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by burke 7y ago
Milk cartons work perfectly well for water too.
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by burke 7y ago
I’m honestly curious how one could think this would happen “all the time” in any sort of measurement scheme without things having gone wrong as a prerequisite.
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by burke 7y ago
In my experience, unless you extensively customize bash, you won’t notice the change except to be pleasantly surprised by a few bits nicer UI. At the poweruser end, zsh is more configurable and dramatically nicer to configure (and documente
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by burke 7y ago
If I recall correctly, much of the MacOS userland is dated because it uses the last GPLv2 releases of various packages before a move to GPLv3.
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by burke 7y ago
Yeah this argument doesn't hold water for me either. Learning new notation versus learning a special-cased exception to the normal semantics of an existing piece of notation feel like really comparable levels of cognitive overhead to m
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by burke 7y ago
I've used ketos for https://shopify.github.io/shadowenv . It was relatively nice to work with and has pretty good sandboxing/resource limiting support.
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by burke 8y ago
This reason is so much more disappointing than what I had previously assumed.
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by burke 8y ago
I tried a 100% dark chocolate bar on a whim a couple of weeks back. As expected, it was not great. It was like over-extracted espresso in solid form.
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by burke 8y ago
For what it's worth, I only switched from Spotify to Apple music because it integrates better with the rest of the Apple ecosystem, despite the core experience being worse. The fact that this is true not for lack of willingness on Spot
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by burke 8y ago
> You wouldn't call Nintendo a monopolist because they dictate the rules of the Switch, would you? If the Switch controlled the entire ecosystem that drove half of peoples’ interaction with the world, yes.
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by burke 8y ago
But it isn't necessarily wrong to call that anti-competitive in favour of Apple in general.
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by burke 8y ago
Yeah—Ford overstates it for my taste but I think the key realization is that if there's no inflection point at which the magic thing that is "consciousness" arises, our intuitive conception of consciousness-as-such is wrong i
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by burke 8y ago
I agree, our major issue is that we can't get over this intuition that we must be special somehow. This quote from Westworld really gets to the heart of it, for me at least: > There is no threshold at which we become greater than
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by burke 8y ago
I use one of these services because I find myself less likely to order in when I have fewer decisions to make about dinner. I don't mind cooking at the end of the work day, but I hate having to decide what to cook and try to figure o
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by burke 8y ago
This wouldn’t likely be hard to write a linter for: is the name 1-2 letters other than a method receiver, “i” or maybe “j” and is referenced more than 5 lines from where it’s declared? Lint warning.
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by burke 8y ago
Yes, that is a religious belief.
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by burke 8y ago
As a Canadian, I would have absolutely no problem saying the word 'beaver' at work.
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by burke 8y ago
Right. Canadian. Sorry.
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by burke 8y ago
Hate speech covers this, and it is illegal. Recently, there's a cultural idiom that offense is completely in the eye of the beholder. What people often feel uncomfortable with is not banning hate speech, but reclassifying milder and mi
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by burke 8y ago
> Our data demonstrate that ibuprofen alters the endocrine system via selective transcriptional repression in the human testes, thereby inducing compensated hypogonadism. Interesting. I’m no doctor, but this sounds like a not-super-tra
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by burke 8y ago
This take deeply irritates me which means it’s probably right to some extent.
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by burke 8y ago
I took a run at learning to read dotsies earlier in the year but I think you've just inspired me to give it a more serious attempt. Sounds fun.
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by burke 8y ago
Notably differently, Dotsies is not heavily funded, nor does it want you to pay several digits for access. It’s just a fun experiment. It should not be held to the same standards of usefulness as a thousand-dollar juicer.
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by burke 8y ago
Except that, despite all this drama, they delivered an excellent product (eventually).
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by burke 8y ago
God forbid that one of 208 comments is a (rather funny) joke. I don't get why some people here are so against humour. I appreciate the high standards for jokes and expectation of high signal:noise, but this was clever and topical.
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by burke 8y ago
Probably talking about the Goenka retreats. For what it’s worth, despite their implication, they don’t really have a monopoly on the technique.
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by burke 8y ago
People voted it up, therefore it belongs here.
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by burke 8y ago
Yes. You are aware that you are spinning even without external reference because your outer parts are accelerating toward your inner parts. This is the feeling of spinning in a circle on earth too. This is how plausible simulated gravity wo
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by burke 8y ago
To add on to this, here's a simple thought experiment to explain why spinning is different from constant velocity: Imagine you're off somewhere space. You're holding a ball in each hand. 1. You're motionless with referen
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by burke 8y ago
This is explored in Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.

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