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by jancsika 11mo ago
Could work like this: 1. You help your friend wash the dishes and notice their hefty, 5-quart stainless steel pot. You look it up on Amazon and it's like $50. 2. At $store, you see something that looks like that size and style of pot,
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> None of this is literally serious, Exactly. I remember someone telling me to RTFM when I posted a question on IRC back in the 90s. Luckily, I explicitly asked if they were serious. They responded of course not-- they were kidding! Then
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> Everybody wants to be special and unique, everybody wants a stamp on their forehead that says "I have [x]" "I am [x]". Spend a moderate amount of time with some humans-- e.g., war veterans-- and you'll find tha
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by jancsika 11mo ago
You are implicitly hard-coupling work ethic and ease of learning. Especially in the U.S., it is within the realm of possibility that the students near the mean possess a comparative ease of learning but value that advantage at roughly 0%.
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by jancsika 11mo ago
The name of the draft document escapes me but there's burgeoning work on this. (IETF?) IIRC it covers things like how to maintain proper oxygen levels and sustenance while still blocking frequencies in the human audible range with the
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by jancsika 11mo ago
I think you're misrepresenting "Dunning Kruger." It only predicts that the subset of your respondents already known to be low ability in the domain of health care economics will end up inflating their assessment of their ow
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Mathematicians explain things the way I imagine musicians would if the ancient Greeks had insisted on making all musical instruments in a range audible only to dogs. I'd be like, "How do I actually hear the difference between a
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> The wording could have been better, but I don’t see it as a dig. He created (or at least re-activated) a dichotomy for zero gain, and he vastly increased the expectations for what a Rust rewrite can achieve. That is very, very bad in a
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Seems like this could be practically addressed by teachers adopting the TSA's randomized screening. That is, roll some dice to figure out which student on a given assignment comes in either for the oral discussion or-- perhaps in highe
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Dear some seasoned cryptographer, Please ELI5: what is the argument for including the option for the non-hybrid option in this standard? Is it a good argument in your expert opinion? My pea brain: implementers plus options equals bad, newfa
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Interesting game engine: 1. Each sim gets a minimum wage of $childcare dollars 2. Each sim gets a maximum wage of $childcare dollars
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Did you make a schedule of regularly switching off with other families of four? In other words, those parents teach your kids and you teach their kids? Otherwise I'm not sure how you'd tackle confirmation bias creeping up in all k
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by jancsika 11mo ago
One thing I miss in PNGs is text wrapping. That, or even just a small javascript interpreter in PNG would greatly improve things for a lot of my clients.
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> So the commenter can be considered to be able to weigh Bach's merits against those of other artists'. Unless they are an active scholar in pre-Baroque era music I'd question that. There are just too many cultural cues fo
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> Mozart make extremely catchy music like Justin Beiber. Mozart was the quintessential "Dark Forest" composer, hiding musical sentience in plain sight of light classical period textures. Here he is with 2 measures of a simple m
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> He is able to condense so much complexity into his works, and he speaks to the heart as equally as he speaks to the intellect. Just to add to that-- the complexity of Bach is something like going half-way around the circle of fifths in
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> I can’t imagine what it would look like today with a communal kitchen shared by strangers paying $231 inflation-adjusted dollars per month to be there. Who in the world are you talking to? For $230 a month the college students I know w
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> This I only write because people sometimes get in to an obsessive social media cutting frenzy spending effort that would improve their lives much quicker spent fixing diet or exercise. Not cutting social media would make these difficul
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> If they dislike it, they can fork my project and go away. I definitely agree with you here. Forking, almost by definition, means the "D" in BDFL is a joke. The author pretending that "D" is deadly serious is an incr
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> You can make more than that working at McDonald's near me, and nobody would claim that is a living wage. Or he could scrimp and put four hard years towards making manager at McDonald's. If he gets it, then he can demand they
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by jancsika 11mo ago
That initial fixation on "position in the [social] hierarchy" in #1 can counterintuitively become self-defeating. Many people look at tricks of "climbing the social ladder" as potential signs of narcissism and instinctiv
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Wow, you picked the one housing-related article I've read where supply cannot be the problem! You could literally surround the PE mobile home park with new, available lots. But as the article states, it is prohibitively expensive f
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by jancsika 11mo ago
If someone builds, say, a Korean website and needs sort(), does the ICU monolith handle 100% of the common cases? (Or substitute for Korean the language that has the largest amount of "stuff" in the ICU monolith.)
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Rank speculation-- polygraph is a fake tool, but when people who think it works attempt to avoid it, real data is produced. :)
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> Why is it that the 50 year old Pakistani man who just moved here and doesn't speak English seems to be doing so much better than "poor" Americans who complain online all the time. Because it was an immigration policy t
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by jancsika 11mo ago
Wikipedia: "number of hairs" You: "number of hairs and insects" Citation, please?
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> People who have lost someone (either through death or just throwing their life away) to drugs will tell you these "poor fishermen" are murderers Just to be clear-- we're talking about a hypothetical family member of a po
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> In C, you just need to know what a struct is and what a pointer is. Suppose we have a team of experts busily analyzing every single state of the code. They are reading/valgrinding/fuzzing/etc.-- in real time as the inter
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by jancsika 1y ago
If I had built up 500 million in a savings account to buy a yacht, giving 50k of that to FFmpeg devs would put off my ability to buy a yacht by nearly a whole day. Boltzmann brain-wise it clearly doesn't make sense to wait that long.
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by jancsika 1y ago
Same ones who probably will develop fast homomorphic encryption and distribute it to the entire world, completely oblivious to the eventual heat death of the universe.

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