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by praptak 4y ago
For me it's the plain old mind daemon screaming "Why aren't you busy?! You are certainly missing some super important obligations!". Curiously, it doesn't activate when I'm actually wasting time. It's the
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by praptak 4y ago
You didn't specify whether the child is annoying.
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by praptak 4y ago
Actual law strongly discerns between action and inaction. For example the Polish penal code says you can only be criminally liable for a result of inaction only if you had a specific legal obligation to prevent it.
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by praptak 4y ago
If I remember correctly the original trolley problem was actually two problems. One was "pull the lever to kill one person instead of five" the other was "push someone onto the tracks (killing them) to stop the trolley and sa
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by praptak 4y ago
This also leads to a trolley problem! Keep existing public transit system that contributes to X deaths per year from pollution an accidents, or... ...pull the lever and... Replace it with a public transit system of bloodthirsty trolleys. Th
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by praptak 4y ago
Depends on what do you mean by being a better coder. My take on what you can gain from learning each of these languages: Go - concurrency with channels (that's a big one, gives you a good tool to think about concurrency even outside Go
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by praptak 4y ago
Failure modes of integrated circuits are taught to students at tech universities. My friends who went to study electronics engineering were taught "how to design a die which dies in X years". I am not saying this makes them instan
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by praptak 4y ago
Lathes are only seen this way because they can go very big. The instant death accidents happen with the big ones, especially the ones designed to quickly remove lots of material from big metal pieces. Otherwise lathes aren't more dange
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Physical Unclonable Function(en.wikipedia.org)
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by praptak 4y ago
Closest I could find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_physical_unclonable_f...
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by praptak 4y ago
Can't find the article but I read that during the cold war US used translucent resin with pieces of aluminium foil to seal high-security rooms, with multiple photos from different angles to capture the 3d arrangement of the foil. A sim
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by praptak 4y ago
Same reason you are responsible for shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Because they know the other people will act on it.
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by praptak 4y ago
Umm, false dichotomy? Blame the medium, blame the idiots - these are not mutually exclusive. Also, there's a huge gap between supporting censorship and condemning those who amplify harmful messages.
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by praptak 4y ago
4chan is light years beyond the point where people just posted "Hitler did nothing wrong" to piss off the righteous. People acting like hateful idiots for fun eventually brought actual hateful idiots. This brought people who like
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by praptak 4y ago
I think it's a bad question, just like every single request to "model real world things X,Y,Z for no reason" and the article explains this: You can’t add code to ducks. You can’t refactor ducks. Ducks don’t im
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by praptak 4y ago
If you really mean gigawatts (unit of power), then you have to multiply it by the time period when this peak power is reached to get the energy output. Lightning bolts have very short durations, tens of microseconds. Let's be generous
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by praptak 4y ago
This looks like the opposite of a low hanging fruit. That fruit is hanging very high and on top of that it is very small and hard to get to the edible part. Solar, wind, hydro, biofuel, geothermal, maybe even day-night temperature cycles -
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by praptak 4y ago
The selling point of Go is readability, feature minimalism and code that might be boring to write but gets you readability in return. Putting a Lisp on top of that throws these away. I'm not saying there's nothing left - channels,
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by praptak 4y ago
I don't believe there is more to it than the researchers getting exploration/exploitation wrong in this case. Say somebody wants to get funding to fight AIDS, based on the hypothesis that it is caused by something else than a viru
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by praptak 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. Maybe it makes the grim lessons stay with us a little bit longer - something that I am seriously concerned about given Putin's replay of these events (and also living in Poland).
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by praptak 4y ago
I want a flowchart editor which doesn't give me carpal tunnel but I also want (some) control over the layout. So far Graphviz is the closest. Plain text in, flowchart out. I would say "you can't beat that" but I think th
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by praptak 4y ago
It's close to 100% efficient in converting electricity to heat.
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by praptak 4y ago
Maybe, but then the heating itself would be the problem, not the mining on top of that.
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by praptak 4y ago
It's bad either way. "Me too" should not be mixed with "I got a reliable reproduction, here's how". Edit: I mean people probably want a notification on the second one but not the first.
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by praptak 4y ago
How is it stealing? He's paying for the electricity, the same price as everybody else who has an allotment in that community.
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by praptak 4y ago
Stopping a turbine is costly and demand has unpredictable variations. This means sometimes it makes sense to pay consumers to burn the excess power. We have no technology to quickly store and release huge amounts of energy.
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by praptak 4y ago
A dude I know has cheap electricity on his allotment garden where he built a wooden hut/cabin. He uses three PCs built from throwaway parts to heat the hut in the autumn and early spring (in winter there's nothing to do there). On
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by praptak 4y ago
So the cost to produce an AAA game approaches those of bridges and skyscrapers. This pulls the lever towards conservatism and reuse. On the other hand, we want novelty from culture. Something's gotta give. So what about the cheaper end
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by praptak 4y ago
My progression to handstand: 1. Do it against a wall 2. Do it without a wall. If you are reasonably fit, 1. is a matter of a few tries. Source: in primary school it got one PE lesson to get all of the class to do it. I also showed this to a
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by praptak 4y ago
I also recommend the Betty Edwards book. It took me from stickmen to realistic drawings of chairs and hands :-) It also makes you appreciate paintings. Curiously the book from the TFA is doing almost the exact opposite of what DotRSotB reco

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