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by jp57 4y ago
Some sports skills, like driving a golf ball or serving in tennis, require relaxation. You hit the ball much harder if you are relaxed than if you try to "muscle it". In tennis, at least, the principle really applies to the wh
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by jp57 4y ago
The HN and the blogosphere generally are replete with unconvincing "you're doing it wrong" posts. This is one. I use make (and have used it off and on for a long long time: since the late 80s). I don't do any of these
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by jp57 4y ago
I don't understand why somehow lots of people are discovering the economics of art as if it's some new situation, when the notion of the "starving artist" has been around for ages. Rewards in creative fields have always
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by jp57 4y ago
But it seems they need places with ample sunshine and water to electrolyze. That rules out the American west, the Sahara, etc. If they can use seawater, then arid coastal areas could work.
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by jp57 4y ago
Also, bikes are certainly assumed to be durable objects that can take a beating.
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What I find interesting about this is that if you were to show typical folks a TV (out of the box) and an assembled bicycle, and ask which is fragile and which is not, essentially everyone would say the TV is fragile and, importantly, the b
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by jp57 4y ago
"Conclusion: The results of the present study indicated that consumption of fruits more than 4 servings/day exacerbates steatosis, dyslipidemia, and glycemic control in NAFLD patients. Further studies are needed to identify the un
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by jp57 4y ago
It's applicable to people in the public with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, since that's the population they were studying.
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by jp57 4y ago
His conclusion seems like measurement bias. Cloud-based streaming now means we can measure what people listen to, rather than only what they buy. Back in the days of LPs and CDs, it was natural that people only purchased new recordings,
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by jp57 4y ago
Another hypothesis: Triggering a legal battle in the courts is a delaying technique to push out the acquisition until the economy rebounds (and Tesla and Twitter valuations with it), or until after the 2024 election, because Elon realized t
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by jp57 4y ago
I guess when the wealthiest 5% has the same population as all of France, it's hard to resist.
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The oldest boomers turned 65 in 2011 though. More than half of Boomers are over 65 already today.
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by jp57 4y ago
Anyone got examples? What are we talking about here? Rainbow flags? Ukrainian flags? BLM colors? The GNU logo?
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by jp57 4y ago
"Placebo enthusiasts" is a great term.
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by jp57 4y ago
It's important to keep in mind how these decisions are made. The panel of people who interviewed you each give feedback and that feedback is aggregated together by the hiring manager (and possibly other leadership) to make a decision.
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by jp57 4y ago
What wasn't clear to me was whether they were claiming that her ideas about caste equality were specificall anti-hindu, or if it's just an ad hominem attack to try to shut her down.
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by jp57 4y ago
Fred Brooks' original statement re: 10x was that the best programmers were ten times as productive as the worst programmers, not the average programmer.
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by jp57 4y ago
It's possible that the TOS message is boilerplate that they put up when they haven't created (and localized) an appropriate message for the real reason (or they don't want to reveal the real reason). To me it sounds like mayb
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by jp57 4y ago
> I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies. Yes, and they might lay people off. Hiring slows generally (and unemployment rises) during recessions. For example, I was at Amazon in 2008-9 a
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by jp57 4y ago
Is it merely impractical though? In the thought experiement the demon needs to be able to know the state of the impending particle before it arrives, so it can decide whether to open the door. It can't do that without interacting wit
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by jp57 4y ago
I gotta say, as a programmer "of a certain age", a lot of recent advances have an everything-old-is-new-again feel to me. When I first heard of "threads" in the 90s, the term specifically referred to a mechanism for in
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by jp57 5y ago
The title of that article is now itself a comment on the passage of time and the fading of things. How old do you have to be today to get the "I've fallen and I can't get up!" reference?
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by jp57 5y ago
Some of the founders of this country were responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
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by jp57 5y ago
> The MiG-25 was a maintenance hog (not least because pilots and ground crews partook of its alcohol de-icing supply, leading to the nickname "The Flying Restaurant"). Leave it to the Russians to de-ice with vodka.
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by jp57 5y ago
Appropriate that this is posted in /r/AssholeDesign, as AT&T is a company that seems to have embraced AssholeDesign as a mission and organizational philosophy.
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by jp57 5y ago
Unless you're Nietzsche: “The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!”
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by jp57 5y ago
I know, right? But I think it will be those night owls who must wake up early who will suffer most. Left to my own devices I would wake at 9 and go to bed around 2, but because of work and family scheduled I get up early Mon-Fri. Another h
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by jp57 5y ago
I mentioned something similar in a comment last year, but I think there's going to be a lot of moaning about late sunrises in US in December. Roughly 8:15-8:20 am around the solstice in New York, DC, Chicago, and even Austin. Not til
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by jp57 5y ago
Instapaper has this as a feature. Only in the paid subscription, though, I think.
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I'm sure OP is getting lots of comments now! I'm not sure the rapid timing is really the cuprit here. I would argue that there are other UI factors at play: * The text doesn't get cleared from the comment box after the comm

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