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by strken 9mo ago
It seems like the introvert/extrovert split, where few people are near the poles and there's a lot more going on in the middle. E.g. I might check if someone has weekend plans before asking if I can stay with them. Or, I might ask
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by strken 9mo ago
This argument applies equally to anything else that needs digital forensics, like SBF's personal banking history, or which user deployed a crypto-miner to some random staging server back in 2023.
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by strken 9mo ago
You might eventually end up calling 15mm pipe half-inch, depending on where the cheapest pipe can be sourced from.
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by strken 9mo ago
"Hi SchemaLoad, I'm Officer John from the Department of Not Letting Children Be Abused. I'm following up on something one of your users posted three years ago. Can you tell me the IP address(es) associated with the following
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by strken 9mo ago
I believe that was the point. Soft delete isn't a product requirement, it's an implementation detail, so product teams should talk about the user experience using language like "delete" or "archive" or "un
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by strken 9mo ago
I would be interested in hearing an actual historian's opinion on whether conditions were better or worse in England at the height of the British Empire, compared to continental Europe. I got the impression from Orwell's Down and
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by strken 9mo ago
My understanding is that unchecked wealth only remains that way until its owner acts irrationally on a stock exchange, at which point it is quite rapidly checked and becomes someone else's unchecked wealth. Which is to say that Elon Mu
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by strken 9mo ago
It's not a worthless question at all. The answer is "read the manual" and maybe also "your usage might meet the severe maintenance schedule and you'll need to read the footnotes." Yes, it's not a question
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by strken 9mo ago
Musk, being the world's richest person, is something of an outlier. He can afford to give free money to the market for longer than anyone else, and the size of the market might not be big enough to handle the imbalance. There's a
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by strken 9mo ago
No, loud conversation on a train during commuter hours really is rude where I live. Most patrons have a conversation at a normal volume where the words are clear to their conversation partner but not to people sitting further away. Speaking
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by strken 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why or how non-technical QA staff are meant to test my implementation of a load shedder. I'm 100% sure they're not going to realise the API is suboptimal and refactor it during the process of writing a test
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by strken 9mo ago
Some of our neighbours had home solar, wind, and battery storage in the 1990s. They had a huge specially-made array of lead acid batteries, a backup wood-fired stove for cooking when their power went out, a refrigeration setup where they ha
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by strken 9mo ago
Lower expectations is a great tip. I find that the more a group does things, the more everyone chills out. It's like the expectations come from a fear of being judged and from uncertainty. When everyone has information from the last te
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by strken 9mo ago
I think the argument is that commercial recipes in the US are written in proportional notation, e.g. 1:2:3 sourdough, but recipes in countries which use metric give units, e.g. 1kg:2L:3kg. I also note that if you add small proportions of an
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by strken 9mo ago
I misread the article too, but it states that with 3 or 4 on the jury the probability has increased to 0.9, instead of 0.8 with 1 or 2. It's just that an incremental extra jury member from odd to even never increases the information, e
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by strken 9mo ago
In this specific discussion, the traits labelled as toxic masculinity were as follows: > You’re not allowed to feel things. Emotions make you weak. Just suck it up and power through. Bottle it up. The person who most embodies these trait
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by strken 9mo ago
Gender studies as a field is absolutely riddled with gender bias. I view it with scepticism because I don't think it will treat my gender or my sex fairly, not because I think there's no need for it. The "X for MEN" tren
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by strken 9mo ago
If I remember correctly, there was a story about a robot that got stuck midway between two objectives because it was expensive and so its creators decided to strengthen the law about protecting itself from harm. I'm not sure what the c
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by strken 9mo ago
I have an issue with the "code is a liability" framing. Complexity and lack of maintainability are the ultimate liabilities behind it. Code is often the least worst alternative for solving a given problem compare to unstructured d
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by strken 9mo ago
It's just beef. I go to the supermarket and buy steaks and then I cook them. Sometimes they're finished on grain if the farmer didn't have enough feed, and otherwise they're finished on grass or silage or hay. I don&#x27
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by strken 9mo ago
I live in Australia and about half our beef production is apparently grass-finished. I believe what we get in the supermarket is more likely to be grain-finished, but I've definitely bought steaks with the telltale grass-finished yello
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by strken 9mo ago
I think the whole point was that mega-yachts are money (or, from the perspective of the employee, effort) pits. Those employed shipbuilders and wait staff aren't building cruise ships and they aren't serving meals on them. The tim
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by strken 9mo ago
The word "consume" is important. Billionaires might own a million average family homes, but that's not the same thing as actually using the home. A normal family will eventually lease the house and use it, unless it's
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by strken 9mo ago
Even bodybuilders and powerlifters admit that 2g protein per kg of body weight is about all you need. You can get that with a normal diet and a couple of protein shakes, which taste fine if you use milk and half a banana. You don't nee
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by strken 9mo ago
I think the key part of that sentence was "...and just needs an advance", implying that they're going to take the job, ask for a cash advance for a (possibly fictional) sick family member, and immediately quit.
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by strken 9mo ago
India has one of the most agrarian populations in the world, with a comparatively high prevalence of subsistence farming too. Its GDP per capita is maybe a tenth of Japan's. One million is hyperbole, but Japan's more advanced econ
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by strken 9mo ago
When parts of the general public enjoy a character that the author intended to be bad, there's often a lot going on under the surface that outside critics don't realise. This results in articles that are hilariously wrong from the
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by strken 10mo ago
The social aspect is real. The only time I've seen anyone in my family buy a lottery ticket was when one of the jackpots got big enough to become headline news. Mum bought a ticket just to be able to talk about it (and had a chat to us
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by strken 10mo ago
This way of seeing the world is foreign to me. My family, friends, neighbours, co-workers, and even the guy who works at my local bakery are all good people. I agree that most of the people I meet aren't going to be my friends, but dis
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by strken 10mo ago
You can't budget your way out of a genuine lowest-quintile income without going to ridiculous lengths that are more difficult than getting a higher-paid job. You can absolutely reconsolidate and budget your way out of debt, though. Or

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