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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'm really curious why there haven't been hardware improvements that focus on evaluating combinatory logic. It seems like a great idea, especially since parallelization is a lot easier.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I was sceptical of this at first. I suspected that the "how much energy can be stored" was only in regards to a single use, but I checked out the source, and this is over the lifetime of the storage medium. It blows my mind that
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by leafmeal 6y ago
This is certainly interesting, but I'm suspicious that this is a digital marketing scheme. Are product reviews normally considered spam on here?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
This is a really cool project, but I can't help thinking that the LED strips should have been placed closer toward the end of the shelf so that it illuminates the spines of the books instead of their tops.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I hear your point. we can be happy without many of these things. Happiness doesn't depend strictly on material conditions. At the same time, consider infant mortality. people are happy their children can grow up safely.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I agree this can be annoying when you have really large windows, but personally I don't mind it. I don't think it's hard to resize a window, and I _have_ been frustrated when sites (like the new Reddit) force a narrow window
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by leafmeal 6y ago
From a utilitarian point of view, I'm wondering if this could actually be beneficial. The extra revenue from donations could sponsor students with less income. I suppose the real problem is that UCs are no longer financed fully by the
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by leafmeal 6y ago
> Weirdest thing is how they moved the address bar to the bottom of the screen. You can put it back to the top of the screen but it's like - why? As someone with a larger phone, this has made things 100x easier. Previously, the addr
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by leafmeal 6y ago
If the cost of recycling was added in as a tax on the material, that could be effective as well. Then the market could decide which materials are truly cost effective.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Why 2005?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I agree that people lack opportunities and that's a failure of the system, but I think the problem isn't limited capital. I think the problem is the monopoly on land ownership. If there was land freely available, people would happ
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by leafmeal 6y ago
If you're a citizen of a country, you automatically get all of the benefits that come with it: personal safety, transportation networks, infrastructure, etc.—all things that enable your business to be successful. Since you can't o
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by leafmeal 6y ago
It's a monopoly because, for iPhone users, it's the only store in town.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Do you think, after reading this article, that if you were in a situation like that again you would feel more responsibility to speak your mind?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Presumably the book I linked to in the original post: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Indians in California (and it sounds like many other places in the US too) burned annually for a plethora of reasons. I'm learning about this in https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild whi
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Prop 13 (passed in 1978) reduced budgets substantially for local governments in California --- roughly 60% state wide [1]. Perhaps that's what they were referring to. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Califor
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by leafmeal 6y ago
For me, vim bindings makes editing and navigating text a breeze, and completely keyboard controlled. I still rely on my IDE for its well integrated debugger, refactoring capabilities, ctrl-click, etc. While it may be possible to set this up
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I guess if you're already paying $70k for Spot, the adapter's price is negligible.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
If you're drawing of a bicycle doesn't look like a bicycle, then you've never drawn a bicycle before.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Recently I was wondering why we have so many mouth problems. Teeth are often misaligned, wisdom teeth need to be removed, TMJ (clicking / popping jaw) is extremely common. After researching, I came to the same conclusion that this arti
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by leafmeal 6y ago
> I do not want to fall in the trap of slow compilations and debugging mysterious typing errors again I always found that, instead of debugging type errors, in dynamic languages you end up debugging runtime errors. The errors don't
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by leafmeal 6y ago
This gave me a good laugh noun. swem the process of forming a strip of mucus before injecting intravenously "semen started to emerge immediately after swemting" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.co
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Can't it be both a trend and a marketing strategy?
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by leafmeal 7y ago
Or even Covid.io (though that domain seems to be taken).
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by leafmeal 7y ago
Eventual consistency is my biggest annoyance from S3.
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by leafmeal 7y ago
What is engine management? This is not a very "searchable" term.
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by leafmeal 7y ago
Heterogeneous collections and no inheritance/polymorphism seems like a bad combination.
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by leafmeal 7y ago
Having another person around helps me stay on task. I have to put off engaging with those distractions until a scheduled break. For that reason alone, pair programming can be more productive.
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by leafmeal 7y ago
In a similar strain, vimtutor is an excellent intro to vim and probably already installed on your computer.

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