porb121

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by porb121 5y ago
50 years? That's like... the entire history of modern computing.
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by porb121 5y ago
> Formal treatments of calculus are based around infinitesimals formal treatments of calculus don't use infinitesimals, and analysis using infinitesimals is explicitly separate from traditional analysis
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by porb121 5y ago
> Almost anything can be proved/disproved or debated when one assumes such validity of the logical concepts to infinity. if this were true it would be trivial for you to give devastating examples
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by porb121 5y ago
i totally disagree. the worst part about mumble is that it was a pain in the ass to set up. creating a discord server is trivial: all of my nontechnical friends have used the software just fine. mumble is terribly fiddly in comparison.
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by porb121 5y ago
How can you say that infinities of different sizes are not useful? All of analysis is built on the fact that R is the unique complete ordered field, and therefore uncountable. And if you want every infinite set to have size continuum, then
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by porb121 5y ago
uh, how about the fact that vent/mumble/Skype were all awful?
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by porb121 5y ago
so your belief is that China built a bunch of renewable power plants in the middle of nowhere with no demand for them, and generous miners stepped in to use the excess capacity?
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by porb121 5y ago
> Right now AMZN is worth something because it is believed that it can be sold to the next person for more than was paid to the previous holder. this is....not how stocks work
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by porb121 5y ago
markdown is easier to use, but only slightly easier if you already know latex. and if you use latex regularly, switching between markdown and latex syntax on the fly seems strange.
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by porb121 5y ago
but they should support tikz, which is the most common package for making diagrams in latex
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by porb121 5y ago
it took a few million years until Newton figured out basic mechanics. but i don't think it's unreasonable to ask a junior engineer some basic kinematics questions!
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by porb121 5y ago
have you ever seen an episode of it's always sunny in philadelphia? the show is regularly far more offensive than any line in airplane, and nobody cares.
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by porb121 5y ago
> That’s a shame, because it’s the most effective way to build your skills. this is just not true. blocked practice (i.e. practicing the same task repeatedly) is generally worse for long-term retention than mixed practice strategies wher
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by porb121 5y ago
a lot of people have given very thorough explanations of why pfof is not an evil thing in this thread. i suppose you're free to believe your own narrative, if you want.
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by porb121 5y ago
> Why—exactly—do you reason that someone is willing to pay $109 per user per year for their order flow? Adverse selection is scary and knowing your counterparty is worth a lot. This is not as sinister as you're making it out to be.
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by porb121 5y ago
If you're not a scientist, and have basically no clue what you're saying, why even comment?
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by porb121 5y ago
You are literally required to get better fill prices than the market with PFOF. You aren't being played any more than if you just send a normal limit order to the market
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by porb121 5y ago
D3 has had a strange life. I think it's still a great casual Diablo game, but it totally lacks the depth that other titles in the genre (Path of Exile, Last Epoch, even Grim Dawn) offer, and has some very degenerate systems like parago
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by porb121 5y ago
expressed vs revealed preference
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by porb121 5y ago
EVs still have tires and brake pads. There's less pollution, but not none.
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by porb121 5y ago
no - if you are exercising but eating enough to stay at a maintenance or surplus caloric intake, you will not see any suppression of NEAT
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by porb121 5y ago
It was the most recent on Wikipedia.
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by porb121 5y ago
Have you read a single page of any IPCC report or any major climate science publication? The rhetoric you're spewing is uninformed and dangerous. Even if you are exactly right (and well-founded scientific arguments would suggest you ar
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by porb121 5y ago
Yes. The effects of increasing average temperature are highly localized. It's not that at every place in the world, every day is 0.16 F hotter, but that in some places, some days are much, much hotter.
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by porb121 5y ago
why would you say things that are so easily disproven with a 30sec google search? in 2017, the US emitted 5Gt, the EU 3.5, and india 2.5. india's also got a billion more people than the US. to make matters worse, these are attributiona
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by porb121 6y ago
Uh, it's much lower impact, much more enjoyable, and has a way lower recovery cost. I lift 5-6x a week; I'm not gonna go for a hard run when I need my legs to recover for my next squat session.
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by porb121 6y ago
Worth noting that the longer someone is in a caloric deficit, the more their non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) drops. NEAT is the caloric burn from this like random movements and fidgeting, walking around the house, etc. Maintainin
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by porb121 6y ago
No, it's not a confirmation. Experts have a tighter distribution of self-assessment - when they miss, they miss by less. However, non-experts and experts alike overrate and underrate their competency with about equal frequency. Because
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by porb121 6y ago
You must be some incredible entrepreneur for that EV to be much higher. Strong leetcode skills print money with far less uncertainty than starting a company.
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by porb121 6y ago
> The hyper-specific bits and pieces that show up over and over again in interviews One would think the same topic showing up "over and over again" would make it easier to study for interviews

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