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811.
by fnord77 3y ago
this is the "hygiene hypothesis" and there is a correlation but nobody has shown causation. it was popular 10 years ago but other models have become more prominent
812.
by fnord77 3y ago
how often is an unscheduled call going to be good news?
813.
by fnord77 3y ago
the article author does seem overly gleeful about it
814.
by fnord77 3y ago
this is diabolical. I feel bad for the poor sods who have to debug the aftermath of this, especially the "only on sundays" one
815.
by fnord77 4y ago
schwab bank is next
816.
by fnord77 4y ago
you'd go insane from the incessant clicking from the mri machine
817.
The New Gnostics The Internet today is full of strange quasi-faiths. (2022)(city-journal.org)
12 points by fnord77 4y ago|2 comments
818.
Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner (2017)(edamurray.com)
34 points by fnord77 4y ago|24 comments
819.
by fnord77 4y ago
The consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor meal or snack can increase the synthesis of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin; proteins block this effect.
820.
by fnord77 4y ago
n = 20
821.
by fnord77 4y ago
"Even so, the real heroes of the site are not those who make original content. It is those who post old programming from the analogue age." someone should tell the author about archive.org
822.
by fnord77 4y ago
Everyone says learn Mandarin but actually I'd rather learn Cantonese than Mandarin. It's the 3rd most spoken language in the US
823.
by fnord77 4y ago
heh oops, Papiel is a brand of papel https://i.imgur.com/g5atMOs.png
824.
by fnord77 4y ago
not without some sort of energy being added to the system. otherwise an ambient temperature superconductor would be a perpetual motion machine
825.
by fnord77 4y ago
garbage study! multilingualism was self-reported so they don't differentiate between someone who slept through 2 years of HS spanish and someone who grew up speaking both English and Chinese The study was also done in a single geograph
826.
by fnord77 4y ago
> an extra language I learned spanish at a young age and I find it pretty useless. The last time I used it in the past 20 years was watching Casa De Papiel Really wished I learned something like German or Chinese instead
827.
by fnord77 4y ago
70s: "You are saying GM can't match and surpass Toyota for small cars?" etc. history is littered with the dominant player getting shellacked by an upstart And it usually is for political reasons not technical reasons. Bard
828.
by fnord77 4y ago
I think chatGPT will filter out all the pointless activities human do just out of habit clearly essay writing is a bit pointless if it can be farmed off to someone else and the students are still able to graduate and function in careers
829.
by fnord77 4y ago
oral exams seem like the only way
830.
by fnord77 4y ago
um, never since it violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics
831.
by fnord77 4y ago
reasonable inputs into Drake's yield 1. So this is just fanciful
832.
by fnord77 4y ago
https://hla.stsci.edu/
833.
by fnord77 4y ago
the animation is wrong. It shows the wheel of the bike turning into the turn as the rider leans over. In reality, the wheel turns slightly away from the turn. This is called "counter steering" https://en.wikipedia.org
834.
by fnord77 4y ago
wish the US govt took steps to keep corps from getting too powerful
835.
by fnord77 4y ago
the point is to show ads
836.
Apple vs. Nvidia: What happened? (2021)(blog.greggant.com)
5 points by fnord77 4y ago|2 comments
837.
by fnord77 4y ago
It was for therapeutic purposes. That was the mindset. The setting was perfect, comfortable home
838.
by fnord77 4y ago
DMT triggered severe anxiety in my that lasted 4 years. It was hell. It ruined my life
839.
by fnord77 4y ago
the demo got my browser totally wrong. it has me showing up in various places around the country and I don't use a VPN. One of the dates I was out of the country and my laptop was at home, turned off
840.
by fnord77 4y ago
People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Cars People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Computers People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of the Internet People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of LLMs

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