medstrom

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   by medstrom 5y ago

   5k?! That's seriously low. Other velomobiles (going by velomobiel.nl) aren't even ebikes and still go for at least 8k (or 6.6k without VAT to be fair). That's an exciting development, hopefully it's not vaporware.
2. 602.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   Or to ride semi-naked. Now there's a sight for winter.
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   by medstrom 5y ago

   It's strange that this is a meme, because my experience is the opposite: as a motorist, bicycles are the most visible things around. As a cyclist, I see cars react to me every time I'm close enough to them that it's relevant.
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   by medstrom 5y ago

   Ah, the amorphous "they". Like the amorphous "many". I'm not sure there's all that many that do this.
5. 605.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   You're saying I should use custom symbols like 'true and 'false and put in checks like (eq 'false x) instead of (null x)? To avoid subtle errors? Honest question.
6. 606.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   There's always going to be a few who don't get it, and those are the ones who end up publishing. What I'd like to see is widespread understanding on the readers' part of sampling biases like this.
7. 607.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   Keeping in mind I'm a hobbyist, not a professional, but it seems to me much of coding boils down to this process of refactoring, spinning out libraries and restructuring to use Terraform or whatever, and at some point the process itsel
8. 608.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   Easy to say. Of course you do that when you can. What afflicts me is all the cases when the task is subtly different, with different requirements, but still feels like something I've done before.
9. 609.▲
   by medstrom 5y ago

   "We tested our tires at the same speeds and found no speed difference". You don't say?
10. 610.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    Is it that much better than the food you could make at home? To me the exorbitant price has always been about the locale and the privilege of sitting there.
11. 611.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    S/he's very sorry for misusing "starbase", s/he means a station.
12. 612.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    TLDR: re3data and FAIRsharing appear to be registries of "where can you find this repository", in case they change URI, I guess. Not so much for finding specific datasets, just hosters? I noticed many of these repos are javascript
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    And it saves a ton of battery life!
14. 614.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    Let's not forget that when users can give feedback, many of them are harsh and entitled about it. See why some projects turn off the GitHub issue tracker.
15. 615.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    For me, plain black looks very cheap: it shows me that my monitor's "black" actually is grey (hardware dependent of course). By opting for color, the off-blackness is intentional and thus forgivable.
16. 616.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    I cook fish which is much worse for my co-tenants than coffee smoke. Kitchens make all sorts of smells, but it's fine as it's temporary. The chaff is quickly wiped away if the counter is reasonably clear. If the counter is a clutt
17. 617.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    You use paper or metal filter?
18. 618.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    I brew without equipment: leave the grounds in the mug. This is the easiest possible method to travel with :-)
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    I've read low methionine per se isn't as ideal as an appropriate methionine-glycine balance (googlable if you want), i.e. sure, eat a bit less muscle meat, but focus on eating more skin and bone broth -- the whole animal.
20. 620.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    Um. Example of sites where you have to load the whole video? I've never seen that in my life (I'm 29).
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    SCP is the opposite of say, the Star Wars franchise where George Lucas (now Disney) gets to say what's canon even if all the fans disagree. In the SCP-verse, everything is licensed Creative Commons (I think), so your own headcanon is
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    Ah, 055. The beginning of a whole arc on the Antimemetics Division, which has been formed from scratch over and over again every time someone realized there ought to be an antimemetics division.
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    Modern phones have done their utmost to end these. If you even find the option to load a vcard they will (often sneakily) copy the contents to Google Contacts or similar, and you don't know if the phone is even keeping the vcard update
24. 624.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    I agree, there is no "enemy camp", but people who frequently perceive one should not learn about fallacies or other rhetoric material. Good post.
25. 625.▲
    by medstrom 5y ago

    I always see (when driving) and feel seen (when cycling). This might depend on where you live.
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    There are better ways of doing that. This type of knowledge, we're prone to overapply to others and underapply to ourselves. You see the many flaws of the enemy camp and don't see as many in your own. So you pigeonhole yourself in
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    I'm wary of memorizing lists of biases and fallacies, ever since reading Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AdYdLP2sRqPMoe8fb/knowing-ab... This is not the way to develop you
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    Being solutions-oriented, looking at solutions proposed by each party, is one way to cut through bullshit. But if you think about it, if everyone already has a solution coming to the table and just argue for them, they will come away having
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    Building rockets is not only down to mental capacity, but circumstance. If you consider the humans of the last 200,000 years as another species, would you also deduce a huge "jump" in mental capacity between those and the humans o
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    by medstrom 5y ago

    Let's be clear that there is, for individuals. For firms maybe not, but they could also rely on just never going to court - because it costs too much for who would take them to court.