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by rolandog 3y ago
I recently enjoyed reading the pure Python equivalent definitions of the itertools [0] and more-itertools modules. [0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html
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Agreed, that's why we need properly written regulations that don't leave ambiguities to be debated after the law is written. And also, we should probably normalize amendments to laws, instead of canonizing them.
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Well, you gotta compare the cost-per-kilo of setting up a coffee grounds collection program that gathers X% of the 30+ billion ton/yr of concrete that is used each year. If the regulations are not properly written, they could be an inc
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by rolandog 3y ago
I'll have to watch that video after work; but from watching about ~30 seconds it seems like he may be equating capitalism to a malady of some sort (something that needs treatment); it's an interesting theory that reminds me of a g
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by rolandog 3y ago
After watching the PewDiePipeline [1] video, and now learning about the Yogapipeline ... I'm starting to wonder if this is a consequence of "flooding" or accumulation of disinformation due to an always-on firehose of falsehoo
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Because accepting it would make them feel bad about having done so many experiments in a cruel way.
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> I would like to see a deeper analysis of what is found in the soils after the PFAs are broken up to make sure they haven't just changed one dangerous chemical for another one though. If they are being converted into a harmless sal
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by rolandog 3y ago
But, also, what makes someone a researcher? Do you have to forcefully be affiliated to a University, a Newspaper, or similar institution? Then the world would be missing out on work done by independent researchers, journalists, etc.
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by rolandog 3y ago
> - Kids were indeed kept on busses for hours, small ones soiling themselves, [...] By the power of capitalistic optimizations and cost-cutting, we as a society have brought the advances of delivery driver working conditions even to chil
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by rolandog 3y ago
> As if this is any different in the US, where film and music have also lionized the "baddies" for well over a hundred years! Agreed. IMHO, we all could benefit from some critical thinking when watching movies or TV series: tha
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> The stellerator is really cool, and an alternative to a tokamak reactor. They should've gone with a catchier name like "forbidden cruller".
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by rolandog 3y ago
And I shudder to think of the amount of information an actual adult and politician has to willfully resist to learn to say things like: "If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down, [...]&
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by rolandog 3y ago
Darn. It took me a bit to realize that you're completely right. Thanks for the correction!
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Agreed. It's quite a skill to steel-man another person's arguments and then proceed to answer from that point; it's very easy to go down the "you're not obviously smart enough to question my authority" which t
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by rolandog 3y ago
> Things smashed together on the same domain, so no longer separate subdomains. We can refine the regexps so that we approve certain subfolders within a same address.
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by rolandog 3y ago
For the uploaded videos, perhaps PeerTube? For live presentations... could Jitsi suffice?
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by rolandog 3y ago
Maybe he's prepping for the year 10,000 problem: [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_...
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by rolandog 3y ago
Oh, interesting... I thought this was already known to be a blend of compounds with ethyl trans-cinnamate [1] among them; I'll have to read up on it. For a Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry in college, my class teammates and I h
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by rolandog 3y ago
I always like to come up with human analogies for the mental gymnastics that Big Business tries to pull off: "Wait a minute your honor, here's my newborn child; he's the legal owner of that truck, and therefore he's the
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by rolandog 3y ago
I can sense you're a sage from the online realms where squirrels with prodigious love nuggets were revered.
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To quote Steve Gibson: "What could possibly go wrong?"
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by rolandog 3y ago
My approach has been to install Guix, and with Guix install emacs-next (and python-wrapper, and python-pip). I'm still a Guix newb, so all I can say is that there may be some tweaking to be done if you're using non-default paths,
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by rolandog 3y ago
I'd expect world leaders to be more vocally opposed at having their citizens' (and their own) freedom being singlehandedly restricted by an american company that seems to have huffed authoritarian paint fumes.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Thanks, it should be more common practice to make news more actionable, and not turn us into mere spectators.
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I'm thinking that when Reddit nuked the 3rd party access, people left for good... and clickbaiters are following them elsewhere.
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by rolandog 3y ago
The mean quality of life can be skewed by outliers. I wonder if there are median quality of life indicators with the box-diagram of Upper and Lower Fence values based on the Inter Quartile Range
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by rolandog 3y ago
One I particularly liked: "FastDTW: Toward Accurate Dynamic Time Warping in Linear Time and Space" by Stan Salvador and Philip Chan. [0] https://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/tdm04.pdf
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by rolandog 3y ago
Nice! It's really well written. I have followed a similar path, but for me, the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0] paper was the one that sent me down the rabbit-hole. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley&#x2
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Well, we thought the same thing about aluminum [0]. [0]: https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/refere... "Exposure, bioavailability, distribution and excretion of aluminum and its to
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by rolandog 3y ago
Not that I know of; it's rather frustrating when you're constantly receiving some other person's correspondence (in spite of reaching out to them and asking them to update it). From airline tickets, to bank statements, to col

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