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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
It might have to do with the fact that he's using rubber bands to turn the arm, while historical trebuchets used weights. A weight is limited in how fast it can accelerate so you need to use a lever (the arm) to increase the speed.
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
There's an article on The Register about it [1], which includes a helpful link to the archived threads [2]. A quote from the article: > "I have, on two occasions now, recommended this program to photography and graphic design e
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
> but you're also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they're misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folk
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
Samoa skipped a Friday in December 2011 [1]. There were 4 Fridays left so "4 or 5" still holds, but using arithmetic to calculate the number of Fridays would have yielded a wrong answer. This is pretty uncommon with whole days so
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
In the mouse study, both groups were on calorie-restriction. The difference was whether they fasted or not. "fasted is NEGATIVELY health" is right.
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
> Most Web Applications are just forms that talk to a database. And this is why the author is frustrated - GraphQL is designed for larger, more complicated systems. It's overkill for a basic web app like this. In fact, coupling the
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210524233617/https://thehackpo...
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
Yeah you can game it to fill in upper levels because it seems to greedily avoid letting you complete the next 1 row. Here's a game with 7: ԫقຽࡨதقลƻஸปໃɡЩටʈम౻ටիঅஶΟໃࡦѻ೯ܘݪ௨൜ІݚɪؾÐݪߜගІסञඉȣݣ౫ඞУݸԫؼПݒ౺sܪݚஶsԀŦਛfΔݹटɈເљࠑಜÐݶɺටळ൪ԪؾЂɚலڌෆࡨࢸదQॡభඝଘݒಈలНމ
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
The framing in the article is ahistorical. The post-WW2 period was a period of exceptionally _low_ inequality. If you look back to just the 1800s there were swings in inequality comparable to the present day. We're now moving back to t
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
> Planets will start to diverge in culture, language, maybe even biology if we look far enough into the future. This is good! More diversity means more chance of surviving catastrophes, whether they're physical, biological, or memet
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
> As we develop algorithms that power Birdwatch — such as reputation and consensus systems Consensus is the enemy of understanding. For topics where there is conflicting or poor evidence or that bear on the culture war, I do not want peo
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
It helps a lot to only extract common code that has a clear purpose. If I find myself naming a method "doThisThingThisOtherThingAndLogSomeStuff" then it's not a good refactor. On the other hand, "markStaleRows" or &
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
There's a difference between how the corporation itself acts, and how it expects its employees to act. I'm fine with the company I work for taking public political stances that help its business. I'm not fine with being expec
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
One I'm fond of is Angel Falls[1] in Venezuela, named after aviator Jimmie Angel. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
There is already a JS port of Joda[1] which works well and, crucially, uses all the same names and concepts. Could we just replace the Temporal proposal with this and save a lot of work and confusion? [1] https://js-joda.github.i
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
> The researchers found that 97% of particles penetrated through cotton masks. Why would a ‘review of the evidence’ neglect this key finding? This statement in the article is completely disingenuous. The study in question[1] was looking
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by salmonellaeater 6y ago
I've been hoping for tail call elimination[1] on the JVM for a long time, and historically it has been blocked by a security requirement[2]. Changing the number of stack frames between two calls would cause an error. Apparently that ch
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
> You lose flexibility when suddenly everything is locked to each other by name. This is only true of nominally typed languages (such as... most typed languages). TypeScript is a notable exception: values just have to have the same prope
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
The article doesn't mention anything about what the researchers controlled for. Some other explanations that fit the data: 1. Parents who take good care of their children in other ways also tend to read to their children (perhaps becau
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
Consumer GPS devices have a speed and altitude limit [1], which I initially thought should preclude using it in a fighter jet, but I was wrong (only something extreme like an SR-71 would hit this limit): > ...a limit placed on GPS tracki
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
The paper tests this hypothesis and finds that there's probably a causal effect: "...these results demonstrate that the screening effect may have played a role, but it appears insufficient to entirely account for the observed dif
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
Destructured object parameters make this easy in TypeScript (and JS): async function copyFile({ source, dest, }: {source:string, dest:string}): Promise<void> { // ... } await copyFile({source: 'pr
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by salmonellaeater 7y ago
Of note is that these are all associations. It's possible the associations are all due to selection effects (or even that the "better" language are actually worse but their effects are reversed by selecting for programmers wh
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by salmonellaeater 8y ago
The root of the problem is that the environmental costs of producing difficult-to-recycle plastic are not being paid by the manufacturers. A solution is to make manufacturers internalize those costs: require a deposit or fee for every gram
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by salmonellaeater 8y ago
The plaintiffs lost. > Judgment was entered as follows: Judgment entered for FS ISAC Inc and against Allison, Rich ;Hamilton, James https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sd-allison-vs-fs-isac-inc-86101...
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by salmonellaeater 8y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I can offer a third purpose for jail that I think is the most important: it keeps people who are likely to harm others from doing so. This idea is in concordance with the idea of rehabilitatio
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Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press(theverge.com)
254 points by salmonellaeater 8y ago|172 comments
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by salmonellaeater 9y ago
> After three months passed, the families returned to our lab so we could again measure the infants’ attention to our storybook characters. The researchers are rash to think that an effect observed after three months have passed will sti
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by salmonellaeater 9y ago
Reddit cannot allow lolicon or Nazi imagery because it's illegal in some countries, and the company would risk fines by allowing it. Mastodon has no such problem as long as the server is in a country that allows the content. Mastodon a
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by salmonellaeater 9y ago
Assuming McClure follows through by 1) refraining from harassing any more people and 2) making things right with the particular people he hurt, it doesn't matter whether he is sincere or not. How would you even tell what's in his

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