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by jessekv 4y ago
It makes me wonder- what would happen if we had wealth taxes on cash, but the money went to... no one?
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by jessekv 4y ago
You could argue that burning plain quid efficiently distributes the value back to the other holders of quid (deflation). Burning a million quid in some thing like housing, on the other hand, selfishly removes wealth from society and the eco
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by jessekv 4y ago
I agree the zero-sum mentality sucks. It introduces really nasty dynamics in society and in the workplace. But extreme inequality is also very unhealthy for society. People with less get exploited. People with more feel entitled to exploit
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by jessekv 4y ago
Ha! Although you could also argue that the transition is from twelve to thirteen ("three-ten"). On the other hand, in english, there is "score" for 20.
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by jessekv 4y ago
hmm maybe PaddleOCR is what i need to revive my (stale) seven seg experiments. https://jessekv.com/7seg/
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by jessekv 4y ago
TIL I don't have enough karma to vouch. But this is a funny and insightful comment.
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by jessekv 4y ago
Were sales affected?
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by jessekv 4y ago
The relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/ Markdown is incredibly accessible to people who know how to drag files around on a file system and open them with a click, and every laptop/desktop operating system includ
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by jessekv 4y ago
It's worse with pigs...
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by jessekv 4y ago
Hmm for some reason I always thought it was a shortening of "motorised pedestrian" haha. On the other hand, I have seen models with holes next to the transmission that can accept a pair of removable pedals stowed under the seat. C
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by jessekv 4y ago
In my limited experience, Michigan has no peers. It's a uniquely brutal place to drive.
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by jessekv 4y ago
In Spanish, 'oriental' is the east compass direction, and 'occidental' is the west compass direction. I would translate it to "the East Polyclinic".
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by jessekv 4y ago
It's not an issue for the fruits, vegetables, eggs, grains, "cured" meats, or many cheeses that I buy at the grocery store. Relying on natural barriers to keep things from breaking down does limit shelf life, but its not a fo
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by jessekv 4y ago
You're probably right. Its related to the question of whether to wash eggs or not.
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by jessekv 4y ago
In South East Asia, you can buy a lot of different prepared foods in banana, lotus, or bamboo leaf wrappings. Additionally, corn husks are used for wrapping tamales in Mexico. I wish I knew what the equivalent would have been in Europe. I w
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by jessekv 4y ago
Something similar happened to my personal Atlassian account.
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by jessekv 4y ago
To me, git is ageist.
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by jessekv 4y ago
> fix it until next Monday Off topic, sorry. I'm curious why Germans often use this phrasing. Is there a "false friend" [1] in English? (I assume you mean 'before', not 'until') 1. https://en
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by jessekv 4y ago
Ah, yes, unit-unit tests. But seriously, I am planning some numerical modelling experiments, and am considering Juila partially because Unitful.jl. Can you recommend it?
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by jessekv 4y ago
I had a similar experience in university. I used to take advantage of our mathcad licence. If you specified units for the variables, you could identify mistakes in your equations and functions very quickly. For example, if you wanted meters
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by jessekv 4y ago
I had a job shovelling mulch once. No imposter syndrome. edit: Not to trivialise the article, its a good one and worth reading and learning from.
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by jessekv 4y ago
Isn't this because the charger cannot provide the same peak power that the battery can? I don't know how laptop power supplies work.
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by jessekv 4y ago
I've got a lot of complaints about the EU, but this one makes no sense.
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by jessekv 4y ago
It's an old engineering jibe, of course :) I suspect that the engineer in the GP's story might not remember the equations for angular acceleration, but has an intuitive sense that if a spinning something is in contact with a non-s
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by jessekv 4y ago
See, in physics, you can assume there is no friction. Engineers often forget this one weird trick.
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by jessekv 4y ago
I can't say I have experienced what you are describing. Proper heating means that the room temp is 18-23C, so less than 37C. I guess 23C would feel warmer in higher humidity (>50%), because it inhibits your body's ability to c
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by jessekv 4y ago
Unless your air temperature is higher than your body temperature (37 deg C), won't higher humidity mean more of your heat is lost? This is why we call desert climates 'a dry heat' or 'a dry cold' in winter. Converse
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by jessekv 4y ago
On the other hand, with a computer science degree, you could do your whole career abroad, if you wanted.
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by jessekv 4y ago
Not sure I agree with "deeply flawed" verdict. The flaws of python's packaging system (as well as the GIL and other hangups) emerge from the tradeoffs of inventing a language optimised for reusing and connecting as many dispa
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by jessekv 4y ago
I also have often wondered how much Docker owes its success to the shortcomings of python.

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