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> Also with private criticism, any decision tends to gravitate toward the opinion of the highest paid person. If the debate happens in public, everyone has more of an equal chance to be heard. Interesting, that's the opposite of wha
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> Some people get it. But overall in the cultures I've done it in, it mostly gets me branded as difficult. Sorry to hear that. Getting the right balance of sync and async, and knowing when to use one or the other makes a big differe
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4y ago
I do the same thing but in one big text file. I store all my general notes there. If it's an article I want to come back to, I write "article", if it's a video, then "video", etc. I also write any other keyword
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4y ago
Thank you. s/reign/rein
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4y ago
Not trying to be cynical, but I hope this gets worse before it gets better, for the sake of publicity. I think non-nuclear green energy expectations need to be reined in.
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4y ago
Firefox is the obvious solution to this problem, as you've pointed out. You shouldn't be upset that it's discussed in relation to this.
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4y ago
Using an ad-company's browser has always been so fishy.
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4y ago
> Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that Firefox has been my daily driver for close to a decade, and I've not run into something that didn't work on it, but worked on Chrome.
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4y ago
That's exactly what I was interested in. Thanks for the hand-picked recommendations!
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4y ago
Side question: any sign of at least borderline-viable farming techniques without pesticides or herbicides? By viable I mean, as a complete replacement for current agriculture. I know next to nothing about this, but have had some shower thou
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4y ago
The downfall of smartness: from promise of power to subjugation via data extraction.
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4y ago
Cheers. I find it stimulating when people rethink something that's seemingly set in stone. Rules for chess in this case.
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4y ago
Here's my notes on the subject: - hisense q5 tablet - hdmi input - https://www.cect-shop.com/en/hisense-q5.html - 400 eur - android as usb display: - https://superdisp
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> Equally surprising was that Indian Railways, the country’s largest employer, chose to continue fighting the case. If you think it's crazy for this lone lawyer to have gone through this crusade, keep in mind that Indian Railways fo
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4y ago
Buddy, you're a broken record.
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4y ago
Hey, thanks for your concern. I hope that things go well for you as well. I'd say I'm not that bad off. While I don't feel like counseling is something I urgently need, I'm sure it would have a positive effect, and I
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4y ago
Hey, thanks for relating. To answer your question, I guess I've become a bit "robotic", for the lack of a better word, about justice. I find that kindness, protection, being fair, etc. are important ways to take care of other
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4y ago
I'd like to provide my anecdotal experience with the just-world worldview. During a short period, I experienced a few events outside my control that shook my sense of security. One was a family member becoming ill, and the other was wa
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This thread is an energetic littering of tongue-in-cheek warnings that this game is addictive. Not sure why, but that puts a smile on my face.
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4y ago
My comments are in reply to your statement about not understanding how a civilized country can ban knots. To spell it out, I'm saying that we love banning things, and banning a knot is in line with that: it's not even the most dis
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4y ago
Is banning a book more civilized than banning a knot?
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This might provide some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWl9Mz2SPg A "self-defense" keychain with a 1 inch steel ball enclosed within a monkey fist knot at the end. At 0:18 the demonstrator smashes a lap
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Wait until you hear of banned books.
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4y ago
What is physics, if not a transition between states? Whether the merchanism that predicts those transitions is machine- or human-interpretable is orthogonal.
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> Let's just remember some people have really bad really underpaid 40 years of work. Good point. > I think the idea is to squeeze as much as you can now,... I really, really don't think that's healthy. Be unhappy now so
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4y ago
Teach them LibreOffice. Or better yet, teach them how to learn themselves.
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> There is no substitute for "I can retire at 60 instead of 70". Would you choose 30 bad work years over 40 good work years?
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DNS over HTTPS would solve that, right? It's an options flag on Firefox.
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4y ago
I realise this is an overly-broad question, but any insight into what's the state-of-art in Similarity Learning for article-type text? More specifically, I'm interested in deriving distances between writing style, arguing style, e
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4y ago
Found the wiki article more useful in describing what Similarity Learning and Metric Learning are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity_learning
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