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by milesrout 1y ago
I remind you of what I was replying to. >Her therapist said not to rinse the dishes & just run the dishwasher twice, even three times if that’s what it took to get them clean. It was a game-changer for her, one that enabled her to do
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by milesrout 1y ago
It isn't. Just like it wasn't sliding into fascism under Reagan, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush 2, or Trump the first time, even though all the same people claimed that at the time.
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by milesrout 1y ago
2+ hours long??? Surely you're exaggerating
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by milesrout 1y ago
We are wealthier than we have ever been so I fail to see how capitalism has made us poor. Poor compared to what? The past when we were poorer?
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by milesrout 2y ago
Being so emotional they react wildly to one of the most common words in the English language does in fact make them stupid.
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by milesrout 2y ago
And the evidence of that is what? What is the mechanism behind that? How is it testable? This is what annoys me about this field. It is just magical thinking and baseless speculation. Random ideas get given names like "dark forest theo
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by milesrout 2y ago
Plenty of lifeforms have changed the composition of the atmosphere. At faster rates than we are changing it now.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Is there a source for this that isn't plastered with banner ads? I can't read more than a sentence at a time without having to scroll past adverts. I do wonder why I was stupid enough to pay for a phone with a bigger screen as it
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by milesrout 2y ago
How are you being a dick?! There are loads of reasons why you may want or need to instruct someone to do something. I prefer the imperative mood. It is more direct. "Sudo make me a cup of tea".
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by milesrout 2y ago
This isn't a habit of communication. I honestly mean it: if you get upset that someone said you "should" do something, but you are fine when they say you "ought to" do it, then you must be stupid. They mean the same
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by milesrout 2y ago
The Flynn effect is about the change in measured intelligence through the 20th century. It tells us precisely nothing about the difference in intelligence between the 13th century and today, let alone going back before the Bronze Age Collap
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by milesrout 2y ago
Should is a commonly used word and a fine one. You should feel free to use it. If someone gets hot under the collar because you said he should do something then he is an idiot. "Ought to" is essentially a synonym. Anyone that gets
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by milesrout 2y ago
You are describing exactly what I said: the media makes up nonsense--or is fed it by activists--and then people think it is funny and play with the idea.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Nobody that is over 30 thinks any of those things are necessary because we all remember them not existing and websites handling plenty of traffic fine.
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by milesrout 2y ago
"Human history" includes prehistory.
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by milesrout 2y ago
For most of human history we were hunter-gatherers. Even assuming you mean post-industrial history this isn't true though.
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by milesrout 2y ago
>How many of your middle school, high school and even college buddies do you still have a relationship with? All the ones that were true friends, and none of the ones that were just friendly acquaintances.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Procedural fluency is the basis for conceptual fluency. Maths is very layered: every layer builds on the next. You can't do algebra if your arithmetic is slow, as every algebra problem has half a dozen arithmetical subproblems. And you
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by milesrout 2y ago
This is a baffling criticism. Why would you expect a niche not to have its own jargon? Not that "bespoke" is (it is an older usage than "custom" and is used widely). >people invent for things perfectly well describe
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by milesrout 2y ago
Mechanical watches don't require much maintenance. They need reoiling every decade or so. They also aren't usually very expensive. You wouldn't say that clothes are a Veblen good just because there are expensive clothing bran
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by milesrout 2y ago
That graph is misinformation. It deliberately excludes the wages of the most productive workers (but includes their productivity) which makes it meaningless.
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by milesrout 2y ago
It is uncapped and indefinite. People always want more than they have. We get used to what we have. What was considered a luxury is baseline today. Today's luxuries will before long be considered part of the "poverty line".
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by milesrout 2y ago
No, functions aren't first class in C. When you use a function in an expression it undergoes lvalue conversion and "decays" to a pointer to the function. You can only call, store, etc function pointers, not functions. Functio
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by milesrout 2y ago
Pixel-perfect alignment shouldn't be a goal. The web is for documents.
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by milesrout 2y ago
I edited it about 10s after posting it.
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by milesrout 2y ago
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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by milesrout 2y ago
A session by definition extends beyond one page.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Session information is usually stored in a cookie. It is not better to use a session URI parameter.
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by milesrout 2y ago
.format is also nice because you can have more complex subexpressions broken over multiple lines instead of having complex expressions inside the {}.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Don't forget string.Template: import string t = string.Template("foo $bar") t.substitute(bar="bar")

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