcasts to sleep and it is infuriating to get even 12-45 (!) min long ads! I wouldn't be that upset with 5-10s ads every 10 minutes (as long as the volume level doesn't kill me) but half a freaking hour? What the
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by badtension 3y ago
My guess is they did it intentionally and will lift the login-wall after 1-2 days to see how many people were desperate enough to create an account. As a quick and dirty way to boost registered users. Or it is a legitimate glitch (highly un
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by badtension 3y ago
I was really hoping for something more creative than the traditional hashmap approach. Still pretty cool, I wish I was that confident with rolling my own data structures.
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by badtension 3y ago
This drives me crazy in substack. Gradual fadeout with the popup sliding down as I scroll... This is a small thing but utterly frustrating. You're evil substack, I'm not going to give way to your shady tactics and login. I'd
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by badtension 3y ago
This may be an exercise in webpage design, a portfolio or a site-in-progress. Didn't check it all but some pages may be just simple placeholders to be filled in the future.
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by badtension 3y ago
How's this different from just refactoring? Why the fancy name?
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by badtension 3y ago
I don't have a satisfying answer. My bet would be something like a decentralized P2P solution that uses the LBRY protocol. One specific idea that could see reality some day is a site that hosts proprietary videos on their own servers (

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