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by umvi 5y ago
Salesforce is the worst when it comes to helpful error messages. I can sink hours trying to figure out what some vague message means.
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by umvi 5y ago
In my unpopular opinion, almost every person yearns for a sense of identity and purpose. Veritasium sums up these yearnings of the soul nicely in his "Our Greatest Delusion" video. However, I disagree with his conclusion. I don&#x
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by umvi 5y ago
Yes, infrastructure level services should be forced to accept all customers, including the KKK. The power company can't shut off someone's power because they are in the KKK. Verizon can't shut off your phone if you say racist
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by umvi 5y ago
2-4x reduction doesn't mean anything unless you know the original risk probability. For a low 30s person that isn't obese... The original risk is already probably a tiny number. It's like saying because an anti shark ointment
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by umvi 5y ago
The point though is that you can't afford minor losses here and there, because it's a war of attrition. Firearm lobby knows that the opposition's strategy is to just chip away at 2A rights slowly over the decades. Therefore,
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by umvi 5y ago
So we've decided as a society that any opinion that doesn't conform to the majority needs to be silenced? Scary.
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by umvi 5y ago
> When I began to teach 3D vectors two years ago, I realized I first had to teach it to myself, because I’d never actually learned it. My college courses skipped straight to “n-dimensional vectors.” This sums up why I disliked higher lev
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by umvi 5y ago
You just connect the left sensor to the right motor and the right sensor to the left motor. I think the "light sensors" are measuring the brightness of the ground underneath the car or something. Hence if one of the sensors goes o
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by umvi 5y ago
> Since it was approved for children by the FDA I assume they did rigorous testing I wouldn't make this assumption, especially in light of the the conditions under which it was approved (extreme political pressure, rushed/bleed
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by umvi 5y ago
> So add more capacity. It's an emergency. Find a way to add it. We did. The government deployed a floating hospital called the USNS Comfort to NYC to massively increase hospital capacity and... it basically just sat there unused fo
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by umvi 5y ago
Containerization has a specific meaning in the context of computers so maybe the title should be changed to "The Hidden Costs of [Shipping Containers]" to reduce confusion for people clicking the link thinking it is going to be an
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by umvi 5y ago
My completely subjective opinion is that at the highest levels of math, there are only a handful of people that are even capable of peer reviewing, and their time is in high demand. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is like 1
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by umvi 5y ago
Benevolent dictatorships are great, assuming your country really has one and that the leader is competent as well as benevolent. The problem is the "transfer of power" part. That's where democracy wins. It's super hard t
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by umvi 5y ago
Replace "github.com" with "github.dev" or "github1s.com" on any repo
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by umvi 5y ago
There is no equivalent to the first amendment in the United Kingdom, hence, a person being jailed for a tweet
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by umvi 5y ago
> I guess that points to how unbelievable hard it is for independent game developers to survive I thought companies like Bungie, Bioware, etc. sold out. i.e. it's easy to survive if you make blockbuster titles like Halo or Mass Effe
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by umvi 5y ago
> There's no reason for my health to be harmed just because someone has more than me. You would think so, but I've read several articles that suggest this isn't the case. One example that comes to mind is that in some comm
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by umvi 5y ago
> The study says, “We see that sufficient redistribution can reduce both inequality and polarisation, although a high degree of redistribution is required to prevent polarisation.” Have they factored in the act of wealth redistribution i
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by umvi 5y ago
Yep I recently did exactly this for my personal site as well (including initially writing HTML by hand), but instead of lisp I wrote a ~100 line python script[0] so that I could write future content in Markdown instead of HTML. Yes I'm
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by umvi 5y ago
The rewrite should be done by the people that will be maintaining it, not "elite coders" that aren't going to touch it ever again afterwards
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by umvi 5y ago
Why do truckers have vaccine mandates? They are sitting alone in a truck 99% of the time...
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by umvi 5y ago
Guessing 255 or 0 reveals the answer
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by umvi 5y ago
> Who decides which is just between left and right wing riots? The media tries to shape public perception of riots/lawlessness. Compare left vs right media on left vs. right protests/riots. Each will paint the other as domestic
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by umvi 5y ago
It's worse than that. It's $99 per year you want to keep it in the store. Stop paying the tax and it's taken down, even if it was free software to begin with.
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by umvi 5y ago
Pros: you are high all the time Cons: you don't have parents or a family, you never experience real human relationships or love, in all likelihood your fetus will have been intentionally handicapped before birth, and if you did win the
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by umvi 5y ago
Depends on the country. China - Orwell USA/EU - Huxley
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by umvi 5y ago
From the wiki: > Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He is one of only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exce
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by umvi 5y ago
"never let a good crisis go to waste"
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by umvi 5y ago
If racist language in a book about racism is "uncritical deployment", couldn't female nudity in a graphic novel about the holocaust also be "uncritical deployment"?
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by umvi 5y ago
How is this any more noteworthy than California schools banning To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn for containing racial slurs?

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