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by noneeeed 4y ago
That’s really interesting, thanks for explaining. I find it fascinating how differently languages have developed.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I certainly agree with you that `fold` is a terrible name for it. That makes me think of some kind of halving action. "inject:into" is definitely a bit better. It's amazing how quite a small addition to a name can make a big
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Is that not just regional accents? Don't most countries with a reasonably sized population have differences in punctuation? Or are you referring to something different? As an English person, there are parts of my own country where it w
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Huh, weird. I definitely read the article and just that bit just didn't register! Weird. Would still be interesting to see if this can be made to work well at grid scale, feels like we need as many different technologies so we minimise
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by noneeeed 4y ago
That's a lovely little demonstration. The method name `inject` needs to be formally deprecated in Ruby. It's fundamentally a simple method, but the name _really_ throws people off. Reduce isn't perfect, but it's a bit cl
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Sounds it. But as the article points out, this is probably more suitable for static installations like houses or charging stations, not in your car or phone.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
> The team says that this battery design would be best suited to the scale of a few dozen kilowatt-hours, like powering an individual home from renewable sources. I'm curious to know if this would also be suitable for grid-scale sto
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I have friends who spent a couple of years in Korea and they get quite sad when they talk about the kids they saw. They just seemed to have no life outside of an endless stream of classes and tutors. I'm trying to strike a balance with
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Thankyou for the reminder of that book. I've been a big fan of Finkel's for a long time, for exactly the reason you describe and his playful humour. I've been trying to find something on Audible to listen to and this sounds r
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Neutron stars vary in size, the comparison to a city is to give the rough order of magnitude, not the specific size. The rough order of magnitude in this case is “big, but not incomprehensible so” unlike most objects in cosmology which are
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. I know a number of older/retired people who are in good health into their 70s and 80s. None of them "do exercise" in the sense of going to the gym, but all of them do sports/activity of some for
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by noneeeed 4y ago
You are probably thinking of the work of Bill Norhaus. NPR have covered this https://www.npr.org/2014/05/02/309040279/in-4-000-years-one-... The cost of light now is vastly cheaper than your estimate. Wh
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by noneeeed 4y ago
As a brit I get quite frustrated by this too. The obsession with Oxford and Cambridge is hugely frustrating. We have many really good universities, but somehow many people will just never be able to get over the obsession with oxbridge.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
One of my favourite concepts from Douglas Adams was the Total Perspective Vortex, a form of punishment that would drive the victim insane by showing them the entire totality of existence and their place in it.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
The complexity of the Marvel universe is making it harder to miss a few films or shows and then come back to it without doing a big catch-up. I feel like they are going all-in on the fans, at the expense of the more casual audience like me.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
That's delightful. I love this sort of silly (miss-)use of technology.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
One option would be to tax it based on the amount of thc. Get the rates right and you could make it more profitable to produce less potent stuff.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
If it’s the one I’m thinking of that episode made me so frustrated about a segment of the population. They had to lie about what they were doing because there were people who objected to the fact this was being done to protect the environme
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Certainly in UK English we use watchdog to mean any organisation that has an oversight role, frequently government ones. For example the Financial Services Authority might be described as “the banking watchdog”, it is very much a government
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by noneeeed 4y ago
(Not the parent) I think that I would be quite good as a teacher, and would enjoy the act of teaching motivated and interested student. However I have enough friends/relatives who are working "capital-T" Teachers to know that
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Likewise. I get very frustrated by all the people who will refuse to acknowledge that our ancestors did some atrocious things to people. People will just through some extrodinary hoops to rationalise why it either wasn't so terrible, o
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Lots of other good comments here. I just want to add that that fact you are aware that you have gaps, and have explicitly identified what some of them are is a massive step forward in sorting out the situation. I would also say that you a
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by noneeeed 4y ago
It's not the most coherent explanation, but the "series of tubes" metaphore was perfectly fine for it's audience when trying to explain that contention for bandwidth is a thing. The mockery from the tech community was ou
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by noneeeed 4y ago
It's like what happened with Google Pay (I think it was that) where they rewrote it from scratch with fewer features, it was so bizarre.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
On a personal level, this is why I always have a bit of cash on me. I have a couple of notes in my wallet, and one off those cash capsules on my key ring. I can and do pay using my phone but I always have real cards with me. I probably soun
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by noneeeed 4y ago
We are doing graduate/junior interviews at the moment and the first one was just like this. He was like a politician with prepared points he wanted to make and would reel them off after hearing some key word in s question. Thankfully t
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by noneeeed 4y ago
There's something about good, thoughtful sci-fi that really suits the short-story or novella form.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Love that story. His short stories were fantastic, I read the complete collection again during the first lockdown (and Rendevous with Rama got me through my bout of covid). 9 Billion Names of God is great. I found it funny how he could pred
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. The Wikipedia summary was enough.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I thinks that’s what the article is saying. I found the descriptions didn’t really explain the differences very well. We use a cursor that combines the sort key and normally the ID as a secondary sort and pointer value, otherwise you can’t

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