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by sseagull 2y ago
Not a super amount of detail, but it’s subtle: “It was very clear from King Kong to Frankenstein to Creature from the Black Lagoon that all the monsters were the most emotional. The humans were the ones that scared me,” he said. “They were
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Chemist pet peeve: “The oil catcher consists of a series of tubes that start at the tip of KOBO’s rostrum and funnel down into a beaker.” That’s an Erlenmeyer flask, not a beaker. The quote gets it right in the next sentence. Just sayin’ :)
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Man Feels Like He Gets Gist Of Enlightenment After First Few Minutes Of Hearing Zen Monk Talk https://theonion.com/man-feels-like-he-gets-gist-of-enlighte...
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One painful one that is still reverberating a bit in some areas is the renaming of "SafeConfigParser" to just "ConfigParser" in the standard library (in 3.12). This caused a whole lot of breaking in some areas because ve
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by sseagull 2y ago
I've been interested in donating before, but this is actually the main thing holding me back. I get so little spam and unwanted messages (email and text), and I am trying extremely hard to keep it that way. So thanks for validating my
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by sseagull 2y ago
Way back when we had a landline and would get telemarketers, it was always a sign when the caller couldn’t pronounce our last name. It’s not even that uncommon a name, either
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by sseagull 2y ago
It’s a well-known part of psychology/operant conditioning and almost certainly done on purpose (to keep you addicted). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Intermittent_r...
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by sseagull 2y ago
> First off, you're exaggerating. There is no place on earth that averages 40C for 3 months. I dunno about 3 months exactly, but some areas of India are pretty close. And Delhi has 15-30 million people, depending on how you count h
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by sseagull 2y ago
According to the 2020 US Census, about 80% live in an urban area. However, the definition is not exactly what people think of when you say “urban”. In 2020, the census lists 2,611 urban areas, including areas with a few thousand people. ht
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by sseagull 2y ago
Reminiscent of “Berkeley Time”, where classes are scheduled back-to-back, but there is an implicit 10 minute buffer. Why they don’t just make it explicit I will never understand. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article&#
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by sseagull 2y ago
This is largely the motivation for TAILS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system) And also Whonix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whonix Using the DVD image in a VM would largely suf
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by sseagull 2y ago
Seems like a good bet for now. I just put down a deposit on a 2025 Camry after test driving one. The dealer cannot keep these on the lot - almost every single one is being sold before it even gets there (including mine). And we aren't
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by sseagull 2y ago
This is the overall takeaway in “Turn the Ship Around!” by David Marquet (although there is lots more to it)
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by sseagull 2y ago
I think there’s some context around this. It used to be every once in a while there would be a study or news story about how moderate drinking would actually improve health (“Drinking may be good for you!”). That has largely been debunked,
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by sseagull 2y ago
You were just contributing to the Lizardman’s Constant :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slate_Star_Code...
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by sseagull 2y ago
> We subsidize scientific research to the tune of trillions of dollars Do you have a citation for that? Annual budget of the NSF is about $8 billion, covering all of science. Total NIH is $45 billion, and that includes other things. DOE
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by sseagull 2y ago
This is pure whataboutism. Also, you seem to have forgotten about how George Soros was boogeyman for decades. Also, don’t forget to look at the Trump family and what they openly received without even a pretense of avoiding conflict of inte
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Will Donate to Trump(axios.com)
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by sseagull 2y ago
That’s weird. With every paper I’ve published (in chemistry) the authors don’t handle the metadata. We upload our article sources (in latex or word) and the publisher handles the rest. I’ve never done anything more. Is this different in oth
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by sseagull 2y ago
This is related to Moravec’s Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox “it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficu
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by sseagull 2y ago
The upgrade to KDE 6 (and switching to Wayland) has been particularly painful for me lately. Lots of bugs and stuff not working correctly (like zoom). So yeah, Linux is not a refuge either.
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by sseagull 2y ago
There’s still a few on my machine. The main ones I’ve edited: ~/.gitconfig, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.vimrc ~/.ssh/config ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
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by sseagull 2y ago
But the posts on HN are not re-ordered according to the user. It’s about prioritizing or recommending, not just “there’s a difference”. IMO the “threads” would fall under the exceptions of (f) the media are recommended, selected, or pr
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The law largely says that the “addictive feed” is ordered based on some trait of the user. The part of the definition: “display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information associated with the user or the user's device” So HN w
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by sseagull 2y ago
This is the genesis of the “Flame Challenge” by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (yes, that Alan Alda). https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/alda-center/thelink/posts...
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by sseagull 2y ago
That was a class of software I have never even heard of, but could be it. Thanks!
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Oh that looks interesting! Thanks for the recommendation, I will give it a look.
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Because we aren't a business :) We are academic group who is looking to increase collaboration both in industry and academia. While we have "products" (which we don't sell), we also have other initiatives like an educati
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by sseagull 2y ago
A few months ago I was looking for some software that was CRM-like. We are a bit non-traditional, and don't fit neatly into the typical CRM use cases. Twenty was almost what we needed. It was extremely easy to set up, the customizati
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by sseagull 2y ago
Microsoft Recall is completely on-device (or so they say).

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