eindiran

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by eindiran 6y ago
Thank you for the link, I enjoyed the post a lot. The drawings you've done add a lot to the explanation. Do you have any other deep dives you've done in the same style that you'd recommend?
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by eindiran 6y ago
In case anyone wants to try out the game, these are two great tutorials for very recent releases: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtQyRNNEMRA * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeQJOC1H38 Head over to the
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by eindiran 6y ago
I attempted to play DF in high school many years ago, booted it up and was immediately overwhelmed. I ended up uninstalling it and forgetting about the game for a long time. Recently I remembered the game and gave it another shot, and have
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by eindiran 6y ago
Yeah, unless I am missing something, this is way off: both Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve are estimated to be from >> 100K years ago. > As of 2013, estimates for the age Y-MRCA are subject to substantial uncertainty, with
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by eindiran 6y ago
The big ones that leap out (at least to me) are WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. But there are a few others that control less of their respective markets: Oculus, Giphy, React, Libra.
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by eindiran 6y ago
I don't think the loudness war is a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war But it appears to have significantly abated, due to normalization by streaming services and changing opinions of sound engineers
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by eindiran 6y ago
For the NYT, disabling JavaScript with eg the NoScript extension is sufficient to read the article without the paywall.
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by eindiran 6y ago
I remember this article on Wikipedia. Look at what it is now: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia... A redirect to the article for Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame; unfortunately it appea
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by eindiran 6y ago
I'd be interested to know if the paper discusses how many civilizations they expect to exist in the Milky Way under the Weak Astrobiological Copernican scenario. On an unrelated note, I laughed pretty hard about the headline: The concl
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by eindiran 6y ago
"PHB" means "Pointy-Haired Boss": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss The relevant bit: > He is notable for his micromanagement, gross incompetence, obliviousness to his surroundings
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by eindiran 6y ago
I agree that it's effectively impossible to distinguish between the two and that any stance on the issue is going to be driven by politics; my comment was just an objection to the claim that it is a "wildly implausible conspiracy
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That's correct: researchers have found a lot of similar coronaviruses in southern China. > “I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in cent
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by eindiran 6y ago
> There's always disputes, but no ones dying or being thrown out of their homes, people are being looked after. This is an underrated point; I think your larger message, that cooperation isn't dying, is likely true. I think I h
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by eindiran 6y ago
Taking a look at some other "social systems that are being tested at the moment", I don't think your claim that Australia is "coming together" in comparison to other "developed countries" is correct. Some
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In case anyone was wondering the actual definitions: An edge case is a problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter. For example, a stereo speaker might noticeably distort audio when played at
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There is an interesting distinction used by some economists between "labor-saving"/"captial-augmenting" technology and "labor-augmenting" technology: the former encourages you to decrease headcount, while
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I'm not familiar with this distinction: what is the difference you're pointing to here?
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I mean, if that's your interpretation I suppose you could argue that bullets are autonomous once fired. Am I correct in interpreting your sarcastic comment as meaning you think that pursuing some definition of "autonomous" is
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by eindiran 6y ago
Reading this [0] Wikipedia article, it sounds like "Weapon of Mass Destruction" is not a super well-defined term to begin with: "The most widely used definition of "weapons of mass destruction" is that of nuclear, b
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by eindiran 6y ago
I don't think there is any evidence that psilocybin mushrooms were used in the Middle East until at least the mid 1950s when the Wassons brought them to Europe from Mexico and the Psychedelic era began. Further, there are no psilocybin
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by eindiran 6y ago
I meant the joke/comment about Clinton being the first black president. But I saw someone else link this, which seems to be the source: https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/08/toni-morrison-wasn...
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by eindiran 6y ago
There's a sentence in the article that is a bit misleading (or at least unclear from the phrasing): "AAVE speakers use 'be' to mark a habitual grammatical aspect not explicitly distinguished in Standard English." St
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1989 California Medfly Attack(en.wikipedia.org)
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SpaceX postpones historic launch due to weather(cbsnews.com)
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Here are some interesting past conversations on this topic on HN: OpenBSD as a workstation --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344766 Setting up OpenBSD as a desktop --> https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by eindiran 6y ago
The medical establishment doesn't think that eg marijuana is "alternative medicine" or without medical value: the DEA does. The fact that the medical establishment now accepts marijuana as a therapeutic tool is evidence of th
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Ariadne's Thread (Logic)(en.wikipedia.org)
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In my experience, it depends on what data you are trying to store. Is your data composed of JSON documents which may be partially or fully unstructured? Are you pretty sure this isn't going to change? Then consider using Mongo. Otherwi
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by eindiran 6y ago
I don't think this is true. I think many people who eat meat do it because they enjoy it and in most cultures, eating meat is the default thing to do; most don't actually approve of factory farming conditions. If the pictures actu
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by eindiran 6y ago
Would it work like the warning labels on cigarettes in Europe with diseased lungs on them? Show what a factory farm looks like on the package and if you still want it go for it.

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