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by kqr 3mo ago
It's not exactly rocket surgery, is it? Because they are fighting on the other side of the world. I feel like the article glosses over this way too quickly. It's not surprising the US aren't winning. It's surprising they
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by kqr 3mo ago
On a similar note, people are way too precious about their dead-tree books. Feel free to chuck them in bags, make notes in the margins, fold pages, underline, and strike through text in them. It's yours. Make it yours! Your scribblings
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by kqr 3mo ago
Not a single 24-hour analogue face? That unexpectedly turned into one of the best reasons I keep carrying my smartwatch.
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by kqr 3mo ago
Because for it to be effective it must have reasonable cost compared to the benefit. The cost for such a sweeping lifestyle adjustment seems quite high, and the authors have not showed any benefit to interventions.
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by kqr 3mo ago
The article never says anything about causation. It says sleep regularity is a predictor of mortality. That means if you find someone who already has poor sleep regularity they're more likely to die sooner, not that if you force so
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by kqr 3mo ago
Self-stopping is called autonomation (or jidoka) in lean/Toyota terms. It's born out of the realisation that automation is capable of producing mistakes at a very high rate, so anything automated needs a way to detect when it&#x27
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by kqr 3mo ago
Vaguely related realisation I had a couple of years ago: if you don't need a complicated mobile app, but just something simple for your own use, you can write and run Perl scripts in Termux and there you go – an app, without learning a
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by kqr 3mo ago
Not only must there be trust, but there must also be a resolve to make deeper fixes to problems surfaced through the andon system. It's a typical mistake to forget that part. If the response to a problem is patching over the immediate
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OnlyMove 9×9(onlymove.net)
3 points by kqr 3mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 3mo ago
That one probably comes from maths, where surfaces show up all the time in geometric interpretations of things. I've been involved in more mathsy parts of engineering and I've heard it a lot.
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Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017)(redblobgames.github.io)
1 points by kqr 3mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 3mo ago
I see why you're confused. Some of these tags carry nutritional information, so it's easy to assume they all do. The healthy tag is about marketing. It's a product positioning statement.
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by kqr 3mo ago
Fun fact: this procedure word is meant to be sent as a single symbol with no inter-letter spacing.
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by kqr 3mo ago
Depends on how it is used! Recording speech nearly verbatim is bad for retention; summarising in own words along the way is good for retention. Longhand forces summarisation, but it's still possible with shorthand.
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by kqr 3mo ago
For anyone interested in optimising this further, orthographic (letter-based) cursive shorthand systems are the answer. I personally only know part of the Melin system[1], but there are variants designed for English as the primary language
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by kqr 3mo ago
I used to read a lot when I was small but then fell out of the habit. Rekindled it with my first child. With them I spent a lot of time walking around at all hours of the day to get them to sleep. That were perfect reading opportunities, an
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by kqr 3mo ago
> With generated code you'll search for a long time The observability people will claim that if the dynamic runtime behaviour of your system makes it hard to find the source of a behaviour, your system must be made more transparent
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by kqr 3mo ago
There are so many reasons it's hard to be exhaustive. Selfishly, nobody will love me like my children, at least in their early years. They're also amazing playmates and students. And they give me social permission to do silly thin
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by kqr 3mo ago
This can be tricky. I know my mother loves me unconditionally, but I also have strong memories of her shutting herself inside her study to read textbooks and journals, and children were not allowed to disturb unless she was strictly needed
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A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking(entropicthoughts.com)
1 points by kqr 3mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 3mo ago
That's not quite what "skin in the game" means in this context. The Economist does not need to be right, they only need their readers to believe they are right . That's not quite the same thing, and that small differenc
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by kqr 3mo ago
Indeed. OpenStreetMap is the better map, Google Maps is the better address book and business directory.
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by kqr 3mo ago
The great thing about OSM is that if an area someone cares about is sparsely covered, that's a self-solving problem. There are parts of the world with great detail in OSM only because I happen to care about them.
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by kqr 3mo ago
I often reference this comparison in this context: https://i.xkqr.org/gmapsvsosm.png
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by kqr 3mo ago
More concretely, as many as half of the users of a popular programming language will have less than four years of experience: https://entropicthoughts.com/python-programmers-experience
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by kqr 4mo ago
I am very impressed by the simulator, and I really wish I could defend taking time to dig into PDP-1 programming. You make it look like an absolute blast!
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PDP-1 Replica: The PiDP-1(obsolescence.dev)
3 points by kqr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 4mo ago
So far my children have not yet had to repeatedly perform complicated calculations, but I look forward to the day. I will definitely teach them with nomograms before we go on to spreadsheets! Another type of almost-nomogram that's grea
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by kqr 4mo ago
I've had similar thoughts and ended up going with FreeBSD and no network connection for my use case. It's been great. It gives you some of the expected terminal ergonomics (and USB support) without the distractions.
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by kqr 4mo ago
Neat. This is based on Bayes' rule in its odds form[1], or more specifically in log-odds form, where evidence is additive[2]. [1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/bayes-rule-odds-form [2]: https://entropicthoug

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