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by wrp 2y ago
Yes. TFA ignores what I think is the biggest factor. In researching family history, I've been struck by how important chance was regardless of how smart and hardworking they were.
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by wrp 2y ago
I'd like to have a catchy short-hand term for this phenomenon, so I can conveniently raise the point in conversation. Like "helicopter parenting", it's such a big factor in parts of society.
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by wrp 2y ago
Yes. When evaluating public opinion, we need to take into account that people who are comfortable with the hustle can make a lot from tips in certain jobs, and these people seem to be the vocal ones about keeping tipping. There is a common
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by wrp 2y ago
Few who refer to the Flynn effect understand exactly what it entails. From Ulric Neisser's 1997 survey article "Rising scores on intelligence tests"[0]: We are indeed very much smarter than our grandparents where visual anal
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by wrp 2y ago
I wonder if it was done with intentional irony.
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by wrp 2y ago
I've heard similar comments from civilians, that dealing with extreme situations overseas isn't as stressful as dealing with folks when you go back home. I don't know whether home folks are actually the problem or it's j
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by wrp 2y ago
Similar here. I drink 4-5 cups per day and notice no effect. When I travel, I usually go cold turkey for days and notice no difference. I'm actually a bit envious of people who get the "caffeine high."
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by wrp 2y ago
Within the wargaming community, keeping these games non-computerized is a deliberate choice. The main intent of manual gaming is to maintain awareness of all the variables you are manipulating. Another benefit to manual gaming is the abilit
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by wrp 2y ago
I haven't been there since I was a kid in the 1970s. Up to about what age would you say it's entertaining for kids these days? Is there enough to be worth a whole day?
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by wrp 2y ago
Fawns , as in female deer? Is hitting them with tractors really a problem?
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by wrp 2y ago
Interesting phenomenon but better explanation needed. TFA says less than 10% of customers pick up their negatives after having been sent the scans. The only reason mentioned is that "it's expensive," but no elaboration on tha
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by wrp 2y ago
I've seen comparisons of American vs. Russian ejector seats. It appears that Russian seats are better designed to protect the pilot from injury while ejecting. The issue of ejector seats has been used to support the idea that pilot com
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by wrp 2y ago
So, they walked to campus together, spent about two hours there, then walked home together. It sounds more like just sharing a long daily walk with a stopover at the office.
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by wrp 2y ago
It's really a shame War of Numbers isn't better known, even among scholars. I think the lack of attention is because it was published after most of the generation who really cared had passed on. My cohorts in the 1980s talked a
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by wrp 2y ago
IANAL, but the discussion seems poorly framed. AIUI, font software is protected, but the glyph shapes represented therein are not. So if your company produces a software-product font, I would need your permission to legitimately use that so
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by wrp 2y ago
My fist thought on seeing that picture is that it looks like an illustration from a 1930s pulp science fiction magazine.
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by wrp 2y ago
I don't think Arts & Crafts philosophy was explicitly against bright colors, but they did emphasize tradition, or at least their romanticized idea of it. The latter 19th century saw introduction of many bright pigments and dyes (lo
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by wrp 2y ago
Huh...I tried rereading TFA from that perspective...and I don't know. If you take the 2nd & 3rd paragraphs in isolation, it does look like sarcasm, but further down it seems she really thinks the AI stuff is better.
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by wrp 2y ago
> everyone's art has gotten brighter, more colourful, more dramatic, more aesthetically pleasing, better composed, and more desireable. She seems to be ignoring at least the last 500 years of European art. Bright colors, drama, stru
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by wrp 2y ago
A replication study failed to confirm the result. DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.160.11.1121 DOI: 10.1016/s0093-3619(08)70425-8 DOI: 10.1016/s0084-3954(08)70300-2
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H. P. Lovecraft and non-Euclidean geometry (2021)(zenorogue.medium.com)
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by wrp 2y ago
For a popular survey of the relevant neurophysics, try Stairway to the Mind by Alwyn Scott (1995). He argues it is very unlikely that quantum effects are relevant, and is skeptical of Penrose.
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by wrp 2y ago
This question on Graphic Design StackExchange is very informative: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/142622/pri...
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by wrp 2y ago
They did and that is a huge point of contention in the revival of classic typefaces. In the 1970s, there was a massive push to digitize existing founts, but the type companies did it by tracing the metal rather than the prints. The result w
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by wrp 2y ago
Due to irregular spreading of the ink when printing, the shapes on the page are not perfect representations of the type shape, so the true shape of the metal form has to be inferred from comparing multiple printed samples. There are digital
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by wrp 2y ago
There was also a revival of the Doves type made by Torbjörn Olsson in 1994. It is no longer available, but you can find the old specimen PDF at the Internet Archive and extract the embedded fonts. The weight is a bit lighter than the Robert
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by wrp 2y ago
I remember using a V5 for a couple years, I think in the early 1990s, as a cheap alternative to a fountain pen. That was when gel pens were still rather stiff and globby, not much better than ballpoints. I'm completely a gel user now.
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by wrp 2y ago
Somewhat to that last point, my emotional reaction to these structures would be completely different if I knew they were designed to be car parks.
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by wrp 2y ago
I suppose we just have to chalk it up to different tastes in art. To me, my first thought on seeing most of those pictures is how they look like settings for some implausibly dystopian sci-fi movie.
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by wrp 2y ago
If blue pumped LEDs rely on short wavelength emitters and phosphor excitation, how similar is the light spectrum to that of fluorescent lamps? As you may know, fluorescent lights are not used in museums because the UV light from them damage

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