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by xedrac 5y ago
Unfortunately the price of crude oil is dictated by the global supply and demand.
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by xedrac 5y ago
To get a taste of his writing style, try reading The Emperor's Soul, a short novella.
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by xedrac 5y ago
I second this choice. Legion is another short story novella that is really fun. My favorite Sanderson series so far is the Skyward series, for which I highly recommend the audio books. The narrator is amazing.
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by xedrac 5y ago
On the contrary. I think everyone should try growing some of their own food. It's not only great for your physical health, but your mental health too! Also having some long-term food storage and water on hand is a great way to weath
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by xedrac 5y ago
Yes, I have a recent and powerful GPU with hardware acceleration enabled. I also tried this on my Windows box (i7-9700k, Nvidia GTX 1070), and if anything, it performs a little worse than my Linux box. It's definitely usable. I just
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by xedrac 5y ago
Perhaps we have different ideas of what constitutes "buttery smooth". I find the performance usable but sluggish. I think many people have become accustomed to this kind of performance though. Regardless, I find the design of th
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by xedrac 5y ago
Data is just data and should be open to inspection. Why wouldn't they release the data with their own interpretation and caveats? My guess is the data is too conclusive to misinterpret, and it doesn't say what they want it to.
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by xedrac 5y ago
In other words, "fear that the information might be interpreted in a way that doesn't fit our agenda."
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by xedrac 5y ago
You're like my wife and her siblings. They can eat just about anything without putting on any significant weight. The running theory is that the food is not absorbed as efficiently, possibly due to it moving through the bowels too qu
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by xedrac 5y ago
I haven't tried the yoke, but I'm awfully skeptical about its utility. Maybe they adjusted the turning ratios, or made them non-linear to compensate.
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by xedrac 5y ago
This reminds me of when Steve Ballmer retired from Microsoft and their stock price soared!
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by xedrac 5y ago
I don't know if this has changed, but the lack of a contextual back button on Apple phones made it feel like I was driving a stick shift car. Otherwise I think their phones are really nice.
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by xedrac 5y ago
Memorizing openings is dubious at best, unless you're already a very strong player. Most chess coaches will actively discourage studying the opening until the you've become sufficiently good at the more impactful aspects of the g
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by xedrac 5y ago
As a fellow lover of the game of Chess, and owner of several hundred Chess books, this is a great little starter book. I'm always fascinated at how Chess can completely satisfy my need for intellectual stimulation and competition, and
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by xedrac 5y ago
I might be missing something, but all of my family accounts are Microsoft accounts, and we use the Java launcher exclusively.
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by xedrac 5y ago
And if that doesn't work, try doing it with a single gear heavy steel bike.
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by xedrac 5y ago
Yes, for certain. I am more alluding to the false belief that you can just out-exercise a poor diet. For example, many polyunsaturated vegetable oils oxidize very quickly in your body, sending free radicals on a rampage and causing inflam
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by xedrac 5y ago
I am not trying to extol the virtues of C. I find C a low bar to improve upon, and I'd prefer Common Lisp over it in many cases. What I am talking about is having to rely on people to do the "right" things when your toolset
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by xedrac 5y ago
> Lisp has a lot more "shoot your team in the foot" possibilities than C, and you absolutely need to learn to avoid those patterns or formally communicate your use of them in order to make Lisp effective on a software engineeri
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by xedrac 5y ago
Remote learning was a disaster for my family, and we have great internet with many computers, and a father who could troubleshoot all the problems, and tutor them some of the time. I cannot imagine what it was like for low income families.
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by xedrac 5y ago
I think the focus on "burning" calories completely misses the mark. It gives people the misconception that food is nothing more than calories, and they can just "burn" off the excess, despite the fact that our nutrition
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by xedrac 5y ago
What are you implying? Here's how I interpreted 3e and 3f: - An individual is not responsible for someone else's mistakes - An individual should not be shamed on account of their race Those are perfectly logical ideals.
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by xedrac 5y ago
Why bother implementing ctrl+c and ctrl+v in Linux when highlighting text copies it, and middle click pastes it? Ctrl+c feels like the dark ages in comparison.
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by xedrac 5y ago
No, but thank you for making me aware of it. Linking with LTO takes forever on the projects I work on. I'm excited to see what Mold can do here.
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by xedrac 5y ago
As someone who loves Rust and uses it daily, compile times are abysmal, even compared to C++. It's the sole reason I bought a 32-core workstation. But you're right, when iterating, incremental compilation times are reasonable eno
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by xedrac 5y ago
Mirtazapine worked wonders for me... for about 2 weeks. After that it seemed to have no effect at all, except for extreme constipation.
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by xedrac 5y ago
> However, it's not really cool if you commit to be somewhere on a certain day, no-show, and then lie about being sick. If you want to take a day off, that's perfectly fine. Please just communicate about it honestly. Don't
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by xedrac 5y ago
As a Utah native, I'm curious what decade you were taught this. I've never seen it before, but it looks pretty similar to one I created as a kid to pass secret messages back and forth with a friend.
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by xedrac 5y ago
I switched to fastmail, using my own custom domain name, and it's been great. I couldn't believe how much better their web client is.
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by xedrac 5y ago
> I really recommend Rust Programming 2ed: Fast, Safe System Programming I believe you meant "Programming Rust 2ed." It really is a great book.

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