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by t_mann 4y ago
Psychology/therapy may be a bit of an outlier in that sense, we wouldn't expect a nuclear engineer to have physically inspected a failed reactor before talking about accidents. And even they may have relevant things to say, psycho
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by t_mann 4y ago
Appeal to authority is a good point. In terms of clickbait, I feel that applies only when the content doesn't live up to what's promised, and I found the content quite decent in several cases.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> So what's the point in getting a Navy pilot to watch him "flying" them? They don't comment on his flying but on other aspects, like the training scenes, mission tactics, and also on the flying (by professionals) t
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by t_mann 4y ago
Tom Cruise is a really bad example, because he actually does have a pilot license since 1994 and is allowed to fly some jets. [0] I'm not looking for advice on how to make a good movie (or how to fly a plane, for that matter), but on s
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by t_mann 4y ago
Fyi, here's a probably legit traditional jungle building channel (that clearly inspired the ripoffs, down to the no talking, shirtless + shorts): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
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by t_mann 4y ago
Really? I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie'). You find them so terrible?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Here's one, although I don't like it because I feel like it's overdramatizing a bit. With construction quality this low, my hinge is that the jungle will claim back those spots fairly quickly, but the (drainless!) water pits
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by t_mann 4y ago
Care to elaborate? I've been eating salad my whole life and I'm just fine. But then again, I also cook eggs with runny yolk, so I guess I'm just a renegade in the eyes of the food safety folks.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Scary. I recently did some research into what's behind the 'Jungle Builders' channels (two guys pretending to build flashy, but completely dysfunctional, pools somewhere in a forest with little more than their hands as tools)
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by t_mann 4y ago
> I would never say this to my kids. So what would the learning experience consist of then? > If the kid was present for it. OP mentioned several hours of work + dry runs in the garden. Pretty hard to miss that, unless they're pe
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by t_mann 4y ago
The salvaging actually helped the learning experience immensely - shows the kid that carelessness can have lasting consequences. Replacing the toaster and yelling 'We had to spend $X to get a new one now!' will be forgotten by the
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by t_mann 4y ago
Kudos for not just throwing away the toaster. Will have benefited the learning experience.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, Coinbase just did 18% layoffs (that's one gone from every 5-person team). In theory it's nicer if your CEO just tells you basically 'please start looking for jobs now, we don't want to have to do layoffs'. Wha
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by t_mann 4y ago
17% of stocks != 17% of voting rights. I don't know the current numbers, but Zuck was known for aggressive use of priority shares to retain voting control of the company as he was selling shares.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Disagree. There's no need for trademarked colours to be able to go against copycats. In the EU it's illegal to buy (not just sell) copycat items like fake Louis-Vuitton bags (or even to bring one from your holiday), and that'
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by t_mann 4y ago
90% accuracy, presumably on their test set, seems less impressive than it may sound.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting, the German wikipedia article (that is considerably longer) doesn't mention anything of the sort, only that we don't know. There's even a lengthy discussion (and a separate article [0]) about how we don't eve
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by t_mann 4y ago
Not sure that's a great example - roller coasters aren't thrilling because you're not in control but because you're experience crazy g-forces,... sitting on a train is pretty relaxing usually.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, it can make sense for some applications (when used with care). But check the article, they're not using fluid dynamics, they actually try to estimate capacity/load using period averages and basic arithmetic. Such an approach
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by t_mann 4y ago
While I understand your initial reaction, I implore you to think again about the potential consequences of her actions. As a not-so-far-fetched example, remember that QAnon started out as a similar sort of 'blended reality fiction&#x27
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by t_mann 4y ago
While it is admittedly amusing, methinks it's not harmless at all. Vandalism of this sort undermines the legitimacy of information sources more broadly. It was in fact a deliberate tactic of (incidentally Russian) propaganda outlets li
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by t_mann 4y ago
How would this eliminate convection between the outer and inner layers?
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by t_mann 4y ago
You can try to back out, which was in fact extremely common, especially among the poorly trained. Soldiers in trenches couldn't even let their head protrude above the edge (to not get shot by snipers), and had to live in horrendous con
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by t_mann 4y ago
Do you have a source for the 'only minor losses for the Germanic tribes'? Afaik we know very little about the Germanic side at all. Most of what we know is in fact due to Roman historians who mostly wrote about the events decades
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, two well-trained armies facing each other is a wholly different story, as the example shows.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The efficiency of well-trained armies such as the imperial legions at their peak just defies belief. At the battle of Watling Street in Britain, two Roman legions (~10,000 soldiers, including auxiliaries) faced off against an estimated 230,
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by t_mann 4y ago
This is urgently missing some discussion of queuing theory / stochastic processes. Discussing passenger flow in terms of time averages is misleading, passengers don't arrive in continuous streams. The peak load will be many times
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by t_mann 4y ago
Great resignation hitting the the C-suite.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Looks a bit like the 'Netbook' form factor that was popular 10-15 years ago. One thing makes me skeptical when looking at the design: it seems like quite a lot of the hardware is packed into the 'display' rather than the
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by t_mann 4y ago
> You would think it’s the middle ages, but human society has actually been around in Middle Earth about as long as it has in ours. The time span since the Industrial Revolution compared to the history of humankind (let alone humanoids)

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