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by senkora 6y ago
> Vim "up" [j] is assigned to "next", and Vim "down" [k] is assigned to "prev". j is down and k is up in vim
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by senkora 6y ago
It would still be two tiers, since fungi need an energy source to decompose. Still probably more efficient since fungi don’t move.
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by senkora 6y ago
IIRC from my Computer Architecture class, 28nm is the cheapest per transistor, so it’s stuck around for cases where performance isn’t important. I don’t think there’s a fundamental reason for that, it’s just a feature of the processes that
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by senkora 6y ago
I believe that’s what they mean by “check digit”.
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by senkora 6y ago
This is considered a feature, because having multiple independent systems reduces the probability of a complete failure. IIRC, some national security-sensitive facilities are duplicated on two grids. The really weird thing is that Texas has
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by senkora 6y ago
See also: the “How to Vote in Every State” YouTube channel, which has a short video for each state + DC. https://www.youtube.com/c/howtovoteineverystate I like those because it’s sometimes easier to share video content
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by senkora 6y ago
Great, thanks!
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by senkora 6y ago
Is that not normal? That’s been my typical experience with using Uber/Lyft outside of urban centers.
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by senkora 6y ago
It was! I looked it up and the summary matches what I remember. I found the list, it may be missing some poems but this is largely what we covered: A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr Arcadia - Tom Stoppard Dulce et Decorum est -
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by senkora 6y ago
Arcadia is wonderful. We read it in a high school English class at my STEM-focused high school. The teacher decided that we should focus on works that had interesting implications for science. Arcadia is one such work because it talks about
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by senkora 6y ago
Well, Python does get compiled to bytecode before it is run. And the compiler does tell you about some errors, like inconsistent indentation, even if that code is never executed.
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by senkora 6y ago
Python. Since any argument can be called as a keyword arg, the names of arguments are a part of the API, and renaming them can break user code. I have written bugs because of this.
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by senkora 6y ago
Since home exercise equipment is so hard to find, I’ve been doing a lot of bodyweight exercises. I found a book called Convict Conditioning that requires no equipment (except a pull up bar for some of the later exercises, but there’s a park
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by senkora 6y ago
That may be true, but try making Italian food with non-standard ingredients and the pedantry comes out in full force.
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by senkora 6y ago
If you miss the physical act of writing on a whiteboard, then I would suggest looking into getting a drawing tablet (which you can use with any collaborative whiteboard app, or just screenshare a regular drawing program if you don't ne
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by senkora 6y ago
We both commented about the same book within a minute of each other. I second this, it’s an amazing read.
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by senkora 6y ago
I think it was In the Land of Invented Languages that had a great discussion of Blissymbols and how it failed. In short, these systems work fine for concrete vocabulary but completely fail for complex language, because language is too abstr
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by senkora 6y ago
Yep. I planned to hike the Appalachian Trail this year (canceled due to covid), and the Garmin InReach was universally recommended equipment.
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by senkora 6y ago
Yep, this is just a standard Markov process which should be easily solvable.
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by senkora 6y ago
This, along with https://nutrimatic.org , gets used a lot during puzzlehunts. Very neat tool.
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by senkora 6y ago
> “rule of magistrates” A legal system where judicial precedent has the force of law is called a Common Law system, as opposed to a Civil Law system. Common Law is less of an American thing and more of a former British empire thing.
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by senkora 6y ago
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
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by senkora 6y ago
I think Harvard kid vs Auckland kid is a false dichotomy. The article makes the argument that there is no difference before college. Harvard takes in kids who would have been Auckland kids and changes them into something else, and that&#x27
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by senkora 6y ago
They seem to speculate that the cells have been in a low-energy state where they either divide very slowly or spend all of their energy repairing broken molecules, which would presumably include their own DNA. My own (baseless) speculation:
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by senkora 6y ago
Footnotes and endnotes are definitely much more usable on an e-reader. That's how I read Infinite Jest (and most other books) and I sympathize with anyone who tried to read that in physical form.
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by senkora 6y ago
If you just want to learn the characters, then these books provide a good system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Re... I’m 1000 characters in after 4 months of 1 hour a day study, but some pe
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by senkora 6y ago
A few months ago I found my old GameBoy and played through part of "Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland". I know its not the most well-known game, so the relevant detail is that it relies a lot on timing and quick movements. I was compl
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by senkora 6y ago
Is it like fish and fishes? fish = plural for many of a single kind of fish fishes = plural for multiple kinds of fish So by analogy: code = any amount of code from a single project codes = plural for code from multiple projects I'm Am
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by senkora 6y ago
Is that really a problem though? I'm imagining a mixed-use development surrounded by many blocks of single family homes and a large parking garage nearby, like a mall, that makes it easy for homeowners to access the development. (I thi
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by senkora 6y ago
They do not prove a lower bound. > Harvey and van der Hoeven’s algorithm proves that multiplication can be done in n × log n steps. However, it doesn’t prove that there’s no faster way to do it. Establishing that this is the best possibl

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