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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Airline food has always been one of the most impressive things in the world to me. The logistics of feeding 500-odd people up in the sky repeatedly all over the planet is a wonder of the modern world. How is the food brought to the plane? H
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
That's why I voted for Brexit. People like von der Leyen will never see sense. They just need to be gotten rid of. If the EU were actually democratic and sensible I wouldn't have a problem with it. Press releases mean little. Resu
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
If true, the methodologies and languages they use must be quite inefficient if they can be automated by machines like that.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
How very steam punk
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Shouldn't it be called RUDA?
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Shouldn't it be called TXSE rather than NYSE Texas?
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
High tech or low tech, it doesn't matter. What matters is whether the tech is appropriate to solve the problems at hand.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
This book doing the rounds again reminds me of the ever relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/610/ Everyone likes to think of themselves as special somehow, so authors of fiction write stories to play up to that.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
And OpenAI scrapped the public internet to train its models.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Well it hasn't been long since Disney got everyone used to suing each other for making similar drawings either. Which is odd because Mickey wasn't the first mouse drawn with round ears at the time of his first cartoon. A whole Sim
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Trade routes passed through the British isles long before the Romans. Cornish tin was highly prized for making Bronze. Burials around Stonehenge have been excavated by archeologists and tests showed the people buried there spent extended pe
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
I've been thinking about Tintin as well recently after seeing Elon's rockets. The concept of a young investigative journalist travelling the globe while solving mysteries and seeing wonders both natural and cultural certainly does
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Yeah that's a reasonable conclusion. The way we can take information in at a subconscious level and extrapolate from it I find remarkable. Maybe the extent of that capability could be tested. I also have heard that physicists may now t
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Who told you that it wouldn't? And philosophically speaking where do you draw the line between 'you' and the rest of the world? Do you think the neurons in your head are 'you' and the neurons in your arm are just in
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Yeah, that ain't real. For something to work there's gotta be some mechanism by which it does. Bonesetting is a real thing, but second hand stories can get distorted by the ignorant. Usually towards being more dramatic. Although r
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Plaster casts for broken limbs are produced by an application of will also. And those plaster casts help bones to heal more rapidly.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
The human mind is able to move atoms around. Chiefly by means of human hands.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Another factor is a poor understanding of selection bias and statistics can skew expectations as well. Mentalists like Darren Brown make use of this for their stage shows.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Psychology is supposedly that science, although it is still a bit wooly here and there. That's how chemistry was in its infancy as well. There may also be real phenomena that those working in that field don't yet consider to be va
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
I've written code on a phone before and it's not nearly as uncomfortable as it used to be. Especially with the cloud.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
There's also the issue where public software engineering related projects are too broad in scope and poorly defined. Rather than making small projects that are useful and then expanding upon them the trend is to specify massive nationw
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
I think this is true of a lot of projects. Making nice tools to work with serves a more fundamental need than money does. You could say that money is just a means to get nice tools. Open source software can be duplicated or amended by anyon
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
It may be that a commonly established convention is what's meant by a problem being 'solved'. Maybe some things could be done in many different ways that are all about as good as each other. At some point having 'a'
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Sticking with GMT specifically throughout the year would have economic benefits as well by making it identical to UTC, which is in use well outside of the little European corner of the world.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Unicode has stroke and radical counts for over 75000 characters. As this article states, most Chinese written text on computers is actually typed using pinyin.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
They should store data in DNA using base64. DNA encodes things using groups of 3 base pairs and there are 4 types of base pairs: C,G, A an T. 4^3 is 64
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
I wasn't aware what I've been doing is named bullet journaling by some, but thanks for this info.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Trello is good for small teams that aren't co-located.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Yeah make is nice for managing simple build steps.
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by nuc1e0n 2y ago
Git for source code control. A notepad and pencil for listing out the TODOs. I write "Done" next to a bullet point when it's done. I might rewrite the list occasionally without the done items for clarity or write numbers next

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