phaemon

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by phaemon 5y ago
Yes, it's entirely possible to generate your own electricity, use discarded electronics and not order anything new for a year. I've lived near those conditions so I know it's not particularly difficult if you're smart an
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by phaemon 5y ago
I suspect your assumptions are wrong because you don't know many journalists. I have that misfortune. They will have taken the juiciest part of whatever they were told and made a story from it. Facts are entirely secondary.
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by phaemon 5y ago
> people in positions of authority, even when nominally "credentialed" in science, are often completely incompetent That's genuinely a baffling lesson to take from that incident. I mean, your father was the credentialed
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by phaemon 5y ago
My apologies for upsetting you. Please see upthread for my apology to yourself and Dan.
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by phaemon 5y ago
Fair enough Dan. I do have a tendency to walk the line but I like to think I'm reasonable enough to know when to backpedal. Apologies to yourself and Jagger. I'll try and be nicer.
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by phaemon 5y ago
The article was written by a journalist. The dictionary was written by the Professors. If they say that their definition is better I'm going with that above both a journalist and a second year student unless you provide something a lit
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by phaemon 5y ago
I'm not sure what you consider bold about the assertions so it's difficult to expand. I am certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I'm religious, so that provides at least circumstantial evidence for my initial state
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by phaemon 5y ago
I'd not heard of that but it seems fairly accurate. It seems related to pg's idea of middle-brow dismissal.
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by phaemon 5y ago
Why wouldn't it be? Old dictionaries are riddled with errors and mistranslations. βλαύτη is just a slipper. Not a slipper worn by fops. Not a slipper worn by lesbians. Not a slipper worn by aliens. Just a slipper. Why do you keep insis
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by phaemon 5y ago
They didn't censor it, they fixed it. There is no evidence that this slipper was "worn by fops" other than the faulty Victorian dictionary that they were fixing.
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by phaemon 5y ago
I like graph theory. You draw some shapes, you draw some lines. It's like the kind of things you can do with your crayons. I reckon kids could be introduced to it earlier in friendlier language.
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by phaemon 5y ago
> What do you mean? Apologies, don't mean to pick on you but wanted an example for a future comment. This maintains context worse than GPT-3
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by phaemon 5y ago
The first part is an introduction and the rest of the content is from Bennington so that makes sense. I'd generally agree with the advice but would add an advice number zero: don't work in the financial sector. Unless you're
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by phaemon 5y ago
What great questions have you asked?
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by phaemon 5y ago
To contemplate words for a moment, the phrase is "pique my interest". "Pique" is an odd word. "Pique my interest" is a positive thing but "a fit of pique" or just feeling piqued are negative.
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by phaemon 5y ago
Out of curiosity I looked this up. SMP was introduced in NetBSD 5.0 which was released 12 years ago. I think you're a bit out of date. :)
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by phaemon 5y ago
So management are unable to code but somehow intelligent enough to identify the developers who can best create their product? (I'm actually not sure if this argues for or against the point. I guess it depends on your management!)
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by phaemon 5y ago
You missed the point: it's always been politics, you just didn't realize when it was your little group getting the free pass.
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by phaemon 5y ago
Well, to your first point, because I value depth over novelty. The second time should be better. To your second point, to quote Prince, "There is joy in repetition".
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by phaemon 5y ago
Well the main reason they print money is so that there will be money. That's where money comes from. It's printed. Hence the pictures on it.
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by phaemon 5y ago
No matter what use ECC RAM; you may have 99 bits but the problem is one.
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by phaemon 5y ago
There are a small (but rather vocal) number of people in Western societies who believe that the amazing benefits and privileges they enjoy are in fact something they're entitled to due to their natural wonderfulness. They are therefore
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by phaemon 6y ago
Actually it doesn't. The difference between perihelion and aphelion is around 6 million km, and it takes approximately 6 months to cover. That means Earth is moving away or towards the sun at 1 million km per month. That's 33,000
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by phaemon 6y ago
Germans don't tend to use sarcasm, so that phrase doesn't exist.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Just a note that the phrase is "pore over", not "pour over".
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by phaemon 6y ago
Huh, you're right, I must have been looking at the wrong line. Thanks! My point on comparing CPUs remains, and is even more pronounced against a 2002 CPU!
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by phaemon 6y ago
I'm afraid you're remembering incorrectly. The Pentium 100Mhz was released in 1994. The last Pentium released in 1999 was the PIII 800Mhz. There wasn't a 3GHz release until 2010. And that's just clock speed. Compare any
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by phaemon 6y ago
Then "good for you", as I already said. > The 90% value was dishonest No, the 90% value is more honest since exports reduce CO2 emissions just as much as domestic usage, but you prefer to cherry-pick the lowest number you can.
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by phaemon 6y ago
It is a nitpick. The fact is that even counting your way, it's around 10% from fossil fuels. That's been achieved without expanding nuclear capability. It is renewable that has replaced fossil fuels here. Yes, Scotland also export
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by phaemon 6y ago
> No you didn't. Yes, we did. Your nitpicking over the "right" way to count electricity generation and consumption doesn't matter: the graph you linked still shows around 12 percent fossil fuel generation for 2019, it

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