Confusion

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by Confusion 1y ago
The problem isn’t addresses being a few (tens of) meters off.
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by Confusion 5y ago
I don't agree hearing and balance are the same sensory organ. They are two separate organs, just very near each other and indeed resembling each other, which explains why they are near each other. The thought I was expressing is that t
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by Confusion 5y ago
It seems suspicious that this would be hiding in the eyes. A separate specialized organ would be more like the other senses.
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by Confusion 6y ago
Not necessarily. You can measure things in ways that add energy: e.g. radar waves contribute a tiny bit of energy to the things they bounce off. Yet they measure where objects are. You can also measure some things in ways that add exactly 0
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by Confusion 6y ago
Corn is much lower than it was 8 years ago, steel is at the same level as it was in 2018/2019, lumber only up 50% from last peak in 2018 (and price fluctuates a lot currently).
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by Confusion 6y ago
Theoretically, yes. In practice their UI simply may not have that option and you don’t just build something like that reliably on such short notice.
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by Confusion 6y ago
Ironically, you obviously didn't read the OP, as it clearly mentions people could at least bother to read the, free, abstract.
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by Confusion 6y ago
One way of discovering what increases property X is testing that some change decreases property X. Another way of discovering what increases property X is testing that some change indeed increases property X, while also discovering it dec
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by Confusion 6y ago
You have obviously not actually read the article and are railing against a strawman. The third of your ‘easiest explanations’ is pretty much the third explanation offered in the article. The article is an object level description of what ha
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by Confusion 7y ago
It seems to me that you can’t conclude that speeding causes accidents from these statistics. If people speed 30% of the time, then accidents will involve speeding 30% of the time if speeding doesn’t influence the risk at all. I would also e
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by Confusion 7y ago
You are improving your productivity by 'doing something else', such as 'walking for several hours in the forest'. Banging your head against a problem for several hours while not making any progress is frustrating. Not
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by Confusion 7y ago
Finding a $20 bill on Times Square
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by Confusion 7y ago
Indeed, because I'm not arguing any position in the debate, but offering an observation whose truthfulness anyone can judge on their own. The parent, on the other hand, was responding to someone in an attempt to prove them wrong. By no
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by Confusion 7y ago
Your comment is devoid of argument.
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by Confusion 7y ago
Related: The first few milliseconds of an HTTPS connection ( http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h... )
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by Confusion 7y ago
Of course it is, that's exactly the point. 'Eventual consistency' is the name for situations where a race condition is acceptable and even a feature. It doesn't matter whether it are threads, processes or entirely differ
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by Confusion 7y ago
Examples in the literature? This is not a bloody academic exercise?! I use the term 'race condition' about once a week to point out something may happen before or after something else, because the things are happening in parallel.
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by Confusion 7y ago
There is currently a court case against a drugs kingpin where one of the reputable newspapers does mention his full name, but each time followed by "-- the suspect's lawyer has indicated the suspect has no objection to his full na
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by Confusion 7y ago
I think it's just someone, possibly a non native speaker, mixing "reaping the benefits of" and "plucking the fruits of"
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by Confusion 7y ago
This did not happen.
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by Confusion 7y ago
Yes, we learned the difference between Thai basil and regular basil in Thailand, which was before she started attempting to make her own curry :). I'm not sure if there's cardamom in the curry, but it's definitely in the cupb
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by Confusion 7y ago
Sometimes it just needs carefully sussing out the secret ingredient. My wife has been trying to make green curry for years, but it was never as good as the Thai stuff. Then she followed the advice of a professional chef to not replace the k
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by Confusion 7y ago
Spare display for $90 that I can install myself? Starts throwing money their way
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by Confusion 7y ago
People generalize personal experience and anecdotes they have heard. People may also generalize to cultures they think are similar without evidence.
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by Confusion 7y ago
It’s like you’re reading my mind. This matches my experience closely and is exactly what I first thought of when I saw this topic.
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by Confusion 7y ago
“so far it has been tested only in simulated laboratory conditions rather than in actual use” As with the weekly ‘battery breakthrough’: wake me when it turns out to work in practice and production can be scaled.
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by Confusion 7y ago
Yup, back in 2003 I was doing experimental work on creating better EUV mirrors and the amount of reflection achieved was way too low to support any machine with a design similar to UV machines. You needed either a (much) higher intensity so
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by Confusion 7y ago
For measles, herd immunity requires a 95% vaccination rate. So where there are outbreaks they have apparently dropped below that. Would the entire population drop below that, at least 5% of the entire population would get measles. Since a l
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by Confusion 7y ago
Yeah, even if it had like a 1 in 10000 rate of nasty side effects, it would still be a lot less risky than the measles.
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by Confusion 7y ago
His stories are also about robots running amok, so obviously he didn't think the 3 laws were a solution to that problem.

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