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by kortex 3y ago
The "we've been automating since the industrial revolution and jobs have adapted" argument doesn't really account for scale. If I skin my knee (~1% of my skin) once a month for five years, that's hardly an issue. I
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by kortex 3y ago
As a really rough rule of thumb, in both Japanese and South Korean cultures, it would be fairly improper to address or refer to a "stranger" or any non-close-friend [1] by their given name. A jersey nameplate would absolutely co
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by kortex 3y ago
> so instead they pick two names and combine them, or one name and rearrange the letters. So you get folks named Danold, Stevid and so on This is also a great tip for generating names in fantasy or sci-fi settings.
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by kortex 3y ago
I think there is a huge difference between mapping over to easier phonetics/phonotactics or common names in the native language, and "hey shithead". The attitude isn't great, but Alok->Alex checks out. In Italy I&#x27
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by kortex 3y ago
Tldr yes. Not a Hindustani speaker but general linguistics nerd. No idea if HN can handle the IPA modifiers - त - /t̪ə/ - voiceless dental plosive - थ - /t̪ʰə/ - aspirated voiceless dental plosive - ट - /ʈə/ -
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by kortex 3y ago
Exactly this. The "law of supply and demand" is like the ideal gas law: it is a useful model, but it has certain key assumptions. And just as the ideal gas law breaks down in extreme conditions, supply and demand does not hold wit
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by kortex 3y ago
XML and Zip don't really do incremental updates, meaning the whole application file has to be written on save, meaning corruption can occur due to hiccups mid-write. Sqlite as a disk format and the right application implementation mean
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by kortex 3y ago
There is nonzero overhead for doing so: optimizing for duplicate strings invariably adds cost to handling unique strings. This sounds like something you could do at the schema and application level.
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by kortex 3y ago
Not GP, but I believe the "XML is dead" sentiment stems from the observation that very few greenfield applications are deliberately choosing xml. Sure you have legacy giants like (X)HTML, SVG, office formats, etc, but you'd b
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by kortex 3y ago
Have you ever heard about the MessagEase keyboard? It's a pretty radical departure from the usual touch qwerty. Once you get the muscle memory down, you can even disable the letters completely. Right now I'm typing on a featureles
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by kortex 3y ago
Why not a shear pin? There's no need to make the (more expensive) gears the shear point when you can use a pennies-each shear pin (or shaft, or similar).
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by kortex 3y ago
I owned a treadmill (second-hand, details long forgotten, sorry) which had two long steel rails (running the length of the machine) for the main structure. The brackets which connected the rails on the front side were steel, but the ones on
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by kortex 3y ago
I wanna know how they fare when the vehicle has to do 10 races on the same power train. I bet it would be a lot closer.
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by kortex 3y ago
Also relevant: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-blood-test-for-chronic-fati... Let's hope this can be replicated and put into practice.
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by kortex 3y ago
Is it blood thinning or is it the anti-inflammatory effects? What does ibuprofen do? Take 600-800mg in a single sitting (on a full stomach).
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by kortex 3y ago
It's looking like <some stressful assault on the body's immune system> is a necessary but not sufficient condition to developing CFS. Further, there are many events which can serve as triggers. But in the cases where the o
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by kortex 3y ago
> Like to the point I would rather walk a mile somewhere than figure out how to buy a bus ticket in an unfamiliar city. Sounds like textbook ADHD. Walking a mile is a straightforward task with a known outcome and predictable risk/re
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by kortex 3y ago
> Being physically injured like spraining an ankle is so mentally fatiguing because the brains autopilot modes get temporarily disrupted. It can’t use all its gpu bandwidth and has to switch on other processes to move about. Ohhhh... thi
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by kortex 3y ago
This take is so hot it gives off x-ray blackbody radiation.
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by kortex 3y ago
I think the intent is /sɝks/, rhymes with "lurks" /lɝrks/, with the r-colored vowel in General American, but perhaps the author speaks with a non-rhotic dialect. But that makes it sound like something between
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by kortex 3y ago
I would actually contend that "meow" and "nya" are pseudo-cognates, they are onomatopoeia of the same sound. M and N are both nasals, and iˈaʊ̯ and ia are close in vowel space.
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by kortex 3y ago
> but there needs to be consent from the company being probed for vulnerabilities or else I find it hard to consider it legitimate research, regardless of intent. The reality of netsec has not born out this model. In practice, you have t
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by kortex 3y ago
> LSD will fry your brain. Mushrooms will make you so open, your brain falls out. And DMT doesn't have that risk? Press X to doubt. I've done a tremendous amount of research on harm reduction, and all sources list a pretty simi
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by kortex 3y ago
I think you are missing an incredible amount of context. The main takeaways I got from GP's post are: - psychedelics can be and usually are an incredible life-changing experience for the better - psychedelic-naive users should start wi
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by kortex 3y ago
Is this a copypasta or did you just write this yourself? Because this is absolutely brilliant.
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I don't think they are saying "live forever". I think they are wondering why such a wealthy individual died in his 70s, where living into your 90s isn't entirely uncommon.
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> However, they produce a lot of dust This was actually the most surprising thing about first time chicken ownership. I was expecting the poop, I wasn't expecting the dust and the dust bathing. They will pick one or more parts of th
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by kortex 3y ago
I have 12 on a 1/2 acre plot, about 2/3rds of which is backyard they can access (so call it 1/3 acre of roaming). That amount seems more than ample, though these are pretty bougie chickens. Four in even 1/8 acre should b
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by kortex 3y ago
I've done a lot of literature review and there is no evidence hookworms enter the brain (TFA is about roundworms). Necator is associated with cognitive issues especially in the American South, but that's due to dozens or even hund
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I did years of allergy shots (environmental), it helped a middling amount. When it came to dog and cat allergy, I could have gone for several more years of inconvenient shots. Instead, I got a self-applied treatment of Necator americanus th

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