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by frereubu 2y ago
I kind of feel like your second paragraph is helping prove my point. And in my experience the people who build these models are very aware of their limitations (even if some of them do then go on to make overly broad conclusions for publica
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by frereubu 2y ago
There are a substantial minority of people, mainly on the political left in my personal experience, who characterise capitalists / economists as using theories where the market / consumers are perfectly efficient. To me it seems o
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Bronowski Beat(davidhendy.substack.com)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
Because they'll be moving it to their own hosted version, wordpress.com, not allowing people to write their own code, or install different themes / plugins.
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is, in my view, a better article about Grothendieck that's less sensationalist (particularly the guff about AI): https://planetofstorms.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/the-man-of-t...
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by frereubu 2y ago
I imagine many people here will know this site, but for those who want to travel across Europe by train, The Man in Seat 61 is an invaluable resource: https://www.seat61.com/ If you want to become envious, he's also on
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by frereubu 2y ago
Depends on your use case in terms of the time pressure you're under, but I learnt a lot from SO answers. Having to figure out how a general answer applied to a specific question taught me much more than getting a specific answer to a s
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by frereubu 2y ago
I haven't used Discord, but isn't the issue there that the answer gets quickly buried? It might work well for one person getting an answer, but the huge value of SO is that the answers stick around and turn up pretty well in searc
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by frereubu 2y ago
I've used https://postcodes.io/ on a number of projects. There's information about it here - https://postcodes.io/about - which doesn't fully answer where the data comes from, although it men
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by frereubu 2y ago
I studied neuroscience and I agree, this is unlikely to have anything to do with anything. In my view it's much more likely that the speed of processing is due to the brain constantly making predictions - it's an interesting thoug
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by frereubu 2y ago
This UK study used number plates, which haven't changed form between the two years (2004 and 2021), and have found a decline of just under 60%. Aerodynamics may have something to do with it, but I know from driving through insect-abund
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The next new film camera could come from Lego(dpreview.com)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
Does anyone know why the numbers are the gaps rather than the columns / rows? It's not exactly rocket science, but it took me a while to wrap my head around that, and it would have felt more intuitive for e.g. an item taking up th
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by frereubu 2y ago
Love how crazy this is. Small nit that shouldn't take away from the enjoyment - one downside not mentioned is that brackets aren't colour-coded based on depth, something I find very useful in my IDE.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I can't check this because I'm on mobile, but I presume Stack Overflow uses a canonical tag in the HTML to state their preference that the longer version with the slug should be the default, because that's the one search engi
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by frereubu 2y ago
I don't think the parent comment's main point was about using fairness to judge anything - the two main good I questions I got from it are (a) does Apple provide more utility in hosting the apps than the entire Patreon service? an
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yeah, it was kind of weird - pretty sure the positive comments about it weren't organic, but there are some other anti comments that didn't feel quite right either. I'm not even sure if the comment section works any more!
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by frereubu 2y ago
I set up a site around 20 years ago - now on https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/ - and got threatened with a lawsuit by Dannon / Danone. I had to give them the first domain because it was a trademark (but not before I&
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by frereubu 2y ago
I think it's a central London / outside central London thing. Just in my personal experience people in both Brighton and Somerset thank the driver, and I bet there are plenty of other places like that in the south.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Nitpicky, because I get what you mean, but "self reflection will reduce stress and fear" is by no means always true and I'd argue it's probably not really true for most people in practice. Epictetus said (paraphrasing!)
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by frereubu 2y ago
I don't think the parent comment was ignoring that. The penalty for a company who does this can't be to bring someone back from the dead, it's likely to be financial, which is the aspect they're talking about.
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Underground cave found on moon could be ideal base for explorers(theguardian.com)
3 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is a good write-up on the emerging issues around some sweeteners: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/and-now-xylitol
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by frereubu 2y ago
It's not good enough to just ask questions like that - what alternatives are there? The information that too much sugar is bad for you isn't exactly hidden away, yet rates of obesity, tooth decay and diabetes are still going up.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yeah, I'm sure he knows that - he lives in Andorra - but I read it as him being surprised that of all the tasty things they weren't allowed to eat (as the article makes clear the food during the Tour tends to be pretty bland) the
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by frereubu 2y ago
The part about not eating too much fibre because it irritates the gut reminded me of an amusing anecdote in Dan Martin's autobiography, where he talked about coming (I think) third in The Tour and was sitting with Chris Froome and Gera
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by frereubu 2y ago
It is a bit of a blunt instrument, but presuming you agree that it's a problem that needs to be solved, what other alternative would you suggest?
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is exactly the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that I find really difficult. You could have stated this very differently instead of using sarcasm and we might have agreed on some points, but "is an odd way of saying" is so unne
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by frereubu 2y ago
I find these kinds of rhetorical "where exactly does it end" comments really limp. Life is full of choices where there are grey areas. Lay out a bunch of desirable criteria - like not allowing a single entity to monopolise a marke
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by frereubu 2y ago
You're welcome. I dread these Assange threads on HN because they often seem to devolve into people shouting past each other, and this is the most thoughtful piece, with direct and lengthy access to Assange, that I've read.

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