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by dm319 6y ago
I think there is an insidiousness to our language that can help to stabilise social discrimination, and most of us (white/black, male/female) are unaware of it. Dark mode doesn't have negative connotations. A 'blacklist
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by dm319 6y ago
I find a syringe and drawing-up needle the best. I find the piston fill gets everything covered in ink.
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, underfunding education is the real root of the problem as it hampers the democratic process later on.
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by dm319 7y ago
Great. The linux desktop environment benefits greatly from a profitable backer... congrats to Mark Shuttleworth, and all the ubuntu team making it happen.
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by dm319 7y ago
If you want to get the original running in linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3u9hna/how_to_get_li... EDIT: Ok, this worked a few years ago, it's not working for me today on 18.04.
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by dm319 7y ago
As a healthcare worker who also has an interest in programming - why does this comment not surprise me in HN? If a worldwide pandemic doesn't make you reflect on problems in our societal structure - that our key workers are the most p
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by dm319 7y ago
Capacity of testing is a major issue, and as cases increase, turn around goes down. Tests have to be used where they will be useful and influence management.
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by dm319 7y ago
I know it seems unfair to hold Bill Gates forever unable to atone for those business practices, and I applaud him for what he is doing now. However, I still think microsoft was a net loss to society.
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by dm319 7y ago
Oh no. I blame you for this.
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by dm319 7y ago
This caused me a brief moment of reflection. I realised I can't stop thinking about riding my motorbike and trying to have sex with someone.
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by dm319 7y ago
I know lots of people here need mac hardware, but it always surprises me just how many fans of macs and macosx are here. For me Thinkpads combined with linux is a great computing experience. I love the unification of package updates and i
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by dm319 7y ago
Linux is standard these days for rendering AFAIK. For the actual graphics/modelling part, I think Linux and Windows are often both used. Maya runs on Linux for example.
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by dm319 7y ago
I agree - R has performant and robust dataframe functions. dplyr is great for small-medium sized datasets, data.table seems to be really performant for larger sets.
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by dm319 7y ago
The evidence isn't strong for it either. The randomised controlled trials have very small n-numbers, are unblinded, have subjective primary outcomes. Needs a big trial to convince people it works.
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by dm319 7y ago
I'm from the UK and I'm shocked at the discussion going on here. Most people commenting here are in vastly different situations to the person written about - probably both in terms of natural ability as well as education, not to
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by dm319 7y ago
The lack of empathy and understanding in so many comments here makes me slightly hopeless for mankind.
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by dm319 7y ago
Nice to read a well-written article with interesting viewpoints, and then find it's actually written by an expert who has published their research in this area.
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by dm319 7y ago
This sounds a bit alarmist. So the chief medical officer of the company is also the editor-in-chief of the journal they publish in? And the paper is about the rapid release of tylenol, not about the cancerous effects of ranitidine? Bear i
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by dm319 7y ago
The connection between language, handedness and schizophrenia is fascinating. The cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia - auditory hallucinations, thought insertion (believing someone is inserting thoughts into your head) and thought broadcas
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by dm319 7y ago
Similarly brought up in a religious environment. I struggled with all these paradoxes as a kid. The hardest one for me was this idea that being 'good' and 'Christian' meant I wouldn't go to hell - and yet this was
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by dm319 7y ago
I think the message is we all just want to get laid... Joking aside, we might be fanatic about some things, but if we knew of an incredibly violent group of programmers using notepad, I think I'd pass up attempting to teach them vim.
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by dm319 7y ago
You can have a bit of messiah or jesus complex without having mental illness, and mental illness is a broad term for an entire field of medicine, so it's not very specific. I don't think we can call it mental illness unless we a
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by dm319 7y ago
I found reading this article gripping and it led to a lot of questions. My first thought is how casual 'belief' or 'faith' in moderate Christians is what led JAC down this route. When society believes that not knowing G
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by dm319 8y ago
There are plenty of other drugs in coffee apart from the caffeine. Some are similar to cannabinoids. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00243... See also this comment on a coffee hea
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by dm319 8y ago
I think there's room to improve - the latest Fuji printers have incredible colour gamut.
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by dm319 8y ago
Disguising a malicious* update as a security update should remain the realm of scammers/crackers/outlaw and not large household companies. *I think malicious is the right word - it is done in the knowledge that it will result in h
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by dm319 8y ago
Stick some distros on a USB stick and give them a go. Your 480s should be fine with it if you're on Intel graphics. I'd recommend Ubuntu in whatever flavor appeals...
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by dm319 8y ago
Agreed. So many things breaking are to do with the binary dgpu drivers, that issue goes away with intel. I've been running ubuntuMATE for years on my t450s. It is remarkably boring. The only things that don't work for me is the
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by dm319 8y ago
I think alarmism is a retrospective assessment. We can probably say a lot of our reporting on current Western terrorism is alarmist - numbers wise, it didn't compare to road deaths or regular shootings. But global warming will be&#x2F
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by dm319 8y ago
That's great. They discovered the CTLA4 and PD-1 receptors - cell pathways that help protect against auto-immunity and allergy, but which can be hijacked by cancer to prevent cancer clearance. The realisation that our immune system is

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