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by eloisius 4y ago
In my experience, the voices you read on Reddit are a special breed of high-anxiety thinkers. Especially in dating/relationship threads. I think a lot of people on there are bent out of shape from some experience, and that’s why they’r
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by eloisius 4y ago
> Maybe you'd have some "neutral" social network that people use IRL where dating was just an emergent side function? But maybe I'm biased because that's how online dating looked like in my early 20s? There is. I
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by eloisius 4y ago
What’s particularly scary about it is because it’s censorship that’s less obvious. Banned books are obviously banned, which only lends credibility to what they contain. In the current age, you can still have your book on the shelf and Barne
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by eloisius 4y ago
I’m surprised to see this on the front page. It’s just an affiliate link site with “roundup” style reviews containing no more information than summary of product pages.
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by eloisius 4y ago
Sichuan peppercorns, not chili peppers. Although I don't know why gp provided them as an example. They aren't the slightest bit hot, they just have a tingly numbing sensation and a nice flavor.
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by eloisius 4y ago
I'm guessing (3). For one, I'm not sure that your observation is because you've gotten older and have become a more cautious driver, or if there is a quantifiable uptick in traffic violations. I also subjectively observed a b
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by eloisius 4y ago
Firefox on iOS is just UI chrome around webview. I use it because it syncs my tabs and bookmarks, but I don't expect any enhanced privacy over what Safari mobile offers.
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by eloisius 4y ago
> I'm very skeptical that fully automated UI will ever replace giving the user a small selection of recommended items. The TikTok fyp is vastly better than the Instagram discover tab, which gives you a menu of videos as jumping off
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by eloisius 4y ago
Monoids in the category of endofunctors, what are you daft?
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by eloisius 4y ago
I use quaternions in 3D geometry contexts a lot right now. Manipulating point clouds, describing camera orientations etc. But I kind of agree, a standard 4x4 rotation matrix would most likely be just as useful. I use them because it’s how C
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by eloisius 4y ago
You get cubicles? Fancy. My last corporate gig was one step away from hot desking us. Everyone in non-engineering roles had already been moved to hot desks and a generous, adorable little cartoon bear decorated cubby to store your personal
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by eloisius 4y ago
This entire thread is people talking about planned obsolescence for _consumer_ devices and you keep making the same rebuttals. Typical home owners who buy a thermostat at Home Depot or cyclists who buy a tail light at a bike shop are unlike
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by eloisius 4y ago
There are batteries special enough that I can't pick one up at Walmart, and for the general public that may render the device kaput. I didn't say it's an unhackable design.
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by eloisius 4y ago
I think you're really reaching to compare this assassination attempt on Rushdie with the Kavanaugh one. The fatwa was decades ago, but as recently as 2016 organizations within Iran raised another $600k to top-up the multi-million dolla
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by eloisius 4y ago
I think the point is that you (or most people) will replace the entire unit because it's beyond warranty, stops functioning correctly, and a soldered (probably special) battery would be difficult to replace.
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by eloisius 4y ago
Might be a Taiwan thing but the equivalent exclamation to ‘fuck!’ here is ‘幹！’, like ‘fuck, I lost my keys’. I’ve only seen/heard 肏 used in the sense of literal copulation, like ‘fuck your mom!’ as an insult, but not as an interjection
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by eloisius 4y ago
It’s the equivalent to ‘yes’ in a subset of contexts where ‘yes’ would make sense, for example ‘Is he the guy you were talking about?’ 「是的」 would make sense to say yes. But it wouldn’t work as an answer like ‘yes, I like hiking’.
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by eloisius 4y ago
I didn’t know this was the root of the ‘do not want’ meme. TIL. If I was to translate bootleg copy of Star Wars I think Darth Vader was probably trying to express ‘幹！’ Jokes aside, yes that make sense, you could express your regret or refus
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by eloisius 4y ago
I think I’d have trouble explaining this joke to someone. There is a way to say ‘I’ve stopped’: 我停止了, but I think they’d probably just answer me 我從來沒有打過我的太太 ‘I’ve never beaten my wife’. It does make the binary logic humor answer ‘yes’ to ‘d
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by eloisius 4y ago
Mandarin also does not have direct equivalents of ‘yes’ and ‘no’. There is a negator word 不 bù, but just answering 「不」 wouldn’t make sense. You answer a question with the verb that was asked. ‘Do you like coffee?’ ‘Like!’ or ‘不like‘. It doe
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by eloisius 4y ago
Partially true, but this kind of police overreaction is definitely giving the Alex Jones' of the world ammo. When those characters go on about the thought police of the new world order or whatever, it's not without a little truth
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by eloisius 4y ago
I doubt it would be viable to stock suburban walmart via box trucks.
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by eloisius 4y ago
You're getting closer. Suburban supermarkets might be unfeasible without long-haul trucking. That's just another example of the public subsidizing the suburban lifestyle, which is unsustainable without fossil fuels and public subs
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by eloisius 4y ago
They've been in a roll nerfing stuff like this ever since MS bought them. See "load more comments" ajax links when there are more than 10 comments in a PR review, or "load diff" when a file has changed more than a f
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by eloisius 4y ago
To me this sounds like an analogy for fake meat. I don’t care what anyone tells me. Fake meat, including impossible burger and whatever new, hyped up product they come up with taste like garbage. None of it will ever be as good as a real st
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by eloisius 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | East Asia | Remote I'm a freelancer looking for computer vision work. I'm specifically looking for projects related to stereo camera multi-view geometry. Camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object tria
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by eloisius 4y ago
More like the Union lost the civil war and retreated the Puerto Rico, which had just been acquired from Spain four years earlier. And then proceeded to institute martial law and an aggressive Amerification campaign, stamping out Spanish lan
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by eloisius 4y ago
I don’t like that it’s compromised by the CCP, but TikTok is in fact fun and enjoyable. People here act like it’s a new phenomenon, rotting children’s brains out. We’ve vegetated in front of TV for generations, and somehow survived. The fac
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by eloisius 4y ago
Exactly. You could even write declarative style C, or make your code _more_ declarative. It’s not some binary decision. It generally just means writing higher level language describing the result you want, rather than all the instructions t
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by eloisius 4y ago
As an example, declarative would be something like squares = map(square, inputs) While imperative would be a for loop, store this here, multiply that with this, push that onto the end of my results array, etc

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