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by nimih 5y ago
This looks sweet, I'll definitely play around with it a bit.
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In my experience playing MTG (and other card games), when players discuss skill, they generally mean a (somewhat fuzzy) combination of both deckbuilding and "piloting" ability. It's understandable to want to draw a line betwe
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I agree that Elo falls rather short for multiplayer games (the article's approach probably converges much more slowly, or fails to converge, than an approach which is built around supporting multiplayer contests, and the simplification
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I track ratings and player records for a local tabletop board game league, and the question of how to choose and implement a rating system ends up being pretty interesting, with a lot of literature to read if you start following citations.
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by nimih 5y ago
>As evidenced by the proliferation of overlay ads in their smart TVs Genuine question, is it even an option to pay $X more and get an otherwise identical TV with no overlay ads? It's admittedly been 7 or 8 years since I last purchas
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> Can it really only be about how long you're in an intersection and not what is done while you're there? Empirically, it certainly seems to be the case; the fact sheet linked in the article references a couple of studies which
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by nimih 5y ago
Yeah, I agree that this will probably bring a lot of cyclists into compliance with the law (and hopefully reduce injury and death as more cyclists take advantage of the newly permitted behavior!)
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I think I misread your post originally, and appreciate the correction. My apologies.
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> I'm also uncertain what exactly you're trying to convey by admitting total ignorance and blind faith in a US government agency. I believe it's important to consider the recommendations of experts as well as the evidence
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by nimih 5y ago
Given that I don't know anything about how antibodies and T-cells and all that jazz work and I don't plan on listening to a 2:40hr podcast to learn what some dude on the internet thinks about it, all I can say is that there appear
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by nimih 5y ago
If you read exactly one additional sentence from my post you will see an acknowledgement of that very fact, as well as my justification for bringing up that line of reasoning in the first place. :)
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> What would be the point of getting a vaccine for something you're already immune to? The immunity can wane and the virus can mutate[0]. Same reason you would get a shingles vaccine or a yearly flu shot. [0] Admittedly, this isn&#x
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by nimih 5y ago
> But is the problem of power any different? If anything, it seems like there are more ways that power is limited in current America than 16th century Europe or the USSR. I certainly think so. I think many of the way in which modern inst
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by nimih 5y ago
> When has power ever been limited? The question isn't really whether power has been "limited" (it's unclear to me what that would even mean, honestly), but the form in which it is constituted and what institutions it
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by nimih 5y ago
This is definitely a very cool tech demo, but I got the same feeling reading this as I do when I read a blog post years ago where a guy walked through using very rigid green-red-green TDD to solve a hairy algorithmic problem[0]: it sort of
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by nimih 5y ago
I'm talking about the particular sort of incident mentioned in the grandparent post, where a dev gets a bee in their bonnet about something or other and decides to purposefully screw over their users. Other ecosystems have had supply c
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by nimih 5y ago
> I'd argue most vocal folks on forums or etc don't represent most developers of any given language. Sure, but for some reason, this stuff seems to only happen in the JS community (at least to my knowledge and recollection, whi
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by nimih 5y ago
What do you mean by "backward country" in this context?
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> How do people who write Clojure deal with lack of type checking? Runtime asserts, typically. It ends up being somewhat less of an issue in practice than someone coming from Java or Kotlin would assume, I think, because clojure really o
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by nimih 5y ago
https://www.experimentalmath.info/ would beg to differ, I think.
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by nimih 5y ago
Have you considered that having a pleasant, well-moderated community is part of the draw (and, perhaps, even an explicit goal) of lichess? Such things are apparently expensive to run.
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by nimih 5y ago
It's a program whose only purpose is to download/build some executable files, transfer them to a remote host, and then execute them. That would seem to encompass both "distributing" and "running" software.
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by nimih 5y ago
To be fair to the GP poster, they may have been making a joke[1]. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issue-51275878
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by nimih 5y ago
Luckily, you can spend a couple dozen dollars instead. Or do the other thing I mentioned where you don't worry about soil contaminants at all. Of course, we're on a tech forum full of highly paid professionals, talking not about l
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by nimih 5y ago
Testing your soil is relatively inexpensive[1] and pretty straightforward to do. Further, if the goal is to grow herbs, you can easily stick to gardening in containers or raised beds, where you get to completely control the growing medium.
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by nimih 5y ago
Well, you could start by growing as many of your own herbs as possible for home use. Basil, thyme, and oregano (to pick examples which are called out in the article as especially concerning) are relatively straightforward to grow in decent
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Admittedly, it would be cool if the OP had net_utils_by_specie_empirical_timeseries.xls just sitting around on their hard drive.
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It's probably being used for multiple purposes, regardless of the original intent. Recall that FB originally collected phone numbers for 2FA, but years later decided to use the information for ad targeting[1]. Not that Facebook is uniq
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qalc[1] is also quite nice if you're looking for a command line calculator; it handles units well, but has some other fancy features, and has a very lax parser which i find to be a huge plus. $ qalc '0.03$/hr*1month&#x2
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by nimih 5y ago
Novel to web pages, is what I meant. Software such as TeX and MS Word have a considerable array of (sometimes quite complicated!) tools for dealing with such things, and the absence of such concerns from web development was something that I

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