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by vba616 3y ago
The US does not use Imperial measurements that I know of, which can be confusing to Americans if UK mpgs are interpreted as equivalent to US values. But there's more than one kind of ounce in the US. Fluid ounces are volume whereas dry
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> the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, I think that the linked Research Letter is what I was referring to in my previous comment. I do not see anything implying I misinterpreted. A
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I believe you when you say Houston regulates land use in many ways, and that it's not necessarily a model; but I don't believe it's the same as everywhere else. I don't know much about either Houston or zoning, overall,
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I asked the free version to make a basic grammar for SQL SELECT statements that is compatible with Oracle and DB2. It replied chirpily that it could do that, in so many words, and output a grammar (which I didn't test) that solely pars
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by vba616 3y ago
Asking clarifying questions is not always socially acceptable! Then what? Some random things that seem difficult to get an AI to deal with: 1) Things that people expect you to know by observation, but not be told and not to say. 2) Things t
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by vba616 3y ago
This would only exacerbate the underlying warming trend, but isn't it the case that reputable scientists have predicted an overlaid major warming over the next ~10 years due to the recent Tonga eruption's injection of unimaginable
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by vba616 3y ago
>Having 72 million people in New York would be nuts for many reasons. It depends on your perspective; it's not unheard of to portray the whole swath from Boston to DC as one gigantic metro area of 50+ million people. https:/&#
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>I'm just repeating a commonly held belief, hence the upvotes That possibility ("a commonly held belief") indeed is the reason I thought it worth engaging. I don't think I can see your upvotes, and discussing voting i
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>In a sentence, we need a public infrastructure in place to care for the mentally ill that currently are forced to live on the streets of our major cities. Your feelings, whatever they are, that lead you to your opinions, political princ
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>Personally I find the fact that Keynes's 15-hour work week never materialized despite massive improvements in automation to be fairly strong evidence in favor of Marx's Labor Theory of Value. I don't understand the train
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by vba616 3y ago
>I grew up when it wasn't really possible to be into computers and not have a visceral sense of this "A disk is a bunch of bits" doesn't seem to me like an accurate characterization of microcomputers at any time, real
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I think it's funny everyone is ignoring the monospaced font the page is in . It appears to be called Dossier and I like it better than Courier New at least. https://www.myfonts.com/collections/dossier-font-tabular
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It's not that I assume that my family is/was representative, it's that I don't fall for potted history because of knowing about real people. If your worldview is wrong enough, even a few data points will show with high
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by vba616 3y ago
Circa 1993, a printed listing of everything on the Internet: "As easy to use as your telephone book, THE INTERNET DIRECTORY provides: user-friendly instructions on how to get on-line and get the information you want; a guide to the tho
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by vba616 3y ago
boss: you might try doing X as your next project me: ok boss: actually, we can't do X, we don't have access me: ok boss: you might want to watch this video on X, though, it's interesting me: no
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Windows is the modern VT100. It's simply a category error to compare its market share to Linux these days.
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by vba616 3y ago
I don't remember much of Ada, but here's something very basic I liked (had to look the details up): You could declare custom integer types like this: type My_Type is range -5 .. 10; And then you could reference the range with My_T
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by vba616 3y ago
(1) Weren't there issues with making good compilers early on, because the language was complex? Another case of worse-is-better versus C. (2) I think a lot of people were prejudiced against it coming from "the government", wr
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by vba616 3y ago
Surely they're allowed to collect something in payment? I would assume they owed whatever ethical duties they owed to Twitter in the sense of the shareholders selling to Musk, and I threw out $20 billion as a wild-ass guess of how mu
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My comments were based on my own family.
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If you made someone $20 billion, how much of a tip would you expect?
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>Nothing about society or college was comparable pre-industrial revolution, unless maybe you came from wealth and are comparing the life of aristocracy. What's your inheritance? We must be talking past each other. I was saying that
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"A monk asked Tozan, "What is the Buddha?" Tozan answered, "Three pounds of flax!"
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>it's the result of a society divided by social class Isn't it really the opposite? Pre-industrial revolution, most people would be farmers, and they would learn outside of school nearly everything they needed to know. Today, i
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If there had been no industrial revolution, we would all still be farming with minimal formal education, not going to Oxbridge.
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>when higher education in the UK was fully-funded by the state the resulting degrees, regardless of the subject(s) studied, were far more valuable in the job market than the more vocational degrees which today saddle students with £50k o
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"No, Earth is not as smooth as a billiard ball! ... The billiard-ball-sized Earth’s smoothness would be equivalent to that of 320-grit sandpaper." https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/ A comment on
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You do not live in the same society as some of us. Below is a story about how insisting that a fitness instructor look physically fit is unreasonable and sometimes illegal. The icing on the cake is that her day job is said to have been in
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by vba616 3y ago
People could be on different wavelengths. When I read "fired", I don't immediately think of "forgot a WHERE clause when deleting from a production database table". That happens, but I don't think I've actu
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I made a comment here on what I think is the right approach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588394

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