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by blix 3y ago
It's so you can doomscroll for hours without realizing how much content you have consumed. It's pointless to know how much is left because the feed is infinite. You can't ever get to the bottom that a scroll bar would imply a
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by blix 3y ago
I've tried programming by moving physical objects, but I've found it's generally easier if you use a digital computer.
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by blix 3y ago
I do most of my programming in a binary world.
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by blix 3y ago
> formed a government together at end of WWII I am not convinced this ever happened in any meaningful sense. As you note, it turned into armed conflict almost immediately. This was a British-induced transient state that was unable to sus
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by blix 3y ago
The conflict in Myanmar isn't a civil war any more than the conflict of the USA between settlers and natives was a civil war. The Myanmar (Bamar), Karen, Shan, etc populations were all there before the British drew the borders of &#x27
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by blix 3y ago
Really? Abortion is a wedge issue in the USA because of Big Diaper? I can't say I have ever heard this particular conspiracy theory before.
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by blix 3y ago
I needed to improve perfomance of some numerical computations in an existing Python script. The only choices felt like C and Fortran. I tried Rust at first but went back to C when I realized I was spending more time appeasing Rust than solv
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by blix 3y ago
The cynic in me wants to argue that all post-SNES 2D Zelda games are in fact remakes of LttP :) I mean that as a good thing. I haven't had a chance to really play Tunic yet, but I just get the feeling that calling it a Zelda clone is
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by blix 3y ago
There is a little more to the series at this point than the 30 years old Link to the Past.
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by blix 3y ago
Computers aren't really new. Addition and writing have been around for a long time. There's nothing that a computer can do that can't theoretically be accomplished by a team of people with abaci and carrier pigeons. The entir
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by blix 3y ago
All new science starts with unsupported hypotheses. Going from "unsupported hypothesis" to "consensus established fact" often takes 10+ years. COVID and it's aftereffects are so new that the vast majority of claims
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by blix 3y ago
Click the link in that same article for "increased intestinal permeability." These terms are often used interchangably. This particular wikipedia stub is trying to draw a bright line where none exists.
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by blix 3y ago
I feel this is distinction without a difference. All belief systems are approaches to knowledge and information at the end of the day. The institutional science belief system really has a lot in common with religion. In fact the instutions
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by blix 3y ago
> There's no belief system called science There are two belief systems called science. The less common one is the one you outline immediately after denying its existence: it's about asking questions and trying to establish evid
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by blix 4y ago
The difference between function(void *pointer) { data_type *argument = pointer; ... } and function(data_type *argument) { ... } is really small. If this hurdle is enough to 'eliminate all p
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by blix 4y ago
Calling C's type system 'limited' is asking it to be something that it's not. A skateboard isn't limited because it doesn't have a steering wheel and airbag; if it did it wouldn't be a skateboard. C's
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by blix 4y ago
Were the worked who wanted to continue striking allowed to, or not? Was the response of the Republican-dominated Senate predictable or was it a surprise? If I give fine china to a toddler who drops and breaks it, which party is really at fa
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by blix 4y ago
You could easily rephrase your comment as "Biden took away their only option for self-directed action and then passed the buck to an organization known for doing nothing." Sometimes complexity doesn't actually add anything us
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by blix 4y ago
Illinois is known for extremely gerrymandered pro-democrat districts, that also seem designed to minimize minority impact within the party. They've cleaned up some of the shapes so it's less obvious recently.
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by blix 4y ago
> Having used Linux-compatible hardware for a while now though, neither of these are an issue. I have a laptop with that is specifically designed to support out-of-the box and the first thing I had to do with the stock PopOS was disable
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by blix 4y ago
> have you ever managed to "change your mindset"? did it materially change your circumstances? Not GP, but yes and yes. Personal growth is indeed possible!
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by blix 4y ago
It's surprising to me to see this opinion (echoed in scarby2's sibling comment), because outside of the laptop ritual, the other things register as approximately zero friction to me. In some sense air travel is an exercise in fric
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by blix 4y ago
If it were an option selected when purchasing a ticket, I suspect it would be on the order of first/business class in terms of popularity. Maybe the price point needs some work, but certainly ~a lot~ more than $15/yr for the first
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by blix 4y ago
I don't think Pre-Check would be as popular if you had to wait in the same line as everybody else, even if you got to keep your shoes on. Literal line cutting is just a special case of separate lines with different processing priority.
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by blix 4y ago
TSA Pre-Check's artifically low, non-market price for line cutting is the reason Clear isn't selling for $100+ per flight, with several layers of price discrimination.
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by blix 4y ago
"I pay money to cut people in line, but someone else paid more money to cut me in line!"
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by blix 4y ago
> "some people's votes are weighted more than others", which is an inherently undemocratic principle. Has there ever been, in the history of human civilization, any self-styled democracy that did not weigh the votes of som
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by blix 4y ago
'Extreme' and 'unhinged' only have meaning relative to a baseline of what is widely believed and accepted.
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by blix 4y ago
Academics can't effectively organize because the pool of people who want to be professors but can't find a position is huge, and consequently the demands to simply stay afloat are so large that it doesn't leave a lot of time
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by blix 4y ago
Rather than calling it sloppy, I would instead say types barely exist at all in C. A type in C is really just a transient label reminding you and the compiler how to interepret some block of 1's and 0's, which is the only true typ

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