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by pinko 3y ago
> it's not the same GitHub account as upstream This is valuable information, and a sign that this may be the tip of an iceberg.
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by pinko 3y ago
s/can do/have done/
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by pinko 3y ago
Probably _Blindsight_ by Peter Watts
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by pinko 3y ago
The link mentions "our internal job scheduler" and how they had to optimize it for this work -- does anyone know what this job scheduler is called, or how it works?
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by pinko 3y ago
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604590 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604675
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by pinko 3y ago
Along these lines, if you haven't ever seen it, check out _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay. (Yes, that David Macaulay!)
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by pinko 3y ago
I fear Consumer Reports is having their lunch eaten by Wirecutter, and while they seem attached to a very dated organizational model & visual design aesthetic, CR is SO much more rigorous and honest an organization. I pay for a sub on
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by pinko 3y ago
It fascinates me when people deploy "we" in statements like the one in this title, with the implicit premise that the majority of the American people (even if you presume them to be the readership) and the US military share a comm
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by pinko 3y ago
Dwight Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spen
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by pinko 3y ago
Anecdata: even a few days of low-dose aspirin causes me terrible GI pain and exacerbates an otherwise 30-year dormant ulcer. I would love to be able to take it, but I can't tolerate it at all.
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by pinko 3y ago
Also, from Dan Barber, "Defanging Authoritarianism, Cults, Advertising and Abusers: Educating Children Against Manipulation" https://danbarber-12163.medium.com/defanging-authoritarianis... This also reminds me of
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by pinko 3y ago
https://www.nycbar.org/media-listing/media/detail/financial-... 2023 NYS Legislative Agenda: Require a personal financial literacy course in State high schools February 13, 2023 The City Bar supports legislat
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by pinko 3y ago
I think for routine game-watching you're 100% right. But for replaying amazing/interesting/controversial plays, this tech would an enormous improvement over being captive to the broadcast team. Everyone would love to be a
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by pinko 3y ago
Then why damage to the gas line?
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by pinko 3y ago
I would pay three figures for someone to do this for me, for all these brokers. (I'm well aware that outsourcing the job carries its own risks... nonetheless there's an opportunity here.)
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by pinko 3y ago
While there's some truth to this, the myriad externalized costs of a car-based city may dwarf the apparent "savings". Once you consider the dollar and social costs of car pollution, parking, accidents, etc. it isn't so
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by pinko 3y ago
I can't take credit. Two dear friends in L.A. started doing it years ago, with similar results, and it sounded so great we just copied it. Except they make the meatballs from scratch, which I don't have time for. Decent bulk fro
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by pinko 3y ago
We've started hosting monthly "spaghetti and meatball nights" and invite almost everyone we know, including all the neighbors. We often get 30 people, but spaghetti and meatballs scale trivially so it's not hard to host
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by pinko 3y ago
They did. See: https://github.com/bazingagin/npc_gzip/issues/3
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by pinko 3y ago
I'm sure they calculated that it's better they cannibalize their own product vs. letting others do it...
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by pinko 3y ago
broken link... I think you meant: https://nutritionfacts.org/questions/what-would-you-suggest-...
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by pinko 3y ago
Agree completely on all counts.
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by pinko 3y ago
This is mentioned in the OP's link.
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by pinko 3y ago
I've found Uber routinely sends me push notifications advertising a fare drop right after I've left the app without confirming a ride in order to check prices on Lyft -- and doesn't do so otherwise, even if I introduce the s
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by pinko 3y ago
Holy mackerel: ------------------------- \* Hash-Mode 2000 (STDOUT) ------------------------- Speed.#1.........: 39068.9 GH/s (0.02ms) @ Accel:64 Loops:1024 Thr:512 Vec:1 What does 39 trillion (!) password hashes per seco
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by pinko 3y ago
Forgive the dumb question, but what can a friendly website admin do with the Ray ID you send them, that can help you as a user, assuming they put Cloudflare in the middle as a CAPTCHA in the first place for a reason unrelated to you, and st
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Nature: A simple heuristic for distinguishing lie from truth(nature.com)
3 points by pinko 4y ago|5 comments
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by pinko 4y ago
"One of the reasons that people perform poorly when trying to detect deception is the difficulty of integrating multiple cues into a binary judgement. A simple heuristic of only judging the level of detail in the message consistently a
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by pinko 4y ago
Dear lord this is disappointing: # Are there any brands of rotating (aka tumbling) composters with built-in insulation other than Jura? Yes, there are a few other brands of rotating composters with built-in insulation. Some popular options
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by pinko 4y ago
I'd rank LIGO right up there as well.

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