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by veilrap 4y ago
For a moment I thought this article was going to be about doing visualizations of cells using Vi(m)
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by veilrap 4y ago
Society won't break down. Societies of the high longevity future are almost certain to look back at the current age and balk in confusion at the number of people afraid of living longer the same way we balk at things like human sacrifi
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by veilrap 4y ago
Death is worse, we do know that - outside of religious afterlifes, having continued brain patterns is preferable to non-existence. It's incredibly more likely that continued existence will be no worse than the world today, which is qui
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by veilrap 4y ago
Give me a few million years of life and I'll still have billions more to think about what to do in the event of a heat death of the universe.
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by veilrap 4y ago
I've never understood the "not wanting to live 300 years" sentiment. I've experienced extreme loss, but continue to expreience new connections, knowledge, etc. There's simply no small limit to what a human can expe
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by veilrap 4y ago
Yep, that's exactly the stance I've heard from people who are interested in this sort of thing. And to be honest, <1% odds seem a lot better than 0% odds for normal death. (Sans religious aftermaths)
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by veilrap 4y ago
The people running the Cryo business are living people who get paid for the task. No more wasteful than any other relatively benign thing someone is going to spend their money on.
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by veilrap 4y ago
The restricted App Store does add customer value, and that customer value is degraded if there are other App Stores available. Namely - if a user buys Apple products because they want the security/curation/whatever that comes with
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by veilrap 4y ago
I'm mostly with you, except, `git reset --hard` is relatively easy to recover from. `git reflog` generally can fix most `git reset --hard` commands. On the other hand. `git checkout .` with unstaged changes tends to be the most common
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by veilrap 4y ago
100% agree. This matches my actual usage of github copilot. All the drama around it seems to just be mostly for headlines to fuel the outrage machine.
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by veilrap 4y ago
AT&T hasn't charged me an activation fee in years... yet I also hear people complaining about them from time to time. Maybe it's because I tend to buy direct from Apple? Are these sorts of fees randomly applied by carriers? I
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by veilrap 4y ago
Agree 100%, if I were not able to download the applications and tools that make me productive, I would be looking for a new job at a less employee hostile work place.
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by veilrap 4y ago
They all certainly made the web a worse experience for those using it. Wether that was avoidable or not is moot compared to what happened in practice.
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by veilrap 4y ago
I don't like the ability for arbitrary app/store/sites to be able to pull/push money directly from my bank account. The credit card companies provide a nice buffer between my wallet and the payee. I could see it being u
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by veilrap 4y ago
I think the problem is that the measurement, detection, and access to so-called gifted and talented programs is a major issue. The more exclusive the programs are the more it restricts the access to advanced studies to students not lucky e
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by veilrap 4y ago
"Literally" has always been used figuratively. https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439
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by veilrap 4y ago
Android already is a huge iOS competitor, in fact, the majority player in the space. So competition clearly exists without this heavy handed regulation. Legally requiring companies to degrade customer experiences is frustrating.
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by veilrap 4y ago
So use Android? I don't get the reason to force all companies to be the same when customers clearly have preferences. I've bought mostly Apple products because I prefer their system to Androids. People who disagree can buy somethi
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by veilrap 4y ago
If you don't want to use Apple services, why are you buying an Apple device? These facetious arguments make no sense.
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by veilrap 4y ago
In the US, I had similar (not quite as early) optional 0-period classes in high school that started around 6:45AM. It was awesome, small class sizes (because it was optional), interesting useful topics (Math and Philosophy). I'm happy
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by veilrap 4y ago
The fact that "late bedtimes" is listed as a cause is telling - shifting the start time later isn't likely to help if it just allows/causes people to shift their bedtimes later in response. Teens who go to bed at a reaso
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by veilrap 4y ago
It's not the same, because Safari is already a minority in the market compared to the Chrome behemoth.
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by veilrap 4y ago
No one is forced to use Apple products at all. Choosing an Apple product over non-apple products is a choice. There is extensive competition with Apple products. Choosing to buy an iPad, and being upset that they can't install linux
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by veilrap 4y ago
Yes, I am happy with the Apple ecosystem in this regard. If I wanted to run a different browser engine, I could do so by buying an Android phone. I purchased an iOS phone specifically because I think the overall phone experience is better w
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by veilrap 4y ago
The spending all the money you have so that you don't lose it is a problem actually created by anti-corruption bureaucracy, and is very common in government funded areas. The problem is that in an effort to avoid being wasteful, the bu
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by veilrap 4y ago
My experience in higher ed is exactly the opposite. Funding is quite easy to get for STEM research projects through grants and other research programs. Projects that just "align with political talking points" tend to be much more
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by veilrap 4y ago
Does this imply that thinking too hard, cramming, and other rapid learning strategies may actually increase brain cancer risk? Somewhat horrifying to think about... Oops.
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by veilrap 4y ago
The C++ code could have also just have been `T`. It's a bit odd of a comparison because `RandomAccessIterator` is just a name the author chose for the template typename.
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by veilrap 4y ago
The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service. In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowe
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by veilrap 4y ago
The problem with this is that Republicans in power today equate things like evolution with Democrat ideals. When facts get labeled as bias it's impossible to remove both from the classroom and still have a functional classroom.

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