viceroyalbean

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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I'm not sure those are directly comparable. For YouTube you are not contributing to Joe Rogan unless you watch his videos and add views/popularity/ad revenue. Spotify, however, signed a separate contract that (AFAIK) is unrel
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Re-do the exam when it is next offered. The most common math exams (e.g calculus, linear algebra) run 4 times a year so there are quite a lot of opportunities.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
>In a recent post, Parrhesia suggested that course grades should be 100% determined by performance on a final exam—an exam that could be taken repeatedly, with the last attempt being the course grade >[...]I suspect this proposal hasn
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Ah, I see. I haven't used Chai but from what I can tell it's a service that lets you make payments through multiple methods (e.g credit card, bank transfer). I don't think they've published statistics but I'm guessi
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
My university had a queuing system used for presenting assignments. You could always access the page, but the queue wasn't open unless the TAs were there ready to take assignments. When the queue opened it would send a websocket messag
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I live in South Korea and like to think that I keep track of the current state of fintech but I have never heard of Terra or any cryptocurrency being widely used for payments. Where is it usable?
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
After some googling I found a few studies that seem to show an increased risk for pilots as well, particularly skin cancer. I think the increased risk of skin cancer is interesting since that would (layman's speculation) probably be th
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Even if an IDE is only a crutch for poorly designed languages, people still use those languages and an IDE is a useful tool in that scenario.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
True, but for many people "lose weight" is really code for "lose body fat", since that has desirable health and aesthetic benefits.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I believe they're referring to the streamer/youtuber Northernlion
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
From having eaten at McD's in Sweden and Korea I'd say the Korean McD's is miles beyond the Swedish one in every way, including tasting better and also being cheaper. In Sweden I would never eat there unless I really had no o
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I agree with you, especially in instances where that decision logic is unrelated to the data that is actually being used. In your example you'd have to pass "thing" everywhere just for that if-statement, but it might not be u
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
If I'm not complete misunderstanding the article the launcher-only downloads only apply to Humble Trove, which isn't explicitly purchased. It's still really bad, and doesn't make any sense as a business decision, but fro
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I'm currently reading the Stormlight Archives series, planning on continuing with Mistborn when I'm done.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I started reading Brandon Sanderson with this mindset and I'm loving it. Before I would only really read nonfiction but I would easily get distracted and didn't read much in practice. Now I'm reading like 100 pages a day and
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
My interpretation is that most of the people replying are giving the OP the benefit of the doubt regarding productivity, considering OP never mentions anything concretely other than having acceptable performance reviews and isn't jumpi
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I do the exact same thing, though my internal monologue is like 95% English (not a native speaker). I talk to myself out loud when thinking, but my wife thinks it's weird so I only do it when alone.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I agree that there is that implicit pressure, but really it should (as in the ideal case) be fine to just say "I've been thinking about A, B, and C" and leave it at that. That still gives you the room to say that issue C has
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I didn't interpret the comment to be about not working, but rather about the non-linear nature of programming work. If you have 100 documents to process then you are halfway through after 50 and it will presumably take a similar amount
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
One of my favorite things about the intcode computer was implementing the extendable memory by just appending an infinite list of zeros using haskell's lazy evaluation. Unfortunately my implementation was incredibly slow (probably beca
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
The argument for theft would have to assume that there is a "right" temperature to set. Personally I would be sweating in a t-shirt if I had the heating set to 22C, which would be the only way to prevent the cooling in the example
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
My goto method for reading reviews is sort by negative and only look at detailed reviews, or at least ones that explain what they thought was lacking. Often the 1/2 star reviews have fair points but might be for a use case I don't
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Your mention of Return of the Obra Dinn reminded me of this article[1] which I found quite fascinating about dithering, the technique used for the game's art style. One of the neat things about these types of small indie games is that
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but your point about costs coming out breakeven when averaged over all users made me realize that this move by SK makes as much sense as Netflix suing an ISP because their customers consume a disproportionately large amo
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
I don't think that's a fair framing. As others have said, the users of the broadband pay for their bandwidth. It's not Netflix pushing data, it's the users pulling it. If you have 100 users that pay you for 1Gbps/s
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Alright, emulation was the wrong word to use. Still, the performance on Proton is noticeably worse compared to playing on Windows on the same hardware, at least for a decent chunk of games. I'll generally get similar FPS with a lot mor
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
The user experience is pretty smooth from a high-level perspective but there are often performance issues from the emulation. Not a huge issue in many situations but not flawless either.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Since the court ordered the dealer to pay the equivalent of 36 bitcoins I'm assuming that the court found it well enough established that the bitcoin came from the drug sales.
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Swedish sources do state that the bitcoin came from selling drugs. https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/domda-knarklangare-far-mang...
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by viceroyalbean 5y ago
Absolutely, but it also seems wrong that assets gained through criminal activities are now being paid out completely clean to the convicted criminal. As the prosecutor is quoted saying in the article it's a mistake to convert a variabl

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