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by gerbilly 7y ago
I tried to see if letterboxing was enabled, but it didn't seem to make a difference.¹ Does anyone know whether they included this feature, and if so how to enable it? 1: https://browserleaks.com/javascript still detect
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Maybe the dude is onto something. In the future we won't think of families as families, but as teams, all highly engaged and aligned on a single strategic goal.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The thing that may be driving how you feel is this: * When you watch someone else do their job, or pull off some achievement, you only get to see their outward behaviour. * When you perform a similar task you get to observe your behaviour,
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by gerbilly 7y ago
You don't have to go to a book of fiction to get an example. Some Chinese are still old enough to remember the Cultural revolution. During this time people were interrogated for days by their peers in so called 'struggle meetings&
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> we should start looking closely into possible "down to the hardware" remedies instead if prison That's where hard determinism fails it, because all it can do is to make a very broad statement that our behaviour was prede
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by gerbilly 7y ago
HN should institute a rule than anyone replying to a free will thread should get 2ⁿ negative points for each post, where n is the depth position in the thread. Present company included, naturally.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
In every culture, in every era, people have usually been pretty sure they had everything figured out, and that they understood life and the world completely. I don't believe our present time is any more enlightened in this matter than
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Very cute if unoriginal, someone says that anytime I bring up this argument... And every time someone brings up free will, someone will shout hard determinism from a pulpit like they are the final authority on the matter.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah, free will is perhaps our sensed experience of the process you describe (the interaction between trillions of neurons, 10 to the power of 29 atoms in that exact non-linear fashion!)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> if something is not physical, then it is magic Again you are simply asserting it is so. I'll grant you it's a very popular assertion, but you'll forgive me if I don't just take your word for it. 1) I think free wil
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I have a hard time seeing a reason to ascribe 'free will' to a physical process Who says it's a physical process to begin with? That's an assertion, not a proof. More interestingly, did you make that assertion of yo
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> It's a contradiction! I mean, it's basically an infinite regression: either something happens outside of your control or you control what you control what you control... But you can have a process interacting with itself in a
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> it's unethical to let people run themselves to death obviously. It's also unethical to let rats run themselves to death, and it wouldn't pass an ethics review board if you suggested an experiment like that these days.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
You don't need to try to induce it in humans, you want to create treatments that work. In this case the study in rats provides an interesting hunch, that food restriction and excessive exercise seem linked. Then you can certainly run a
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Anorexia nervosa and excessive exercise seem to be causally linked.¹ If you want to cure someone of anorexia, you will usually have more success if you both eliminate the excessive exercise and address the eating behaviour at the same time.
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The Hemingway App makes claims to make your writing bold and clear(hemingwayapp.com)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|1 comments
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Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes(stripe.com)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I guess you could say that a successfully running system quickly gets taken from granted, but that systems that fail are more salient.¹ 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Ironic because paper bags are recyclable, and nature does it for free!
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't use maven archetypes too often, the rest of maven seems pretty good to me, but maybe I'm just used to it. I have done a lot more Java than Javascript, so I feel the same about npm error messages.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Medium scale. It's not like I need to pimp each of my servers like it's a Honda Civic. If the load gets too high, I just add another instance. It's way more economical than wasting developer time fiddling with GC params.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
OP is probably thinking of Euler, who according to a contemporary often worked: "with a child on his knees, a cat on his back "
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Infants aren't just learning the language but also the concepts behind the language Some people say that children don't just learn grammar, but that they sometimes also create the grammar rules of emerging languages through a
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by gerbilly 7y ago
https://www.dropwizard.io/ Quoting from the site: Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. It's a nice microframework which comes with built in health-checks,
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Java has a big selection of GCs, and each has their bunch of knobs for tuning. And you have to pay attention to that stuff. You never have to touch them in the Java world either, unless you like making performance worse that is. I&#x27
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Legacy is a poorly defined term anyway. Is COBOL legacy, how about jQuery? ... It's mostly a derisive term that seems to mean: "Old technology I don't like."
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by gerbilly 7y ago
To me Java is like a diesel engine, old but proven technology that can keep on chugging for hundreds of thousands of hours. (Not to discount the recent improvements in GC, etc which are also amazing...)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
No, you don't need to reverse your opinion at all. Personally, I voted you down because your opinion was stated in a sort of offhanded manner that does not do the subject justice.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah, there is the legacy of the thousands of mature libraries, frameworks and development tools. Legacy isn't always a bad thing.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This so called smarthome stuff is just a bunch of garbage 'solutions' in search of a problem.

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