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by swores 3y ago
The law isn't about telling you what gear you are in, it's about telling you when to shift up a gear (I'm not sure it's required to show downshifts, at least the few cars I've driven - all in the UK - only show up s
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by swores 3y ago
It also helps in large companies where lots of people may have needed the higher permissions over the years - if you do temporary permissions then someone currently/soon having those permissions needs to be hacked, as opposed to hackin
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by swores 3y ago
Most chefs don't get to set their own pay rates, nor hours. If a restaurant gave a chef a contract of "come in and help our kitchen team whenever you like, but up to you how often you do" would using the employer's equip
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by swores 3y ago
Fans often have opinions on which players are good or bad teammates, I doubt their use of that word means they themselves were on the team (not that it's impossible, just very unlikely).
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by swores 3y ago
Dark Sky was just the name of a weather app that included that feature earlier than Apple's weather app. But things like "rain in X mins" is a feature multiple providers & apps have (including Apple once they bought Dark
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by swores 3y ago
Not just years, it took a law requiring it to happen.
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by swores 3y ago
> "As such, the only people who can criticize it are people who know it back to front. Anyone else will be told that they're not using it properly." ...they said, in a thread full of people criticising different aspects
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by swores 3y ago
Ahh yes good point, thanks! It's a shame it doesn't seem to be getting much voting traction, as with the previous couple of submissions to the MENACE simulation - I feel there must be interesting discussion to be had around the jo
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MENACE - Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine (1961 mechanical ML / RL)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by swores 3y ago|5 comments
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by swores 3y ago
Submitting note: I was surprised this hasn't been posted on HN before, since it's one of (maybe the?) earliest examples of proving how a computer can learn from failures over lots of training runs to gain "intelligence",
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by swores 3y ago
Yeah, for something like lightly frying some mushrooms, or caramelising onions (though butter is imo tastier for the latter) there's no reason not to use EVOO other than that it still won't be the cheapest option, but cooking won&
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by swores 3y ago
Ahh, so it's centuries that aren't divisible by 400 rather than that aren't divisible by 4, that makes more sense! Thanks for answering
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by swores 3y ago
If you have date/time problems that are unrelated to leap years, there's a 1/~1,461 chance of it happening on a Feb 29th. Given how many devs/techies/linux users/(and even non-techy users of tech) will encounte
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by swores 3y ago
I've yet to come across a form of 100 that isn't divisible by 4... since 25 usually still exists! But I do remember there being some weird niche rules about which years are or aren't leap years, so I'm guessing your comm
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by swores 3y ago
> "Sightsinging is easier with shapenote notation. After a while, you internalise the intervals between the shapes – you just know what a fa up to a sol feels and sounds like." I can't speak to which is easier to get to
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by swores 3y ago
I don't know about Sacred Harp stuff specifically, but generally speaking in classical music "treble" means prepubescent boys and "soprano" means female singers, and since the vocal ranges are roughly the same the c
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Killer fungi detectives: inside the lab that may be fighting the next pandemic(theguardian.com)
5 points by swores 3y ago|0 comments
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by swores 3y ago
That falls under my "or government..." point, no?
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but I have been able to sight read sheet music (to play or to sing) since I was a young kid. From the article and wiki page, I see claims that the sacred harp system makes things easier, but I can't actually see
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by swores 3y ago
Plenty of countries have better (faster and/or cheaper) broadband options than most of the US, without having any Google involvement. Competition (or government enforced requirements and price caps) are what's needed, Google Fiber
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by swores 3y ago
Ahh, thanks
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by swores 3y ago
Given they claimed to be hunters, not officials, I'm fairly sure you're not right (though I'm not a US lawyer). To give a simile example to show why I think this: if someone calls me up and says "I don't like a pers
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by swores 3y ago
> After those 54 planet 1 orbits, all planets are in the same position. Could you please explain what you mean by this, as to my layman's ears that sounds like either a confusingly-worded sentence, or an impossibility (multiple pl
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by swores 3y ago
Nice article! Reminds me of a non-Swiss example that's older than any in the article, a British-made map which featured fake contour lines depicting an elephant: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/670-nil-how-to-hid
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by swores 3y ago
> I believe there are some exceptions for prescriptions. You can essentially forget the maximum pill numbers for paracetamol/ibuprofen when it comes to prescriptions in the UK. Doctors can prescribe hundreds of either pill to be g
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by swores 3y ago
> One of the great advantages of solar is that many small installations, close to where power is needed, are better than one big one. I'm sure it's definitely true when using the same technology in both sides of the compariso
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by swores 3y ago
I'm suggesting the government take the role of investor, replacing (or rather, overshadowing) the financial firms & private owners who are the current investors, not taking over the way the companies work. Could either give a body
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by swores 3y ago
Sure, except that investing in the S&P is just artificially inflating the economy as a whole, whereas my suggestion isn't intended to be "this is my advice for the most profitable use of a government $", it's a sugge
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by swores 3y ago
The thing is, pharma industry is clearly hugely profitable, so why doesn't the government invest in a wide shotgun approach to fund half (or more) of the entire industry and in return take half (or more) of the profits to either keep a
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by swores 3y ago
They provided two true statements, they didn't link them causally even if they could have done more to make sure people didn't assume that they were implying causation (or maybe they were implying that they think it's likely)

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