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by polytely 3y ago
Honestly, it's kinda wild to me that the final(!) is just multiple choice questions, and that it's similar enough to the one last year that you can cheat by looking at previous exams? That's just a badly designed course, feel
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by polytely 3y ago
I really liked Hikaru's recaps of the games [1] this tournament, prefer those to watching live because it feels for me like to actually enjoy live classical chess you need to pay full attention and the games are way too long for that,
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by polytely 4y ago
One of the quote tweets linked to this article about the most efficient way to model cylinders, which is pretty interesting: https://www.humus.name/index.php?page=Comments&ID=228
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by polytely 4y ago
But everyone jumping to EV would increase pressure to upgrade infrastructure, which is probably a good thing.
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by polytely 4y ago
Yes, but it is still a better situation to be in because then when you do start to moving toward renewables (which seems almost inevitable with the lowering costs of solar and batteries (battery improvements largely coming from EV develop
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by polytely 4y ago
fixed with this new release btw
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by polytely 4y ago
Great stuff, I never deal with stuff like this in my day job and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to follow what was going on, which means the author did a great job.
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by polytely 4y ago
is css-tricks completely archived on the iternet archive? it would be a shame to lose all the knowledge that is contained in there, I'm specifically thinking about the comments under posts because I doubt they would survive any migrati
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by polytely 4y ago
That seems like bullshit to me, seems to me that homelessness is mostly a symptom of not having a house. You can perfectly well be addicted and mentally ill in your own home.
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by polytely 4y ago
Feels to me like the default completion green in the demo video is too low contrast on the white background. I would check if the contrast ratio is high enough (it's important for accessibility).
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by polytely 4y ago
But with cars there is an upside, we tolerate it because it is so usefull and the government does its best to make it as safe as possible, setting requirements that need to be met for you to legally use it. In this case there isn't tha
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by polytely 4y ago
Yeah I always think about that Brian Eno quote: >“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit -
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by polytely 4y ago
I guess ChatGTP, like most of the Internet it was trained on, hasn't actually read Sherlock Holmes and only knows about it though pop culture references.
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by polytely 4y ago
My experience is completely different. I haven't tried the oculus but I did play around with game development with the Vive 2 at university about 4(?) years ago. Maybe because it was room scale VR (eg you were physically walking arou
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by polytely 4y ago
Yeah they probably should just start banning frivolous use completely everywhere there are alternatives
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by polytely 4y ago
upvotes for stories: If I read it and enjoyed it upvotes for comments: if it has an interesting new angle / perspective relating to the story, threads of people arguing about something interesting and bringing up novel points. downvote
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by polytely 4y ago
I think there was a lot of hard work that went into to prevention of anything worse happening at Fukushima. At least that is what I remember from reading the iaea report a couple of years ago. I remember it being a very good and interesting
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by polytely 4y ago
Totally agree. When you start looking at it, it becomes pretty clear that this is one of the things that makes Elon so successful, he is really good at playing the media game.
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by polytely 4y ago
Yeah as a mastodon user I actually have the terms 'twitter' and 'RT' filtered, so they don't clog up my timeline. When people want talk about twitter they mostly use the term "birdsite" anyway so that st
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by polytely 4y ago
the admin can just ban elon and set the instance to invite only, easy
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by polytely 4y ago
are you reading on the computer? maybe thats the disconnect. for me each tweet has around 4 lines of text. so it reads more like the post you are reading now. where each tweet is a decent chunk of text. making the reading experience only ma
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by polytely 4y ago
I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?
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by polytely 4y ago
it's more just lowering the price of getting things to orbit, so there are certain thresholds that will probably make new businesses viable.
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by polytely 4y ago
I've heard this before but similarly to the other replies this doesn't match my lived experience at all. Are you just talking about the function in the brain, e.g. it does the same thing to the neurotransmitters, or are you talkin
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by polytely 4y ago
I think they might have made it if they went with a gamepass style service, pay a fee per month, get access to the full catalogue of games, you could even bundle it with youtube premium.
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by polytely 4y ago
For the record, I wasn't approving of the situation, just describing
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by polytely 4y ago
from what I've read it's perfectly fine to complain about stuff on the Chinese net, you start getting in trouble once you attempt to mobilize people
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by polytely 4y ago
It is very convenient if you want to run influence operations, to change the perception of reality for news consumers you only have to influence a handful of journalists by planting some tweets on their timeline.
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by polytely 4y ago
What do you mean by hidden narrative, can you expand on that.
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by polytely 4y ago
I don't really get why it would be pretentious, like it's not pretending to be smarter than it is. It doesn't seem to me that the author is showing off for the sake of showing off, but rather that he is not hiding his joy and

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