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by nimih 6y ago
Why not? To me (a layperson in the physics of helmets and brains), they would seem to be quite directly related, especially when the cause of the gees is not related to an impact.
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by nimih 6y ago
And how about that black hole photo from last year? Definitely a hoax--black holes are supposed to be black , dummies!
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by nimih 6y ago
Providing a monetary incentive to discourage behavior which is risky or leads to negative societal outcomes--i.e. performing non-essential work in a crowded workplace in the face of an uncontrolled pandemic--seems pretty reasonable, honestl
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by nimih 6y ago
The thesis of the article appears to be, in broad strokes, examining how material conditions shape patterns of thought. If there is truth in that, perhaps it's not the best idea to push the tone of thread titles on a discussion website
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by nimih 6y ago
On the subject of the tail wagging the dog, mathematicians have been fighting about non-constructive proofs and the law of excluded middle far longer than they've been writing proof assistants, and deriding a direction of active and fr
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by nimih 6y ago
At the point where you're actively polluting google search results as if you had such a scraping program, is this a meaningful distinction to make for anyone other than Google's TOS compliance team?
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by nimih 6y ago
Yes, exactly: there would seem to be factors that both increase and decrease the risk of both activities, so the relative danger of each one is an empirical question, not something which can be deduced from first principles.
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by nimih 6y ago
I'm in the opposite situation, personally. Irregardless, the point I meant to convey is that I'm able to talk myself into both the original claim and its converse, so it's probably better to actually point to a statistical st
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by nimih 6y ago
On the other hand, when I'm cycling, I'm typically not moving at >15 mph or so. When I'm walking, reduce that to 3mph. That seems like it would do a lot to counteract the car's crumple zones and airbags in terms of se
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by nimih 6y ago
> If you really don't like the rounded borders, use wget Or just add * { border-radius 0 !important; } to the page stylesheet, either via userContent.css or a browser extension. Once you know the process, it'
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by nimih 6y ago
I think Clojure puts a similar amount of effort to Haskell in order to discourage mutable state: the core library makes the easy solutions the ones that use immutable data structures and pure functions, and you have relatively ergonomic esc
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by nimih 7y ago
You're just shadowing the previous binding with a new one, not actually mutating anything[1]: λ> let foo = 1 λ> let foo = 2 λ> foo => 2 could be rewritten[2] as λ> let foo = 1 in ( let foo = 2
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by nimih 7y ago
There exist successful veterinary coronavirus vaccines, and an optimist (at least, a sufficiently cynical one) would posit that we don't have any human examples because it has not previously been deemed sufficiently profitable (or, mor
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by nimih 7y ago
Given that the Python foundation has been trying to get folks to run a python-to-python converter for more than a decade and have not completely succeeded, I'm skeptical that an AST transformer is really sufficient for migrating off th
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by nimih 7y ago
Thanks, this is a helpful example :)
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by nimih 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what causes foldl' to leak memory in most cases? I generally use it out of habit if I know I will consume the entire list and don't have a good reason to use foldr, so it would be nice to know if I'm shootin
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by nimih 7y ago
Software engineers are a tiny fraction of the population, and any money given to them can always be recouped via taxes anyways. The added bureaucratic/administrative complexity on such a time-sensitive measure just doesn't seem wo
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by nimih 7y ago
It's specifically an addon for folks who normally have dozens (or hundreds) of tabs open, and I can only imagine it's actively detrimental to someone who only has a handful of tabs at a time. IMO you should just be thankful that y
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by nimih 7y ago
> In the functional programming paradigm what is the quantify-able metric that makes it definitively better? It seems extremely unlikely that you'll ever find a satisfactory answer to this, because any advantage a programming langua
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by nimih 7y ago
if only there was some way to receive mail without providing your physical address. perhaps some sort of numbered "box" at the post office that could receive mail for you to retrieve at your convenience.
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by nimih 7y ago
If the folks at rust-lang.org are malicious and willing to put in some extremely customized web-server logic to serve up evil code when they think it won't be noticed, why wouldn't they just sneak it into ./configure or some
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by nimih 7y ago
The author's rebuttal to user agent attack doesn't rely on how the server decides what content to serve, and so is naturally generalizable to the timing attack. It's unfortunate how that section is named, because it fools peo
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by nimih 7y ago
Additionally, at least in (GHC) Haskell, you can recover most of the flexibility typical of dynamic languages via use of undefined values, partial functions, the PartialTypeSignatures extension, and the defer-type-errors flag. Personally, I
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by nimih 7y ago
The paper describes a potato puree, so presumably they're expected to cook+mash+season the potatoes the day prior and put them in a reusable food pouch. Definitely cheaper and probably more pleasant tasting.
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by nimih 7y ago
In practice, a) most situations that come up in poker just aren't that complicated -- if you're good at mental math, you can compute the exact odds for the most common situations in your head with some practice b) there are some s
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by nimih 7y ago
The result holds even if Player 1 knows Player 2's strategy and attempts to foil it, although as you correctly observe, the paper only claims >50%, and Player 1 can minimize that margin by picking the two numbers to be right next to
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by nimih 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow your complaint about "rop" (which is a library I'm not familiar with), and I suppose my jokiness obscured the point I was trying to make, so I'll try reiterating, since it seems like you'r
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by nimih 7y ago
You're right, one is a language with a data-structure-centric approach to problem solving and an emphasis on pure transformations of immutable nested trees and lazy sequences, and the other one forces you to learn the word Monad. Edit:
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by nimih 7y ago
Anecdotally, clojure seems to have a very nice subset of the language which is easy to debug and expressive enough to solve most problems effectively and naturally. What makes clojure exciting [for me] isn't the ability to build effici
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by nimih 7y ago
Historically speaking, the puritanical have never really been all that hindered by a lack of Puritanism.

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