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by ludston 4y ago
Indeed. I'm pretty sure that the research shows practicing music is a much, much better workout for your brain than doing calculus. Not only that, but practice in music is supposed to directly correlate with increases in mathematical a
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by ludston 4y ago
That's certainly the case if you play two notes next to each other and then ask, "Which one is higher". But try adding in the tiniest bit of complexity, say, put the two different notes in the middle of a chord and suddenly m
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by ludston 4y ago
Go and listen to a beginner violin recital and then tell me that again seriously. If you don't need to be a musician to hear that, then why is there such a small subgroup that can actually play their instrument in tune?
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by ludston 4y ago
Switching tuning systems is an exciting gimmick but it isn't really a concern for 99% of piano players. Not to mention the majority of non musicians that cannot hear the difference anyway.
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by ludston 4y ago
Yeah, for sure, a lot of traditional freight forwarders and 3PL providers don't have fancy API's and tracking. But there are certainly a lot that do. And some of those have vertical integration (and therefore potential for massive
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by ludston 4y ago
Yes. But can somebody help me understand? Flexport seems to be a 3PL (third party logistics) company marketing itself as a software company. There are literally thousands of 3PL companies though. What's the difference between Flexport
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by ludston 4y ago
Tests make refactoring slower, because you might have to also update the tests. On the other hand, in a complex enough code base, refactoring is impossible without sufficient test coverage. You can rely on the tests to catch edge cases that
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by ludston 4y ago
I disagree. It's easy to choose this as a position if you intend to argue disingenuously, and therefore you always ensure that your argument positions are logically sound, and complex and abstract enough so as to exclude most others fr
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by ludston 4y ago
Like a Web browser?
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by ludston 4y ago
I usually use git for this
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by ludston 4y ago
You're missing the points of failure and the complexity of dealing with them. If the truck supposed to be servicing one leg of the journey has a breakdown, or the driver goes on sick leave, suddenly every container that was to pass via
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by ludston 4y ago
> The speedup factor is order-dependent. This is why it is very difficult to justify optimization work to management. If there are 20 things to optimize that take 10 seconds each, the change isn't really noticeable until you're
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by ludston 4y ago
Not that I can claim to understand the business model at all, but usually people that buy food are buying drinks too. You ought to happily make a loss on food if it is guaranteed to be exceeded by increased drink sales.
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by ludston 4y ago
Ego is the real problem. Placing too much value on managing your external identity is what leads to assuming how other people feel about your experiences is more important than how you feel having them. How can you enjoy a nice meal when yo
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by ludston 4y ago
Well one historic way of doing this, was instead of trading directly in minute quantities of gold, people would store larger amounts of gold in a bank and trade contracts that represent certain fractions of what is stored. This was called &
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by ludston 4y ago
You can verify gold with a vessel of water, an already verified piece of gold and a set of scales. It's taught in story form to primary age children with the famous quote "Eureka I found it!"
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by ludston 4y ago
It's quite possible that the musical skills you picked up from your piano lessons are reason why you had the "talent" to picked for your schools chorus.
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by ludston 5y ago
Seems to be a lot of nitpicking and judging here for what is a cute little project that made this guy happy enough that he wanted to share it.
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by ludston 5y ago
It's a quote from one of his ficticious Discworld novels that introduces elves in his specific universe.
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by ludston 5y ago
Even Rust code can still be unsafe. It's a question of where it can be unsafe. You're reducing the scope of code that can be unsafe to specific areas.
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by ludston 5y ago
'Acquisitiveness' must be clearly defined as a category, given the colloquial definition of it being the "desire to get things" seems tautological. Otherwise Russel is failing to say anything more than, "humans are
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by ludston 5y ago
A colleagues son was in a motorcycle accident, and needed some emergency surgery to fix his leg. He was talking about how he was really dreading the hospital bill. I got to go through the joy of explaining to him that because we're in
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by ludston 5y ago
Haha true. I got stuck on that problem for a few months before I gave up and started researching the math behind it.
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by ludston 5y ago
I've gone through and launched all 26 projects. It's impressive how fully-featured this is. I might even start using this for some of my own projects. A wonderful thing about Common Lisp is that the code you wrote ten years ago te
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by ludston 5y ago
My good sir. I presume that you don't mean to be offensive, and I am not the kind of person that is offended by unintentional gaffs, but let me clarify for you why your line of speaking, is, in fact offensive. First, reread everything
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by ludston 5y ago
Article unclear: Thermal coal or coking coal? If this is for all coal, I would expect the price to go up as demand for thermal coal decreases (as coking coal is higher quality and therefore costs more). Although some cursory googling indi
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by ludston 5y ago
I don't think you should make prejudiced generalisations or finger in the air guesses about how depression affects people's behavior.
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by ludston 5y ago
You're going to be severely constrained by the fact that idiomatic clojure code uses immutable data structures which cannot theoretically be as fast as mutable ones in sbcl. Even with transience, the Clojure hash map trie is an order o
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by ludston 5y ago
C# properties are good until you need them to be delegates, and then they are annoying.
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by ludston 5y ago
How does your science control for differences between parenting, access to education and nutrition though? I would expect doing so to be unethical and therefore not allowed.

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