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by fsckboy 2mo ago
"and don't do screens for the last few hours before bed" because that will help you fall asleep more quickly? or because that will help you sleep later in the morning 6 or 7 hours later? People never seem to mention that key
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
supply and demand. there is more demand, prices go up, the market allocates, it's the best way, no other way comes close to making the overall price level to be as cheap as possible.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Just because there's a video of sexual acts doesn't mean Wikimedia exists for the prurient interest. nice goalpost move. just because wikimedia doesn't exist solely for the prurient interest doesn't mean that it sh
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
and if it is a popularity contest, mystifying that wikpedia would qualify, it has many serious flaws (generally of the form that a small number of zealots can control the messaging on topics they are obsessed with where most people just wan
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
"Toll House cookies" (chocolate chip cookies) are named after an inn that was named for a tollhouse on an old Massachusetts toll road.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
People are having fun with AI coding, and I have no problem with that, but I am sick of hearing about it.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> The best part is that flock owns the cameras and the poles so even when the contract expires the cameras keep running and recording data that flock can sell if the cameras continue recording, LA can subpoena those recordings on an as
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
buyer's remorse is not "paid too much"
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product. not true if all the other knives on the market at that price have the same performance, in which case
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
wikipedia: Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,[1] is a form of inflammatory arthritis[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
how about a version that shows all the words at once and you can work on them in the order you want, skip and go back. (for a phone show one and a person can click "later" to move a difficult word to the end of the queue) and the
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> That's not a knock, it's a design philosophy of OpenBSD (which is to do the minimal needed, and no more, in the most simplistic way) you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far. https:&
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> That's not a knock, it's a design philosophy of OpenBSD (which is to do the minimal needed, and no more, in the most simplistic way) you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? EARLS was not accepted, and I had already decided not to try REALS. (is there a rule against plurals?) what it was looking for was LASER which has a more tenuous claim on
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
it annoys me how eager people are to hurl the word stochastic as pejorative. Statistics are a great tool for gleaning information from stochastic processes; statistics don't contribute randomness. Random sampling is necessary in order
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Human barbarism is not new... to be fair, without humans there would be nobody to declare "barbarism". At one time, all humans were barbarians, it took a certain level of cultural development before the word "barbarism&
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/ "Cochran and Harpending also cite studies claiming that Ashkenazim have the highest IQ of any ethnic group for which there’s reliable data,
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inheritance is enough. but it is known, independently of Jewish population studies, that genetic inheritance is a strong factor in IQ performance, an
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
64 Fields Medals have been awarded, 15 went to Jews, just over 23%. Jews are 2.5% of the US but less than 0.2% of Europe (10% of all Jews live in Europe; in 1933, it was 60%)
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
ride defensively, don't travel at high speed when you can see that there are pedestrians ahead who might very well turn and take a step into your lane. slowing down is not going to kill you, speed up when the way is clear.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
I think—no
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> It's not a conspiracy or anti-Semitic it is if you think the reason is something that's not benign, or if you are keeping track of it and spreading it hoping to foment anger. A hugely disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
in what you quoted, nothing says "U.S. officials believed..." as the headline states
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> my whole life, it was sold to me as an incentive-boosting measure which in turn would lead to said outcomes at the time patents were debated, a key part of the proposal was to encourage the transfer "trade secret knowledge"
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
I don't see how that solves this problem. there is a string in memory that gets saved on suspend. that string when read by the CPU has the same properties it had before. if the CPU is using rot-13, the string is still rot-13 and the at
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
marginal effects are small, but it's where the integration and feedback add up or even multiply. the claim here is that the mitchondria are paying attention to their own marginal quantities which are quite small; the outsized effects i
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
Our mitochondria process the total of our energy needs every day, while exercise adds, percentagewise, only fractional additional energy need. do you think mitochondria notice the difference? I don't. If I cut my caloric intake, I drop
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
you want to try Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, sorry, you need to accept cookies!
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
it is Lawrence Watt-Evans, he has a page there https://escapepod.org/people/lawrence-watt-evans/
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the logo looks vaguely HP and the layout and logo matches this one https://hpmuseum.net/images/2645A-35.jpg (while i was typing that in, somebody else answered same)

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