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by tpoacher 1y ago
> If you are not a Pythonista (or one possibly living under a rock) That's bait! / Ads are getting smarter! I would also have accepted "unless you're geh", "unless you're a traitor to the republic"
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by tpoacher 1y ago
Apparently this is a thing that was used in old horror movies. Subsonic music would play just before a scary encounter, creating a feeling of uneasiness to the audience without any consciously perceptible stimulous, and thus priming the aud
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by tpoacher 1y ago
Speaking from a London perspective, though I'm sure a NY one is worse, not better. > Sry lack of new houses seems doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness. If you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a small
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by tpoacher 1y ago
This isn't about bubbles or ignorance of the "Real World (TM)". I think this reading shows own biases about academia vs industry more than anything else. They provide proof that fingerprinting is not only actively used, but a
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by tpoacher 1y ago
If that's the case, I'll say this then. If the FSB has a UX manual, other secret organisations should follow it to the letter for their own messenger apps. Because currently everything else sucks.
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Naive question but, what's stopping the company from just saying "no, and actually it's now your job to also do this" ?
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by tpoacher 1y ago
> you are buying a Chinese surveillance system to allow the Chinese government to spy on you ftfy
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by tpoacher 1y ago
2026 will be the year of the hurd desktop!
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by tpoacher 1y ago
This sounds more like a problem with the 'real' world then.
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and they get paid 70% less! clear LLM win here.
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by tpoacher 1y ago
Things I don't want to (try and) remember? Forward to a telegram group I own, aptly called "my nerd drawer". I have friends on that group too, so they get to see the nerdy stuff I 'save'. Things I do want to remembe
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by tpoacher 1y ago
I reached a similar result when researching all possible "binary subpixel" configurations that would give a pixel its fuzzy value. Arranging the configurations in ascending order row-wise for one pixel and column-wise for the othe
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by tpoacher 1y ago
You are not alone. I feel the same way.
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Is Fivetran to Fortran like what C++ is to C?
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There have been many studies since, which probably provide more evidence and detail. But this guy's current explanation at the time is provided in the link where it says "needs to be boiled" ( https://www.oocities.o
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by tpoacher 1y ago
I read this with great interest, because about a decade ago, I was convinced I had prostatitis (but NHS screwed the diagnostic process up - the GP didn't do a digital rectal exam because the ultrasound would be more diagnostic anyway,
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by tpoacher 1y ago
And presumably the measure by which they are judged to be reasonable or not is if they prefer CMake over Autotools, correct? :D
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by tpoacher 1y ago
This is true, but you are conflating two very different definitions of success. If anything, your definition is rather tautological: success is the expected outcome of hard work, which cannot be obtained without it. Whereas in the case of t
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by tpoacher 1y ago
A related thought, just leaving this here. There's something great about old technology (though obviously one must be aware of survivorship bias when citing such technology), despite the fact that, logically speaking, new technology sh
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by tpoacher 1y ago
To throw some controversy onto the mix, they are related, but in the same way that [some race] is correlated to [some behaviour] in the extremes of the probability distribution, but mostly makes no difference at the overwhelming core of it.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
pipelines are great IF you can easily debug them as easily as temp variable assignments ... looking at you R and tidyverse hell.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I once co-wrote a paper with a person who insisted on alphabetical order as a means of ensuring fairness. Except his surname was Aaronson and mine starts with a P.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Yes but you'd still cite the paper as "as shown in FirstFirstAuthor et al (2024)" which rather defeats the purpose. And citing as "FirstFirstAuthor and SecondFirstAuthor and [...] et al" is both impractical and pett
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Yes. Pointing out that strengths and weaknesses are the two sides of the same coin, as above. And then proceeding to talk about your strengths while identifying when they can turn into weaknesses, and how you mitigate those situations.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I've said something similar for a while. That dual interview question "what is your greatest strength? what is your greatest weakness" is a very bad question. Your strengths and weaknesses are joined at the hip, and they are
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Running Win98 is still the most reliable way to get Discworld Noir to actually run; a gem of a game, made almost useless by the aggressive DRM practices of the time. Bookmarking this for future use :)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Hah. The very first comment here got downvoted into a dead comment. Gotta appreciate the irony!
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Not Censored, Just Quiet(ceross.substack.com)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Interesting insight. I'd heard people talking about 'information addiction' before, but I'd never considered it quite how you just described it. But you're right, makes perfect sense.
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I have exactly the same experience, and in fact, I'm slowly starting to lose interest in the 'nerdy' books too. However, I don't necessarily think the problem is books. I think the problem is 'time', and how re

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