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by csours 7mo ago
"Why?" is the hardest of the questions. For any particular person, you can tell a story that satisfies "Why?". But for a large number of people, you have to answer "Why?" for one sub-group at a time. In other w
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by csours 7mo ago
This sounds like torture (as written). Of course, working in a legacy codebase is also torture. Software development is a hyper-rational endeavor, so we don't often talk about feelings. This article also does not talk much about feelin
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by csours 7mo ago
Regarding "Conspiracy Theories" - they make a lot more sense to me if you call them "Low Information, High Satisfaction" Theories. Regarding the rest of the article: it reminds me of how things like nursery rhymes or fai
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by csours 7mo ago
The conveniences also mean that there is more than ~one~ ~two~ several ways to do something. Which means that reading someone else's shell script (or awk, or perl, or regex) is INCREDIBLY inconvenient.
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by csours 7mo ago
If you need to know what 2>&1 means, then I would recommend shellcheck It's very, very easy to get shell scripts wrong; for instance the location of the file redirect operator in a pipeline is easy to get wrong.
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by csours 7mo ago
YouTube: If you remove direct link access to by subscriptions by upload date, I will drop my premium subscription and watch time drastically.
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Tell HN: YouTube Subscription page is being deprecated
5 points by csours 7mo ago|3 comments
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by csours 7mo ago
this pairs nicely with the finding of the supreme court: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions w
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by csours 7mo ago
Or even more lizard brain: if you have more cardio capacity/fitness, your body actually FEELS better, so you feel better emotionally and cognitively. If you have lower capacity, your body feels bad and this is reflected in your emotion
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by csours 7mo ago
I'm 40. Do I need to get my parents to vouch for me? Who vouches for them? > then give parents strong monitoring and restriction tools As written, this sounds very glib. I cannot take this comment seriously without a game theory sce
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by csours 8mo ago
Damn, that sounds like a bit that would be cut from a romantic comedy for being too on the nose.
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by csours 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_crwFuPht4 AlphaPhoenix - An intuitive approach for understanding electricity
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by csours 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ85y3q6K8c Many people in or related to the current administration have spoken in favor of free speech, which feels quite ironic.
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by csours 8mo ago
Unlimited Free Speech, itty bitty living space. - Aladdin's Genie
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by csours 8mo ago
At last year's SXSW Film festival, I recommended this to the director of the documentary(?) "Deepfaking Sam Altman"
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by csours 8mo ago
Objection: facts not in evidence! The problem with the current push on "illegal immigrants" is that 1. It has been incredibly brutal 2. Many of the currently "illegal" immigrants were not illegal until their s
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by csours 8mo ago
I feel like the huge and obvious problems with social media hide a small and subtle, but insidious problem: How do I show that I care about you? I feel like there is a range that might be described: I don't care very much about y
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by csours 8mo ago
Actual use: autonomous vehicles know to be "more careful" here, perhaps to do "Jersey left" turns - right turn and U-Turn or other risk compensation strategies. I'd love to see them incorporate visual detection of v
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by csours 8mo ago
Speaking as a huge enterprise, a SaaS SoR is useful BECAUSE all the components already work together, and I don't have to pay my own people to worry about maintenance or vulnerabilities. Data egress and ingress are always possible, but
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by csours 8mo ago
Game it out - if you issue guidelines, people abuse them, then government agencies get in trouble (isn't it your job to stop this kind of thing?), so government agencies issue strict rules. Bureaucracies have many fathers, the society
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by csours 8mo ago
Pertinent comment from an unrelated post: 1. (Big one) For virtually EVERY study, and especially human science studies like psychology, sociology, health; The Headline of the Press Release will imply things that the study does not claim, an
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by csours 8mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845650 --- Pertinent quote from this article: Everyone seems to be interpreting this paper as follows: Aha! We thought the heritability of lifespan was 23-35%. But it tu
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Heritability of life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined(dynomight.net)
2 points by csours 8mo ago|2 comments
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by csours 8mo ago
There Is No Disinformation Department.
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by csours 8mo ago
1. (Big one) For virtually EVERY study, and especially human science studies like psychology, sociology, health; The Headline of the Press Release will imply things that the study does not claim, and especially that the study does not provi
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by csours 8mo ago
High bypass turbo fans do this as well, it's just in the fan/engine housing, not the fuselage.
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by csours 8mo ago
I know enough about heritability to know that the science people use words differently than I expected, but not enough to explain that so here's someone's article about it: https://dynomight.net/heritable/
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by csours 8mo ago
How long does it take to solve a Rubik's cube for the first time? How long does it take to learn to juggle 3 items? 4? 5? How much time will it take you to measure the coast of England between Brighton and Seaton?
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by csours 8mo ago
The post is about project planning, not sprint planning. > It prevents you from estimating things longer than a sprint, because it assumes that's impossible. And yet, management wants estimates for a whole project. Projects have to
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by csours 9mo ago
Corporations show up to every election.

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