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by snakeboy 6y ago
Hey this looks awesome ! I've been getting into guitar this year during confinement (apologies to my equally-confined neighbors), but Ultimate-guitar is so bloated it barely loads on my shitty wifi. This is exactly what I need. Thank
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Exactly, it has been refined over millennia.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
> It is deeply disturbing to me that there are people with these types of views. Just friendly advice: you're never going to have a meaningful discussion or a productive debate if that's how you treat a differing opinion.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
You're correct, I should have been more precise. 4.5 years lost all at once is what is unacceptable. I recognize work and all of life's "chores" take time, and that every decision I make cuts off an infinitude of other
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Discussing the length of a prison sentence strictly in terms of income lost is also greatly understating the actual severity of the punishment. I would gladly give up say 10% of my lifetime earnings for all sorts of things, but I wouldn&#x2
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Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research(datacolada.org)
161 points by snakeboy 6y ago|120 comments
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Reminds me of a touching moment in Before Sunrise.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I'm in total agreement with you. My response was a criticism of those who sit idly by and collect their massive paycheck, and perhaps signing an open letter from time to time to sleep better at night. It's just paying lip servic
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by snakeboy 6y ago
No, but I'm not at the point where I'm signing an open letter to condemn my employer for something. However if you are at that point, you may at least consider that you should be working elsewhere.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
This kind of analysis reminds me of the classic SSC post, "The Pyramid And The Garden" https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/05/the-pyramid-and-the-ga...
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I don't think the OP was at all suggesting that it's a good system. They were just explaining the current incentive structure.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
If you didn't receive the check, there will be a section on your 2020 1040 tax form for "Recovery Rebate Credit" which seems to be the catch-all for anyone who missed the deadlines or didn't get their full amount for wha
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by snakeboy 6y ago
> even though there has been obvious bias in all mainstream reporting for over a decade Fortunately we're getting into this really interesting era where I don't have to waste my time with their bullshit, nor with yours. Cheers
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by snakeboy 6y ago
The citation for gunshot wound victims being counted as Covid deaths says it was 5 deaths, and it was only on the publicly-available dashboard to track deaths. Not being used for official reporting purposes. In my opinion it's kind o
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Okay, interesting - good luck! (I guess it would have been reasonable for me to have assumed you two have a particular situation and I could've avoided my snarky question :) )
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Wouldn't your parents presumably be at much higher risk than you? It seems like the roles should be reversed, no?
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by snakeboy 6y ago
At least until recently, there was no money backing it. Support for unpopular policies is presumably backed by rich corporations, right? I'm thinking relaxing environmental regulations and war as two examples that come immediately to
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by snakeboy 6y ago
“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ." "And?" "No damn cat, and no damn cr
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I have the impression that a dev workflow resembles: 1. Editing code locally 2. Running expensive computation on a remote compute/database server Creatives need to edit massive complex files with sophisticated real-time simulation of t
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I assume it has to be aluminum since the weight is going to be a big factor in the efficiency, no ?
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by snakeboy 6y ago
> if it's large and/or has been around for a long time So why not work for a smaller company with values and a history that you can respect? You make it sound like in a capitalist society we have to sell our souls to a big evil
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Sorry, i skimmed the page but don't see the relevant statistic. They're talking about lifetime risk, not per-encounter risk, no? Granted, i totally just grabbed the two numbers and divided so it's possible it was a bad sourc
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Fortunately in the US, 99.998% of police encounters don't result in a death.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I imagine the statistics are hard to get accurately (a rich person who never gets arrested isn't going to be counted as a drug user unless the study is done via survey), but is it really true that a poor person is just as likely to tak
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I believe here "bijective" is being used with the implicit assumption that we're talking about the same finite sets, "byte-strings up to a fixed length". From the link on BiCom: > compression with bicom is compl
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by snakeboy 6y ago
To be fair, as has been discussed elsewhere in this thread (and my own personal experience) was that it opened up this kind of marketplace to a lot of people who weren't buying these kinds of drugs before, due to precisely the risks yo
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Additionally, within the scope of any one field or sub-field, you get a nice constant-factor boost by exploiting capital/lowercase, italics, bold-face, "chalkboard" font, etc. and usually that suffices. Anyone who has taken
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Personally, I find they're two tangential, but distinct goals. I use anki for things I want to be able to recall instantaneously, like a foreign language, and I use markdown notes for general reference of media/knowledge I'v
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Let's not even get started on abortion... Edit: I meant this as a joke, albeit in poor taste, I see it was not received well. That being said, I do think that relativizing deaths in terms of "opportunity cost" does lead to so
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by snakeboy 6y ago
As someone with only a basic knowledge of FEA, why would a quadrilateral mesh ever make more sense than triangular?

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