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by belugacat 5y ago
I feel like 80% of my frustration with USB C would be gone if I could know, for any device, "is this charging as fast as it could"? Ideally that's a question that'd be answered by the software UI, but shockingly none of
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by belugacat 5y ago
This is kind of getting into weird semantics. For what it’s worth I hold a BSc from a large, reputable UK university in computer science , not informatics , so it’s not as universal as you suggest. I do also hold an undergraduate degree f
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by belugacat 5y ago
We call that terroir. Bread isn't just bread - it's made from flour milled a certain way, made from a certain kind of wheat, that grew in a certain kind of soil, combined with a certain kind of yeast, a certain kind of salt, a cer
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by belugacat 5y ago
He’s had tremendous success and impact through the work that his outlook on the world enabled. I can’t see how there’d be any incentive to update one’s self view in those circumstances.
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The Fat Gold guide to extra virgin olive oil(fat.gold)
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by belugacat 5y ago
I’ve been taking drawing classes and been trying to draw everyday for the last ~6 months, during the holidays I didn’t draw for 10 days due to being with family, when I got back to it it shocked me how much I had improved.
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by belugacat 5y ago
https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s’en_badigeonner_les_testic... Never heard it either.
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by belugacat 5y ago
Oh wow, super fascinating reference, thank you for posting it! I’ll have to check it out, I’ve been prototyping game concepts with many thousands of agents who all do interesting things for the player to investigate (the key here is that th
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by belugacat 5y ago
I still occasionally use an Olivetti to write letters to family members, loved ones, and the IRS. It’s more of a 1973 Porsche Carrera compared to the Kia Soul that is my computer.
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by belugacat 5y ago
I mainly worked for one big co through the 2010s and let the stock pile up, and it just grew significantly over time. I've reinvested a bit into basic things like VTSAX/VTIAX/VTBLX to have safeguards, but that recent real est
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by belugacat 5y ago
Lived in the US throughout my 20s, lived like a grad student (with a few splurges here and there to celebrate career milestones) and saved+invested most of my money earned during a FAANG career, during covid i bought+restored an old manor i
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by belugacat 5y ago
Wow, this is extremely well written and illustrated! This would totally deserve a hard release. Where can I see more of your work? I’ve sent a few dollars your way, get yourself a nice NFT or something with them ;)
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by belugacat 5y ago
I’m also renovating a house, and before I started the closest thing I had done to that was assembling IKEA furniture. I have a few family members who know a ton about that stuff, and that’s been 90% of it for me. YouTube etc is helpful, but
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by belugacat 5y ago
In many countries, wearing a hat indoors is still perceived as very rude - even more so while eating at a table. Guess how you can tell the American tourists :)
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by belugacat 5y ago
“No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money,” wrote the Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey in a 1985 paper. “All available ethnography suggests that th
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by belugacat 5y ago
Trains and clocks, mostly!
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by belugacat 5y ago
Wittgenstein came to the same conclusion. Whereof one cannot speak, one must remain silent. And he’s just paraphrasing the Buddhists/Taoists (and a bunch of other lesser known religious orders) who had that same insight a few thousand
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by belugacat 5y ago
What are some good human population history writers?
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by belugacat 5y ago
Very cool! I think the name is a reference to the 1€ filter? https://cristal.univ-lille.fr/~casiez/1euro/
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by belugacat 5y ago
Make no mistake, making articles of that level of quality requires world class skills in software engineering, communication, math, foundational engineering skills (physics/mechanical/…), etc. The number of people on earth who can
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by belugacat 6y ago
Jevon’s Paradox [0] suggests that it won’t; the freed up resources will just be used for other things. Tooling for 3D modeling/texturing/rigging/etc is significantly more complex and powerful than it was 20 years ago, yet Pix
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by belugacat 6y ago
The big issue here being that Adobe has zero interest in selling this, and this kind of model would not lead to a $250B market cap business. Adobe wants to tightly control the experience, record how you use the software, display their own b
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by belugacat 13y ago
A quote once used to motivate a team that would build a product which would change the face of computing forever, now repurposed to get people to think on how to get other people to click on ads... Oh I love you Silicon Valley :)