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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Everyone at my Olympic weightlifting gym does the McGill Big 3. Great way to protect lower back.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
A Point of View: Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28971276
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Very weird to see this, I went to an exhibition about Knossos in Oxford only today. Good episode here that covers a bit about the language and translation efforts. The translation of Linear B is a very cool story too. https://www
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Would have assumed sports pages are something that subsidises the rest of the paper. Only time I buy an actual newspaper is for sports coverage.
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The New York Times disbands sports department(apnews.com)
1 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|1 comments
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Lovely stuff.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/37/
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Good point 3.10 != 3.1
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
> It's running on Instagram's #Cinder fork that includes a JIT, lazy-loaded modules, pre-compiled static modules, and a bunch of other interesting tweaks against vanilla Python 3.10. So not entirely just python 3.1.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Given how impossible it is to build anything here anymore the spped in which the Victorians built the railway network in the UK amazes me. 6,000 miles of track were built in 1846-1848 alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
See also, "The case against news (2011)" by Bryan Caplan, https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/the_case_agains_6.h... . Also, this should be marked as 2013.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
I've had these from Docker too, assume they just blast out to companies hoping to get some incriminating replies.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Can I preorder this?
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Study drugs make people worse at problem solving, not better(economist.com)
43 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|79 comments
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Longstanding Register nickname for Google.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Implementing a bitset[0] in Go is a fun exercise if this article interested you. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
I love it.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Java in the browser! There is nothing new under the sun.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
GB-T
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Will be staring at this all day.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Drink actual milk it's better
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
The first paragraph is the right answer. See also inboard/outboard, fwd/aft.
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
Why stop at Scunthorpe when Britain has so many questionable place names... * Brown Willy, Cornwall * Cock Alley, Calow * Shitterton, Dorset * Fanny Barks, Durham * Fingringhoe, Essex * Bitchfield, Lincolnshire * Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
Really hoped that the fact this came from xkcd was itself an example of citogenesis.
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
Even in Shakespeare the use of them is pretty inconsistent grammatically but makes perfect sense as a stylistic choice.
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
Very interesting. My understanding is that even when the KJV was being written these pronouns were becoming archaic. If it wasn't for the Bible and Shakespeare I wonder how many English speakers would recognise them.
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
That's not King James that's a more modern translation. KJV: Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
> Besides, what kind of civilization is it that turns away from the challenge of dealing with more…intelligence? That has not the self-confidence to confidently confront a big dose of more intelligence? Dare I wonder if such societies
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Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history(marginalrevolution.com)
10 points by shaftoe444 4y ago|2 comments
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by shaftoe444 4y ago
If you want another view on the study: https://snowdon.substack.com/p/the-minimum-pricing-salvage-j...

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