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by jp57 2y ago
Though one could argue that the (original) definition of a meter and the definition of a nautical mile are equally arbitrary and yet similarly based. Originally 1 meter was one ten-millionth of the distance over the surface of the earth fro
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by jp57 2y ago
Sorry no. One interpretation, especially on this site, is that the problem was some kind of database bug, maybe where the same location was entered twice and a tiny location error ended up creating two locations. I expect that out of any r
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by jp57 2y ago
I was clarifying the post title, which uses "nm".
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by jp57 2y ago
FYI: nm = nautical miles, not nanometers.
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by jp57 2y ago
I think Datalog should be thought of as "in the logic programming family", so other data languages based on logic programming are likely to be similar. And, of course the relational model of data is based on first-order logic, so
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by jp57 2y ago
So like 1hr per person per year?
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by jp57 2y ago
I'm sure Trump and Elon could destroy the bureaucracy that keeps Social Security, SNAP payments, and Medicaid flowing to rural America and somehow spin it as the Democrats' fault. Also, if you're an enemy of the USA, a great
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by jp57 2y ago
Only as an adult pushing into middle age was I able to recognize just how good my parents, especially my Dad, were at holding us (the kids) to high standards while maintaining psychological safety. He was a college professor and expected u
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by jp57 2y ago
The article really is about a specific cheese, not cheese in general. Can someone put the "This" back at the beginning of the title?
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by jp57 2y ago
If everyone dies when the canary dies, then there wasn't much point in bringing it down there. The canary is at the margins, and thus it dies first when the gas comes. When it dies, everyone else should GTFO, because if the gas get
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by jp57 2y ago
It's an interesting idea, but some of the image semantics seem weirdly wrong. In particular, the sky shouldn't be light at night, and the sun shouldn't be high at sunrise. If you have to learn counterintuitive things like &q
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by jp57 2y ago
I would like to see HN use this.
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by jp57 2y ago
I suppose with grade inflation this is actually true now.
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by jp57 2y ago
> Sorry for an obligatory: there is no such thing as a root cause. While I get what you mean, I think most people who've been in the situation know what I'm talking about. The same alarms are going off constantly and you keep d
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by jp57 2y ago
Well, he rolled up to the same director and was the most senior engineer under that director, so it was a little bit his business. And, like I said it was only semi scolded: he came to me and quietly said something like, "you guys do
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by jp57 2y ago
My experience there (15 years ago) was that on-call was terrible because line management was unable or unwilling to invest in fixing root causes of operational issues. When I started I lucked into a situation where I was one engineer a &quo
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by jp57 2y ago
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, Not because he wills to be quiet. - Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang-Tzu
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by jp57 2y ago
I don't think people use "bullshitting" interchangably with "lying". I'm partial to this characterization: So bullshitting isn’t just nonsense. It’s constructed in order to appear meaningful, though on closer
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by jp57 2y ago
A bit off topic, but am I the only one unhappy about the choice of the word "hallucinate" to describe the phenomenon of LLMs saying things that are false? The verb has always meant experiencing false sensations or perceptions, not
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by jp57 2y ago
Well, I'm in my 50s, I thought it was the kids who expected their friends to be uncritically accepting. This whole subthread spawned from one sentence where I asserted that I found it valuable when my friends would tell me if they thou
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by jp57 2y ago
> Sure, you do covers, and everyone knows the difference between a cover and an original. Everyone? You'd be amazed at the number of songs people think are the originals but are actually covers. I bet there's some songs even
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by jp57 2y ago
But the OP isn't talking about pies, really. It seems like the main difference of opinion in this thread comes down to one's default assumptions about whether you expect your friends to give you honest feedback or just smile to sa
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by jp57 2y ago
I'd say software is more like a pie recipe or a song than like a pie or a chair.
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by jp57 2y ago
Sure, you do covers, and everyone knows the difference between a cover and an original. Even so, bands that do original music often try to do the cover in their own style, so the question of "how is this different from the original&qu
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by jp57 2y ago
As others have mentioned, a pie is consumable, and thus a good one has value even if it isn't original. But a slight change to the original scenario makes asking about originality much more reasonable: Imagine you write a peach pie re
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by jp57 2y ago
The article may state it, but it's not true. US DST starts and ends at 2am in every time zone. It doesn't start at 2am in the east, 1 central, 12 west, 11 pacific.
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by jp57 2y ago
Is it just me, or does a desire to tell the whole world what you're up to every moment feel very ten-years-ago?
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by jp57 2y ago
You mean for Apple to charge that on top of the Visa charges, which Apple is paying out of the 30% now, I assume? Apple is the merchant of record for App Store txns and pays all the transaction fees, as well as all their other costs, out o
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by jp57 2y ago
Why does Patreon need an app?
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by jp57 2y ago
And then there's Turkish pistol silver medalist Yusuf Dikec who just wears his regular glasses and foam earplugs and shoots with one hand in his pocket. https://olympics.com/en/news/yusuf-dikec-turkish-shootin

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