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by munchler 2y ago
I like this idea, but the presentation is essentially a handwritten textbook, which is close to the worst of both worlds. Some interesting drawings would be more helpful, or at least more entertaining, than plain text that is difficult to
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by munchler 2y ago
> It doesn't matter if life improves if the only choices one has in life is either live under the power imbalance of wage labor or extract value from those who do. Most people choose this system, when given a vote via democracy, eve
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by munchler 2y ago
I’m in my late 50’s, and I still love making software, maybe even more now than when I was younger. What’s happened to me over decades as a professional is that I’ve totally lost any interest in “career” or the large corporate entity that e
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by munchler 2y ago
Fishing the comics section out of the Sunday paper to read a big Calvin and Hobbes strip was a joy. At the peak of the era, our paper (The Washington Post) actually had two separate comics sections, one with C&H on the front and the oth
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by munchler 2y ago
I agree that abiogenesis probably required a long buildup to create the necessary conditions, but I think there's still a clear dividing line between that first self-replicator and whatever preceded it. I don't see how you could a
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes, it didn't leave any evidence behind, other than life itself, and it could have been essentially a fluke event.
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by munchler 2y ago
Replication is a prerequisite for evolution, not a product of evolution. If you’re interested in how replication first arose, you want to study abiogenesis, not evolution. The tricky thing about abiogenesis, though, is that it only has to h
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by munchler 2y ago
Just to be clear, that's 100 pounds of quartz with a little gold in it, yes?
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by munchler 2y ago
If people start saying “zeroth century”, it’s only going to create confusion, because “first century” will then become ambiguous.
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by munchler 2y ago
One of the problems with homeopathy is that many practitioners don’t understand what homeopathy actually means. It’s essentially synonymous with “naturopathy” for them.
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by munchler 2y ago
Right, but how to do this while preserving the placebo effect? If the patient knows it’s “just” water, the effect is lost. Some sort of deliberate deception seems to be necessary, which raises ethical problems.
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by munchler 2y ago
Homeopathy is total BS, but the placebo effect is real. Is there a way that medical science can allow people to benefit from the latter without rewarding quacks who push the former?
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by munchler 2y ago
It's a problem when "philosophers" opine on physics without understanding physics very well. A few obvious examples: > Long, long ago, physicists stopped asking the question 'What is matter?' Physicists are absol
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by munchler 2y ago
Clearly it's better to enforce constraints at compile-time, if possible. However, there are many kinds of constraints that mainstream type checkers just can't handle. (Dependent types would help a lot, but still seem limited to ni
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by munchler 2y ago
FsCheck is great, but very specific to F# (hence the name). Having a separate C# variant makes sense to me.
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by munchler 2y ago
This is a great story of finding a way to be productive inside a giant, impersonal machine like Microsoft. That said, it did nothing to convince me to invest more mental energy in PowerShell. Every time I use it, I have the same “meh” react
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by munchler 2y ago
Does this rule out pilot wave theory, in which a particle always has a definite position at all times?
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by munchler 2y ago
This is a frustrating article because it never explains why e is the natural logarithm base. To me, the easiest way to understand it is via continuous compound interest: * If you invest $1 at 100% interest for 1 year, you get $2 at the end
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by munchler 2y ago
> If they're using their official powers they're not culpable So the President's job is to faithfully execute the law, but he is allowed to break the law while he's executing the law? C'mon.
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by munchler 2y ago
The president already has official authority to drone strike terrorists. All he has to do now is make an official determination that his political opponents are terrorists.
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by munchler 2y ago
I went back to check my email and it turns out that I received several Haskell enquiries from the same recruiter over a period of a few years. He only ever described the employer as a “Global Blockchain Fin-Tech Firm” without being more spe
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by munchler 2y ago
Everything in the observable universe compressed to an extremely uniform degree, as reflected in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), our earliest "image" of the universe. Variations in the CMBR are on the order of on
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by munchler 2y ago
Is that a blockchain company? Every potential employer that has ever mentioned Haskell to me seems to be one.
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by munchler 2y ago
Contrary viewpoint to what? I don't think anyone claimed that there was no English equivalent.
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by munchler 2y ago
> the evidence for Riccioli’s system is weighing down the scale-pan, while Galileo’s less substantiated suggestion rises upward What exactly is the difference between the two theories? It would be interesting to see them both in the cont
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by munchler 2y ago
That works for yes/no questions, but not for informational questions, like "Where's the Eiffel Tower?".
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by munchler 2y ago
Because it is way more intuitive to think about particles, at least at first. For example, particles have mass and momentum. Fields do not.
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by munchler 2y ago
Pornhub home page has a very clear warning before you get to anything explicit: This is an adult website This website contains age-restricted materials including nudity and explicit depictions of sexual activity. By entering, you
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by munchler 2y ago
> Just remember, if you're ever debugging something and some values in a Class/Object/Group of them are set and others are unset the state machine avoids that issue. Better yet, switch to a language that supports discrimin
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by munchler 2y ago
Spherical aberration in its primary mirror (and other issues) discovered shortly after launch. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/what-was-w...

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