balfirevic

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by balfirevic 1y ago
> It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra, in which the projection is typically (always?) written first. It's inspired by a mish-mash of both relational algebra and relational calculus, but the reason why
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> This was a historical decision because SQL is a declarative language It would be equally declarative if FROM came first.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Which ones do you have in mind? Enclosed "desktop" mills, like Nomad 3 - that I can understand (although that one is pricey, and I can't can't even find what it would cost to get where I live). Regular mills and lathes w
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> Many plastic parts makers are making would be better as metal done on lathes and milling machines I'd love to, but I'm not getting those into my apartment.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
If we're talking about https://mylinkdrive.com/USA/M_Series I also can't access it, I get: This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in mylinkdrive.com. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
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by balfirevic 1y ago
I view "heat pump" as a technical term describing how some heaters/coolers/dehumidifiers/clothes driers/fridges work. Wikipedia seems to somewhat agree with me, although article about heat pumps seems focused o
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> Cripple is a fairly strong word here. Well... I'm in Europe, so I don't know if I ever saw a heat pump that can't operate both ways :-)
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> A heat pump is an air conditioner that can run in reverse Is this really the correct terminology? I'd say every AC is a heat pump, whether or not it can run in reverse, because that's how it works. It pumps heat from a colder
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by balfirevic 1y ago
If so, then there will be no place for humans in that economy - except for recreational purposes - regardless if its expansion.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Do you expect AI to stop becoming more capable before it can do every economically useful task better than any human?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
How is it paid overtime, if your salary is the same whether you take that vacation or not? I can see how it can be paid overtime if company has to pay out the unused vacation when you quit, but I don't know if that's what you mean
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by balfirevic 1y ago
What does she do?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
1. Are houses in SF well insulated? 2. 40°F is 4°C. That's cold. What do you expect the indoor temperature to be in those conditions, without heating?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> In US people do ask one another "how are you?", perhaps in a shallow way My understanding is that it is not even a question, the question mark at the end is just decoration. Even the shallow answer is not necessary, respondin
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by balfirevic 1y ago
You can easily tell good weather from bad weather - when the weather is good, no one has to come and explain to you how "actually, there is no such thing as bad weather".
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by balfirevic 1y ago
I barely felt covid, if not for temporary loss of smell I wouldn't think it was anything more than a moderate cold.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> People exert themselves more than a slow 1-mile jog by vacuuming their house or carrying groceries home from the store. As someone who vacuums and carries groceries but doesn't run, I find that pretty hard to believe. Maybe if you
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by balfirevic 1y ago
I always thought (and still do!) it's about whether there are moments when both of your feet are off the ground, not about the pace.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> It's hard to identify any downsides but the upsides are tremendous. I wish! If you're lucky (or not particularly unlucky) that might be true. I don't feel any mental benefits, nor do I sleep better. Fun kinds of exercis
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by balfirevic 1y ago
"Physical education" would be hilarious if it weren't sad. It's a pretty impressive feat that it managed to simultaneously: - make me spend quite a lot of time on something exercise-related (since it was "opposite
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> They will pay more to use a service that has an app, rather than call up another taxi company by phone for example Using an app for taxi booking is so superior to ordering by phone (even excluding potential preference for not talking t
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Even in cities with good public transit, it will not take me home at 3 AM, with possibly few exceptions like New York.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> you can only bend the higher of the two notes in a hole Do you know why that is?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> As much as I would love to sit and code a bit while watching tv or listening to an audio book, I simply cannot do it > She seems to be able to sew, crochet and knit while watching tv without any effort at all, paying attention to bo
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> You are describing some of the exercises from the Justin Guitar Strumming SOS course. Not surprised that these are in there! > I can do it for a few minutes but soon something like semantic satiation sets in and I get out of sync Hu
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by balfirevic 1y ago
If you're not looking for random person's advice feel free to ignore :-) > If I try to play along with a record, I'm almost always lost right away because I start strumming to match the drumming pattern or the vocal rhythm
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> I'd say that if I invite friends to do "anything", it is because I am prepared to feed them if needed Agreed! Though I think ordering is also perfectly fine, as are the other options you mentioned. But what prompted me t
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Meh. I'm from balkans and there are 100 things that you'd say are "our culture" that neither I nor my friends care about. If I couldn't invite friends to play board games without they expecting me to cook, I'd
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Wolt and Glovo is how grocery store delivery works where I live. One supermarket chain offers their own delivery, but it's next day delivery at the soonest (sometimes the day after that).
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> But just because something is not provable or falsifiable under current scientific knowledge Do you mean unproven instead of "not provable or falsifiable"? Something not being falsifiable would mean that we can't detect

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