henrikschroder

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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> And I think the same is true for Trump's speech There are people who take these transcripts and re-enact what he's actually saying, but in their voice. Doing that makes it immediately obvious that he's a rambling moron.
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> and praying they place you high. If you remove an 'r', there's the other way you can get placed high.
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> A database that's accessed by multiple applications, regardless of the number of languages, is a really bad smell. Except that really was the original model back in the 90's. All "good" databases had an extensive ro
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
The biggest source of communication issues around these unit systems is that in metric, you're supposed to reach for decimals when working with the units, and in imperial, you're supposed to reach for fractions when working wi
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> Teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces, cups, quarts and gallons are all inter-related multiples, and once you internalize it, you can convert like a boss. "It's super easy if you're familiar with it!" Yes, that is exactly
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
If Fahrenheit is better than Celsius because the units are smaller, doesn't that mean that the kilometre is better than the mile because it has smaller units? It is all subjective. You like what you grew up with because it is famili
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> because you can divide things usefully. Again, this is just familiarity. You think it's super neat that you can divide a cup of whatever by 2 or 3 or 4, but if I tell you to divide it by 5, you're gonna deflect and ask me &qu
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
Except now you can't divide accurately by 5. Or 10. You're making an argument from familiarity. Yes, a 12-base system using fractions works very neatly in a small human-sized domain, but it disintegrates into complete uselessness
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
The post-WWII order was deliberately designed by clever American politicians who realised they could leverage the untouched industrial base and built-up military capability to become a world superpower, in an alliance with Western Europe. A
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
If you've ever waded into ragebaity online discussions, for example Europeans taunting Americans about the lack of public healthcare or basic worker rights, there will always be a loud contingent of Americans spouting counter-arguments
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
> With fewer students applying, there will be more room there for Americans. The US has benefitted enormously from being able to brain-drain other countries for their best and brightest. As a country, you are much better off offering the
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
The thing that's "wrong" is that we're very good at detecting it, but comparatively very bad at curing it. If there was a simple cure for it once detected, we could screen and test everyone all the time.
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
No, you don't recover. Many men will get prostate cancer when they're old, but they'll most likely die from something else before that one becomes an issue. But if we do scan and test and screen, a lot of men will find out th
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by henrikschroder 1y ago
My understanding is that it's net negative to test too much. A lot of men die with prostate cancer, because only very few die from it. And if you belong to the former group, knowing about it or doing any kind of intervention means
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> They get lazy if you don't explicitly ask for well-written code (or put that in the system prompt). This is insane on so many levels.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> > historically we have exactly zero expectation of privacy in public spaces in the UK. > True, but we also had zero expectation of permanent records being kept of so much of what we do in public spaces, or being under such consta
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
*sigh* "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes." This thing is whimsy and fun, it's not a chore to be automated away.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
DST is completely silly as far north as the Nordics. The rate of change in daylight is so rapid around the equinoxes, that the effects of DST are erased in less than two weeks. It's completely useless.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
The first time I visited the tropics, I never realised how much I associated the dark with it being cold! We went for dinner in the afternoon, sun was up, it was blazing hot, everything normal so far. We had dinner while the sun set in a ni
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
I was at a wedding in Sweden near midsummer with a lot of international guests. They were quite surprised to get out of the reception dinner at 10pm and see that the sun was still up. We were below the arctic circle, so no midnight sun, but
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Well, tons of scammers have made tons of money, so technically, yes? For the average person not so much.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> you can expect conflict. Ok, so who started the war?
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> Nobody gave the slightest fuck about Russia. It really is tiring listening to the Russian apologetics coming from other posters in this thread. "Russia felt threatened" No. Nobody wants to invade Russia. The deal since the en
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> Facts are usually universal and rarely disputed. The parent poster claimed that Zelensky started the war. How do you even begin having a conversation with someone who disputes the main fact on how this war started: Vladimir Putin, the
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Russia started the war by invading Ukraine. Russia can end the war any time they want by simply moving all of their troops out of Ukraine and back behind their border. Any concession to Russia means we are saying that it's ok for nuc
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> First, that Donald is not the master negotiator / business genius he claims We're talking about someone who appears to believe a trade deficit means you're somehow being screwed or getting the short end of a deal. That&#
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> Zelensky isn't just a dumb clown, he got tricked into starting a war How do you have a political discussion with someone whose reality is completely upside-down to your own? With someone whose grasp of reality is also factually wr
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Nobody wants to invade Russia. The only reason Russia and Putin are opposed to NATO expansion is because it stops them from being able to bully their neighbours. Calling that "putting pressure on Russia" is crazy.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
The EU contributes and has contributed quite a lot more than the US has to Ukraine. In addition, most US contributions are done in the form of donating surplus/outdated military equipment that was manufactured by the US defence industr
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> So why would "fraud and waste" skyrocket under him? TSLA doubled in value in the month after the election, despite the financials of the company going down. The only reason for the increase in share price is because the marke

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