framecowbird

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by framecowbird 6y ago
To be fair to the Americans, it seems like the word originated in France
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I've lived my whole life in the UK where the 12-hour clock is commonplace and I also still can't remember this either...
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I don't think it's about whether it does harm learning it: I think the problem is the relative barrier to entry that it creates for people who don't already know this information. Friction like this reduces social mobility an
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by framecowbird 6y ago
But isn't this exactly what the author is demonstrating? You can use the higher language of Python with its garbage collection, and since the critical parts are in C anyway, it ends up being competitive to the pure C implementation.
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by framecowbird 6y ago
This article really resonated with me. I got into a very prestigious university, and then developed an anxiety at each career stage that my next move would less prestigious than my last. It took me a long time to realise this was how I wa
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I'm not sure which comments you are reading: one of the top threads that almost fills the whole first page is a long discussion about alternatives to macbooks...
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Covid isn't a particularly pleasant way to die though...
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by framecowbird 6y ago
What are the other solutions?
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a disappointing onboarding. It looks like the site is there to host a single video, but actually the real value is hidden on the left
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by framecowbird 6y ago
We use CSVs a lot and a good schema for a metadata file would be very useful. Rather than making up my own, does anybody know of a good, well-adopted metadata format for CSV files? I found https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/
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by framecowbird 6y ago
This might be a silly question, but is there a reason why git can't also diff binary files? If I have a huge binary file and I change a few bytes in the middle, what's stopping Git just checking that in as a diff? I don't see
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Set theory was definitely my favorite course that I took in pure mathematics. It blew my mind how you can study “infinity” and find much structure; which I had previously thought was a fairly vague concept. It doesn’t seem surprising to me
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by framecowbird 6y ago
This is the most nicely delivered pedantry I've ever read, kudos!
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I usually use my phone in greyscale mode as the colourful rainbow candy is something I'd prefer my brain not to be bombarded with. So far I've found the icons of the apps I use easy to distinguish between even in grayscale, but I&
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Yeah, somehow a parasite feels like it has more agency and intent than a virus...
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by framecowbird 6y ago
surely the latter, and that is what the sentence implies: "observatories [...] have dramatically increased their sensitivity"
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Definitely this. When software silently thinks it knows what I wanted and silently does the wrong thing, sometimes you find out a long time later, and it ends up being very expensive, particularly when it’s to do with data analysis. I would
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Sorry all, could nobody have kids right now? You see, we’re about to launch this awesome streaming service. Thanks!
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by framecowbird 6y ago
vertical alternating?
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Agreed. Colourful math symbols sounds like a great idea.
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Thank you for this
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by framecowbird 6y ago
The risk is how long that takes. Sure, other microbes pick up the slack, but when? A hundred years? A thousand? Millions?
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I'm most surprised to learn that this _isn't_ the current prevailing view in the medical profession. I am not a doctor, but it's always seemed more natural to me to view depression and anxiety as adaptive behaviours - albeit
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by framecowbird 6y ago
most Linux distros still have Python 2 as the default though, right?
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Of course it's what Apple wants, that's not the question. The question is whether they are suppressing competition in such a way that it eventually becomes detrimental to the whole market.
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Terminal programs tend to be faster (particularly on boot time) and have better support for keyboard shortcuts. I haven't tried this project out though...
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Yeah, I just don’t see this happening across the whole population. Maybe with an expensive campaign to encourage yearly physicals you will get a certain sector of society; but there are going to be millions who haven’t got insurance, worry
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I’m not sure I trust myself to set up my own bastion securely. Are there any companies that offer secure bastions as a service? What I’m envisaging is: I pay somebody, make an account on their site and add 2FA, and then they give me a serve
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by framecowbird 6y ago
Heh
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by framecowbird 6y ago
I think this viewpoint can also be taken too far. "Don't be naive: if we are not aggressive then we will be wiped out" can be used to justify a lot of things.

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