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by pasabagi 7y ago
I have used eprinting services to bind APIs as a book before. It's nice - definitely worth the money if you plan on using something a lot.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think there were a series of disasters - of which the Hindenburg was just the last. All the same, I think with modern materials, Hydrogen would be pretty safe.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I guess I see a great artist as somebody like Su Hui, who made Star Gauge without any thought, or even likelihood of compensation, or recognition. It's nice to be paid, and it's nice to be recognized, but I think art has its own f
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by pasabagi 7y ago
The French in 1945 voted the communists into power - so I'm not sure they generally had the same views on the USSR as modern people do.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think in all these cases, reasonable practitioners would be pleased. If an AI could generate good diagnoses, a doctor would be happy, because they would know that many lives would be saved. Neither art nor music are competitive activities
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I guess I have never experienced weight gain, and I don't really care much about sexual dysfunction, but I really don't get how these things aren't completely irrelevant in comparison to depression. To me, it's like some
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by pasabagi 7y ago
You're right, of course. However, first, I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who prefers depression to sexual dysfunction, weight gain, or nausea. Second, you can just try different medications until you find one that ha
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by pasabagi 7y ago
All anti-depressants have severe or annoying side effects for some people . Most anti-depressants have almost no side effects for most people. The trick is to change prescriptions until you find one you like. (I'm on my third prescrip
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think anything made of steel and concrete would crumble within a couple of centuries, without maintenance. The rebar would rust. Maybe the stone cathedrals would last longer? In any case, the biggest man made structure would probably be a
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Your distinction seems a bit arbitrary to me. Building an operating system is a massive barrier to entry - far greater than building a house. Likewise, designing a computer.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Do you live in a house you own? I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint, but I think rent is a society-wide problem, not just a problem with computers, and computers are far from the most acute example.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think socialization is a bit broader than 'spending time with peers'. School is a microcosm of society - full of institutional logic, dysfunction, and perverse incentives. It's a perfect training-ground for teaching people
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by pasabagi 7y ago
It's full of really bizarre spam, though - and I got the feeling that it isn't technically straightforward to stop people from spamming, beyond everybody just keeping thousand-entry killfiles. It's also very slow. And the pos
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think the problem perhaps is that in house-owning countries, the apartments are usually cheaply built, or cheaply converted, so leak sound like sieves, because everybody who has any money wants to live in a suburb. In apartment-living cou
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>more people Really? Are you talking about India? If so, I'm not sure what percentage of people have english as their mother tongue - I think it would be quite small. Also, I think indian english is about as dissimilar to british en
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by pasabagi 7y ago
There's this interview on omega-tau of a couple of plasma physicists(?) working on a fusion project in the UK, and there was this funny moment where one of them said that fusion was almost definitely going to work at some point, simply
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Well, the Slade is a fine art school - so animation is sort of the 'bad end', where you give up on being a 'real artist' and get a job. But yeah, definitely a lot of the animation/cgi stuff tends to lean a lot heavi
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by pasabagi 7y ago
As somebody who's done a lot of life drawing, and a lot of classical stuff in general, I see the reason why it's no longer central to the curriculum. Ultimately, drawing is just another tool, just like stonecarving, crochet, or da
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by pasabagi 7y ago
You might be right. I find a lot of old vernacular pretty objectionable on stylistic grounds - if I was going to describe it, I'd call it 'semi-colon heavy'. Lots of big, chunky sentences with curlicues. It's a hard styl
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I think one way in which we diverge is in our ideas about what is valuable in language. I quite like inaccurate, loose formulations because they're playful - and I think writing is a form of pla
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Pretty sure. I read a lot, a lot of which is old. I enjoy a wide variety of writing styles.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I frequently write to my grandma, who is fairly well-educated, and her writing is technically good. It is, however, bad writing. It's a pattern I've noticed quite a lot with older people. They write perfectly-formed garbage. I thi
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Well, everything has upsides if you don't compare it to the competition. Even if cars were incapable of transporting people, you could say the upside is, they're a good source of scrap. But, compared to the competition (buses, lig
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Well, yes - but a preponderance of distracted walkers isn't a argument against smartphones. It's an argument against cars. If somebody uses a dangerous device in a public area, they are responsible if they hurt someone. If a certa
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think it's pretty legitimate to be distracted while walking around. Being distracted while operating heavy machinery, on the other hand, is kinda bad.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I agree - this is definitely the really bizarre part. The fact that not just one, but multiple people have proactively sought out this guy to fight is insane. I mean, the first one I can sort of understand. Obviously, you still have to have
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Two problems: First, it's rarely clear what a specific glue actually is , in terms of chemical composition. Second, when there is an obvious 'alternative', it might be a different glue (different solvents, ingredients, etc)
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by pasabagi 7y ago
This is what I came here to post. This website is absolutely fantastic - but translating between American products and European ones is often extremely hard.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I have a weird sort of in on this, in that my grandparents are exactly the kind of people who love The Road to Mandalay. I think the clever thing about reciting a poem like that is it appeals to a broad spectrum of conservative voters: the
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think python is a great example of what I'm talking about, though. I'm not a Python programmer - I've never written anything over a hundred lines in Python, nor sat down to really learn it. However, every time I do somethin

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