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by flatline 8y ago
For a humorous take on what can be done with a sample size of 1: http://www.thebigalientheory.com Certainly, any new information is going to radically adjust the posterior probabilities, but you can still make some tentative inf
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by flatline 8y ago
Not the person you replied to, but that's what I imagine he/she is getting at. What I think of when someone mentions a Unix UI library is something like Qt, which provides a number of conventions, such as: - Standard layouts - Sta
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by flatline 8y ago
It's a well-known paradox [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by flatline 8y ago
The original desktop site on mobile works fine for me, it’s all I’ve ever used. But it’s not the default and the redesign is unusable, so you have to configure each new browser you visit the site on. My usage has definitely dropped over the
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by flatline 8y ago
Preferably, actual emergencies, not manufactured ones. Property damage/maintenance, healthcare, travel to visit family in an emergency, money to cover expenses if evacuated due to a natural disaster, I can think of more. Certainly job
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by flatline 8y ago
I like solving puzzles. I like algorithms. Every once in a while I even get to use them at my job! Solving these kinds of things is at most 5-10% of a developer’s job, and that’s probably a stretch in reality. The number of times I’ve seen
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by flatline 8y ago
I played on and off for over a decade before deciding I was going to ascend. If you spend some time on the wiki and learn all the little tricks hidden in the game, it’s not too hard to win. There are a few common strategies to get through t
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by flatline 8y ago
Powershell has been around for quite a while now, but only recently could you rely on it being installed on Windows systems, let alone be available on Linux. Maybe in another decade, but if you are targeting Unix-like systems bash is probab
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by flatline 8y ago
It could be smart in principle, I’m just afraid that in practice it is not.
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by flatline 8y ago
And yet the second bullet in that article: > The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possibly carcinogenic to humans. So it's not settled science, eve
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by flatline 8y ago
There is nothing more frustrating than doing things you are bad at, regularly, especially if you are bound to get somewhat worse as time goes on. To your point, even if that were the reason for a significant number of departures, it would n
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by flatline 8y ago
I still miss google desktop. The Windows search indexer has never been particularly good.
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by flatline 8y ago
How much does it cost to manufacture the drug, and in such relatively low quantities? The article did not say but it pointed to this as part of their decision.
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by flatline 8y ago
I occasionally share kid pics with relatives, and keep in touch with the martial arts school I attend. It's a perfectly fine tool for me, but I see how everyone else uses it and it makes me feel slightly sick each time I open it up.
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by flatline 8y ago
I never saw a pop-up, but I did take the time right away to disable it.
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by flatline 8y ago
What I find more disagreeable is the newly enabled autosuggest feature. Few things are more annoying than seeing bad suggestions pop up for every word, on a desktop device where I type at 100wpm. Edit: word.
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by flatline 8y ago
Two incomes of 100k+/year - outside of CA, NYC, DC - you can buy two 35k cars, save for retirement, afford a mortgage, and have plenty left over.
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by flatline 8y ago
Isn’t this result in every introductory combinatorics textbook?
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by flatline 8y ago
Or, the things the tests select for are gradually falling out of favor in our education system and society at large. Pollutants don’t seem like an unreasonable hypothesis either, though.
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by flatline 8y ago
Your priorities may not be the same as everyone else’s. I think there is a certain moral incumbency on people to remain healthy for the benefit of others, but that only goes so far. Cost of maintaining life is an issue: just because there i
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by flatline 8y ago
Some people also have luck with Magnesium L-Threonate
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by flatline 8y ago
I never had trouble finding tech work without a degree. I did however find the door to more interesting jobs was generally closed without one, and that door opened after I went back to school and finished a BS.
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by flatline 8y ago
I like this genre - Marquez, Murkami, Allende, Wolfe are some of my favorite authors, yet I didn’t really enjoy Master and Margarita that much. I may try another of his based on this comment though.
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by flatline 8y ago
TIL that FFTW is not just another a C library, per se. Impressive, but it does explain a few things, as the C library is fairly cumbersome to use.
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by flatline 8y ago
XM was an interesting note there at the end. I realize they are still subject to FCC regulation but they seem mostly add free and uncensored.
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by flatline 8y ago
I did a couple projects in undergrad using it. I had to implement my own trig functions from scratch! I think they had sin and cos and that was it? It’s a really a neat little environment for throwing together a proof of concept quickly, no
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by flatline 8y ago
Soylent and Theranos are two recent counterexamples that come to mind. In the former case, a company made many claims they have since dialed back; and in the latter case, outright fraud, though it may not have started out that way. 23andMe
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by flatline 8y ago
If you’re going to drop it on a kid carte blanche, you have some responsibility to put it in context. And it’s really not about the language, so much as it is the theme of the music. The South may have something to say, but you have to have
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by flatline 8y ago
Great album, but it’s not Purple Rain or Thriller, because I don’t really want to spend the rest of the month explaining the n word, among others, to my kids. Ah, well. It’s a problem comparing music across genres, as they said.
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by flatline 8y ago
And the conservative underbelly of SV once again peeks out from beneath its plaid flannel facade. Tuck it back in there, Zuck, and all will be fine again for a little while longer! This is another byproduct of the startup lottery culture: w

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