squidfood

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by squidfood 10y ago
> It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship. You mean the philosophy that has him releasing material with carefully timed consideration to maximize attention to his ow
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by squidfood 10y ago
Musk got in the position to do what he's doing by figuring out a new way to pay for stuff.
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by squidfood 10y ago
For real-numbered measurements, dangerous. For integer measurements that are about seeing the counting re-arrangements, safer.
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by squidfood 10y ago
Space was a limiting resource; mice who were breeding were fighting neighbors for nests.
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by squidfood 10y ago
> take on 10 graduate students and encourage practices that will cause 9 to fail but 1 to succeed beyond anyone's dreams. Sounds like a pretty good description of the academic job market to me.
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by squidfood 10y ago
If the OP answers it is anecdotal of course, but I'll point out that there's a whole field of bio-economics that tries to find survey/public answers to these questions for the purpose of making policies. And the result is la
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by squidfood 10y ago
On a similar vein, one of my favorite Wilder reactions, from Young Frankenstein: "that goes without saying." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHw5ivCs1A
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by squidfood 10y ago
Yes, this is a good partial list of all the "bigger sources of error" that I mention above!
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by squidfood 10y ago
Yep. Though it's still counted as a "calorie" that's stored in your body as a certain number of grams of protein. If your body later decides to lose that muscle, then the calorie is spent. Since fat and protein each ha
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by squidfood 10y ago
Actually, respiration is burning the food, it's literally the same energy release, and the methods of calculation take into account the portion of the food that's burnable but non-digestable. If you're saying that the corr
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by squidfood 10y ago
I'm not sure what your problem with this method is, given that the amount of heat given by burning is the definition of a food calorie. That's like saying "once I learned that voltage was measured by the deflection of a coi
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by squidfood 10y ago
My children were the right age about 5 years ago, and everything on your list (and by another comment, Fraggle Rock) held up well for them, and also the watching parents. Sure Mister Ben was a little clunky, but in a fairly timeless way.
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by squidfood 10y ago
Well (as another Federal coder), one problem is the unfunded mandate issue. If this comes with resources to maintain public repos and updates, sure. Otherwise, if someone emails me I share the latest snapshot but only as my time and dutie
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by squidfood 10y ago
Sure. It's horrible. I've been out-of-country for a while, but my (very anti-islamist) family is basically saying "best hope is ending up like Iran, worst hope is Syria". There are continuing widespread, scary daily ra
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by squidfood 10y ago
Surprised this is new/current; in drivers ed in the 80s, our instructor told us "they're collisions, not accidents." Thought this was a common thing for driving instructors to say.
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by squidfood 10y ago
My advisor put it like this: Any person with a doctorate should be able to, on their own, begin a department in the undergraduate basics of their subject if hired by a university that doesn't have one.
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by squidfood 10y ago
But neither is it trust fund territory - someone with a median income could aspire to this and accomplish it without too much struggle.
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by squidfood 10y ago
Other option: publisher grants a single right to author or author's institution (but no one else) to make a copy available.
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by squidfood 10y ago
Actually, no. If you have a hard limit, then some people will end up A,A, ... A with no B. That evens it up again.
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by squidfood 10y ago
Actually, if everyone has babies of sex A until you have a baby of sex B, you get a 50/50 mix. - Half the parents will have an only child of sex B. - One quarter will have one A, one B. - One eighth will have A, A, B. - One s
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by squidfood 10y ago
The key point in the article is actually the tests used. THC stays in the body long (days/weeks) after you're no longer impaired. If a breathalyzer test on Tuesday picked up the beer you had last Saturday, there'd be no corr
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by squidfood 10y ago
I'm in the U.S. and enjoy a few Canada-based journals that detail work funded by Canada. Fair trade, eh?
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by squidfood 11y ago
Don't they call that the "strong law of small primes": you can discover lots of patterns in the first millions (or now billions) of primes that don't mean anything and don't hold up?
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by squidfood 11y ago
You make the guy's point in the article exactly. Since 1000s of novelties like this exist on youtube, why pay/book someone to see it?
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by squidfood 11y ago
Honestly, it was because the mandate came when CFLs were still a bit buzzy (or otherwise immature technologically), so it seemed like a quality sacrifice. (no longer of course; we can probably discuss infinitely whether the mandate helped
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by squidfood 11y ago
Thanks! I should mention that these tests were for a specific (highly tuned for the specific job) production HPC machine, so I don't know how this compares to a more generic setup - unfair of me to generalize the results to every matr
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by squidfood 11y ago
Yup. I'm working with weather code myself; in my code a matrix mult is ~25% faster on intel versus gfortran due to this. (edit: this is still within the range of "viable competition" to me though).
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by squidfood 11y ago
I have both problems, actually, long legs so the knees take it, and then the back. So I sympathize. But I won't call the person in front "rude" and the person behind "right". And I certainly wouldn't presume
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by squidfood 11y ago
In my part of the U.S., it's the "high end European" baby seat brand so that's where I first heard of them, but then I'm not into racing. The AK airline ad card, IIRC, mentioned baby seats (maybe trying to appeal
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by squidfood 11y ago
Alaska airlines recently did a seat-redesign to seats that don't recline, but supposedly have ergonomic improvements. The in-seat cards advertise that the designs are by Recaro (a well-known premium baby car-seat maker). Didn't s

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