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by stdbrouw 4y ago
A dumping ground is a place where it is appropriate to dump waste. To say that poor countries are not a dumping ground for the rich means that it is not appropriate for the rich to dump waste there. The word itself is normative, and therefo
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Nitpick: aluminium cans do not have a liner on the inside (unlike the laminates used for e.g. potato chips) and big brands usually print their branding straight onto the aluminium, it's only smaller brands that use plastic shrink sleev
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
It does seem to be One Weird Trick that nobody knows about: bother the professor and the TAs whenever you need help – whether that's over email or during office hours – and most of them, most of the time, will help. Never had the coura
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
"I was just now ruminating, as I often do, what a free and roving thing human reason is. I ordinarily see that men, in things propounded to them, more willingly study to find out reasons than to ascertain truth: they slip over presuppo
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
FWIW, Hossenfelder sounds a bit like a crackpot contrarian in this article, but her book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" is incredibly nuanced and well-argued.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
That's not what the author means by "useful". If you spend a year describing a particular kind of plant, then you know that much more about it and that's a useful contribution to science if not society. If you keep comin
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Are you stripping hex bolts? If so, the solution may be to buy some good hex bits (and a bit extender) which make it much easier to avoid slipping and stripping the bolt compared to a plain hex key.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I often use Conrad for its huge collection of small parts (mechanical as well as semiconductors) most of which can be ordered individually, with an interface with lots of filters and easy access to manuals and data sheets. Sometimes their c
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
In your eagerness to show the world how well you know the difference between accuracy and precision, the point the OP was trying to make seems to have flown right over your head. For DIY, you often need to make measurements that are a littl
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
"Frequency response does not matter because other things also matter and I have a PhD in these other things." This is a complete non-argument.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Plenty of computing power 15 years ago for bootstrapping (simulation-based estimation of uncertainty for an analytically estimated model), today plenty for the entire model itself (Bayesian MCMC, frequentist optimization-based methods)
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Not so common that it makes people less fit on average.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
But that's what makes this so tough. Whether you consider the ways in which these AI models repurpose existing artistic works to be mere technical details or central to decide on the ethics of the matter depends largely on the analogie
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Well, but that's hardly a universal rule either. If we have a magic cure for bad eyesight, that'll be pretty terrible for optometrists, lensmakers and so on, but nobody would think it unethical that we're taking away their jo
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
But this is a solved problem. You build the base of your wall with glass foam bricks or aerated concrete. Pretty standard these days. Or a partially above-grade basement that can be insulated, as is common in the US.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
These all seem like fine examples of solutions that are worse than the problem they were meant to solve. A separate table will be harder and slower to query and will enable M2M relationships even when you don't want those. Sentinel val
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
... though I imagine that the big application in general is electret microphones?
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
> the excess energy stored in the hot water is trivial compared to the capability of the heat pump I don't know if I'd call it trivial, bringing 1 kg of water from 85C to 0C involves about 100W for a duration of one hour wherea
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I lived in London for a year or two and I rarely saw an escalator "at capacity" for walking. You can do all of the napkin math you want, but ultimately, as the article says: > The one escalator at Holborn that allowed you to wa
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
It is above all a changing thing. Everybody seems to be coming around to the idea that you don't have to routinely remove wisdom teeth, but it's still commonly done in Belgium and probably other European countries as well.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
If you look at photographs of recent ruins, say from schools or hotels that have fallen into disuse, you'll often see the same thing: desks, cabinets, chairs, computers and all sorts of other objects still in place. Maybe the only expl
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Actually, it does imply that you want the counterparty to speak more slowly or otherwise accommodate you. Otherwise there's no reason to point it out at all.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I mean, I guess technically it started as an "educational language", but much of its early-ish development was aimed at turning it into an enterprise language that could rival Java. Guido worked for Zope Corporation from 2000-2003
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
It is valid criticism because the context of this article is that Elon Musk wants to know whether Twitter's own claims of ~5% fake/spam accounts is accurate. We do really want an analysis that investigates that precise question
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
The purpose of the hometown tax is wealth transfer to less populated, poorer regions. In that sense, the reciprocal gifts etc. are just a funny implementation detail.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Both can be true. A well-insulated houses loses maybe 0.2W/K/m^2 whereas an unimproved building from the 50s is easily 2W/K/m^2, so that's an order of magnitude difference. By comparison, keeping your house warmer b
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
About 10°, depending on what kind of accuracy you'd like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-angle_approximation#Erro...
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
"Statistical Rethinking" by Richard McElreath gets a lot of people excited about statistics again, after having suffered through the standard curriculum. So it's a lure, but with the caveat that it does expect that you do alr
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
> Not really. You wouldn't expect good programs from someone who has no idea how a computer works. I wouldn't expect them to write a good operating system, but for the vast majority of code that is being written you can get pre
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
The article may be lazy but this is not a very useful critique, either. "Many topics that are solved by certain features", what does that even mean?

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