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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
I found this statement to be confusing (the bolded part): > Moreover, because the two ground circuits are mutually independent, no single failure can cause both grounds to fail. *This lowers the probability of a ground failure*: If the p
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
This looks like a very good template for user documentation. As a developer, I find that I struggle with balancing the documentation for what the user needs; what my co-workers need so that they can collaborate and approve whatever I'
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
It seems to me that there's a fundamental difference between how you would train an AI to provide a reasonable, coherent text-based or languaged-based response as part of a conversation; and how you would train it to optimize for a spe
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
> You've broken the spirit. Maybe. But I doubt many people are aware of such functions, so it's still a fun challenge.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
It's an amusing magic trick, for fun. Trivial to those who understand it, but potentially impressive to those who don't.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite threads on the old Internet Infidels web site, in their Philosophy forum. The question was, "Do dogs bark?" There was an enormous amount of discussion on it!
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
Republicans had exactly this chance in 2016, and showed that their policies are just a bunch of hot air. The border? chaos. Repealing Obamacare? They were caught completely flat-footed and had nothing to offer. Cutting government costs
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
> The fact that dz is treated as a single letter in Hungarian means that if you search for “mad”, it should not match “madzag” (which means “string”) because the “dz” in “madzag” is a single letter and not a “d” followed by a “z”, no mor
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
> 7. ... Remember that squatting is legal. Not in Michigan it isn't. It's a criminal offense, punishable by fines and jail time.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
I think the solution to this is to follow rule #5 in TFA: Is cleaned out regularly—ideally daily, at most weekly—, so that it doesn’t become a storage area.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
Zen and the Art of Life Maintenance
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
> The argument in favour of TUEs, which were first introduced in the early 1990s, is that they level the playing field for athletes deemed to be suffering from legitimate medical concerns that can be treated with otherwise-banned drugs.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
It sounds good, but often still might be wrong. "That situation" includes details that still might not be clear. It's hard to communicate an entire frame of mind, and you might find that you'd in fact do something very
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
People get convinced in the heat of the moment that they want something, when if they had time to reflect/research/etc. they might very well conclude that their money is better spent elsewhere. Marketing in a capitalist system is
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
I've been in a reading rut lately, so I'm re-reading an old favorite of mine: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding. It's in the public domain, so available for free! No doubt the writing style
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
I wonder how the error changes if you start a new round just before finishing the stream, compared to if the last word in the stream just fills the buffer and ends a round.
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by unbalancedevh 2y ago
Also, the visualization doesn't update well when scrolling back and forth; and the grouping is bad -- "bullied" is listed as an adverse condition, but is also shown as a separate grouping; and the way it's displayed for
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
I wish my computer understood this when I get angry at it. Unfortunately, many (most?) times that I get angry are because things outside my control aren't working the way I feel that they should, whether they're human, animate, o
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
I've found that marketing material takes significant liberties with their claims, with the understanding that the audience isn't actually interested in the gory details, just the general question of "should I buy option A or
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
I'll second this. Implementing tricks can improve some use cases but make others worse.
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
> that's down to $85k in savings if you live frugally Saving $85k per year, which is way more than the median income in the US, is fantastic for a family of 5, while simultaneously building equity in one of the most expensive mark
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
You made the best decision you could at the time, and the outcome was a best-case scenario! That's a real victory.
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
I've very late to the discussion, but this seems relevant anyway -- The issue isn't just the cost of getting/retaining customers. Businesses don't charge solely based on cost, they charge based on what customers will pa
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
Regulations for stuff like this seem frivolous and overly restrictive, until you remember that what seems completely benign when one person does it is potentially destructive to the future of humanity when done at scale (like burning oil, t
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
'I can't find the wiki link" was a good clue. I'll have to remember that line next time I'm kidding someone!
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
> Just saying that there's nothing wrong with the statistics of it. I think that an understanding of basic statistics still eludes a lot of people. Teaching it should be prioritized as much as teaching algebra. There are a lot of
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
Yes, I remember having pretty good success with this strategy.
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
Laws favor the people who have enough money to influence the people who make the laws. Poor people will always be at a disadvantage.
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
I'm definitely not 40-hours-productive, and would love to go to a 4-day work week. But I think that a lot of down-time that I spend between tasks wouldn't go away, because my brain can't just switch contexts that quickly. O
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by unbalancedevh 3y ago
The point isn't that you could work harder now with 5 days and do more; it's that you could be just as productive in 4 days as you currently are, which presumably is acceptable. The big question is, will people continue to slack o

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