medstrom

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571.
by medstrom 5y ago
Nope :-)
572.
by medstrom 5y ago
I thought that would be the case too, but after a few years and after adopting Doom Emacs, I've reached a stable flow. I don't fuss with it anymore. I just write new commands occasionally.
573.
by medstrom 5y ago
Funny, I can't say I've suffered problems from that, and my conversation memory is terrible. Are you sure it's not a matter of attitude, communication style or expectations turning it into a problem for you?
574.
by medstrom 5y ago
That's what I get for Googling "8 light minutes in km".
575.
by medstrom 5y ago
Hell, my phone could fry bacon after 10 minutes in the sunlight and we're 18,000,000 km away from the source.
576.
by medstrom 5y ago
What, you still have the scar?!
577.
by medstrom 5y ago
Have you tried tapping the back button when it happens? Always works on my non-updated 2012 Paperwhite, which incidentally doesn't have this bug (or any bug).
578.
by medstrom 5y ago
I haven't used a desktop since 2010 and my laptop is old. Building AOSP is the sort of huge compute-task that sticks out with its rarity.
579.
by medstrom 5y ago
70 wealthy retirees, each paying $100M annually.
580.
by medstrom 5y ago
So, it's like creating a special data type for each "counter-style" identifier. For example suppose a StudentsId which is not an integer, it's a StudentsInteger, so it cannot be mixed up with UsersId. Admittedly that see
581.
by medstrom 5y ago
They might have said it if the Americas had even worse living conditions than Antarctica. We're not colonizing that either.
582.
by medstrom 5y ago
I think reading about prions is the scary part, no need to wait for the deaths.
583.
by medstrom 5y ago
In this case I guess the message targets people in other cities than the doomed one. "This could happen to your city too".
584.
by medstrom 5y ago
If you don't categorize bookmarks anyway, Pocket and equivalent might be all-around better than bookmarks.
585.
by medstrom 5y ago
Organic isn't pesticide-free, it just uses different pesticide formulas.
586.
by medstrom 5y ago
The manufacturing byproducts of vegetables are known to be hazardous (pesticide residue). I'll wager those PFOA are worse, but it's worth saying that if you're gonna manufacture PTFE for human consumption you could possibly c
587.
by medstrom 5y ago
It's rarely questioned in our society that satiety comes down to food volume (or weight). It's what we mean by "high calorie" food: high kcal per gram. I agree with you, but a mind-bending consequence is that there'
588.
by medstrom 5y ago
With all its build options and modules, the traditional monolith-microkernel distinction doesn't really apply. Do you mean something else by "extremely monolithic"?
589.
by medstrom 5y ago
I don't think it lacks code review, it's famously hard to get half-baked stuff through Torvalds.
590.
by medstrom 5y ago
To some people I know, a "glass of water" means a small glass about 200 ml, to others it's 500+ ml. Also, how much power does one "house" draw? But it's moot, the point is not that you should take away "82
591.
by medstrom 5y ago
A shortcut can be to write fiction. Even if it doesn't go anywhere publishable, even if you only write a sentence a week, regularly tackling the challenge of writing well will naturally make you pay attention to how others write.
592.
by medstrom 5y ago
In Nassim Taleb's words, the decisionmaker doesn't have "skin in the game" e.g. they won't be punished or shamed when the decision turns out badly.
593.
by medstrom 5y ago
The hint was in the domain (sciencemag.org).
594.
by medstrom 5y ago
Not to mention 5,000 instead of 40,000 EUR...
595.
by medstrom 5y ago
The Oceania migrations started 60,000 years ago! Agriculture was experimented with early on in some places, but agricultural civilization with all that comes with it is a different thing. That's taken to have started popping up about
596.
by medstrom 5y ago
I think you're overstating the importance of land bridges. The English Channel is narrow and hunter-gatherers have crossed much greater bodies of water, like in Oceania. Actually, water is essentially a teleportation device: you arri
597.
by medstrom 5y ago
In hindsight, this makes a lot of sense. Of course writing was created to keep track of who got paid and who's yet to be paid, who's paid their taxes and who's yet to pay.
598.
by medstrom 5y ago
"Manipulating each other's agency" is a hell of a description of nonessential economic activity.
599.
by medstrom 5y ago
This is not a chatroom, think twice. Climate change won't kill literally everyone.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Just a layman, but it seems like you could solve the heat and condensation by adjusting ventilation.

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