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by t-3 1mo ago
They do have an intuitive understanding! You just outlined it, and it works well enough for most things. Statistics is generally very useful, but for individuals it's not really important or useful to understand, because the data i
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by t-3 1mo ago
Yes, but less pithy. Placing the "average person" next to the "average number of legs" makes it clear that the idiomatic and intuitive sense of "average" that most people have is wrong. The more precise "t
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by t-3 1mo ago
China's internal economy is sluggish and has always underperformed. They rode the wave of industrialization, but production started moving away to cheaper locales years ago. Their rising standard of living hasn't come with the inc
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by t-3 1mo ago
What's short-sighted and naive is believing that globalism can be reversed, that economic efficiency can be overcome by political will, and that knowledge can be contained to one country. More and deeper international economic and poli
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by t-3 1mo ago
Yeah, but they're just normal Intel stuff.
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by t-3 2mo ago
If you consider each possible encoding as a different instruction, CPU instructions don't even have operands, the register is part of the instruction. The CPU doesn't care what is in the register because only bits can be in the re
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by t-3 2mo ago
What does it matter if government manipulates data nobody should be using these systems to get though? The ideological purity of the model has no bearing on whether or not it will try to inject some backdoors into your code or steal sensiti
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by t-3 2mo ago
Does the Venn diagram of people eager to study history and the people stupid enough to use an unreliable chatbot to study history really have that much overlap?
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by t-3 2mo ago
NK can just set up their own cell phone receiving SK alerts and know that they know and cancel the strike, making it into a boy that called wolf situation and possibly exposing agents.
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by t-3 2mo ago
> You can set your phone to filter these out, but then you'll also miss the notification about North Korea commencing artillery bombardment. Considering most of SK's population is in Seoul, and Seoul is within range of NK artil
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The controversial story of the North American raccoons wreaking havoc in Germany(bbc.com)
3 points by t-3 2mo ago|0 comments
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by t-3 2mo ago
Lots of holidays, especially in places with multiple calendars (lunar/solar/etc).
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by t-3 2mo ago
All states regulate, subsidize, or otherwise exert influence on companies acting in their territories. China is not unique or different in that regard. They have been forced to try somewhat harder, but that was really due to the actions o
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by t-3 2mo ago
It's not about scale, it's about oversight. A warrant puts a lock on the data until the request is approved. Leaving it wide open is the reason we have constant news stories about police being arrested for stalking people. Nobody
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by t-3 2mo ago
Downsizing and outsourcing hit all non-management positions, the only moat against it was technical expertise, but that's been eroded for quite a while. How much moaning about development being outsourced to India have we heard in the
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by t-3 2mo ago
No, you would have to worry about your job being sent/lost to Mexico, Japan, China, etc. Now those jobs are already lost and we have a different vulnerability. Same story, different clothes.
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Egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by t-3 2mo ago|0 comments
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by t-3 2mo ago
A bus works just as well and satisfies your complaints. Many people neither need nor want the full flexibility of car ownership. Many people neither need nor want full control of their computer. Apple being a locked-down walled garden is ab
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by t-3 2mo ago
Apple in this analogy would be a subway. It runs on Apple tracks by Apple rules. If you live in the city, doing city things, you might never need a car, and the subway meets all your needs. If you have a car, you might never need the subway
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by t-3 2mo ago
A list of cocktails without a single Long Island Iced Tea variant? That's blasphemy! Now I feel like it's been too long since I've drunk a Blue Motherfucker.
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by t-3 2mo ago
> Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down? Not when he has to compete for them with Zombie Steve.
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by t-3 2mo ago
So, I can crack the 2nd and 3rd joints of my fingers just by flexing them. My thumbs don't crack, but I can push the first joint through the range of motion until it locks and pushes the knuckle out the palm side. I can also push my sh
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by t-3 2mo ago
Representative democracy is by nature oligachic. Practically, there was no other way to organize a large state until modern communications technology, so that's very understandable, the critical issue is that the US is becoming less an
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by t-3 2mo ago
If you hadn't excluded them, Morocco has a 2000 year old managed food forest.
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by t-3 2mo ago
Unintentionally. People have been mixing biochar into soil for fertility since the beginning of agriculture with slash-and-burn, but terra preta is the result of waste dumps (human waste, ashes, bones, pottery, other garbage) in settlements
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by t-3 2mo ago
I read v1. It's good, but I prefer Ray Seyfarth's book. Not much interest in v2 - I haven't touched Windows in nearly 20 years and this seems much less OS-generic than the previous volume.
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by t-3 2mo ago
I've never lost data on OpenBSD+UFS, unlike Linux and ext4 or btrfs. I would rejoice if zfs or hammer2 or some other modern fs was ported, but it's no big deal to run on my laptop.
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by t-3 2mo ago
If you want less labor-intensive enchiladas, try stacking El Paso style instead of rolling. They have to be eaten on the spot rather than stored casserole-style, but I much prefer this style.
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by t-3 2mo ago
> Everyone has to find an answer to the meaning if life. For the non religious/escapist, you have to stare into the void and find an answer at some point. You don't though. There is no meaning, and need not be any meaning, and
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Revenge of the Simps(thecut.com)
2 points by t-3 2mo ago|0 comments

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