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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah and I just got apackage from them where everything was damaged. The book was just thrown in along with a large item. It was all creased and useless as a gift. The carton for the small appliance they bundled with the book had what lo
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Maybe new therapies really do work better simply because they are new to the therapist. This could create more engagement and enthusiasm on the part of of the therapist leading to better outcomes.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
When you use a tool, the body learns to extend the proprioception 'through' the tool as well.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when el
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Do you mean written 'academic' poetry? Because poetry had a more day to day use than that. The rhythm and the rhyming is a mnemonic device. It makes it much easier to remember a text than when spoken in prose. I can't imagi
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> a group of crows (on Hawaii I think) also used tools. You're thinking of the New Caledonian crows. https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000161-1f5...
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Crows are pretty imaginative and playful. For example, see this video of a crow tobogganing on a snowy roof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If that's your level of experience with the issue why didn't you lead with that then? Your comment above is getting down-voted into oblivion, and when read in isolation I think you will certainly understand why.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The integrity of my rubik's cube analogy isn't critical to my argument, but... Even allowing for equivalent rotations as you mention, the method humans use to unscramble a rubik's cube is far far from optimal because we can&#
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> If there is one correct way, then software writers are fungible I don't believe that follows. For example, there is one 'correct way' to unscramble a rubiks cube, but humans unscramble them in a much more roundabout man
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> go for the simplest option that is easy to change later And once customers get their hands on your simple thing, management won't let you change it to something better... (Also known as, "The demo becomes the product.")
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Ugh, I don't share this sentiment. Each new generation of programmers creates new tools to replace the 'complex' ones that came before without even bothering to understand them. In my 25 year career I've seen it multiple
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Most of the zoning laws were not written recently, and they do carry a heavy burden of being both anti-poor and racist. It's not accidental either, they were written that was as a neutral way of implementing racist policies. Just
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I can understand the perspective that homeless people are better off with some sort of home than the street. But the reality is homelessness is complex, and a flophouse doesn’t provide the support that people need to get back on their
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by gerbilly 7y ago
>Bunkhouses/Roominghouses/SROs, I read somewhere that the lack of rooming-houses significantly contributes to homelessness. They fill a gap between an individual apartment and your car or the street. It's too bad these are
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This comment make me wonder if it was written by a Markov chain. One of the worst comments I've ever read on HN. Also the word 'interesting' has to be the weakest adjective in the English language. It conveys no information.
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Why Cruise Lines Keep Cutting Their Ships in Half(bloomberg.com)
9 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's a shame. I guess the lawyers got involved. Maybe the only good thing to come from this is that it reminds us to think twice before entrusting all our data to cloud based software companies. And if you do put your app/data in
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If the alternative you are hinting at is CMake, I can't really agree with you. I tried it recently and was shocked at how awful the syntax and usability was. It's begging for a tool to auto-detect your dependencies from source. I
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Why do you feel you need to defend finance? The fiance mindset has won and taken over the world. Being this defensive about one opening sentence makes you sound like sore winner. I don't know anything I'm sure compared to you, bu
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by gerbilly 7y ago
>For me, as for most students, the measurement of what I was learning completely dominated actual learning in college. Well I never had this problem in school. I remember a high school calculus exam where I got the answer to the derivati
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Waves break in water depths approximately 1.3 times their height. So if most surfers surf in waves up to about 6ft, the water depth below a surfer is only about 8 feet. If the waves get bigger than that, it quickly thins out the crowds. On
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A Planet of Weeds: Tallying the losses of earth's plants and animals (1998)(davidquammen.com)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This is a well written article on the topic. It argues that human pressures may be selecting out only the hardiest most adaptable species such as rats, mice, pigeons, sparrows, etc... If this goes on unabated, we'll be left with an eco
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Right, but I bet very few new species have emerged in the last few hundred years because of habitat fragmentation. More likely we caused the population of many animals to decrease or extirpated them entirely (if not drove them to extinction
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities The irony is not lost on me that the man in this anecdote is bringing untimely death to the hare, to distract himself from his own. Death probably feels just
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't know, but the probability that an HN article discussing a misunderstood chronic disease is 100% likely to attract at least one snarky dismissive comment such as your's. A better use of your time might be to thank god/
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I used to configure my own non VESA resolutions in the X windows config file. If the monitor had enough bandwidth you could push it past the standard VESA modes. I used to run bespoke resolutions like 1600x1200 in the mid 90s on a big Trini
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> rugged individualism Rugged individualism was probably never a thing. The first thing that settlers did when they moved west was to create towns and communities. Anyone believing otherwise should try to live in the equivalent of the 1
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Flow is the same as hyperfocus physically, and overdoing will ultimately harm you physically ... Flow is so hard to maintain that it's self limiting anyway. I think there's little chance of overdoing flow when the entire soci

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