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by jek0 5y ago
Not necessarily. According to philosopher Paavo Pylkkänen, Bohm's suggestion of the quantum mind "leads naturally to the assumption that the physical correlate of the logical thinking process is at the classically describable leve
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by jek0 5y ago
There are theories [1] that part of the brain's function might work at the quantum level. If true, we probably won't be able to really understand what happens by measuring it this way... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by jek0 5y ago
> I just don't understand why so many trillions of dollars around the world are being spent on military power that just sits by and watches dictatorships kidnap protestors from other countries and execute them. We make wars to contr
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by jek0 5y ago
> So why are there ads on websites? There is only one purpose they serve: to make money. If there are things that could make Lichess way better but require resource they don't have, they should weight the pros and cons. The cost is
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by jek0 5y ago
A friend of mine, from Romania, has fond memories of his youth under the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, being always reminded how great the leader was and how he admired him as a kid. He discovered later he was only manipulated into t
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by jek0 6y ago
On a mac I can't live without "Magnet" [1]. It lets you do organize your windows in half/thirds of screens with simple keystrokes. That should be part of the OS. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app&#x2
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by jek0 6y ago
After years of struggling with config file in heterogenous production environments, I'll argue the opposite: environment variables are the BEST option to manage your configuration.
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by jek0 6y ago
Nocebo effect is proven for vaccines. Even if we inject salted water: many will develop fevers, arm pain, headaches, nausea, ... (because they expect such symptoms). In some cases, as many as 90% of observed side effects are nocebo. i.e. if
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by jek0 6y ago
Great achievement. One remark though, it sounds like the author does a lot of assumptions that something is better without actually benchmarking before and after. On those kind of projects, one should measure the impact of each step. Maybe
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by jek0 6y ago
I never run it manually. I plug this tool in my scripts that import transactions from banks (and stripe). The scripts extract transaction details (amount, payee, currency), then they use `ledger-guesser` to create ledger entries and add the
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by jek0 6y ago
I use ledger-cli + ledger-guesser [1], which uses use machine learning (brain.js) to classify entries automatically. I've been relying on this for the last 3 years, it works very well. [1] https://github.com/j3k0/l
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by jek0 6y ago
Funny how "lottery" is the word that comes out the most when we talk about making games for a living. Big studios solve this by publishing games by the hundreds.
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by jek0 6y ago
Game publishing is a numbers game. Most games go unnoticed, very few will break even, only "lottery winners" will make real money. The stores are full of well executed games with original ideas that you/we never heard about a
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by jek0 6y ago
"vim only provides basic text editing functionality by default" It looks like someone has never read the vim manual.
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by jek0 6y ago
Some bits of text are missing (because of badly written CSS I assume), stuff floating in front of the text... I definitely stopped reading before the average 40% of content: annoying layout.
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by jek0 6y ago
A manager gave him the "senior" title. Where I am, "senior" means "experienced". When you need a senior developer in a team, means you need someone that went through many projects and know the errors and mistak
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by jek0 6y ago
Thanks, those log-scale plots are way more interesting than linear one. Small mistake: Israel isn't in Europe but in Eastern Mediterranean.
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by jek0 7y ago
You'll also hear frequently "rabza" for "les arabes". The liaison between the "s" and "a", prononced "za", is incorporated in into the next word before it is inverted.
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by jek0 7y ago
I'm French. My grand father used this form of slang with friends when he was young so they didn't get understood by others. I've leaved in many parts of France and never heard anyone use it, probably long dead?
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by jek0 7y ago
AFAIK, Telegram's private conversations are encrypted with private keys stored on device _only_ (not on the server). At least it's what they claim. If true, government requests for data stored on servers are probably not enough.
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by jek0 7y ago
There's one privately owned generator in the neighborhood with cables running to each buildings. https://browse.startpage.com/do/show_picture.pl?l=english&ra... The owner sells a fixed monthly fee per 5 amp, s
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by jek0 7y ago
I tried that in a different context... The problem if you're managing many servers is that you'll have to setup a different local port for each server. When I needed it, I had to go check the .ssh/config each time to figure o
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by jek0 7y ago
They're more practical: ssh into the server. start the tool. [do your stuff]... close the tool. close ssh session. With a web UI: ssh into the server. find out you want to check your containers statuses. ssh again while binding some lo
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by jek0 7y ago
Unix has this built-in tool called "su" that allows you to "sandbox" different parts of the filesystem. Pretty handy. "su - project1"
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by jek0 8y ago
Adding to the list of ideas: * A flat probability distribution for "will take between X and Y" is probably wrong, a bell curve would be more accurate (where X and Y are the 95% percentile). Another question: is it open-source? I&#
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by jek0 8y ago
I used a similar software for quite a while: https://www.getguesstimate.com/ It's a spreadsheet where each cell is a probability distribution, quite well done and easy to use. Note: I'm not related to this service
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by jek0 8y ago
Apple Developer Program License Agreement: 3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not d
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by jek0 8y ago
Those thing are not mutually exclusive. You can be both Charismatic and Rude. Many people are happily following Linus' directions. Sometime he enforces those directions rudely, which drives some people away. It also prevents crappy pat
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by jek0 8y ago
Great job putting all this together! Brings back memories. Out of curiosity I downloaded a .mid file to compare it with my local timidity install. The quality of the later is way better (I installed it from brew)... It sounds like it either
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by jek0 8y ago
The authors is quite lazy or cannot type fast enough, so he has to create all those cryptic abbreviations: `rks` for `ranks`, `unv` for `unvote`, etc. Which makes it really hard to read. But it's especially the inconsistent use of came

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