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by meko 8y ago
That also explains why it's become astronomically harder to make it as a content creator, instead of easier, like this whole information revolution promised.
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by meko 8y ago
I like this video, it helped me visualize the Fourier transform when I first started getting into this stuff. Still only in calculus 1 though so definitely want to come back to it down the road.
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by meko 8y ago
This is all a ton of pontification without arriving at any sort if logical conclusion. You used to be vegan but stopped because you didn't feel like you could enact change with your diet? Weak .
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by meko 8y ago
So... You used to be vegan but you stopped because of how 'monstrous the self righteous were'? So billions of animals raped and slaughtered every year for taste but but na fk that, some vegans are uppity...? So it seems to me you
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by meko 8y ago
It's tragic how much of afar fry the effects of capitalism are from their ideals. In a 'pro business' world, business would constantly sub contract out to each other; think like these scooter companies being used to make deli
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by meko 8y ago
Not all views are valid and should be tolerated or platformed, though. Assuming you disagree, I challenge you to argue against that without using what amounts to a slippery slope fallacy.
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by meko 8y ago
Methamphetamine by itself isn't neurotoxic, but the additives it is commonly cut with usually are.
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by meko 8y ago
Programming is just glorified copy and paste, so it has more in common with photography than you think.
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by meko 8y ago
Recently built a machine and had some setup issues and was quite dumbfounded by the lack of community support on windows. 90% of search results aren't relevant, and the rest are dead ends. Realized it was the result of ms acting as a s
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by meko 8y ago
'Common' in 'parts' is weasel-wordy with a tinge of orientalism. Whether gutter oil exists in any capacity whatsoever, it'd be merely a brief encounter with rural Chinese principles and the commercialism of the deve
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by meko 8y ago
Indeed. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when the most disadvantaged members of society have no other means to advance other than illicit activities and then those statistics are turned around and continued to be used against them. It&
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by meko 8y ago
Your friend is not wrong but they were still being toolish about it. You mentioned your struggle, your problem; and instead of trying to commiserate they basically said "it could be worse". Know how you feel, most people can'
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by meko 8y ago
Claims of legitimacy aside, The CBD portion of cannabis is supposed to have this affect, not thc.
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by meko 8y ago
This is why I have no side projects, yet. Most problems have already been solved.
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by meko 8y ago
> there are plenty of companies that did far worse that we don't hold equally accountable for Close, bur no cigar. We should definitely hold those companies accountable. We don't, and that's the real problem, not being too
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by meko 8y ago
Any idea that has 'since the beginning of time' in it gets an instant eye roll.
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by meko 8y ago
I did live TeXing for about a year, after only having ~a year of emacs and latex use. It's not as hard as it sounds but yes like you mention, it takes your head out of the lecture and into your editor. However, the idea of 'rewrit
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by meko 8y ago
Tbh ddg results are next to useless except the most common of issues. g! Is the only thing that makes it usable.
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by meko 8y ago
It's an effective method of learning. Expose your brain to the concept, then walk away, come back the next day it later on, repeat. Continue to do this and you'll eventually understand. Repetition is the key to mastery, after all.
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by meko 8y ago
Discrete math at 17? But can't visualize more than a simple shape? Quite the opposite from myself. Vivid spatial imagination, but abstract ideas take lots of mental effort to assimilate. In calc 1 at 30; after spending three decades ha
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by meko 8y ago
You'd be absolutely right but it's still a sad state of affairs.
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by meko 8y ago
I don't follow your logic. Giving way to a fascist Republican agenda is only going to make climate change worse.
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by meko 8y ago
buy a van
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by meko 8y ago
At some point you have to step back and take a good, hard look at yourself when your ideological 'enemy' fights for justice. Maybe you're the baddie.
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by meko 8y ago
I come across that attitude often. I was mocked for pointing out Apex legends wasn't running very well on a $2200 sager machine from 2013. "Lol you idiot!!! How can you possibly expect a new game to run on 5 year old machine!&quo
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by meko 8y ago
It's important to note that 'the government' you mention, is doing the poisoning, is actually through private companies.
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by meko 8y ago
I deleted my fb+twitter several months ago. It was lonely at first. I realized I had let social media 'automate' my social life away. Since then I've been trying to foster actual friendships through the 'normal channels&
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by meko 8y ago
Really? I've witnessed zero efforts on behalf of the government to curb free speech. But if you're talking about private speech that happens on privately owned websites, then that's flat out what is allowed by the constitutio
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by meko 8y ago
Well I guess that makes me a senior developer at heart despite never holding a development job
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by meko 8y ago
As someone trying to break into the field, I'm very intimidated by coding challenges. The ones on leetcode take me an afternoon and some change to get through the easy ones. Some people seem to take no issue with googling the result th

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