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by twicetwice 5y ago
Interesting. So I would ordinarily want to put a foreign key constraint on the user_id column of a UserSessions table (or similar). In general, presumably you have relationships across the tables that are in those discrete databases. Do you
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by twicetwice 5y ago
It's a Schelling point.
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I programmed a simple HTML Snake game so I could have a simple ad-free etc etc game I could play while on the phone with people!
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I want to voice strong agreement with kevincox. I use an encrypted Matrix room daily and had no idea that reactions, relations (does that mean that edits are in cleartext??), etc are completely unencrypted. I've read a little bit of th
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by twicetwice 5y ago
This seems like a flippant insubstantial criticism. Facebook is one of many many options—including first-party username+password auth. It's more like, "Welcome to our federated decentralized service. You can log in with your Faceb
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by twicetwice 5y ago
curiosity!
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I highly recommend Ra , it's phenomenal.
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by twicetwice 5y ago
Ra is absolutely phenomenal, so good that when I finished it I sent qntm an effusive email thanking him for writing it (to which he sent a kind and thoughtful response), the first time I've done that in a long time. Fine Structure
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I think you're typical-minding here. The realtime aspect is used all the time by many many people.
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by twicetwice 5y ago
Worth pointing out for those who don't know that the Java runtime does JIT optimizations of bytecode based on observed runtime patterns. Blew my mind when engineers were talking about "warming up the code paths" during startu
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by twicetwice 5y ago
No, most times that's not true for me. I often even consciously think "ugh, I'm exhausted, why aren't I asleep right now" and yet still feel "stuck"—sometimes for hours more! I'll even finish what I w
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I worked at an ice cream shop and cleaning our soft serve machine was always a miserable chore that no one wanted to do.
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by twicetwice 5y ago
They're actually quite tasty, too!
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by twicetwice 5y ago
I've been convinced this complaint is BS. Substack wasn't trying to push particular points of view; it was simply making a deal that was economically beneficial to them. They also extended that deal to a number of left-leaning&#x2
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by twicetwice 5y ago
You're comparing mass to volume in that last paragraph there. Based on a quick google search, that 1 kilogram of hydrogen is going to take up 3.4 gallons as a cryogenic liquid—so even more as a compressed gas. Source: http:/&#x2F
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I just read Ra on your recommendation (literally just hit the last page and then searched for this thread) and WOW. That just absolutely warped and blew my mind. What an incredible story. Thank you for the recommendation.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I'm sure that (read: I'm very hopeful that) that will change once pandemic restrictions lift because there will be a surge of demand for live music, public entertainment, and so on -- a pretty extreme sort of rubber band effect.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Starlink currently orbits at 550 km. 550*60=33000 so that puts it slightly more than 60 times closer than GEO. There are other shells planned at different heights, but the current satellites, and ones launched in the near future, are all or
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Unfortunately, we know for sure that it was not just a poorly researched article. From Scott Aaronson[0]: > I spent many hours with Cade, taking his calls and emails morning or night, at the playground with my kids or wherever else I was
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by twicetwice 6y ago
A great response, in my opinion. Succinctly and effectively points out what was wrong with the NYT article, then tries to move on. Somewhat more of a sober tone than Scott's typical writing, but still with a dash of his typical wit: &g
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WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Dynamical Systems(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by twicetwice 6y ago
To be honest, yes, I think that's exactly what's happening. As with the former presidents as well. These companies are happy to shell out a few hundred grand because that's chump change for them and now their employees get to
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Is there a source for that? I've heard tons of speculation & I'd be very interested to know if the mystery has definitively been settled!
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I'm sorry, what? SpaceX are the undisputed champions of re-lighting engines. They've landed orbital rockets 73+ times, each of which involves multiple engine re-lights while falling through the atmosphere. Let alone gets it wrong
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, that's super interesting! If it's easy to dig up these stats, I'd be interested to know—how does that compare to unique viewers? What percent of page views are logged in? I suspect these numbers would be e
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I'm not a biologist either, but I've been told recently by someone who's likely to know what he's talking about (albeit also likely to be a bit "rah-rah Britain") that the UK is doing far more genetic sequencin
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by twicetwice 6y ago
I do this in stock Chrome (running in Pop!_OS) and it works totally fine. Fantastic experience.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
While that's true, if we take certain basic human values to be universal for the sake of discussion, it's not unreasonable to say that a loaf of bread has intrinsic value in a way that a dollar clearly does not.
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by twicetwice 6y ago
Children are really really smart—just not yet as smart as adults.

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