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by lodi 5y ago
I think that's part of it, but I also think there's some merit to our intuition as well; sometimes you can viscerally feel if you're in a boom or bust cycle. During the reality TV phase I remember thinking "this is all
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by lodi 5y ago
I always heard this joke with the punchline "beat me half to death."
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by lodi 5y ago
To someone currently suffering back pain this is going to sound counterintuitive, counterproductive--maybe even dangerous--but I cured my back pain through sumo deadlifts , and my wrist pain by strengthening the forearms in the gym: deadli
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by lodi 5y ago
> Won't work with NVIDIA cards at all without a boatload of hacks... Actually the hack required to do this is quite minimal. This is the only thing I had to do to get the driver unblocked in win10/win11 for my rtx3070. I lift
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by lodi 5y ago
No, the composition of sunlight literally changes throughout the day. When the sun is low in the sky in the morning or evening, light is traveling through more atmosphere than it is at noon. As light travels through the atmosphere, a cert
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by lodi 5y ago
> The principle claim of this essay is that groups never change their viewpoints. Actually the principal claim is that "a group will never admit they were wrong." I think I agree with both claims.
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by lodi 5y ago
If your room has the space for it, you can make any monitor or television a "retina" monitor by just placing it on a second desk behind your main desk (or leaving a small gap between the desk and wall and just wall-mounting it).
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by lodi 5y ago
Here's an analogy: octane rating is "that level of knock-resistance that matches an N% mix of octane and heptane"; a 90% octane, 10% heptane mixture has an octane rating of 90. So how can racing fuels exceed 100 octane? Wel
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by lodi 5y ago
Admittedly though, recursive CTE's like that are a bit of a minefield in practice. It's easy to confuse the query optimizer after chaining a few of those together, or to outright hit a recursion limit (32,767 in SQL Server).
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by lodi 5y ago
Can you post a (simplified) sketch of what your looping solution looks like? I'd like to give it a shot with map/filter/etc so we can compare.
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by lodi 5y ago
The problem with this kind of argument from identity politics is that job applicants aren't ergodic. The arsonists probably aren't the ones applying to be day care attendants.
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by lodi 5y ago
> ... when jobs which used to be female dominated, like programming, became male dominated shortly after they became lucrative. Programming was never female dominated. What we call "programmer" now (writing algorithms to compu
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by lodi 5y ago
> I have one moral standard to which I hold myself and others: do no harm. Right, but who determines what's "harmful"? Is it more harmful to punish a child or to not punish him? Is a cartoon of Jesus harmful? Muhammad?
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by lodi 5y ago
Motte-and-bailey? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
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by lodi 5y ago
Even if you did, what would prevent all the workers from joining the exact same ILWU union you were fleeing in the first place?
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by lodi 5y ago
Source circa 2015: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dock-workers-u... "In fact, according to the union's own material, the average dockworker makes $147,000 in annual salary and pulls in $35
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by lodi 5y ago
https://gafferongames.com/post/state_synchronization/ Also search for "game networking" + the following: - state replication - dead reckoning - client side prediction - networked physics
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by lodi 5y ago
> I can't think of any contemporary regime more tyrannical and authoritarian. Kim Dynasty, North Korea.
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by lodi 5y ago
I don't know what clip they're referring to--this is exactly why this kind of censorship is a problem--but I let the Youtube algorithm do its thing the other day and it took me through several hours of various Rand Paul town halls
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by lodi 5y ago
Agreed. And furthermore it's distressing to see hundreds of well-written, good-faith comments downvoted to oblivion for holding the wrong opinion. I thought on hn we downvoted for meta-concerns like being off-topic or ad hominem, and
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by lodi 5y ago
Another similar problem is hot sauce sizing, and whether "X oz (2 pack)" means two bottles of X or two bottles of X/2 for a total of X oz. Btw, with those jalapenos... not only is the jar misleading, but I found those jalapen
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by lodi 5y ago
But "performative virtue" is --definitionally--fake. If it were real, it would just be "virtue". (And similarly, "political correctness" is something not quite correct--otherwise it would just be "corre
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by lodi 5y ago
Genius.
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by lodi 5y ago
> "it takes one to tango" Love it.
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by lodi 5y ago
That's right; we already have free speech restrictions. Why do we need these extremely vague, extra restrictions, and why now? Nothing in this bill would have prevented the vehicle attack that supposedly prompted this bill.
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by lodi 5y ago
> But, if you spend every day of your life fighting the nagging feeling that you don't actually identify with gender you're "supposed to" identify with, are you going to trust logic, or your own experiences? Do you su
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by lodi 5y ago
> They went through proper trials... No they haven't. They were approved for emergency use only. New vaccines usually take 6-7 years to complete clinical trials. https://www.modernatx.com/covid19vaccine-eua/
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by lodi 5y ago
> The mRNA vaccines don't have any impact worse than a sore arm. This is just logically untrue. The absolute most you can claim is that "these vaccines don't have any impact worse than a sore arm, that we know of, within
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by lodi 5y ago
> But all that is beside the point. The point is that many voices that took on the air of authority during the pandemic changed their view for no reason other than shifts in the broader political climate. Not only did they take an air of
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by lodi 5y ago
> "Lab-leak" is non-sensical in all forms which don't begin with "lab evolved/bioengineered"... That's exactly the allegation circa March 2020 though: scientists collect various bat-borne coronaviruses

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