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by carlob 4y ago
The fact that someone who is a university professor would remove their kids from the general education pool, makes me think they don't really understand one of the main purposes of education. If their kids were kept in normal schools w
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by carlob 4y ago
You might just as well argue the opposite: American gas and car prices don't factor in the huge externalities of a badly engineered gas guzzler (and I don't think they are priced in in the EU either). So you get around in things t
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by carlob 4y ago
This is something most people who have never learnt a foreign language don't get, but usually the fancier the word sounds, the more likely it comes straight from Greek or Latin and to be pretty much the same in your native language. Fo
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by carlob 4y ago
I have seen eggs marketed specifically for pasta making which were darker orange to guarantee yellower pasta.
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by carlob 5y ago
Uh? If the cold didn't affect your quality of life we would call it an asymptomatic infection. But active symptoms do affect your quality of life...
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by carlob 5y ago
Possibly Satoshi Nakamoto?
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by carlob 5y ago
One of my favorite stat mech facts is that you can get to inverse temperature as a Lagrange multiplier using only probability and information theory: Given a system that has many states each with energy E_i, what is the highest Shannon entr
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by carlob 5y ago
I don't doubt that, I'm just saying pasta street vendors are not seen around here.
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by carlob 5y ago
Re: 2. I've lived in Italy for most of my life and I have never seen a pasta street vendor. Pasta is something that you eat sitting down.
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by carlob 5y ago
You cook pasta in a pressure cooker for 24 minutes? I thought pressure cookers decreased cooking time and the longest cooking time I've ever encountered for pasta is 17 minutes.
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by carlob 5y ago
Weird to me that you consider casarecce exotic, whereas I had to google gemelli, because I don't think I've heard that name before. I've also been exposed to a lot of training data since I spent 80% of my life in Italy.
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by carlob 5y ago
Yeah, but inheritance law has changed a lot over the centuries: before the French revolution only the first child (possibly son, I don't recall right now) could inherit, then the revolutionary government made a big deal of splitting pr
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by carlob 5y ago
You're not under the impression that most big budget movies nowadays are just attempts at milking the same character or universe to the maximum possible extent?
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by carlob 5y ago
> Agreed, but to be fair, the comparison is also with high profile "modern" movies. Mostly sequels, remakes, reboots or nth installments of a franchise.
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by carlob 5y ago
Call them dm^3 (or cm^3 for ml).
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by carlob 5y ago
>I've been playing around with fractional scaling in Wayland Even with Intel graphics? I have stumbled on a number of showstopping bugs and moved back to X, which is also pretty horrible...
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by carlob 5y ago
Turns out Barthes died a full year before the book was even published, but he apparently saw a preliminary version, according to some random internet source in Italian.
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by carlob 5y ago
Except you're wrong about dogs: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2052.... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605226/ https://ww
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by carlob 5y ago
You're mixing two different ways of measuring difference. When we say we share a large portion of DNA with other species it's about the whole genome and it is mostly a statement of how similar the proteins that make life work are.
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by carlob 5y ago
I wonder how much a comparable desktop monitor would add to that. On the other hand I really want to give the keyboard a shot before I pull the trigger, after 3 years of Thinkpad I think that will be the real pain point...
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by carlob 5y ago
Do you think condoms are always 100% effective at preventing all STDs?
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by carlob 5y ago
In all civilized countries the inflation data is collected and processed transparently by a bureau which is independent from the government. Your cartoonish idea of a minister of economics making a phone call to tell some bureaucrat to fudg
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by carlob 5y ago
I highly doubt you can buy 2 pounds (900 g) of coffee, which is a month supply for 7 euros. The cheapest coffee I've seen in Italy is about 2 euros for 250 g.
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by carlob 5y ago
Chapter 3 of this [0] might help a bit [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0505032.pdf
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by carlob 5y ago
Parisi work on spin glasses already has some pretty mind bending mathematics. That continuous limit where the rank of a matrix goes to zero for example?
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by carlob 5y ago
Right right... linearity
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by carlob 5y ago
> removes those frequencies from an image that correspond to the size of halftone dots both horizontally and vertically And all the harmonics that make out the circle shape. I'm pretty sure that making the circle repeat horizontally
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by carlob 5y ago
Or better yet: figure out the average dot, replicate it all over the image, and run its Fourier transform. I think that subtracting it from the original image Fourier transform and then inverse transforming the result should also work.
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by carlob 5y ago
I was once fined for riding a bicycle on a 10 m stretch of sidewalk because the road was congested. A moped and a full sized enduro were on the sidewalk at the same time and got the exact same fine, which is kind of annoying. For reference
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by carlob 5y ago
As an owner of both a road bike and a shitty commuter, I agree with you: if you wanna race, use the road.

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