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by elevaet 4y ago
I haven't read Anna Karenina, but it really is! Something about the relaxed and repetitive motion, doing things a little differently and without a noisy machine, and of course the imagery of Death personified, reaping Souls. Nice usern
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by elevaet 4y ago
I used to use a scythe. It got a lot of thumbs up and such from passers-by. It's a pretty fun way to cut the grass; if you sharpen the blade nicely it's surprisingly effective. I used to use it in combo with a push mower, they&#x2
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by elevaet 4y ago
> then why would we consider the pain of a creature who cannot even directly complain about it? As a parent of two of these creatures, I assure you they definitely do directly complain about pain!
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by elevaet 4y ago
That's a zinger
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by elevaet 4y ago
No, before being born, in mammals the blood is oxygenated across the placenta.
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by elevaet 4y ago
3.7 billion years of refactoring has kept it pretty clean and functional. We'll need to do a shit ton of unit and integration testing before we commit changes.
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by elevaet 4y ago
Well, these aren't unambiguously "better results", not in a biological sense. Just better in terms of what our culture values, and not necessarily better survival and reproduction.
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by elevaet 4y ago
So what you're telling me is that fusion is 20 years away? /s
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by elevaet 4y ago
That's a great explanation, thank you. What does the black curve that intersects some of the Q curves represent?
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by elevaet 4y ago
Can someone explain in layman's terms what is the Lawson criterion, and Lawson parameter?
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by elevaet 4y ago
I'm doing a short work-week, coding about 25h/week, mostly fancy CRUD and API work. 25h leave me feeling not burned out at all. The "time off" coding I do is purely for fun and learning, and it's mostly using differ
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by elevaet 4y ago
This question is maybe the deepest of them all. What a great project, can't wait to check these videos out. My understanding of an answer I've heard is along these lines: If there is truly nothing then that means there are also no
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by elevaet 4y ago
Maybe the universe is a demo written by the gods in <4kb
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by elevaet 4y ago
Is it a better strategy to have your combat opponent underestimate, or overestimate your specs?
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by elevaet 4y ago
Another well-documented problem with the "glass of wine good for your heart" studies was that the groups that didn't drink wine usually included teetotalers, who had likely already damaged their bodies in the past with alcoho
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by elevaet 4y ago
> Mobile orders get pushed to the front of the line, so instead of waiting in line you can place a mobile order and go grab it right away. Interesting, so customers pay for queue priority with their location data. Except the problem is i
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by elevaet 4y ago
This article hits hard in a lot of ways. Have any of you who work as a freelance programmer managed to get off the hours-based billing treadmill, and onto a value-based system? How do you determine value? When your clients need constant mai
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by elevaet 4y ago
Isn't the OG Sim City something like "work"? I remember that game being really fascinating, and yeah a bit of a chore sometimes. I get how those types of games might not appeal to the masses in the way that the dopamine trail
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by elevaet 4y ago
"The Secret World of Arrietty" is an adaptation of "The Borrowers" right?
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by elevaet 4y ago
I thank my parents for being open minded enough to be completely fine with 11yo me watching that show! There's not really anything that edgy about it by todays standards, but at the time it was kind of avant garde and shocking to many.
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by elevaet 4y ago
Nicely done, only part-way through and I've already learned a ton from this. As others have pointed out there seem to be some bugs in the scrolling animations, but they do help explain.
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by elevaet 4y ago
That was their point
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by elevaet 4y ago
I have a terrible habit of mixing camelCase with snake_case. I'll start out using snake_case because I find it slightly more readable, but then use some library that has camelCase methods, and before I know it's all a bit of a hod
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by elevaet 4y ago
This is very cool! For years I've had a fantasy of building a sim game where you design plants, and then toss the seeds into the wind. The plants could then grow, in competition with other plants of the world for the environmental reso
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by elevaet 4y ago
I probably would too, at this point!
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by elevaet 4y ago
To further complicate matters, different fields of work have different optimal working styles/cycles as well. I did some very physical seasonal work for about a decade where most of us would work about 3 months of the year, very intens
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Ben Laposky: Oscillons and early oscilloscope art(spalterdigital.com)
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by elevaet 4y ago
You'd still be able to detect timing from a clipped audio signal, same with the tone. Better to just blast the airhorn while you type.
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by elevaet 4y ago
Something interesting that I noticed learning Portuguese many years ago is that the word for "explore" is the same as for "exploit" (explorar). Not that Portugal unique in its exploitative history, but this might speak t
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by elevaet 4y ago
They were being facetious, it's a critique of the racist/classist tendency in our language to label people with brown skin living in another country as "immigrants" but white people as "ex-pats". It's rela

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