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by dmd 3y ago
As implied in the title, this book focuses on sociology and philosophy of science and has very little technical content.
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by dmd 3y ago
> Which better solution did you use? I didn't, since I haven't touched or needed this code since 2003. I just put a warning saying don't use it.
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by dmd 3y ago
As an RA, before starting grad school, I hacked together some code to choose a random point on a sphere, for some psychophysics experiment I was doing. Fortunately, I never used it for anything, because I made the classic naive mistake of s
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by dmd 3y ago
Any file on a computer can be generated by writing it the contents down in hexadecimal on sheepskin in ink made from walnuts, then scanning in and OCRing that data. Will you claim that, therefore, NO software can possibly have any societal
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by dmd 3y ago
That's going to be my kids' new excuse whenever I ask them to do any cleaning whatsoever. WHAT IF THERE'S PRICELESS ART UNDER THIS PILE OF LAUNDRY!? BETTER CALL IN THE EXPERTS!
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by dmd 3y ago
Born: 11. Grow up? Zero.
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by dmd 3y ago
Our local (Boston area) town police blotter always mentions if a Tesla is involved in so much as a bumper-scrape, whereas no other car brand has ever been mentioned even once.
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by dmd 3y ago
> Exams are set by central authorities … what? I’ve been in (US) academia for most of my adult life and I’ve never once heard of an exam that wasn’t written and graded by the person who taught the class (and/or their teaching assist
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by dmd 3y ago
Consider the extremely common Amazon product question section, where you see Q: Will this product fit my Frobnitz 123? A: I don't know, I ended up buying something else. Q: Does it come with batteries? A: IDK I RETURN IT
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by dmd 3y ago
My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I
941.
by dmd 3y ago
Ah, yes, no postdoc has ever been ground down by endless repetitive labor.
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by dmd 3y ago
Ah, but what you're failing to take into account is that there are magnets in the Apple Watch. And as we all know, you drop some water on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets.
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by dmd 3y ago
Because those all exist already, and this is cool?
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by dmd 3y ago
I wish when people published things like this they would take the time to notice that their requirements.txt and READMEs don't actually work; e.g., try it out in a fresh VM or container divorced from their working environment. Not even
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by dmd 3y ago
I bet the frog didn't expect a mushroom to pop out either
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by dmd 3y ago
> no human driver is going to drive into something just because it moved in a way they didn't expect. This is literally the cause of almost every human accident. Imagine you're driving. There's a car in front of you, also
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Show HN: Old-school Unix talk for the web(typeto.me)
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by dmd 3y ago
Love how that site asks me for money before I even have a chance to see what it is .
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by dmd 3y ago
And SLURM's scrontab has @fika, @teatime, and - as of yesterday - @elevenses.
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by dmd 3y ago
You keep saying “chatgpt-4”; I wonder if you’re aware that you don’t need to pay $20 a month (which is what that costs) to use gpt4. If you use it through the API instead, even a fairly heavy user comes out to a dollar or two a month.
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by dmd 3y ago
True, but we're not talking about "the vast majority of humans on the planet", we're talking about the sort of person who plays around with Nix - who can probably afford gpt4's $0.03 / 1K tokens. But I absolute
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by dmd 3y ago
"I need to build a skyscraper. I haven't tried using steel, but using wet spaghetti has been garbage."
953.
by dmd 3y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here, but … your reaction to hearing that restaurants were trying to fight being abused… was to join the abusers? And … you admit this openly?
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by dmd 3y ago
As someone who interviews people… definitely not a troll. There are SO MANY people like this and they’re so incredibly sure that they’re right that they absolutely DO write letters like this, because they’re SURE they’re going to be told th
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by dmd 3y ago
> hour-long > standup what
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by dmd 3y ago
In that they both start with 'u', yes.
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by dmd 3y ago
Back in 1997, in my college dorm, we had a big red emergency mushroom switch mounted to the wall, hooked up to the lights and one of those greeting cards you can record a personal voice message on. If you raise the plastic cover and hit the
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by dmd 3y ago
I want to love Zellij, but it eats up way too many keybindings. Yes, I know about mode lock, but then it's an extra two or four keypresses for everything I want to do. I'd love Zellij with true tmux style keybindings - a single
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by dmd 3y ago
Using the mouse for scrollback within tmux works just fine. You can search in it too. https://asciinema.org/a/rVj7hp8oLOs0Zy43wc06lkyA9
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by dmd 3y ago
I live 10 miles from Boston and I've seen them a whole bunch. I've used https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink

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