jaynetics

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by jaynetics 4y ago
I'd argue that a certain randomness of choice could indeed increase freedom of action, though it doesn't grant "free will" in the common sense. There's no need for quantum physics in this, though. A deterministic ra
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by jaynetics 4y ago
Got that as a gift about 22 years ago, still use it at least once a month.
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by jaynetics 4y ago
I agree. I have a vivid imagination (visual and otherwise) and like reading. When I imagined this scene, it was rich in detail (colors, textures, lighting etc.), but the person's hair wasn't a part of it, because I had "zoome
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by jaynetics 4y ago
From what you're saying, it seems like working on something nice with nice colleagues might be more fulfilling for you now than working at the bleeding edge of tech for the best salary. Some decisions might also seem more consequential
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Do you actually want to ask "Where can you sell a non-profitable SaaS"? The current title sounds like you don't want to make a profit by selling it.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Putin does have a long-standing obsession with NATO, though. Even in his otherwise very festive speech to the German parliament in 2002, which he held in German and in which he proposed a close alliance between Europe and Russia, he could n
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by jaynetics 5y ago
"All ten of the treated mice survived infection, compared with only 20 per cent of the untreated mice. [...] The compound has the potential to be used as a broad-spectrum treatment against other viruses which use the same mechanism [..
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by jaynetics 5y ago
I'm back at HN for 1 minute now and still see things with a blue tint. I guess these modern OLED are not being user-tested with content like this.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
my experience with scalingo has been really good. they're basically a heroku clone with servers in France and cost about a third less, with great uptime and support.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
I guess the worry is that ML could speed up the discovery of new compounds in a way that makes it really hard to keep up in terms of banning and tracing precursors, detecting usage in assassinations, etc.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
> I am not aware of any travel restrictions, so there's no "escape". https://zona.media/article/2022/03/02/border
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Suddenly the whole upheaval about Huawei hardware in 5g networks doesn't seem so paranoid anymore.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
sport is one of the best things to sanction - very visible to the population whilst causing zero actual harm to it
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by jaynetics 5y ago
They mean their own local cloudflare servers, which might contain sensitive data of their customers. It's more clear in CFs own blog: > If any of our facilities or servers in Ukraine, Belarus, or Russia lose power or connectivity to
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by jaynetics 5y ago
> we'd probably see people here getting software updates from Moscow That sounds very possible, but not very advisable.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Are there internal controversies? Another core member left a few days ago.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
A lot of these are producers of unhealthy food. I'm all for going full cancel culture here, but I still wonder whether their withdrawal from the market could be a net-positive for Russia in the (very) long term. That might make for an
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by jaynetics 5y ago
One big difference is the suddenness of the downturn and the contrast to previous life. Up until now, Russians were reasonably well-off and reasonably free in their travels or political views, if they kept those to themselves. Unlike North
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by jaynetics 5y ago
it might feel a bit impersonal, but right now, $500 will do much more good if you donate it to any large organization that provides essential help instead of giving a single person a short-term income. e.g.: https://donate.unhcr.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Are they coming to pick up expelled diplomats?
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EA Sports to remove Russian national team and clubs from FIFA 22(bbc.co.uk)
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by jaynetics 5y ago
That is truly terrible. My immediate reaction was that you should quit right away. However, I also feel that it wouldn't help your friends if your bosses give up on the project or let the company fail. Maybe you can an ask for donation
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Apparently some of these "pretending" hackers replaced the content of several Russian news websites (e.g. Kommersant) with anti war messages a few hours ago. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/handful-of-russian-med
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by jaynetics 5y ago
I expected this to be a form where I could put in some personal data and it would calculate the date of my death. I'm slightly disappointed.
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by jaynetics 5y ago
I stopped heating out of necessity when I was a poor student and made the same discovery. It's funny how when you go outdoors with other people they are freezing and you feel super comfy. I seriously think that about 3/4 of Europe
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Let me rephrase that for you: "You have lots of savings, so you could try working for an NGO/NPO or even volunteer, either in tech or working directly with people. This can give you a surprisingly strong sense of purpose."
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by jaynetics 5y ago
> you can not have 2 parallel versions on the same lib, in the sane app with the very latest ruby version, you actually can: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/3.1.html#kernel...
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by jaynetics 5y ago
Yeah, just do these 5 steps in FF, then register at that website, and do a bunch of steps there for every single extension you want to install. Or rather, if you just want extension support, don't use FF. (I for one am very happy with
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by jaynetics 5y ago
> my Orwellian yellow plastic “Great Place To Work” Intel tamborine That sounds hilarious, can you post a picture?
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by jaynetics 5y ago
"Risk more than others think is wise", well, you have to admit they followed through on that wall tattoo.

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