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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
But chlorine is also a poison and it actually affects your health very positively: it kills waterborne diseases while not affecting humans at all. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_chlorination ) I can see the case f
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
> writing in cursive is much, much more efficient That is very false. It’s kind of slow compared to handwriting print-looking letters (eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Nealian) Source: https://th
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
This makes you vulnerable to phishing, and unwittingly entering the password on fake websites that mimic the real one. Use a password manager with autofill on the correct URL.
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
> fail whale do you mean "whale fall"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
Watch the video of the bumblebee rolling a ball, it is incredibly cute.
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
OP, just join or start a work from office-only company. The WFH people can have their companies, and you can have yours. Sorry, I think most likely your old in-person workplace really is gone for good.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Sam Harris' app in teaching nondual mindfulness(clearerthinking.org)
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by rhaps0dy 4y ago
The post says these credits are 10x cheaper
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
If I just like the daylight-bright lights, I don’t need a research paper to tell me that. I would buy many of these for several hundred £ if I lived in cloudy London again.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
For the less masculine (or clued-in) members of the audience, what was the code word? Something to do with shooting games?
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
Read the article, it's explained. The term was coined in r/neoliberal, https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_... . The poster there asks the question, what to do when you w
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
> As an aside I'm pretty sure my RCX IR towers use serial, not USB. Both versions exist. Mindstorms 1.0/1.5 had serial IR towers, 2.0 had USB.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
I think a distribution is just much more convenient, mostly because of package discovery and the time it takes to set things up. Other people take care of making your editing experience nice, and some things just take a long time to get wor
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
The right way IMO is to just start customising your Emacs with a very ready and very introspectable distribution (like Doom or Spacemacs) and then poke around to fix what you don’t like. Though I guess a book can be helpful to learn best pr
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
You can also go straight to the abstract from PDF links using the "Redirectify" browser add-on for Firefox and Chrome. https://github.com/imurray/redirectify
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
I agree. The treatment of animals destined to be eaten is way worse, as well. You should consider going vegan.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
> Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast? I think Accelerando itself is precisely complaining that things are going too fast. In the specific scenario in the novel, the incomprehensibl
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
These numbers are already per capita, so the population difference is already accounted for. So one USian emits as much as 9 Indians. Which is still a lot.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
That's fair, actually. This is an argument in the article. I would summarize it as "focusing on long-term risks necessarily means un-focusing on short-term ones, and that's bad". Would you agree? The latter part however
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
I partly agree and disagree with your comment. It is true that the article says > that "Longtermism" is weighing purely hypothetical future things more than present things (please forgive the splicing). That is an accurate repr
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
This article just attempts to discredit the idea of longtermism by ridiculing it, instead of presenting any actual counterarguments. It just writes about the implications of its strawman over and over in a sardonic tone. The only thing it w
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
According to Radford Neal, it is possible to sum a sequence of n-bit floating point numbers exactly, i.e. rounding to the n-bit floating point value closest to the exact result. The algorithm uses 2n bits for the sum. https://rad
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
But that’s the point of lawyers. When they defend a guilty party, most of the time they know that the party is indeed guilty. They need to, to prepare a good defence.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
Upvoted because it answers my question, “why would they do this?!”. The immense suffering caused is not justified, but at least now I have some idea as to how they justified them to themselves.
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
It’s a very cool achievement (a NN in 200KB, to compress? Wow) but the CMIX compression program performs better in the 1st benchmark, and is competitive in the 2nd. So he does not beat the SoTA “by a substantial margin”. Your comment is ove
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
Perhaps a better maxim is: wind turbine blades should be recycled if and only if it is better for the environment to do so. It is not clear why it would be better to recycle them. Breaking things down for recycling costs a lot of energy, so
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
> fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms What's the problem with burying blades in a landfill? They don't degrade, OK, but rocks also don't degrade. - They're too big to drift to the ocean and be ingested by anima
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
By far the people who were most educated are the student developers themselves: > Ultimately, the team learned more about samurai life and early modern Japan than any group of students I had worked with across a single semester. They rea
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by rhaps0dy 5y ago
> Dynamic linking to a GPL software does not require the developer releasing their code. That's not true, you do have to release the code. There is no difference between statically or dynamically linking to a GPL library. Source: h
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by rhaps0dy 6y ago
The title is technically true, but clickbait: the plants are dead. They were alive in the "recent geologic past". The discovery may be surprising anyways, but it is no longer as bizarre as I thought it was.

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