fsckboy

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by fsckboy 1y ago
while everybody is correcting everybody, let's point out that the Hygiene Hypothesis is not called the Hygiene Theory, and the hygiene theories we have generally say to keep things clean.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> many older folk...like using bits in a byte, or a byte as an ID field. Or quibbling over the length of a Name field. All those habits proved to be bad in the long run. I'll bet you the people inventing these modern new architectu
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> First I am not sure what you mean by "know-it-all"...if you drop "older" good lord, in those phrases he was quoting the wording in the comment he was replying to. I don't know if you are young or old, but I&#x
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by fsckboy 1y ago
yes, but without us, who will teach these children to piss and moan about everything!? this device would make a very practical workstation for developing Raspbery Pi software for little embedded RPi projects.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> unfinished novels don't need a conclusion any more than an unfinished work of music does: you can imagine how the story goes on for yourself... > ...there's a choice to be made and if the auteur does not finish it, you w
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by fsckboy 1y ago
not sure what you mean. the only "knowing" (that we know of) is when a piece of the universe has an incomplete model of some other portion of the universe which it uses to make predictions (and i suppose toward the same goal, reme
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by fsckboy 1y ago
everything we know about the universe at the lowest scales/levels (sub-subatomic) is known to us as a computation. the universe is computation. life is computation not because it's life, but because an inert rock in a very cold pl
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> willing to climb steep learning curves fwiw, learning curve theory relates how much learning you get through time or episodes of experience. a lot of learning from a small amount of experience (easy to learn) means you will slide quic
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> power usage in suspend is especially sad because it’s pretty much a common problem for Linux on laptops I don't know what you're talking about, is this an apple Silcon marketing ploy? my linux laptops lose less battery in su
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by fsckboy 1y ago
nightclubs want lots of customers especially attractive women, and don't want lots of problems. What's the potential for abuse? Detecting your attractiveness or ethnicity in order to turn you away would be abuses, but is that what
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Parking is a subset of “driving”. When you are parking you are also still driving at which you rarely put your life at risk. "huh?" if you do.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
it read to me more as a marketing piece itself than as a piece about marketing.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
when you are fired, you are free to disparage your former employer. she was not free to do that because she signed away that right, and you can only sign away something in exchange for something, which she obviously took. when you don'
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by fsckboy 1y ago
it has a lot of work to do yes, but is still slacking off at its job when she signs it voluntarily, takes the consideration, then violates it and pays no consideration in return.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
TL;DR if you don't know who Sebastian Lagree is (my LA gf said "the pilates guy?") then don't read this.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I think high school students preparing to go to university are most interested in rankings not least because for graduate schools specific areas of research are more important. and I agree with much of the parent post, and would add that &q
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by fsckboy 1y ago
compare contrast https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Anything that takes attention away from driving increases danger. parking takes attention away from driving, and as a result the danger drops.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> What exactly are they meant to replicate other than other IQ tests? if a variety of different IQ tests sort the same people the same way, even though every question on the tests is different from the other tests, you have shown that t
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by fsckboy 1y ago
in my comment i gave a link to what a fairly large group of university professors, scientists who study, test, and measure intelligence, and what they say they've learned about intelligence. you think you know more, but you don't
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> I am largely neutral on this particular assassination could you list the assassinations that you are not neutral on? I feel the list could be interesting if not prolly infamous
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by fsckboy 1y ago
Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, for whom the log-normal distribution is often called the Galton distribution, was among the first to investigate psychometrics. not realizing he was hundreds of years late to the game, he still went ahe
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by fsckboy 1y ago
famous cognitive psychology experiments that do replicate: IQ tests http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/intell/mainstream.... in fact, the foundational statistical models considered the gold standard fo
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by fsckboy 1y ago
they violate the BSD license by not acknowledging the Regents of the University of California?
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by fsckboy 1y ago
have you ever wondered if it's a great idea to have former generals populate the defense department, procurement, and revolving door employment with defense contractors? what could go wrong? what could go expensive? you are one of the
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the cdc decides to make recommendations no matter how expensive, and big pharma collects the expensive, and the expert community works for the cdc and big pharma? do you even understand what regulatory capture is? do you understand how fram
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> early character encodings like 7-bit ASCII early character encoding was 6-bit ASCII, no lower case
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by fsckboy 1y ago
you aren't using the word "intractable" right. meant "inextricable" maybe.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
most thefts are inside jobs, so somewhere safe would be to give them to a total stranger
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I understand the dangers of answering scam calls, don't explain it to me but you're assuming that "bank security" (or the like) will never call you to alert you to a scam, or that you will recognize their number. maybe t

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