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by iak8god 10y ago
> When the first thing that appears is a request to turn off your browser's adblocker ... NoScript kept me from seeing this or the ads.
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by iak8god 10y ago
And use __future__ to force yourself not to forget: https://docs.python.org/2/library/__future__.html
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If the app works, then we're talking about the "kind of person" who has a goal, then identifies and uses a tool that works to achieve the goal.
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> She could [call them and] say upfront that she's not answering any questions and just wants to know what they want from her. Presumably her lawyer advised her against doing this. If you'd bothered to retain a lawyer in a situ
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by iak8god 10y ago
> This is a problem technology could dramatically reduce if each of us had a complete medical/medication history that was immediately accessible to the physicians/institutions treating us. That doesn't exist now unless you
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by iak8god 11y ago
Incidentally, this is why prefix notation seems so foreign. (+ 1 2) reads as "plus one two." It might just be the Lisp version of Stockholm Syndrome, but it seems perfectly natural to me to gloss that as "Add one and two.&q
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by iak8god 11y ago
> Many years ago I was asked how to convert a .gif file to a .wav file That's Glitch Art 101: https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/
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by iak8god 11y ago
Amusing, but I don't quite agree with this characterization of "all of social science." But here's something interesting: I've tracked down a source for the 10% claim, and it's absolutely bonkers: * An editor
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by iak8god 11y ago
> All of social science is sketchy... We could not verify the source, but people are going to believe it's true because it was in the Economist. It seems like your real beef here is with journalism (even the higher-than-average qu
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> I won't lose any sleep when this guy goes to prison for a long time What is the point of putting someone like this in prison? He wouldn't pose a threat to others if he were released immediately. He should be sentenced to spen
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by iak8god 11y ago
In a discussion about what kind of time consuming and physically demanding things the poor ought to be doing with their copious free time, it's hardly fair to consider those who are ineligible to work because of disability, etc. And
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by iak8god 11y ago
Because I have no interest in memorizing keys, I store them on disk protected by a passphrase. I don't know if this counts as "Real secure encryption" but it's sure a lot more secure than more typical use of email.
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by iak8god 11y ago
Just trying to be polite and open-minded. I have met a lot of well-intentioned folks who are blind to the roles of chance and circumstance in their own lives because they correctly perceive that they've had to work very hard to get whe
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by iak8god 11y ago
> Of course, this theory makes the (incorrect) assumption that poor folks are working. Most are not, and very few of the remainder work full time. Would you mind supporting this factual claim with evidence? Here's the most detailed
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by iak8god 11y ago
For every transaction? I'd end up ignoring them and then miss the fraudulent ones anyway.
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by iak8god 11y ago
> before we could get into any Python I had to explain all kinds of things I took for granted ... It's possible to start writing Python without really knowing any of the things you list with an IDE like PyCharm -- which is probably
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by iak8god 11y ago
The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research > ... An analysis of past studies indicates that the cumulative (total) prevalence of irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50% ... http://dx.doi.org/10.1371&
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by iak8god 11y ago
> a lying sociopath, no history of successful leadership, doesn't answer questions, and yet thinks she can be President 1. Not everyone currently running for president is doing so because they believe they actually have a chance of
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by iak8god 11y ago
> Separately, if this is an important feature, why not use an extension that offers it? Is there a reason it needs to be built in? Because I only think about it on average once every few days when I encounter an uninteresting large comme
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by iak8god 11y ago
> 1) native folding of comments This one seems like such an obvious improvement that I've been assuming there's some really principled reason I'm not aware of for why it isn't done.
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by iak8god 11y ago
Good point. I do think the "then rip them out" part moves the title into dumb and insensitive territory, but we may just have to agree to disagree about that.
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by iak8god 11y ago
Pointing out that this phrase might carry extra meaning beyond its literal interpretation != taking offense. But in any case, "Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out " is much more evocative of those events than t
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by iak8god 11y ago
Yikes. I'm a little ashamed to admit I had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign Hopefully this blog post's author was unaware of the hundred flowers campaign. In any case it
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by iak8god 11y ago
I realize this is probably supposed to be funny, but it's worth pointing out that the authors of this paper were educated for the most part in civilized countries where people can get an education without taking on crippling amounts of
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by iak8god 11y ago
I suppose I should have said "Scheme is, and always has been, widely considered a Lisp." Do you need more "proof" of this than Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language..
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Scheme is a Lisp. I've never met anyone who disagrees.
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> Imagine being implicated for a crime because Google thought you said something, but you said something differently. That seems really unlikely to ever happen. Note that by default Google stores the audio of your searches - including t
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Neat, but weird that they don't offer it as a service through their site... or do they?
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by iak8god 11y ago
> if I ever move to Kindle, any epubs I have won't work regardless of DRM. I've frequently used Calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com ) to convert epub to mobi. There are also plugins available for it that strip DRM, tho
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by iak8god 11y ago
I wonder how common/repeatable this is, and what the minimum requirements are for a device to get picked up and used this way. It might be an interesting art project for someone to plant a few tens of cheap smartphones around, assuming

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