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by snitzr 2y ago
Accessibility is win-win because it helps more people access information and also has content creators thinking clearly about the quality of code and presentation.
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by snitzr 2y ago
Lookup Walter Gehring's fruit fly experiments if you want something similar and also want to be grossed out.
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by snitzr 2y ago
Why isn't 7 greater than 5?
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by snitzr 2y ago
Shoutout to the pipe operator in R. The code equivalent of "and then." It helps to unnest functions and put each action on one line. I know R is more for stats and data, but I just think it's neat.
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by snitzr 2y ago
Sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
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by snitzr 2y ago
I think I’ll try to close any offending vids as quickly as I can going forward and not downvoting. I suspect the YT algorithm sees me watching the first few seconds in shock as “engagement.”
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by snitzr 2y ago
Youtube toxicity is real for me. No matter what I downvote, the same kinds of radicalizing videos make their way through. Either the algorithm is broken or people are trying to break it. I’m glad I’m not a kid in 2025.
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by snitzr 2y ago
While I'm sure a wearable could be occasionally useful or even save a life, most don't do much. It's telling that mainstream fitness wearables tout their data collection ability but never use this data in marketing to prove t
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by snitzr 2y ago
There is no such thing as "human error."
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by snitzr 2y ago
Sleep is like drinking water. No one says, "I'm gonna get dehydrated right now and then drink a lot more water later so it's OK." But people do this for sleep. You need to sleep right when you're tired, because bein
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by snitzr 2y ago
This reminds me of economist E. F. Schumacher's idea of "intermediate technology." It's tech that is more advanced than an impoverished person's existing technology, but not so advanced that only a few can afford an
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by snitzr 2y ago
Chill vibes.
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by snitzr 2y ago
Rogue waves are scary.
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by snitzr 2y ago
This can't be safe.
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by snitzr 2y ago
When I was kid my dad had a Dodge Ram 50 which was about the size of a car and it had a four-cylinder engine with a manual transmission and no 4WD. Never had any issues hauling anything. We put a pallet of bricks in the bed and it wasn&#x27
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by snitzr 2y ago
If you are a libertarian and want to debate me, please don't. I don't want confrontational "debate" from someone who already labeled themselves and won't ever consider changing their own ideology. Reread Ayn Rand or
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by snitzr 2y ago
There's a movie with Benedict Cumberbatch playing Wain. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021). Not my favorite movie, but maybe someone here might like it.
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by snitzr 2y ago
We can't do anything right.
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by snitzr 3y ago
What do people even really do on their work computers? Just email? Powerpoint?
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Funny Numbers: Steve Martin, Bob Osserman, and Robin Williams (2002) [video](vimeo.com)
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by snitzr 3y ago
I recommend James Gleick's Chaos book. It will change your perspective on the world.
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by snitzr 3y ago
I take snapshots on film for fun and sometimes don't develop the film for a few months. When I finally see the photos I've taken, I might have forgotten most of the detail from that time. I see the photo and it jogs my memory. But
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by snitzr 3y ago
https://youtu.be/mrepi7s66Jg?si=QDMRxQ30-8ik_5Qe @ 5:12 "…if I wanted an iPad, I would buy an iPad." My favorite review of the iPhone mini.
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by snitzr 3y ago
If you like stories about reconciling with weird sci-fi evolution of non-human intelligence (spiders, in this case), check out Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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by snitzr 3y ago
My (former) neighbors here in North Carolina have a trans kid and they just moved their whole family to Maryland which is a trans sanctuary state. Two terrific parent with professional careers who were born and raised in NC.
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by snitzr 3y ago
The 420 with Windows 7 is my personal idea of the peak of desktop computing. 2011 was also around the peak of computing in general considering it was right before social media turned hellish psyop and smartphones became distraction /
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by snitzr 3y ago
They didn't learn their lesson from the HP laptop they bought two years ago that (I am not making this up) had wifi hardware but no installed wifi driver. How does that happen?
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by snitzr 3y ago
My in-laws needed a printer scanner because they are getting old and needed to scan paperwork to move to a retirement community. They went out and bought an HP printer scanner and asked me to help them set it up. It took me multiple hours a
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by snitzr 3y ago
I first read about the Cauchy distribution in a book titled The Physics of Wall Street by James Owen Weatherall. Before then, I was mostly familiar with the normal distribution. The normal distribution shows variance as contained around mea
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by snitzr 3y ago
When I first learned the properties of a Cauchy distribution it sent chills down my spine.

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