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by jancsika 7mo ago
It's worth reflecting on just how many VCS data (or pain) points Linus had ingested right before writing git. Probably more than anyone in FOSS outside of maybe a few Debian devs. Add to that his experience successfully using Bitkeeper
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> As an American, would you say that EU has fallen and it has become a shithole or maybe something in between? Would love to know the social media you've been consuming that could make you believe that an American in Paris who is p
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Dollars to donuts the only thing standing in the way of you having a mutually meaningful conversation with anyone in this set of people is your low effort filter.
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> I'm sorry to be that guy, but can we reintroduce a good dose of skepticism in our mental diets? Of headlines ? Always. Of the content of the article? Not without you providing counterevidence. Speaking of the content: * BYD has
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Important-- when they say "cotton" in the article they're talking about gabardine cotton as a water repellent layer. Neither one of these dudes is wearing cotton base layers, midlayers, socks, etc. It's too slow to evapo
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Key paragraph: > The data proves that the gear of the past is capable, but it has a narrower operating window. If you stop moving in Mallory’s kit at 8,000 meters, you will freeze quickly. Modern gear buys you a safety margin if you beco
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by jancsika 7mo ago
I like this idea. But last time I tried it the customer representative on the other line told me they were sorry but they could not accommodate my request at this time.
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Can you actually follow rule #1 for things like realtime audio programming?
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> Corruption gets things going and in a society that has no trust it is a positive trait. That's a red herring: > We first demonstrate that perceiving corruption predicts lower generalized trust almost universally across individu
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> so comments are just dangerous as they would without doubt evolve into a system of annotations -- an additional layer of communication which would then not be standardized at all and which then would grow into a wild west of nonstandar
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> Protesting, voting, and civil disobedience. Protesting, voting, and civil disobedience are all great, I agree. Guy with the root of "pessimism" in his moniker: start writing about that in your posts!
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Directness can be taken to imply trustworthiness, as the author seems to be doing. But it can just as easily be taken as a sign of ineptitude, technical-mindedness, boorishness, courage, immaturity, confidence, impatience, or a dozen othe
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by jancsika 7mo ago
Give your interlocutor an explicit alternative to consumer activism! Just because you're a pessimist doesn't mean you have to be coy. :)
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by jancsika 7mo ago
> As a Multiple Sclerosis patient since I was a teenager, let me just say: all you “healthy diet” zealots aren’t helping. I don't understand the relevance to the article. Does Multiple Sclerosis come with a higher risk of colon canc
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by jancsika 8mo ago
You should definitely watch the Black Mirror episode about the robot bees!
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> Although sometimes it's high status middlebrow kitsch, such as a lot of opera and light classical music, which is more sentimental than technical. Are you sure it's more sentimental than technical? Like, with-your-ears sure?
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> a system for turning bullshit into parse errors Because when I go to view an old website from the 90s that's missing a closing tag for something, I don't want the content-- I want a big red XML parse error with a gigantic hor
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by jancsika 8mo ago
To be more precise: she baked breadbowls and calzones. :)
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by jancsika 8mo ago
This is a kind of inverted-retrograde of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. Gell-Mann: 1) disbelieve a bogus story, then 2) turn the page and blithely believe the next story You: 1) believe bona fide investigative journalism, then 0) ask what th
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> The tension arises because the "Seventh" (A) is not a new addition, but a residue of the previous geometric state. That residue in m.2 is common-tone voice leading. It's a technique that was used throughout the common-pr
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by jancsika 8mo ago
https://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2024-06-10/personal-fina...
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> But, as other comments have said, there have been at this point a good slew of blind tests, and Strads are hardly ever recognized better than chance when compared to modern instruments, even when played by experts and judged by experts
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by jancsika 8mo ago
Now I'm curious-- what happens if the author adds a manual garbage collection call at the end of _audio_callback? Can it still Moog, or will that cause it to eternally miss deadlines?
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by jancsika 8mo ago
In other words, the system is designed so that any learning the speaker attempts somehow ends up being scored wrong, forcing the speaker to conclude they will always be identified by the system as an error-prone, non-native speaker yearning
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> unleashed stochastic chaos Are you literally talking about stochastic chaos here, or is it a metaphor?
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> Overall It's a bit sad going to American bars and not hearing the whole bar singing along to the musician up on stage. What's far worse is hearing a sing along in the original release . Listen to Strumpella's "Spir
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by jancsika 8mo ago
Patagonia stopped doing custom logos on those pieces a few years back: https://www.businessinsider.com/patagonia-no-longer-adding-c... I'm not sure if that put a dent in the finance bros' style. Finance bros can o
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by jancsika 8mo ago
> Intelligent listeners then correctly infer what the doctor recommends and act accordingly. I feel like if the author were really committed to this position, they would have stated it in the other direction. I.e., 6% to 20% of these in
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by jancsika 9mo ago
More to the point, what does research into notions of fairness among primates tell us about the risks of a vast number of participants deciding to take this deal? You have to tell us the answer so we can resolve your nickname "simianwo
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by jancsika 9mo ago
A sibling comment with a bunch of ostensible counterarguments to Haidt appeared earlier, with at least seven annotated footnotes. I was about to dig into it, but they deleted it! In an attempt to summon the comment back, I'll just clos

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