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by fao_ 5y ago
It's not what you say, it's the way you say it, the way you go about it, and the thread you choose to say it in. That's why me and many other people downvoted and flagged you.
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by fao_ 5y ago
In the same vein it's worth checking out Atkinson Hyperlegible -- a typeface that I find utterly beautiful and I've personally found legible at extremely tiny sizes. https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont I really,
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by fao_ 5y ago
Finally, I can figure out how much of each ingredient is in 2000000000000 donuts
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by fao_ 5y ago
For anyone interested in topics like these, I recommend checking out Issac Arthur's "Cryptic Aliens" video, where he talks in depth about the assumptions that we can make about some of the forms of aliens just from natural la
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by fao_ 5y ago
> For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something. Surely... it's a requirement to use a watch while one-handed anyway? I'm not familiar with the Apple Watch
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by fao_ 5y ago
I mean, most spaces have those as roles that you can fill in, but don't have to. wrt pronoun roles, they are used for figuring out how to refer to you -- it is after all, a trans space where appearance and expectation won't match
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by fao_ 5y ago
I found Precalculus Mathematics In A Nutshell by Simmons to be extremely valuable (as someone who got so stressed out by my maths teachers in primary school that I literally was not able to add up in my head until the age of 14). It teaches
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by fao_ 5y ago
Right, so you correct that for next time? It's an iterative process, and like any skill -- it takes time.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> there is no feedback loop at all. Smell the spices before you try them out, use small amounts then taste the food while it's cooking. This works for almost anything that isn't baked. Google to find out what spices intensify t
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by fao_ 5y ago
You can be lazy with your malice, I think.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Apparently FBI got lazy these days, maybe because of all that Covid mess. The FBI has always been lazy. They sent notes to MLK stating he should commit suicide, after all.
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by fao_ 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor is basically the same thing Also the word "kulak" is loaded - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak
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by fao_ 5y ago
Both my parents are MENSAns. I agree with the parent poster, there isn't specifically anything special about being a 95%ile, and most of the members of the 95%ile that have joined MENSA aren't massively successful, any more than a
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Whether their ideas and worlds stand up to Asimov and company, or happen to be appealing to a particular reader, is another matter, but the command of writing itself is overall better, I'd say. But that's just the thing -- sc
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Adding two lines so that a random Hacker News reader can understand the README wouldn’t be enough for a nontechnical audience to understand it. I disagree, it would be enough for a non-technical audience, since it would give enough inf
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by fao_ 5y ago
Security clearance, only level 4 or higher. An O-5 is one of the directors of The Foundation.
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by fao_ 5y ago
If you're interested in this you will want to check out the amazing Orbiter, which has been going for about 15 years now: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ It says 2016, but there's an up to date Beta version on the
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Do you expect everything to be written in English for your benefit? I'm not even sure what you mean to say here. Is asking that the README contain a single two letter phrase reference to the subject matter, the same as expecting t
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by fao_ 5y ago
> This is BS. How many obscure security, devops, etc tools get posted here without so much complaint? From me? Or are you lumping me in with all the "nay-sayers", despite the fact that I'm trying to offer criticism of a p
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Now that loop can be seconds: if I pause typing, my IDE starts running my unit tests automatically. It seems to me that things like compilers and runtimes should by default keep everything hot, incrementally updating as fast as possibl
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by fao_ 5y ago
> The author doesn't owe it to us. There are like 6 different definitions of what a "transformer" is and none of them fall under "machine learning". If you have a README, then that implies its intended for other
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by fao_ 5y ago
As others have mentioned, anything obscure like this should literally come with a Wikipedia (or other such) link to explain what it is, what it does. This is the primary problem with small project READMEs, imo. They assume you're alrea
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by fao_ 5y ago
I don't think the OP was talking about anything other than survival of the fittest, which is the usual go-to defense of "capitalism is present in nature", and it does not tend to hold up. However they didn't actually go
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by fao_ 5y ago
What exactly is "adherence to public-domain/open-source implementations" in context of this specific operating system?
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by fao_ 5y ago
I mean that's provably not the case as many creatures including humans are more collaborative than strictly selfish in nature, and there's a wealth of knowledge you can find about that by going to google scholar
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by fao_ 5y ago
Well, it makes sense. You, and everyone else that is able to read this, is literally sitting in front of a globally connected information box, and with a few key taps you can easily bring up archival records and video footage of the holocau
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by fao_ 5y ago
You're acting like those are the only two options available, though. That's not the case.
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by fao_ 5y ago
My X200 is very performant on Ubuntu 20.04, and for my mother, her X230 is a good daily driver.
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by fao_ 5y ago
Partial checkout already exists: `git clone --depth 1 <url>` Of course you mean, only one small repo -- but the more git-like strategy is to specifically use submodules
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by fao_ 5y ago
I'm not sure you understand how irresponsible that is.

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