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by skulk 5y ago
The zen of dwm is endlessly browsing this list of patches and eventually adding so many that any new patches cause merge errors that take a long time to untangle: https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/
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by skulk 5y ago
If stress is such a problem, then why not just sedate the passenger? Some forms of sedation can be quickly reversed as a last-ditch effort if there's a problem that the computer/mission control absolutely cannot solve.
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by skulk 5y ago
If expansion is indeed happening, wouldn't it play a role everywhere, even if it's eclipsed by whatever else happens to be going on?
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by skulk 5y ago
That study was in patients that were already type-2 diabetic. Here's one that compares stevia, aspartame, and sucrose by satiety and (what I assume is) measures of glucose and insulin in blood: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by skulk 5y ago
A quick google shows that plain carbonated water has a pH of 4, which is right around where it becomes corrosive to enamel. So, if you just drink a bit of water afterwards, you should be bringing your mouth's pH well above 4. Maybe swi
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by skulk 5y ago
> Your eating of meat provides you nothing but selfish pleasure while causing a ton of carbon emissions You might want to revise your argument if you're not going to acknowledge the fact that meat has a good number of calories per k
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by skulk 5y ago
> Turns out, you can’t. From what I could gather, the version of Chrome was tied to ChromeOS which couldn’t be updated because of the hardware. No new ChromeOS meant no new Chrome which meant stuck at version 76. This is the most surpris
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by skulk 5y ago
Patients waiting in ERs for days (because you wanted an example): https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/coronavir... For people aged 18-37, risk of getting hospitalized is 10x if unvaccinated: https:
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by skulk 5y ago
> I haven't seen any evidence anywhere that deciding against getting the vaccine puts anyone else's health at risk. How would you square this with unvaccinated people filling up hospitals preventing those with unpreventable hea
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by skulk 5y ago
The article also contains the following quote that accommodates greed into the picture. Paraphrased from memory: > Selfishness beats altruism within groups, while altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Moving from the former to the latte
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by skulk 5y ago
> especially in the Bioinformatics/Genomics space My first internship was re-writing a Perl program that parsed the output of `samtools mpileup`[0] into a C program that used htslib[1] to directly read the BAM file and extract the r
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by skulk 5y ago
Are all these problems caused by the lack of a decentralized currency that requires burning crazy amounts of energy to maintain trustlessness? Even if everything burns away and anyone who is still worth a damn holds BTC, what has actually b
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by skulk 5y ago
Here's my interpretation: a classical leap is when you are somewhere, you expend a bit of energy you have, and you end up somewhere else as a result. Basically, you do something and something happens. A quantum leap, on the other hand,
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by skulk 5y ago
Because of Rice's theorem, I don't think there will ever be a tool that can do this even nearly as well as a human before AGI is realized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
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by skulk 5y ago
That explanation you linked is a whole lot of words, and after reading it I am less sure of what I thought the Second Amendment means than ever. Its meaning is anything but obvious. I say this because there is nothing about self-defense in
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by skulk 5y ago
> no source of evolutionary advantages on any variants. Any variant that is able to co-exist with (rather than kill) its host during a full lockdown has a significant advantage. We co-exist with several coronaviruses already.
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by skulk 5y ago
K-12 education should direct a significant portion of childrens' attention to learning how to use the internet in a healthy way, perhaps an entire class dedicated to learning how to find and evaluate information online. There are a lot
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by skulk 5y ago
Isn't that the poster-child of template metaprogramming? Being able to choose a different sub-byte layout for your container type depending on the type parameter? What problems are you running into when using std::vector<bool>?
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by skulk 5y ago
The only reason I'd ever read it is as a reference, if I ever wondered "hmm, how did Whitehead and Russell prove this theorem?"
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by skulk 5y ago
Have there been any studies separating "natural talents and gifts" from a privileged upbringing where education was prioritized from the moment of birth? I don't think enough attention is paid to what happens during the criti
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by skulk 5y ago
That's why we start with a value judgement that everyone agrees on, instead of leaving it implicit. Consider the following value judgement: > The evolution of a novel coronavirus that is both highly infectious and deadly must be avo
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by skulk 5y ago
> I'm extremely uncomfortable telling other people that they have to do something to their own body. I'm extremely uncomfortable with granting a novel coronavirus a gigantic reservoir of freely available incubators to infect an
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by skulk 5y ago
If anyone's looking to participate in a large (on the order of 100 participants or more) hackathon in the near future, this advice is 100% on the money. No matter how demonstrably useful your product is, something with better UX will w
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by skulk 5y ago
TFA addresses your claim. > The idea of the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation that runs itself by consensus, where nobody is really in charge, is illusory. Some individuals will always find a way to be more influential, whether that’
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by skulk 5y ago
I just tried to have a "verbal" thought while imagining music playing and it's surprisingly impossible! The only way to have any "verbal" thoughts while playing music in my head is to imagine myself singing it to th
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by skulk 5y ago
This is a pleasant hypothesis, but what does it imply? Is there a bijection between music and speech, or some sort of structure there to investigate?
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by skulk 5y ago
Congrats on the release! I'm a big fan of small window managers; I used and patched dwm for a couple of years and found that it's a lot of fun taking control over your workflow even if it makes it painful to use anything else late
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by skulk 5y ago
Nobody has yet convinced me that the effort spent on blockchain smart contract whatever would not have been better spent un-pretentiously re-writing traditional banking infrastructure with lessons learned in the last 40 or so years.
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by skulk 5y ago
Thanks for the reference. I'm currently studying type theory and the Curry-Howard correspondence, and this seems to be an interesting bridge between that and traditional imperative programming. As for the second part, do you know off t
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by skulk 5y ago
Once you start combining "small" contracts (e.g. they call into each other), you have a large program one way or the other. The combinatorial explosion pretty much guarantees there will be some input combinations that lead to unex

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