monkeycantype

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by monkeycantype 3y ago
does anyone have an example of how to use the (position,position) syntax? I can't get it to work. I can see in the docs it's not recommended, but i've got a lot of diagrams I've been scripting to render using graphviz us
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
The relevance is that the most important contribution genetics seems to make to obesity is the effect on the drive to eat. I learned a lot from this summary of obesity genetics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-02
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
In 2016 my partner and I had our fourth child, and in the lifestyle changes that went along with 4 children I found I put on weight. Unrelated to this I had to take antibiotics several course of antibiotics, and I dropped 12 kilos over abou
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I know speaking in abstract or on a high level is difficult, but I believe whenever we speak of the actions of the government of China and aligned businesses as ‘China’ we strengthen a narrative that they use of clash of civilisations, that
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I've enjoyed what I've read of Singer, I agree with a lot of what I read, but Utilitarianism misses something essential - we experience the world as an individual, all our eggs in this one irreplaceable basket. To feel safe, to be
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I initially read the comment you are responding to differently, in that I saw the ‘observer’ in the statement as not the state but the community, on re-reading I’m not sure that makes sense. All the same, reading HN politics, it often seems
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
Australia has regional variation, but English has only been spoken here since British conquest 200 years ago, so there wasn't long for strong variation to develop before mass media connected people to the sound of voices from other pla
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration. If you watch footage from the mid 20th centur
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
the genetics of obesity are amazing. we all have a unique combination of genes, and epigenic features that influece the endocrine and neuronal pathways that drive the desire to eat, these different genotypes affect our behaviour. Ozempic i
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I’m about to start a new job, I’ve worked on and off at my current work place for about 13 years spread out over the last 20 years. We were an early start up and we did web development in c and then later c++ because the web browser and th
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
The coolest nyquist frequency application I've every come across, if you look up how modulation of nerve impulses works in the optic never you can figure up the fastest rate of blinking your eye can perceive, and it checks out in reali
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
I’m Australia/New Zealand the primary driver would be international migration for urban job/education opportunities
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
New Zealand should be on this list. We Australians on here should be big enough to admit that if Australia was a fruit of the forest mixed berry yoplait, then New Zealand is the best bit that you lick off the under side of the foil lid
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
All our kids are creative, but he's also got the execution and promotion genes, I'd claim good parenting but it's just the roll of the genetic dice.
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
oh this is good, very good. are you able to tell me anything even more basic of how play works? The inspiration for this is a combination of the Adventure Time episode Card Wars, and seeing, but never playing pokemon cards. What are super-o
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Ask HN: For my 6y.o. – the key ideas of trading card/deck games
2 points by monkeycantype 4y ago|4 comments
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
>> to GPT Nice verb, is this an original coinage?
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
About a year after the Berlin Wall came down I spent months riding a bicycle around Germany, an Australian - I have never quite got over the experience of the condensed scale of Germany, that I could find a clump of forest to wild camp in (
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
'nanny state' is almost a shibboleth to communicate a particular flavour of centre-right political view in Australia. Using 'Nanny state' usually communicates someone supports a tough on crime agenda, cuts to social and
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
I'm an Australian, and don't think that quite nails the dissonance. We're comfortable with being a relatively authoritarian relatively liberal country, because we believe that the government is competent and under our control
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
oh I didn't it was france -> japan too, I know about the japan -> france fascination from the old japanese prints that feature the eifel tower, and hot air balloons, and of course the stories of japanese tourists being overwhelm
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
Given than English is not the author's first language, and he finds it chaotic, perhaps he actually meant, {despite} being born in France, I was immersed in Japanese culture from a very young age
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
It’s not very hard to find smart, well informed left wing / progressive discussion - if that’s what you’re looking for. I think it would be great if we got better at recognising that a lot of political discussion pretty silly. The more
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
Can I please ask where I can find out about the sites Africans use to find online work? In the past I’ve used the highly advertised freelance sites for small pieces of work, and I like the idea of sending the money somewhere where Australia
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
Is this using braille characters for the scatter plot?
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
hello remove, Of course your right, but what if absolute efficiency doesn't matter all, what if the only thing that matters is relative efficiency? If knots and folds of two bonded atoms could create units with different properties : h
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
…Australia looks on confused… what you’re saying mass resource extractors should pay tax for that…
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
I do contract work for a company that has it's pretty customer facing site as a mix of angular/react/react native and .net core apis and the less pretty internal staff site which is vanilla html, js and c++ cgi apis, so I get
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
I live in an unusual town. Trades here at least are flourishing. 20ish years ago this was a working class satellite to a small industrial city, just a few shops and a petrol station. Most of the houses were fibro-cement and most of them emp
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by monkeycantype 4y ago
Chains of amino acids can form interesting proteins by 3d folding a 1d chain, so I wouldn't give up on your two hole tinker toys so quickly. Perhaps 2 hole node structures will never dominate in an environment with 3 hole nodes, but in

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