jon_richards

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by jon_richards 2y ago
Declaring it as a new definition was what annoyed me... Which I found incredibly silly once I leaned about negative exponentiation and could now deduce the pattern. Similarly, 0/0 became much more tractable to me once I learned L&#x2
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Exponentiation to zero annoyed me as a kid because I had equated "no operations" as zero from the pattern 2x2=2+2, 2x1=2, 2x0= Declaring 2x2=0+2+2, 2x1=0+2, 2x0=0 while 2xx2=1x2x2, 2xx1=1x2, 2xx0=1 seemed arbitrary. What helped wa
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Funny you chose that example… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17587293/
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Don't forget enums. And lets get rid of the insane := syntax that makes no sense when basically every function is returning 2 values. Not to mention shadowing bugs like this: var cursor int64 = 0 for { rows, cursor, err := db
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Agreed. I’m pretty sure future generations will look at our social media habits like we look at this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7355737/amp/The-chi...
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I’d say the conflict of interest has gone away, but the years of rationalizing cognitive dissonance have solidified certain opinions.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
See also the dead salmon study https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign...
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by jon_richards 2y ago
It’s difficult to keep things spaced out properly in microgravity without scaffolding. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I think the point is that if the speed of light changes, so does the length of the wire.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Already counts in pistol shooting (and probably other target shooting). The slower heartbeat helps.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
And the power requirement to maintain temperature scale by surface area, not volume. Same reason thermal power storage using giant piles of sand is theoretically viable.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
> the first vending machine was specifically created to serve gin The first vending machine was actually first century and dispensed holy water. It was actually mechanized similarly to pre-electronic vending machines. https://
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by jon_richards 2y ago
For a given progressive income tax rate with UBI, you can make an equivalent progressive tax rate with NIT.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
If A is making $1 and B is making $1000, A has to survive on 0.1% of what the economy produces. If A is making $1001 and B is making $2000, A has to survive on 33% of what the economy produces. Even if inflation could be exclusive to basic
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Wikipedia has a nice graph showing how UBI and NIT are effectively the same thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Also not accurate. Chimps have extremely powerful numerical working memories. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(07)...
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Sweetcorn is a specific maize meant for human consumption, distinct from popcorn or feed corn (which is also used for ethanol production, becoming "distillers grains" that are also fed to livestock).
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I was very disappointed on my last trip to Iowa to see that most farmers weren't even bothering with cover crops.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Texas averages 36 inches of rain and 2 inches of snow each year. Ohio gets 40 inches of rain and 28 inches of snow.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Also texas has 683,533 lane miles of road vs ohio's 262,492 and a GDP of $2,563,508m vs ohio's $872,748m. Seems like they aren't putting that land mass to good use.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I’m still mad about the time I was told to mock a payment gateway in tests even though they had a testing environment and then got a slew of bug reports from people whose company names had punctuation (and thus failed the name validation
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by jon_richards 2y ago
> that group was still technically employed by Gainax when Gurren Lagaan came out Huh, TIL. Gurren Lagaan is surprisingly meta. One of the big problems with the fight-focused anime formula is that they constantly one-up themselves, event
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I just use: ||reddit.com/^$document,important @@||reddit.com/*$document
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I put a rule in my adblocker to block the reddit homepage but not individual threads (because that's often where google takes me). Massively helpful, but also concerning how months later I still automatically try to go to the homepag
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by jon_richards 2y ago
By asking that, you just guarantee your synthesized consciousness will be miserable.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
Wouldn't it just be the inverse of the Schwarzschild radius? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius
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by jon_richards 2y ago
What fascinates me is that if you had enough cotton candy, it would be a black hole. I don't mean it would collapse into a black hole, I mean even at a uniform density of 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter, it would already be a black
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by jon_richards 2y ago
The number of APIs with a single JSON example as the only documentation is... unfortunate. Especially if you want to know if a field is nullable.
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by jon_richards 2y ago
I'll have to read it! I've been mulling over a sci-fi setting focused on keeping humans relevant in the context of advanced technology. One of the core ideas is that AIs decay without human interaction. State backups don't pr
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by jon_richards 2y ago
The stars in the American flag aren't used. This is clearly Pride flag sort.

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