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by viridian 4y ago
> Blank-slate cultists are scared of what research will find. The folks who have objections to this sort of research aren't actually existentialists when you push them even a tiny bit on their beliefs. The tabula rasa is just used a
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by viridian 4y ago
> Magic: The Gathering works like a computer (quite literally it's Turing complete). When you play a card or ability, it is put on a stack. After you're done, you need to yield - then the other player may play things on the sta
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by viridian 4y ago
Jira's main problem is that for most developers, this enormous piece of enterprise software is strictly inferior to a swimlane app they could build in a week. Lots of features in there for the benefit of managers and PMs that ultimatel
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by viridian 4y ago
They never went away, they just started being used ironically, but yeah, I do think we've already entered a post-ironic phase of text emotes :-)
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by viridian 4y ago
Can confirm, reacting with gifs is 100% a boomer thing. And when I say boomer I mean anyone born before 1995.
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Clearly not, based on browser trends over time. The real problem is that they aren't even able to keep the low hanging fruit (i.e. "Mom's basement" dwellers), let alone whoever this other audience is.
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I can, roughly. One of the big international US based financial institution. Zero real concern for any licensing associated with software, across multiple teams I'd worked on in multiple lines of business. You find a library that works
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by viridian 4y ago
The tools were significantly more expensive even as recently as the 90's, inflation adjusted, probably about 3x as much for hand tools on average. I couldn't say for power tools, as you are getting a lot of innovation that's
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by viridian 4y ago
These days you don't buy snap on for the quality, but for their ability to quickly service a warranty issue. Their tools have the same problems as everyone else's these days, and long gone are the times when they handily outperfor
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by viridian 4y ago
What is IaaC? Infrastructure as a container?
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by viridian 4y ago
Most people building stuff quickly in serverless seem to eschew the concept of local entirely, and it's something I've recently started doing too. I make a code change locally and it gets picked up by the deployment of my stack as
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by viridian 4y ago
From an individual's perspective, this is strictly worse than driving drunk. Not only can you not sleep in your car legally, you also can be charged with drunk driving while sleeping in your car unless you go out of your way to disposs
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by viridian 4y ago
> When the real problem to address is that working conditions in science are, often, terrible and that our society punish people in many different ways for wanting to be scientists My wife was certainly smart enough to bail on science fo
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by viridian 4y ago
For those curious about the inflection points for the combination of math, psych, and economics: * in 1960, women were elected at a ratio of 1:30 vs men (3.3%) * in 1980, women were elected at a ratio of 1:2 vs men (50%) * in 1988, women we
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by viridian 4y ago
link not requiring a logged in account and javascript: https://nitter.net/tubetimeus/status/1335061382501261312
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by viridian 4y ago
To throwawayallday's point though, I do think there's two large trends that tend to lead to this sort of labelling, one in America, and one in the context of the Anglosphere and much of Europe. In America the Democrats, as the lef
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by viridian 4y ago
on the other hand, if this mostly applies to childhood behaviors, I doubt we'll see much of an effect. My kid was still chewing grass and tasting dirt clods in the middle of covid.
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by viridian 4y ago
As a counterpoint to everyone saying they've never heard of anyone caring about the bubbles; back when I was in college my fraternity sent out big group messages via iMessage only. If you wanted to know about events and didn't hav
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by viridian 4y ago
Good investment. Would recommend you set up raid 1 for the hard drives if you can afford it, single redundancy is very nice to have. I'd also recommend jellyfin over plex or any of the other big proprietary players out there. Jellyfin
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by viridian 4y ago
They can keep lying and misleading people if they want, and they will get money from people who are okay with being lied to and misled. If they want the money and respect of people who place an incredibly high value on truth (like myself),
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by viridian 4y ago
The rest of the world used to be behind by at least a factor of 2. Bad as it is, things are actually much better than in 2010, where just over 1% (1,000 per 100,000) of the total population (1.3% of adults) were in prison. This number is li
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by viridian 4y ago
No more ironic than a stationery jet, a loud pair of earmuffs, or even more apt, a secure, locked down public key.
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by viridian 4y ago
Generally I think of it in terms of number of frames @ 60 fps. Anything below one frame (16.66ms) and whether or not any sort of real feedback is even received (let alone interpreted by the brain) becomes a probability density function. Wit
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by viridian 4y ago
I've already solved this, at least with regards to myself. I'm bisexual, native American, and have an invisible disability, for any form that asks. I haven't transitioned on paper yet, but may if it proves useful. I have no r
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by viridian 4y ago
Wow, that's `Pumped Up Kicks at the school dance` levels of not paying attention to the lyrics.
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by viridian 4y ago
Wow, I'm surprised the first covid month had such a huge impact, and its even crazier that we're on track to beat it.
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by viridian 4y ago
>it is pretty common to see people pop into the comments about anything police-related with “Well actually there is no empirical logical reason to disbelieve the notion that the police are the arbiters of truth. It's not just for po
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by viridian 4y ago
I don't think people get mad at RatM for being political so much as they mock Tom Morello for essentially trying to sell revolution as a lifestyle brand, and generally engaging in performative politics that don't seem particularly
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by viridian 4y ago
Christ, if a game needs access to my operating system runtime to function, I think I'll just play a different game. Might as well just give them every file on your computer and a list of every connected device at that point.
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by viridian 4y ago
What most people fail to realize is that fundamentally, most principle investigators, the people who actually run the research world, are primarily fundraisers. Their day-to-day job is a mix of grant and proposal writing, relationship build

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