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by kqr 1y ago
Wait, can you take this a little slower? I was not aware black holes could have sensible density.
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by kqr 1y ago
Right but what says that culture would be violent and unproductive, rather than kind and productive? That's what I don't get. Runs counter to what I think is my nature and tbose around me, so I'd expect a position that has co
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by kqr 1y ago
What I was taught is that one should not put them down on their tummy, but if they're able to flip themselves over when put on their back they're no longer so likely to die from it.
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by kqr 1y ago
Worth mentioning in these threads is that pain is a very personal experience. No two people experience pain the same way. We must have respect for each others' experiences of pain, because we don't know what it is like for them. I
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by kqr 1y ago
> Considering the war in the womb it's amazing that the reproductive system works as well as it does. ...or maybe it's because of that war it works as well as it does? Maybe it takes agents in opposition to evolve enough redu
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by kqr 1y ago
My favourites are - How much alcohol can a pregnant person drink? (Not too much, obviously, but is a glass of wine a couple of different days in the third trimester okay? Probably, but it varies a lot deoending on which country you're
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by kqr 1y ago
The Pareto distribution (and indeed other heavy-tailed distributions) come out of self-reinforcing processes, where each additional amount of something increases the probability of even more of that thing. (This is what it means for a distr
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by kqr 1y ago
All my comments are serious in matter. Some are whimsical in tone. Many are wrong in fact. I suggest erring on the side of earnesty when replying. The discussions that come out of those threads tend to be more interesting.
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by kqr 1y ago
I also assumed randomness would balance things out, but "balance things out" means maximum entropy distribution. With 100 people, there are only 100 configurations where one person has all of the money. But there is also only one
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by kqr 1y ago
You say people don't collaborate yet cite no source, so I can only assume you mean you wouldn't be collablrative. I can assure you I would be collaborative. The idea that people in the wild are uncivilised savages is old racist
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by kqr 1y ago
Of whose natural humanity? Areyou naturally violent and unproductive without coercion? I'm not.
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by kqr 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
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by kqr 1y ago
Extremely low. Space is very empty.
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Do Stonks Go Up?(entropicthoughts.com)
2 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Maybe you're the right person to clear this up. Ages ago I read in a HN comment that the OODA loop is often misunderstood to be a sequence of steps, rather than something more continuous? And that people's explanations of it are v
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by kqr 1y ago
This was a neat way to put it. Goals have always bothered me because they are an excuse to stop working – either because they are fulfilled, or because it becomes clear they will not be fulfilled. Constraints don't have the same proble
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by kqr 1y ago
Huh, interesting. I recognised the name from my time working with CFEngine – a very impressive piece of software in a space full of crap – but did not know there were books on it. Colour me intrigued. Is the Thinking in Promises book too
888.
by kqr 1y ago
Most users are on a batteried device. I'm not sure they're willing to pay in battery time and health.
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by kqr 1y ago
I think so too. Apparently I have an overall mean of 26 queries/day, with the lowest month the past year being 19 queries/day and the highest 35 queries/day. Most of this is during the weekday with software development work,
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by kqr 1y ago
I find this list strange. I have only a passing interest in aviation and I would not believe very many of these. What made the corresponding lists for names and time interesting were that it was genuinely surprising to realise that their st
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by kqr 1y ago
I think the intro makes clear that all languages went through the same tests. Edit: though I agree with another top-level comment that the reported results are too vague and stereotypical to be believed.
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by kqr 1y ago
> Most birds spend a significant part of their life in the air, looking down onto human-designed landscapes. The aerial view of our cities is probably as familiar to them as our neighborhood streets are to us. The opening few chapters of
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by kqr 1y ago
Indeed. Not to mention that the frequency is probably used for many other types of communication than announcing the use of that specific taxiway.
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by kqr 1y ago
Another way to do it would be newtype Words = Words { getWords :: String } instance Semigroup Words where Words a <> Words b = Words (a <> " " <> b) instance Monoid Words where mempty
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by kqr 1y ago
For context, "worse is better" refers to Gabriel's observation that products with simple implementations and complicated interfaces tend to achieve adoption faster than products with complex implementations and elegant interf
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by kqr 1y ago
> is unwrapping IO one of the things that, if you do it, you're own your own To be able to do it in the first place, I think you need to import libraries that expose compiler internals, so I would say it belongs in the "you&#x2
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by kqr 1y ago
These cultural differences even determine how you eat your corn: http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre... (I know this is weak evidence that has been debunked by stronger studies.)
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FizzBuzz Through Monoids(entropicthoughts.com)
16 points by kqr 1y ago|4 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
The matchesSum check is constant in the length of the input list. The filter adds an iteration over all results of (combinations n xs). If the complexity of (combinations n) is T(n) in xs, then by analogy of its recursive definition we have
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by kqr 1y ago
I agree. But you're also not supposed to have separate booleans for each special print, because when you have many special prints it gets annoying to extend. I've always liked this solutiin, which avoids that: https://a

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