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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
The tone of the article stands out to me; not much in the way of exaggeration or opinions on “the best” way to do a certain thing, but an almost dispassionate tour of some of the different ways we’ve thought about light and dark artisticall
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Cursory look gives you a ~$3500 price tag for a gaming PC with a 3090 [1], vs. at least $4k for a Mac Studio with an M1 Ultra. Roughly the same ballpark, but I wouldn't call the M1 Ultra more affordable given those numbers. 1. https:&
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Early sugar probably wasn’t refined enough to be comparable effective sweetness-wise to modern sugar?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Professor Lue from Harvard has a pretty cool visualization of how ATP synthase uses rotation and the energy produced through cellular respiration to produce ATP at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJI , slightly more
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I don’t usually use soap washing stuff backpacking, just a rinse and we’re off, hadn’t occurred to me that soup would be a problem.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Code, by Charles Petzold. It came to me at exactly the right time, and broke through the biggest conceptual barrier I’d had until that point; how do you actually go from logic gates to general purpose computing? Having Petzold walk you up t
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Wait what’s wrong with washing your dishes near the water source?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Especially interesting to put all of that in the context of recent reports of plateaus and reversals in the Flynn Effect, at least in certain European countries: ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC604209
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I mean it’s been working pretty well so far, it would seem.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It's odd, don't you think, that an "artisan" of some kind, with a "specialist" product, would only make about 10% more per annum, adjusted for inflation, than a generalist churning out a staple food by hand?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It's hilarious you say that, since that's exactly how we eradicated smallpox: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Something I learned from the article that I didn't realize before is that the surface of the ice used isn't smooth; they pebble it on purpose in order to give it the texture required for the stone to curl. Apparently, getting the
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Assuming OP was an undergrad, it’s totally fair to assume that the prof in question was trying to euphemistically say that they weren’t good enough for the class, especially since “mathematical maturity” is something of a term of art in the
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
He tests those as well, finds that they don’t actually do a staged release like that.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
As someone who grew up in the United Arab Emirates, being sweaty is your default state of being for most of the year.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Does your latency measurement account for dropped packets? Rain-caused attenuation could cause more packets to be dropped, increasing latency if you measure it as an average over total packets sent, instead of just across packets that get d
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Are you lamenting the aggression or the mere fact that the organizations are being asked to prove adequate backing?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I mean, it’s obvious in retrospect. If you’re the type of person who read the first half of this story and immediately went “Ah, I know what the problem is, the kid’s looking at the other signal!” then kudos to you for not needing this advi
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I hadn't even realized how frustrating I found this until I saw this comment and you verbalizing it.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Did you mean to word that the other way around? It takes less energy to shoot it out of the solar system than towards the sun.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Actually nope. It takes more energy to slow yourself down enough to crash into the sun, starting from the earth, than it does to hop on over to the moon.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I think it's fairly safe to assume that organizations with managers like that will end up producing code that's defunct enough to sink the organization, given the bar of talent they'd manage to attract. A bit like expecting s
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I didn’t realize this happened to me until reading this comment. I think for me it was a combination of air flow redirection and just pinching from the metal bits high enough on my nose that maybe there’s some squeezing the tear ducts going
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
You can see wave heights by looking at the residuals plots on tide stations: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tsunami . Looks like 2ft peaks in Monterey?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It's pretty clear from the original thread and the reply that the implication is that Postmates was the first to offer subscriptions through iOS without going through IAP, therefore bypassing Apple's 30% cut, not that they "i
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
The article addresses systemic concerns with BNPLs fairly well, is there anything about the arguments OP makes regarding this kind of consumption being far less risky at a macro level than the kind of wizardry that led to the mortgage crisi
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
One explanation I’ve heard proposed is that the sweating induced by spicy foods helps you cool down faster in hot climates than just your body trying to maintain homeostasis.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Why would it be either/or? Strong organic growth goes hand in hand with efficient marketing spending, and it sounds like their guerilla marketing efforts dovetailed nicely with how they grow normally. Nothing in the article gave me the
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Do you know if they did make the message easier to read after all?
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What Byzantine Literature can tell us about Fanfiction(tor.com)
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