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by bmer 6y ago
There's nothing about bullying in the article. Hubris, and personality cults? Yes.
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by bmer 6y ago
As many others here have eloquently identified, this is a made up problem. But it does serve a purpose. To make "strawmen" real. When someone needs to rage against the "non-sensical, ultra-sensitive left", this is the so
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by bmer 6y ago
In my case, it turned out to be ADHD, which is far more nuanced than people make it out to be. For a person to do something, there are two components: 1) motivation, and 2) activation. Activation is how "easy" it is to get going.
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by bmer 6y ago
Hi Raph! This was a fun read, and I have some questions to help me contextualize this post with respect to your other work. * In terms of mathematical technique, this is a "sister post" to https://raphlinus.github.io&#x
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by bmer 6y ago
I am a bit confused. Is the conference only 1 hour 38 minutes long?
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by bmer 7y ago
Following on the above question, how does it compare with Inkscape?
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by bmer 7y ago
Maybe you can make the "hex editor", "debugger" and "disassembler" bold words into links to good FOSS implementations of each tool? Otherwise, this looks very interesting :)
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by bmer 7y ago
At this point, I am fairly sure you're baiting me...or, that's just me reading the worst in this interaction. Not sure. I'll ask the moderators to restore my post for the record. In any case, this has been an interesting lear
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by bmer 7y ago
I didn't take my reply down because I didn't mean it, or because I thought it was wrong. I took it down because I felt that I didn't know enough about your life. I was finding multiple aspects of your response grating making
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by bmer 7y ago
Okay, sorry for being presumptuous.
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by bmer 7y ago
Hello hestipod. I have been in your situation, and I have had certain privileges you do not have which helped me. So, I do not want to tell you: "just do XYZ and you'll be better". In fact, I agree with you that suicidal ten
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by bmer 7y ago
Its not stereotyping, but coming up with Bayesian estimates of conditional probabilities. According to the data they collected, P(person is female | person is a shooter) is just very low. Similarly, P( person is a college student AND person
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by bmer 7y ago
I followed up on the research article this is based on, which is from 2013. In short: it has been reasonably well cited and followed up on with additional studies, and there is statistically significant improvements in tinnitus in experimen
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by bmer 7y ago
Formal methods to the rescue: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3437635/115703
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by bmer 7y ago
How is an open curve "with boundary", but a closed curve "without boundary"?
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by bmer 7y ago
> I’m curious how relatively content-free entertainment works into your calculus. It's an issue I struggle with. My problematic relatively content-free entertainment is video games, youtube, and reddit. Two issues form the basis of
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by bmer 7y ago
I can vouch for this. Anaconda is especially good for simulation/data stuff (based on the focus on which packages are included by default). One pain point though: getting it to work with Sublime Text 3 requires you to set the `CONDA_DL
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by bmer 7y ago
I am surprised there is no mention of hdf5 (via h5py). It's what I used to deal with handling simulation data that was getting too big for RAM to handle. Use case: CPU is running a simulation and constantly spitting out data, eventuall
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by bmer 7y ago
Imgur requires you to provide a valid mobile number in order to create an account.
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by bmer 7y ago
I'm not from the US (Canada), so it sometimes confuses me when people talk about the cost of college. Doesn't the US have public universities? Are they super expensive too?
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by bmer 7y ago
How "environmentally nice" is aluminum foil compared to paper?
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by bmer 7y ago
Do you have problems with your wifi?
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by bmer 7y ago
Click-baity title? Not using soap isn't the same as "not washing" (i.e. not showering) is it?
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by bmer 7y ago
Source?
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by bmer 7y ago
Can we just eradicate all foreign comers in the last 200 years from Australia? Perhaps one of the worst losses in Australia has been the near extermination of the native human population by a vigorously violent outside group of humans (who
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by bmer 7y ago
I do not understand why this thread is so against this legislation. Issues with e-cigarettes: 1) they bypass laws regarding cigarette advertising: compare e-cig packaging with cigarette packaging; this is problematic, especially for youth (
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by bmer 7y ago
IANAL, so can someone help me understand how bullet proof their privacy policy is ( https://www.chaseoptout.com/PrivacyPolicy.pdf )? It seems to me that it's pretty flimsy? In particular: > To conduct research and to
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by bmer 7y ago
I absolutely cannot let https://transcendence.kronosaur.com/ go unmentioned in this thread. Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/kronosaur/TranscendenceDev Also, George Moromisato is an awesome pe
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by bmer 7y ago
I get the play on words, but what does "self-own" mean?
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by bmer 7y ago
This post is a good introduction to the challenges of rendering high quality vector graphics with good performance: https://nical.github.io/posts/rustfest-paris-01.html

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