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by petsfed 2y ago
That's why I drew attention to the confirmation bias portion of it. Very intelligent people still buy into conspiracy theories, and its always the same: the conspiracy theory lies about certain things, so as to preserve the illusion of
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by petsfed 2y ago
I could easily imagine a CMM-style contact probe to scan-in arbitrary shaped bottles, then allow the user to experiment with different projections in software before committing to the final plot. Such capability is pretty common in the CNC
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by petsfed 2y ago
I agree with the rest of the post, its hard to say one way or another if octopuses believe in conspiracy theories, and the conclusion drawn seems, at best, orthogonal to the data presented. But I disagree with what you said here: >But do
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by petsfed 2y ago
I recently had to port an existing C++ JSON parser into a new project, and even though it was complete in terms of what we needed it to do right now , adding any kind of additional functionality to it would've been a nightmare.
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by petsfed 2y ago
Sort of. The concept of simultaneity is mind-bending when you really dig into it [0]. The upshot is that the hard problem of synchronizing distributed systems is a problem of fundamental physics, rather than simply the capabilities of any g
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think a potentially illuminating visualization would be to calculate what home sale percentile corresponds to a responsible use of the median household income (and vice versa) over the last 70 years, but that sounds like a really finicky
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by petsfed 2y ago
>I think people are over-extending themselves. I mean, yes and no. It is true that people are overextending themselves, but there are not a lot of alternatives. To whit: the median home price to median household income ratio is the highe
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by petsfed 2y ago
The problem is not simply that there are literally not enough houses available, but rather that in a lot of cases, people cannot afford the houses that are available (I found one source that said 1.2 million vacant units in California, but
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by petsfed 2y ago
I'm too much an instrumentalist to give you an unbiased answer. My view is that, as it pertains to any theory, the ability to make reasonably accurate predictions within a given region, and reasonably accurately describe the region whe
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by petsfed 2y ago
For instance, instead of: "There’s this substance, like a soup, that fills the universe; that’s the Higgs field. As objects move through it, the soup slows them down, and that’s how they get mass." Say: "You know how, if you
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by petsfed 2y ago
I'm clearly a physicist through-and-through, I read "half a psi per foot" and wondered if it was ψ or Ψ, and why a plumber would use a Greek letter for anything.
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by petsfed 2y ago
I agree with you on just about everything you wrote, except the following passage which neatly sets up the widespread conspiracy theories and erroneous religious beliefs that currently plague our civilization. >trying to explain things l
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by petsfed 3y ago
I didn't know that codec handling was done at the hardware level. Interesting. So the underlying idea of my post ("you can't just add new codecs in software") is ultimately correct, but for reasons completely unrelated t
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by petsfed 3y ago
Think about the device that is performing the decoding. At its core, It's an ultra-low-power microcontroller, and the low-power requirements to hit the battery life specification while maintaining audio quality may or may not allow the
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by petsfed 3y ago
And I'm not speaking to the fact that you can use wireless headphones with a phone with a 3.5mm jack. I'm saying that for the objectives Fair set out for themselves, dropping the headphone jack is low-hanging fruit. Its one more p
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by petsfed 3y ago
Counterpoint: The material and monetary cost of the number of wired headphones I've destroyed in the 6 years before I got wireless head phones (because there was no realistic way to stow the cabling for the activity I was involved in)
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by petsfed 3y ago
As much heat as Neville gets for his policy of appeasement (deserved or otherwise), I'm not sure Britain was in a position to stop Germany by force anyway. American neutrality is certainly open to criticism, and I think America's
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think on one extreme you have the failures of neutrality that contributed to WW2, and on the other you have trumped up "moral crises" that characterized much of the Cold War. Arguably, the reason the Nazis came to power was that
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by petsfed 3y ago
Other people are pointing out how its not actually like that, but I'm gonna buck the trend and say, for the purposes of explaining to the general public the basics of quantum mechanics, its perfectly acceptable. Quantum mechanics is
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by petsfed 3y ago
Every single film you mentioned came out after Star Wars. The closest, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, came out only 6 months later, so hard to argue that its derivative. Even so, its inarguable that Star Wars was the first of its kind
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by petsfed 3y ago
Your argument is baseless. I'm not saying your argument has no merit, I'm saying that your interpretation only makes sense in light of the media that came after the original trilogy. In a lot of cases, the tropes didn't be
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by petsfed 3y ago
And also encapsulates a problem embedded in the way the author expresses the differentiation. Luck is not just about recognizing opportunities when they arise, its also about being in a position to act on those opportunities. I've read
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by petsfed 3y ago
This neatly encapsulates why (and how) Pabst Blue Ribbon beer plausibly (but never confirmed) won that blue ribbon in 1893: at a time when beer was especially hard to get just right, tasting the same every time is a huge technical win.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I disagree categorically with this. In baseball, the team that commits the most unforced errors tends to lose the game, but the team that scores the most runs always wins. Usain Bolt doesn't have 8 gold medals and 3 world records bec
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by petsfed 3y ago
Turns out "get the hell out of the way" is very good baseline advice for a lot of situations. Want to make a sale? Get a customer in the room with a good product, then get the hell out of the way. Want your team of engineers to bu
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by petsfed 3y ago
Maybe its because I made an honest effort of getting a PhD in physics, but I absolutely do not understand this perspective. Like yes, we have a really hard time talking about just about anything as finite object with physical extent, but jo
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by petsfed 3y ago
I suspect that the plot formatting syntax is very old. I remember doing stuff like that with SuperMongo (popular amongst astrophysics ca 2002), which predates e.g. MatPlotLib. It may be as old as computer controlled plotters themselves.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think the fact that the strike was resolved via legislative action (which I suppose, somewhat circuitously imply threats of violence) and not via overt violence is pretty telling. While in general, strike tactics have moderated, its also
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by petsfed 3y ago
This is never more clear than when you think about the last time "union" was used on a televised newscast on labor day. Sure, they may say "the parade included members of XYZ union local 995" or whatever, but absolutely
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by petsfed 3y ago
That is amazing, and also kind of a durability nightmare. I wonder how they designed the needle assembly to withstand the rigors of 6-year-old operators. I must've been 12 or so before my parents would let me even touch the record play

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