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by pen2l 6y ago
Go on, how? I'm getting into boat-sailing, and I'm saddened by the nausea it causes. I'm looking into ways to reduce this, and I'm thinking ways to deal with motion sickness incurred in VR-games is probably applicable to
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by pen2l 6y ago
Yeah but come on (I fear I may be verging on no true scotsman territory here, but...) you're not culturally a brown guy, I doubt you even have a non-American accent (do you?). I'm an American brown guy but I've often felt lik
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by pen2l 6y ago
Here's a challenge question to folks reading this and learned with the tools of the trade (my apologies in advance for somewhat hijacking the thread): consider this video of an endoscopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by pen2l 6y ago
Of course! Marianara sauce: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015987-classic-marinara... You'd have to buy a san marazano can and spaghetti for this, a couple bucks each, and you can store each for quite a whi
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by pen2l 6y ago
I'd like to offer you my anecdote, suggesting this will have lasting effects: it forced me to learn cooking! My folks have commented on this a lot, I really stepped up my cooking game in this confinement. I've learned how to make
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by pen2l 6y ago
I've got it bad in a similar situation: I work in a hospital ... and I'm finding myself coughing a lot. But it's not the virus, have been tested negative twice. It's allergies and other things. When generally outside, it
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by pen2l 6y ago
I will try Wavesurfer. The things you're talking about... please talk more about them. What're some example applications of what you're talking about, for example?
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by pen2l 6y ago
That spectrogramme view really is phenomenal, so effortlessly fast even while being kind of 3d. I was talking about this the other day with someone, why don't DAWs push the spectrogramme view more forcefully, instead of the default wav
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by pen2l 6y ago
What fucking bollocks, community-added subs are an absolute boon for language learning channels. If you go to Francais avec Pierres youtube channel for example, where they post videos covering various things about the French language, you c
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by pen2l 6y ago
> My only wish is that they would pick up their boxes and reuse/recycle them when they drop off the new ones. At least they are recyclable and I hope everyone is recycling them!
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by pen2l 6y ago
Falls within the purview of their job of being an information-search tool I’d say. There are times when I want a specific piece of information as quickly as possible and with as few clicks as possible, and other times I’m doing more explora
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by pen2l 6y ago
I think in this day and age we should be making bigger jumps than wanting color in our CLI. We should have more than one font, we should have pictures. We're visual creatures, us humans. I think something like Jupyter, with in-line ima
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by pen2l 6y ago
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-00192-8 Also, I hate to say this, but reading that article whilst being shown ads for t-shirts with plant remedies gave me a bit of a pause. In these confusing time
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by pen2l 6y ago
> If you wanted to see what the most paranoid, security-conscious people are connecting to, and you wanted to install software on their systems that is designed to read all their network traffic and then redirect it through a single chok
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by pen2l 6y ago
Proud of you. :) Me, I ditched junk food (used to do taco bell drive-thru pretty regularly when coming home from work, stopped cold turkey too!). Doing a lot more salads now, I'm so happy that I'm developing a taste for healthy fo
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by pen2l 6y ago
Pasting from linked twitter thread, while this is encouraging, some things are left to be desired: 1) No data for the most vulnerable older (>55) population 2) Second dose absolutely necessary 3) Safety profile less than desirable 4) Dur
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by pen2l 6y ago
Sorry, off-topic, but something interesting I just went through: in the first page, where it offers you multiple languages to choose from, one of the options is "Interlingue". I've never seen it before, I didn't realize
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by pen2l 6y ago
It kind of sort of does. You can go to effects > "isolate vocals" for example and it usually does a decent enough job. There are lots of open-source tools that can do this, some requiring more effort than others.
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by pen2l 6y ago
Strictly speaking what you're saying is true, but it ignores other realities of the association of wealth and education outcomes which are implied when folks are talking about these subjects. One of the best places in America to get ed
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by pen2l 6y ago
I’m experiencing almost the opposite. I am enjoying being able to reflect through out the day, being able to add items to my cart anytime in the day or the next). I like how much time and gas is saved. I don’t have to change from my pj’s in
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by pen2l 6y ago
As someone from a research lab from a big name school that already has access to every journal: we use sci-hub all the time just because it is so damn convenient (me, I have a chrome addon wherein I click a button on a page that has a doi l
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by pen2l 6y ago
But you’ve gotta admit they’re like 10 times better than the alternative. I mean, their whole operation is optimized up the wazoo. Imagine the time saved, the carbon emissions saved when folks don’t have to drive to and back to get their st
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by pen2l 6y ago
Frankly the only problem I see in this grand situation is the part about reviewing. But what I see as being the problem is something different: my problem is that it's rigged. I.e., do you know that when you submit to Nature, you can s
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by pen2l 6y ago
The good ones are indeed pretty good filters. I'm not smart enough nor free enough to verify that a study is good, is important, is free of errors -- and so I benefit from the service provided by, say, Nature Photonics in knowing that
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by pen2l 6y ago
> all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. I agree, what I'm most surprised by is it suffers no penalties from Google. Why is consistently on the top for so many searches? How is it that news journals who go the mil
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by pen2l 6y ago
> I have family members saying “All lives matter.” Oh come on, at this point you have to be living under a rock to think that "Black lives matter" means other lives don't matter. At this point, that is just not excusable a
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by pen2l 6y ago
It looks bad right now, yes, but Lancet and NEJM both had the two studies retracted, and both will carry their reputation. Retractions happen in all sorts of journals. Sadly, they will keep happening. Journals need to impose a page limit, a
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by pen2l 6y ago
The guy doesn't have a great record of being trustworthy. See https://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/letter-scholars-and-clin... -- a letter signed by over 100 scholars and researchers strongly condemning his previou
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by pen2l 6y ago
After a half hour long conversation with my neighbor last week of him trying to convince me that Bill Gates is behind coronavirus, please, for the love of our future, continue banning information that is blatantly put up on a bad faith basi
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by pen2l 6y ago
Someone at the hospital in US would certainly be aware of it for two reasons: 1) It takes a significant amount of work to format and standardize this data 2) Sharing this data is a business model for hospitals, it's a means of income f

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