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by johnday 4y ago
Yep - not only is there no catch right now , but they literally can never add one. The SRD is released under CC-BY-4.0. The only point of contention is what happens to their new product, One D&D, which will probably retain some nasty p
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by johnday 4y ago
> Pandoc is Haskell so it compiles to a fairly efficient binary. This is nebulous. Haskell's compiled binaries are not ideal, for a number of reasons.[^1] GHC does very little to optimise for many typical metrics of "efficient&
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by johnday 4y ago
If you specify that you just want bog-standard markdown then it will not generate smart quotes. To wit: - `pandoc foo.tex -t markdown foo.md` will not produce smart quotes. - `pandoc foo.tex -t markdown-smart foo.md` will produce smart quot
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by johnday 4y ago
Ublock makes it trivial to block the panel. I have a rule set to automatically hide it as if it were an ad (which, in some sense, it is)
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by johnday 4y ago
A monad is a computational context, where the nature of that context is determined by two things: the shape of the data structure corresponding to it, and the definition of (>>=) which handles sequencing of two computations in that co
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by johnday 4y ago
The trial size is not too small to be statistically significant. It may warrant further investigation by scientists in the field of clinical nutrition. However, it is too small and insignificant for Hacker News readers to make meaningful
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by johnday 4y ago
> If it's clearly not worth HN readers' time, how did it get published in "The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition"? This comment is extremely funny. I heard a rumour that the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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by johnday 4y ago
I am saying that lay readers on Hacker News should not draw conclusions from this study on 17 people. Do you disagree?
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by johnday 4y ago
In this case, previous research and theoretical expectations would indicate only a small effect, if any. This is covered in the introduction to the paper, which I'm sure you have read.
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by johnday 4y ago
This is clinical nutrition. There are so many confounding factors that it is not reasonable to draw any conclusions about how the body works ( especially as a layman reader on HN) from a study that tested 17 people. Indeed, their own intro
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by johnday 4y ago
In fact, planning ahead (when done properly) maximises the chance that you can be flexible. It's hard to adapt and change flexibly if you're busy dealing with the upshot of yesterday's unforeseen disaster.
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by johnday 4y ago
n=17, so read nothing into this result. Also, what they tested is having no fixed eating schedule. The effects (if any) of skipping breakfast every day consistently are not measured.
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by johnday 4y ago
Worse - the seeming intent of WotC is to effectively cancel the previous version, which mean anything that's already written including v1.0 could no longer be legally distributed or sold.
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by johnday 4y ago
If builders are mandated to make new homes able to access the fastest speed available (usually gigabit), then there is competition to provide that fastest speed for the cheapest price. This mandate enhances competition in the ISP space.
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by johnday 4y ago
> Or can they really revoke that licensing on previously published content? It depends entirely on your definition of "can". If you mean, is this action supported by law, then no. If you mean, is this action supported by WotC&
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by johnday 4y ago
They would also have to convince a court that Paragraph 9 is intended to be restrictive, rather than permissive. Nowhere does it say that only authorized licenses can be used, and it seems obviously wrong for a license to preclude its own
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by johnday 4y ago
I disagree strongly. It's entirely possible to be temporarily handicapped as the result of some kind of injury. There's a reason you can get temporary handicap parking permits.
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by johnday 4y ago
If you think that Mastodon cannot be bought and ruined by billionaires, you are wrong. It's all too easy to imagine a (medium-term) future in which the largest Mastodon instance (or something highly compatible with it) will have more t
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by johnday 4y ago
Having just finished (sort of) a PhD in computer science, very similar experience. I actually had to take a three month break, and nearly a second one, in the process because it was so easy to get distracted, overwhelmed and undersupported.
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by johnday 4y ago
If you want to find out what monads are most like (and least like) you can use the website https://monadsare.fun/ . You can also add your own opinions.
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by johnday 4y ago
On the other hand, it appears that being rich does excuse criminal behavior - that is, if you hire a lot of people and get them to work in an office, and they commit crimes, the company gets fined and you don't go to prison (almost a
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by johnday 4y ago
That might be your understanding of "the point of not eating meat", but other people have plenty of other views.
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by johnday 4y ago
> NHS spending 2009/2010 [...] The numbers you cite represent a real-terms fall after inflation - despite the population growing about 8% in that time - AND a reduction as a proportion of GDP. > It must be nice to be able to spen
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by johnday 4y ago
Many pieces of critical infrastructure (hospitals, for example) have enormous backup diesel generators, for one.
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by johnday 4y ago
It is possible to generate electricity from sources other than fossil fuels. It is not possible to drive a combustion engine from sources other than fossil fuels (except in very rare circumstances). Removing fossil-fuel burning cars from th
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by johnday 4y ago
What exactly is the point you are trying to make? Yes, under a pro-spending, forward-looking government (such as the one we had from roughly 1997 to 2010), staffed public services improved and a trajectory was laid down for future improveme
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by johnday 4y ago
Non-meat eaters are behind skeumorphic meat alternatives for the same reason car detractors are generally in favour of electric cars. Moving people away from the old sources weakens the entrenched power of those who benefit from the old way
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by johnday 4y ago
On all of the Goldilocks planets we have so far been able to image with the resolution needed to determine the presence of life, we have determined the presence of life. That is not mathematically rigorous, but it is , from the Bayesian pe
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by johnday 4y ago
If we are talking about solar installations on land, rather than in the built environment, the W/$ also needs to factor in the cost of the land itself, which is at a premium in many places including across Europe. On that basis there i
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by johnday 4y ago
Surely it is more efficient to store the braking energy in cars for acceleration, which then reduces the amount of fossil fuels burned in the first place? (AIUI this already exists) In fact i'm not sure why that wouldn't also appl

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