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by wizofaus 3y ago
Or genetically engineer ourselves to have a different number of fingers
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But how would daylight savings work? Or perhaps more seriously, time zones... Anyway given the U.S. is still hanging on to measurements like Fahrenheit and inches, we're not going to see more sensible ways to measure and indicate time
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Hmm...most archers would be right handed and used to holding/carrying their bows in their left hand (during battle at least), which I assume would indeed be easier ascending a clockwise staircase...wonder how you'd test that theor
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I have to admit I had that thought - if I needed to get down a narrow staircase in a hurry, I'd prefer if it were anti-clockwise. But apparently another competing theory is that clockwise staircases allow people to put their right hand
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If there are several thousand such towers in Europe, then chance of 70% of them all being clockwise due to use of coin flips seems unimaginably small. More likely the first one happened to built that way and most others copied that until so
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Were staircases built around the same time but in non-strategic/non-fortified buildings (private manors etc.) notably different? Or were spiral staircases only built in circular towers that existed primarily for defence? Presumably the
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I sadly suspect the number of development teams with dysfunctional repo setups/policies somewhat outnumbers those with best practice configurations! Actually I can't say I've ever worked anywhere that would truly have qualif
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"You revert that commit, then. It's broken." Personally I don't see why it's likely to cause major issues to allow people to merge PRs outside of business hours either, but depending on your team workflow and build
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I assumed the GP was just concerned about somebody pushing code to a shared trunk branch that happened to break a build. Though as it happens I do know of some shops that literally do have a CI/CD pipeline that's so automated suc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Any article that contains "How to fix it? Simple...Bitcoin" (the elision really isn't that significant) I would think should be taken with an extremely large grain of salt. Or probably ignored completely (much as it does have
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It doesn't have Pirahã?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I would think the U should be "understandable"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely if you know exactly when the market will reach a low point you can buy put options to capitalise on that? Or at least ensure that you use times where you're expecting the market to fall to spend money on non-appreciating essenti
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If your income directly depends on BAU, sure. But while there are those that would lose out initially to a rapid transition away from burning fossil fuels, including some that live at best a modest existence, I'm confident it'd be
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And yet in that most famous of US cities - Manhattan - car ownership is barely above 20%...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wouldn't think the problem was that hard to solve if there were tighter guidelines around how phone numbers were allocated and a simple reliable method of reporting fraud to a central agency. Though I'm not sure we know the real
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If true, at what point do they start accepting they should push for government policies that would reduce levels of car dependency in their towns and cities, and realistically enable alternative forms of transport?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Wow, it can't even recognise obviously Japanese characters?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But when we approximate we use appropriate language to make it clear that's what we're doing. ChatGPT will confidently give very precise answers based around completely fabricated "facts".
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I had to ask it 3 times today what the command to export certificates from an Azure app service was. With nothing else other than me saying "that command doesn't exist" for the first two suggestions, it gave me exactly the ri
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by wizofaus 3y ago
As does modern Australian English for the most part (I would typically say "my bank is awful". But I'd just as likely use "they" as a pronoun for it, especially if describing actions that were clearly carried out by
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm actually not entirely convinced I do produce useful/robust software faster now than I did 10 or 20 years ago, mainly because the problem domains seem to have become a lot more complex. But I assume for any given set of require
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There are a lot more full-time DINK households these days (in my own circle of family/acquaintances, at least a third of them would qualify, despite them all being 40+), and they're often competing against households with kids tha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The Lemond quote is in the context of a professional sportsman while racing. If you're in a running/cycling group that always trains at roughly the same pace it definitely does get easier - indeed I stopped riding with one group p
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But what if the act of manually washing your clothes was actually better for you (in terms of mental/physical health) than the activities you do instead while the machine's running? Not to mention the negative externalities involv
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But you won't be able to afford anything (housing especially) where you're competing against dual income families.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The main problem is surely that everything about modern life that Pratchett tangentially referred to was inevitably the victim of his mockery of how absurd it was - so were an ad for instant soup to appear halfway through the adventures of
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I thought C.S. Lewis was an ardent apologist for a particular omnipotent moral busybody?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's quite possibly the worst web page presentation I've come across in a long time - aside from the fact it looks like some bug has caused my OS to leave a random trail of mouse pointers all over the screen, some of them even mov
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by wizofaus 3y ago
When was the plan for what we have now ever presented to voters? Clearly it's not something that can be "undone" all in one go - but every day governments make decisions about what infrastructure to build/repair/ext

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