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by wirrbel 8y ago
Same line of thinking, just different conclusions. I feel terrible for anyone trying to run a company with open-source style independent repos. On a popular github project, you have MANY potential contributors that will tell you if a PR, or
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by wirrbel 8y ago
> I believe it was non-statisticians who wanted easy tests that they could apply without understanding much about statistics, who were to blame in that case. Yes and no. I think most journal articles feature a copy-and-paste approach to
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I recently started 5:2 fasting, on five days I try to eat roughly maintenance, I also eat a slice of my coworkers birthday cake. On two days, I limit my intake to 600kcal which I eat at lunchtime (I prepare a bento box with rice, vegetables
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by wirrbel 8y ago
The only explanation I can imagine in my mind is a pretty flawed incentive system with these OEMs. I guess some people are rewarded in some way, by bringing in some additional thing into the laptop's default installation that brings an
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also the turks / selcuks being a pastoral people when migrating to anatolia. Although seldom in the 21st century, there are still some people in anatolia leading half-nomadic lives (at least that is what I was told on my last vacation
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Don't you ever wonder how many excellent contributions to Julia were not made, because that person overstepping boundaries?
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by wirrbel 8y ago
In turkish cuisine, butter and olive oil are both used, depending on the dish. I always found that fascinating because it goes against the stereotype of a olive-oil-based mediteranean diet. As a person from southern germany, I always use cl
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by wirrbel 8y ago
> If you know your Kahneman, Tversky (and others) and learn and understand Cognitive Biases the advantage is huge. It's like Neo in the Matrix when he picks the bullets from the air :-) I don't doubt that this helps you, but gi
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by wirrbel 8y ago
A 12 year old with a 3 yo sibling will have 3 years of experience with that sibling and know how to care for them. Of course, if the 12 yo has not been raised to be a responsible person, there is a risk. But roughly for millenia, older sibl
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Julia always was one of the languages I wondered whether I should have a closer look at (do python data-science stuff mostly, so it is an interesting project). However, reading Dan Luu writing about his experiences with members of the Julia
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by wirrbel 8y ago
As a german with a severly war-traumatized grandmother (who was a teenager back then and while we don't know in the family, it might have been rape) I first of all would like to note, that you should not point out the Red Army alone. T
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I read the book editions of the first 3 Star Wars Movie (the Luke ones) and did not see the movies for years. This was in the nineties.
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Of course my statement is a statement of a subjective perception (I don't conduct empirical studies on this), also you'll find criticism and discussions about stuff in the Haskell community (which is fairly large). However, my imp
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by wirrbel 8y ago
exactly my experience. I personally find lazy evaluation a neat idea in principle. In practice, it introduces problems I never had in - let's say - java. One primary problem is that errors become delocalized in the code base. In a stri
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I consider myself to be a haskell fan (a 95 percenter, as I am not so happy with a few aspects, while being overall really positive about it). Unfortunately, the Haskell community is quite hostile to everyone not in line 100%.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
If you look at software at various scales, Haskell does a lot to get the finely grained and maybe even medium grained parts right and correct. Yet, I don't see a convincing value proposition for Haskell for the coarser grained scales.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
not a lawyer, but I think the spirit of the law is to punish not those who hate, but those who instill hatred / potentially incite violence. For example, I have never heard of someone being convicted of "Volksverhetzung" (dem
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I remember reading Hinsen's blog post in 2017 when it made rounds in the scientific python community. I think at universities and research facilities, there are many Python scripts that see few development, and with those, breaking cha
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by wirrbel 8y ago
IIRC a gondola cableway is one of the cheapest means of transportation to build (compared to railway tracks and trains, or bus systems if you would need to develop streets first).
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I am pretty sure they had such tests, and they tested everything in their corporate network and maybe uptown where the engineers live.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Rather I wonder why Browsers display such non-CSS sites in this primitive way. Pretty sure browser vendors could slap on a primitve CSS limiting the text width and tweaking a few defaults when a site does not load any CSS or JS.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
having a baby, especially one younger than 6-8 months, is an extraordinarily exhausting time of a parents life. I don't think that the fatigue in that period is a good predictor for couples to get another child. The memories fade as yo
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Keep in mind, that babies come in lots of varieties. Some babies sleep really really well, others don't. Now some of this can probably be attributed to the babies' surroundings and what the parents do, but also, babies handled the
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by wirrbel 9y ago
Can we stop these hyperinflated mission claims already. Fighting poverty is a good ambition, not quite sure an app will solve that problem.
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gelatin may not be added to plain yoghurt in Germany iirc. It may be a declared ingredient of fruit-yoghurt mixtures though.
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> closely related to the old Greek type of yoghurt «οξύγαλα», which literally means the same (‘oxidised milk’). Isn't it that oxy- means sour? so its sour milk in greek
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by wirrbel 9y ago
There is actually a semi-official categorization that Tesla seems to ignore https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Autonomous_car#/Levels_of_drivin... pilots are level 3 upwards according to this classification. Level 2 syst
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by wirrbel 9y ago
It seems the project company had a functioning sales and lobbying department...
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Well, a vowel shift isn't that unusual, with english however, and 17 vowels, the regularisation of the spelling never happened (and would be difficult now as folks would have to agree on one prestigious pronunciation to be the standard
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by wirrbel 9y ago
yes, one of the strangest spelling rules. Not useful at all

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