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by wanda 4y ago
I tend to avoid video games until I'm on proper vacation time. For diversion between programming boring stuff I tend to do some graphic design stuff or occasionally I'll go on StackOverflow and answer some Perl/JavaScript que
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by wanda 4y ago
You can't find anything useful with Google anyway. It's about as reliable as Amazon search. On Amazon you'll find a lot of faux-branded trash that is very specifically and very blatantly designed to resemble what you're
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by wanda 4y ago
Article is essentially paywalled, I'm not in finance and I'm not well-informed (and by my own admission I don't go out of my way to be well-informed), so forgive me if these questions are covered or stupid, but my questions
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by wanda 4y ago
It's not anecdotal because your anecdote matched the parent's anecdote. Okay . Scientific method looking robust in this field. My point is that any nutritional thing is anecdotal because people don't neatly slot into a categ
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by wanda 4y ago
Sorry but that's kind if anecdotal. You're extending the case of one woman age (x) to all women age (x). Yes, you say "maybe she had other compounding factors" which is equivalent to saying her case was idiosyncratic. In
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by wanda 4y ago
I remember Sublevel[0] (aka Sub.cafe) which I believe was the original incarnation of the OP's project. The product has always stuck to the creator's philosophy and has steadily acquired more polish. Companion iOS/Android app
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by wanda 4y ago
I have a custom desktop PC and a Macbook Air that I actually use for work. Mostly the Macbook. In terms of just tinkering during my spare time, I have a small HP server, about half a dozen ThinkPads (all in varying states of disrepair but w
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by wanda 4y ago
Sorry, I meant to say: for theories of quantum gravity, spacetime is discrete . I got ahead of myself there. Even then it's not every theory of quantum gravity, but certainly those with any traction have tended to discretise spacetime
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by wanda 4y ago
In GR, gravity is an emergent property of mass interaction with the geometry of 4D spacetime. The more mass, the more spacetime is curved by the massive object. In QM, gravity is a force, and efforts to express gravity in a quantum framewor
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by wanda 4y ago
And no visible drunkard! Take heed, Yorkshire!
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by wanda 4y ago
1. So drop the sports and volunteer work. Let them do schoolwork, homework and then free time. It is a myth that kids have to do all of these things. Sports should be extracurricular activity, i.e. outside education. You don't need to
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by wanda 4y ago
A lot of things are over-engineered, but this has always been true. It is not necessarily fair to say that the majority of software engineering jobs actually require or involve the en vogue tools. 1. Just because tech stacks gain traction
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by wanda 4y ago
How many units after that? You can sell a 40K units in five minutes but if that 40K = all your potential buyers, that is a dead product. All that tells you is that 40K people knew about it, wanted it, and had the disposable income to purc
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by wanda 4y ago
> In what way does it violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you read my comment, you will find no mention of the second law of thermodynamics or any violation of said law. In fact, black holes need to evaporate in this way in orde
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by wanda 4y ago
That's not the paradoxical part. Matter goes in, sure. But before it goes in, it is something, it has a form and a composition, it is in a state and it contains information of its prior states as well. The part that is problematic is t
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by wanda 4y ago
That's correct for general relativity alone, but GR isn't enough on its own. Hawking showed that the information is lost in the process of black hole evaporation as the black hole decays into anonymous radiation, and so once a bla
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by wanda 4y ago
I would argue that the best designs are the ones that require the fewest alterations over time. Wikipedia, craigslist, HN, StackOverflow, Indeed, GitHub/GitLab, etc. arguably all fairly consistent while many other e-commerce sites, for
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by wanda 4y ago
Yeah, an anti-tank missile would be a pretty bad example of its category if it couldn't destroy a tank. The point is that a properly equipped, prepared and trained military would have taken steps to use assets like tanks well and not m
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by wanda 4y ago
I mean, when you think about it, it's kind of obvious that an entity extracting revenue from selling advertisement impressions is not going to produce a very useful search engine — it's going to produce a search engine that maximi
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by wanda 4y ago
* Today's heavily publicised, heavily shared startups solve boring problems. You're only looking at the surface. This kind of boring stuff has always been around. As has the pursuit of money and the use of tech in that pursuit. Te
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by wanda 4y ago
I suspect it means it's necessary for Stripe to negotiate tailor-made deals with enterprise clients directly in order to avoid simply being undercut by a competitor product. Stripe may offer a polished and complete system but if SagePa
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by wanda 5y ago
I think that probably says more about the tech companies than anything else.
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by wanda 5y ago
I mean, I wouldn't say that we as a species lack the collective willpower to bring about broad social change. I think that it's very difficult to get that power on the ground with any traction when you have mixed messages coming f
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by wanda 5y ago
It's clear that a lot of love and attention to detail has gone into the making of this website. I like the typography, I like the layout on desktop, I feel like that's very much complete, apart from one thing I'll mention lat
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by wanda 5y ago
I would imagine it the former: (upvotes / age_in_hurs^1.6) * lot_of_penalties
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by wanda 5y ago
Google had it search nailed for a long time. I don't expect Kagi to replace it if it's asking questions like "what killer feature do you want from a search engine" (paraphrased) I don't want any features. I want a s
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by wanda 5y ago
Reader view? The reader view really highlights how short the article is, now that I'm looking at it. I think tracking is letter spacing right? It is pretty rough. I think you can enforce fonts and at least in Firefox and Safari you can
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by wanda 5y ago
I wouldn't be so hasty to call time of death on the internet. We are all of us here discussing this matter, after all. More significantly, controlling the narrative is not new. The Cold War was a narrative war, each side warning their
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by wanda 5y ago
Maybe I'm not the best person to talk about this, because I simply don't take photos and I'm a bit of a sociopath when it comes to stuff like this. I get photography, will probably get back into it that one day (film photog
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by wanda 5y ago
I've always just been straight with my employers whenever it hasn't worked out and I've decided to move elsewhere. That's not to say that there isn't a need for finesse. I actually ended up going back to one employe

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