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by hexane360 3y ago
This article is about the Paleolithic era, before agriculture was developed. Also, hoe vs plow agriculture tended to do with the availability of domesticated draft animals, not the hardness of the soil. The first plows appeared after oxen w
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by hexane360 4y ago
Make sure you get a Hyundai/Kia with an immobilizer...
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by hexane360 4y ago
Sure, but currently almost all of the most popular languages are also not suitable for that niche. If you exclude any garbage-collected language, you're basically left with Ada, C, C++, some of the "C/C++ successors" (Zi
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by hexane360 4y ago
>that is not how FOSS works Right, and that's what the rest of my sentence was meant to convey. However, the author goes to great extent to obfuscate this fact, as this faq demonstrates: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/
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by hexane360 4y ago
"Ole asked you to cite him if you use it. So, if you publish academically, either don't use it or cite him." Why? Whether something has contributed meaningfully to my research is my decision, not Ole's. Not having light
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by hexane360 4y ago
It's nonsense because the standard in academic settings is to cite works which contribute scientifically to the current work, not merely utilities. If I publish a paper on a command line tool for parallel processing, inspired by featur
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by hexane360 4y ago
Faces may not be the best example, because there's a lot of evidence babies are 'hardcoded' to be interested in and pay attention to faces. This implies there's some knowledge of them built in. However, if you substitute
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by hexane360 4y ago
The electoral college wasn't created to restrict the power of large states like Virginia. The electoral college was created because it was expected that state governments would elect the president, not citizens . In the presence of di
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by hexane360 4y ago
Can anyone say what this section means in practice?: >A commitment to free expression includes hearing and hosting speakers, including those whose views or opinions may not be shared by many members of the MIT community and may be harmfu
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by hexane360 4y ago
Surely that statement admits the possibility that some words are 'violence'. It just specifies that the signatories think that harm is a necessary cost of the speech. If the signatories instead thought that words were incapable
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by hexane360 4y ago
A 'debit card' is one where funds are debited from your account. A 'credit card' is one where you're buying on credit.
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by hexane360 4y ago
Again, you're missing his point. Quantum theory didn't completely overrule how physics works at large length scales. Relativity didn't completely overrule how physics works at slow speeds & sub-planetary length scales. Th
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by hexane360 4y ago
That's a horrible out-of-context quote. The full quote: "It may be well to reply to the very natural question: What would be the use of such extreme refinement in the science of measurement? Very briefly and in general terms the a
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by hexane360 4y ago
Amazingly, I got 6/6 on Haskell despite only dabbling in it a few years ago. I suppose that says something about the descriptiveness of type signatures, or the generality of Haskell's functions.
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by hexane360 4y ago
For those (like me) not familiar with the site: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-college-fix/
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by hexane360 4y ago
I'm a materials scientist. Part of the problem is "ancient Roman concrete" is the epitome of selection bias. We basically know why it's strong, and can basically recreate it, but it would take a very long period of proce
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by hexane360 4y ago
It seems you're having trouble understanding my comment. My [Citation needed] was for your assertion that "many" are making that claim. I emphasized the difference between the two claims. Your version of the claim is that it&
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by hexane360 4y ago
>But according to many, that shouldn't be possible because those characters have different skin pigmentation and genitals than me. [Citation needed] I don't think you could find an example of even one feminist claiming that you
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by hexane360 4y ago
All three of your last comments have been about the wrong article.
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by hexane360 4y ago
Does "code smell" just mean "style I don't like"? Most of your concerns have nothing to do with what the code is actually doing. Line 43-55 is the scrutinee (pattern) of the case statement. It only binds values to t
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by hexane360 4y ago
It's not about the format per se, but more about the fact that you're parsing an unknown/fully general structure in that format. APIs like Rust's serde can help to avoid excessive allocation when you have JSON in a known
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by hexane360 4y ago
For what it's worth: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/independent-womens-forum-iwf/ Mostly factual, but with a strong conservative/right-libertarian spin/bias.
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by hexane360 4y ago
That's relative humidity, not absolute. Absolute humidity has an additional Arrhenius ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation ) factor. For instance, 100% relative humidity at 40 C is 51.1 g/cm^3, wh
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by hexane360 4y ago
To be more specific, when GP says 'vaporized', they mean that part of it turns into plasma, and a lot more is sprayed out as molten droplets. All of it freezes on contact with solid surfaces, often the eyes and exposed body parts
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by hexane360 4y ago
I think this would actually be a good addition. I'd like to use 'or' more often, but it always makes me stop to think "Could this get passed a falsey value?" I've seen a lot of Python bugs because people used &
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by hexane360 4y ago
One small correction: "“Annealing” is a process where you heat slowly and cool metal to harden it." Annealing is actually a process to soften metal (and sometimes to remove internal stresses), decreasing strength but increasing
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by hexane360 4y ago
It's very hard to compare ~110 F in a very dry region compared to ~110 F in a wet region. 110 F at 70% humidity is a heat index of 160 F, close to unsurvivable. The highest recorded heat index was 178 F in Saudi Arabia, with an actual
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by hexane360 4y ago
In other words: you miss 100% of the particles you don't circulate (With apologies to Wayne Gretzky)
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by hexane360 4y ago
(0.9005 - 0.90005) / 0.90005 = 0.00049997222 It's a 0.049997% difference, not a 10x difference. In an unsealed environment, the steady state will be related to amount filtered * % filtered / amount exchanged for any given tim
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by hexane360 4y ago
But that also describes the AI's current state, no? It's has no autonomy, yet has understanding of language and at least some understanding of how the world works (albeit only through the lens of language).

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