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by javajosh 3y ago
I have a physics degree and continue to learn about math, but in one talk I saw, Eric started off using math I'd never heard of, and didn't bother to introduce it or even motivate it's use. If he's looking for popular su
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by javajosh 3y ago
Technology gives people more plausible excuses to believe what they want to believe. It only has to stand up to the barest scrutiny. "Everything my tribe does is great; everything yours does is horrible. Therefore any evidence against
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by javajosh 3y ago
Two things can be true at once: Firefox is a great browser that needs greater market share, and the CEO pay is out-of-whack. The solution is to use the browser but a) not give money to the foundation, and b) complain and expect change.
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by javajosh 3y ago
You, sir, are a raging psychopath. You have found a local maxima of brevity and absurdity and I, for one, salute you.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Even numbers give you piles of two without one left over. Zero fails the first condition since it gives you no piles at all. But it doesn’t leave a pile of one, so it’s not really odd, either. This definition does not naively extend t
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't think its rate limiting because I'll go for days without posting and the first post is downgraded. I have never seen a "you're posting too much" message.
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by javajosh 3y ago
There is another hidden feature, a "weak shadowban" which places your comment lower on the page than default. I think it is a manual flag set by some unknown heuristic, basically a "we don't like you but not enough to ba
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by javajosh 3y ago
It is a tremendous amount of work to tread on a new path. Although at times exciting, it's often just scary and you have a huge downside risk and only a minor upside benefit. Breaking with even one widely held assumption creates a huge
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm grateful for many things, like what other people have mentioned, like a certain level of material comfort, the joy of being paid to satisfy my innate curiosity. But above it all, I'm grateful for the health and well-being of m
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by javajosh 3y ago
>increasing amount of arguing I was seeing* [on twitter] I recently created a new account, adding only programming and professional connections, and it's actually quite good! If you don't click on any of the "trending&qu
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by javajosh 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the similarity of the words "ship" and "shit" contributed to the development. Out of curiosity, what is the non-pejorative replacement for shipmate?
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by javajosh 3y ago
An interesting application for a virtual reality headset. You could at least do anecdotal testing with your friends who have autistic children.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Mitigating factor is that the outbound craft exhaust functions as an AM radio. Admittedly modulation is slow, around 6Hz according to one data-sheet, but also quite energetic and directed.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't think they should do this especially since they don't even have an Array.prototype.peek()
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by javajosh 3y ago
If I was a climate change denialist, I would fund inaccurate, hyperbolic claims specifically to discredit the other side. This is more valuable than an actual lie.
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by javajosh 3y ago
With enough study and preparation, and enough funding, I bet the current government could, in fact, cook an egg.
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by javajosh 3y ago
It just occurred to me that anger is favored online because of a UX quirk. To build is complex; to destroy requires only a single bit! So the objects of our ire, those people, things and ideas we want gone from the world, those things that
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by javajosh 3y ago
I didn't read the article because of a paywall, while I tend to agree with your point, it misses some nuance. Globalism can be both fragile and resilient to breakage. So, for example, closing the Suez canal might result short-term incr
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by javajosh 3y ago
The best jokes need to be explained. /s Honestly, this reads more like a cautionary tale about subtle subversion: sometimes its so subtle it's invisible, and therefore wasted effort. This kind of subversion is "safe" and
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by javajosh 3y ago
trivial. you can multiply by any n and then set the viewport attribute to compensate.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't get who's for this. The Trumpian "don't tread on me" populists who mistrust government don't want it, do they? The left wing "everything is about race and gender" don't want it, do they?
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by javajosh 3y ago
You're right, I misspoke. The DAC turns data into a voltage wiggle which moves the magnet which moves the membrane of the speaker. But my point stands, I think.
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by javajosh 3y ago
As much as I love the analog sound of early electric guitars and keyboards, I'm okay with simulations. After all, at the end of the day any possible sound is the output of a one dimensional function that takes the time and returns a va
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by javajosh 3y ago
Not an expert, but the wikipedia article on orbital resonance[0] mentions Laplace's discovery of a 3 body resonance, Io–Europa–Ganymede. They are indeed OOM 1% of Earth's mass (Ganymede being 2.5% for example[1]). 0 - https:&#x
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by javajosh 3y ago
what a sad story. It's an interesting tale oddly in favor of letting nepotism happen. The story definitely reads like some activist investors righteously decapitated the company for nepotism, but then were left with a dead body.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Another failure is from the person who used the multimeter to complete a circuit - and then didn't even leave a note on the multimeter. That person could reasonably have anticipated this error mode, and taken steps to prevent it.
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by javajosh 3y ago
A difference of degree, not kind. This technique is the predator of the attention ecosystem, singling out the "old and weak" if typos imply weakness! An angle no one has mentioned it how this played into googles dominance. These p
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by javajosh 3y ago
You talk about a paid thing like it's normal. That sounds like an ad.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, but you can also play around with it. x,y maps to u,v where t is a constant that may be animated and you can use many functions. Nice to build intuition. Here is an example: https://tobylam.xyz/plotter/?real=t*x+y&
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by javajosh 3y ago
The alternative is to pay only $25/yr (fine print: $40/mo thereafter).

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