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by wirrbel 4y ago
475? Sounds too short for the distance
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I really like Smalltalk but basically he fails to explain what the added value of Smalltalk would be over Python as a baseline. GIL is inconvenient but the times I was really limited by it are few. Lambdas are not Smalltalk blocks, but you
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Feeling a bit bad about putting up a support question here, but here I go (long term vim user and sponsor of the initial nvim fundraiser). I am using a dark-on-black terminal style, but when I launch astrovim it seems to superimpose a light
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Carnegie was iirc denied access to libraries which led him to promote public libraries that enable learning. From my perspective it’s fair that not every town opts to keep a physical archive of every book. However it would be great if every
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Robert C Martin's (who is not my uncle) Clean Code book/advice is what I would call junior programmer material. Its good to get someone started to think about better ways of writing software (albeit is hasn't aged very well).
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by wirrbel 4y ago
as a German who LOVES root beer, it is kind of an acquired taste and most of the friends I introduced to root beer don't like it. You can actually buy root beer in larger supermarkets here but there isn't a guarantee that its in s
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by wirrbel 4y ago
What is overpriced for an insurance? people pay their fees and get damage compensation in case of a successful claim. So an insurance can be overpriced if the compensation is way lower than the fees on average (administrative overhead or ex
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by wirrbel 4y ago
that effect should be controlled for in the control group, or isn't it?
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I actually think that the Fischbrötchen (bun with fish) that is a thing in Hamburg might have been the origin but it doesn't explain how the ground meat patty moved in really and giving the whole thing the name "hamburger" mu
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by wirrbel 4y ago
When I studied physics it was almost “free admittance” (essentially a high school diploma with at least P-Level courses is what I think would be an equivalent in California). Within the first semester everyone was weeded out who wouldn’t ma
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Beautiful mountain range
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Budweiser not from Budweis / budovice the list goes on
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Surely it’s better than Hershey chocolate
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by wirrbel 4y ago
> Personally, I feel like I can be much more precise in English than I can in German (although that's probably mostly impartiality again!) Yes there are lots of words that are ostensibly just synonyms of each other, but they're
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Sportzeug, Nähzeug, Strickzeug, &c.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
yes, and/or word classes that may involve Gender, animate/inanmate categories, etc.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
There are several persian languages, so referring to the one you mean as "Farsi" makes it more clear (as opposed to "Tajiki" or "Dari" for example).
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by wirrbel 4y ago
> And there are also cases where English has opted for a compound word and German has just invented its own: Ampel vs traffic light, for example. Ampel is a loanword from latin, "ampulla", it was used for oil lamps hanging from
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Feuerzeug is a lighter, its a fixed term, nothing "wobbly" that relates to fire-stuff. Zünder is an igniter/detonator, Zündung is the ignition. Zeug can be used as "thing", but it is frequently used when refearing t
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by wirrbel 4y ago
There probably also is a bit of a difference in the companies business context. A rewrite in my company needs to be argued for and needs a solid business case, I.e you need to estimate that the burden of the current code base is choking the
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by wirrbel 4y ago
na, you are missing the point here, in German "Wörterbuch" (literally wordsbook) is the standard term for a dictionary. No ambiguity because by default a book is with words and then all composita describe some kind of deviation (B
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Conditional probabilities are reasonably effective because they are the mathematical underpinning of probabilities. They are not unreasonable effective. It's just that sampling from probability distributions is computationally expensiv
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Any other instance that comes to my mind is cult leaders. As in I am not aware of a western theravāda teacher referring to himself as an arhant
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by wirrbel 4y ago
after a good nights sleep, I think I mixed up pali / sanskrit and the monk I am referring to surely considers himself "Suttayana" :-) I never really looked into Tibetan buddhism tbh.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Ah, Bhante Vimalaramsi is an american monk originally from the theravada tradition who IIRC uses Sutrayana for his take on what the Pali canon says, as he deviates from the theravada interpretation of the text.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
> There's more than one kind of mindfulness, and more than one kind of vipassana Definitely true, by itself sati/smrti is a hard-to-translate term. > Shamatha is "calm abiding", which I think is what the McMindfuln
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by wirrbel 4y ago
btw. Daniel Ingram refers to himself as an Aharat/aharant and it is kind of a no-no in buddhism to talk about your own "awakening-status". That's a serious red-flag.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I guess I am also a noob and I am not an expert on the Mahasi method, but in general buddhist meditation has like 3 pillars, metta (loving-kindness meditation, also features self-love), samatha: (tranquility or calm abiding), vipassana (in
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Realisation of no self (anatta) would be canonically fit into vipssana meditation whereas mindfulness (sati) is something done for concentration practice
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by wirrbel 4y ago
It should be noted that Daniel Ingram is following the Mahasi sayadaw method and is a bit from of a fringe Buddhist subculture promoting (if I am not confusing things „dry insight“ meditation). Maybe the cultivation of the non-dry aspects i

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