yung_steezy

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by yung_steezy 3y ago
Not just any politician/legislator: He was deputy PM of the UK for 5 years.
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by yung_steezy 3y ago
Download a SNES or GBA emulator and play Link to the Past
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
The ratio is probably more like 1/5 if you believe the results of the Capture Rates study on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence . That said, I agree with you that patients who need these d
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I graduated high school around 2010, before all of these dramatic declines in mental health seem to take place, and even back then I remember there being a lot of unhappy people in my peer group. Maybe a certain % of miserable teenagers is
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Meeting in bars seems more organic to me anyway. Although admittedly I might be biased since I originally met my wife in a bar before dating apps had taken off.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Also going to chime in to recommend the Gin Craze episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zk6z
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Some people seem to really struggle to understand that abstraction is intrinsic to computer science. Trying to get as close to the metal as possible while using your daily driver is a fun hobby but there is nothing innately virtuous about i
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Daniel is worth following on the Fediverse if you have an account. He shares interesting stories from maintaining curl such as one where a user raised an issue with curl but it turned out that curl was correctly identifying that the users a
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
It is conceivable that the universe could be contiguous. Our current scientific thinking points to it being constituted from discrete pieces though.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
There is a bug which affects my Ryzen 5 2600 that means boost cannot compile with GCC using march=native. I'm fairly sure that switching to Clang will sort this out, so I'm looking forward to trying it out. Here's the bug if
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
You might have benefited from installing the -bin versions of big packages like web browers.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I think this is a worthwhile study but also think we place too much emphasis on personality types. My wife studied primary (elementary) school teaching for 4 years and then was a teacher for over 6 years. After she became tired of the profe
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I have to disagree that it can all be explained by societal conditioning. They tried to sample every society they could in this study to see if societal factors could explain the preference but could not see a societal effect. While you mig
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Now THIS is what I call a Frankfurt school of thought
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
OpenBSD is a good example of an OS that tries to adhere to old school design principals while offering modern features. It has some pretty bad rough edges but is impressive nonetheless. I use linux on my desktop but have an ancient Thinkpad
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I found Alien Isolation elicited this feeling in me too. I suppose Metroid copied many motifs from sci-fi movies over the years.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
A concrete example of poor productivity in the UK would be that the country imported £10,000,000 worth of fax machines between 2012 and 2016. [1] Assuming these fax machines are being used instead of PCs then one could imagine a worker bein
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
No one can seriously defend MMT now after central bank monetary policies during the pandemic led to inflation everywhere.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I studied philosophy 10 years ago and we did several weeks on Sense and Reference in one of the modules. He also was discussed in other classes in relation to Kripke and other more modern philosophers.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Ironically these kids are behaving like videogame NPCs themselves in the videos by interacting with others in an incoherent, stilted manner.
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Revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40(theguardian.com)
25 points by yung_steezy 4y ago|11 comments
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I remember studying Naming And Necessity in my undergrad and being blown away by the clarity of his arguments. It is an amazing skill to express oneself so concisely, and many of his arguments/thought experiments have a 'commonsen
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Technically the monarch has the power to veto laws that they disagree with instead of signing them in the UK, but in practice that hasn't happened since the 18th century.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I would always recommend the OpenBSD coreutils over the GNU coreutils as they are much cleaner and less hacky. To be fair many of the tricks being used in the GNU code make the code run much faster but they're not a great starting poin
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
One of the replies mentions it but I think letting him do open-source contributions on company time is the best solution here. Getting a voice in the community for libraries that the company are using is very valuable.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I'm not sure this is necessarily a hit piece. There have been a few high profile cases of psychedelic therapists in countries like Canada being investigated for questionable practice. At the moment we're in a bit of a wild west wh
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I do as well. It has been a great place to work so far - nice colleagues and supportive management. Even the application process treated me more like an applicant than a supplicant. I've done more morally dubious things working in adte
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I always forget the factor but I remember disk operations generally being 100,000 times faster than network calls.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Scotland would make a good tax haven since it has a relatively small, homogeneous, and centralised population.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I completely disagree with this sentiment. I don't see how this is relevant for an open source language.

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