LeonB

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by LeonB 3mo ago
Om shared with me some very personal thoughts and I think I’m not alone in considering his loss immeasurable.
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by LeonB 3mo ago
That doesn’t seem right - off the top of my head I think it’s more like 4 years? maybe it should be “103*4/2/52” (not “/12”) ? … hopefully the effective wait time is considerably shorter if a long line is taken as a demand si
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by LeonB 3mo ago
That definition hinges on their definition for “economical” - adding a qualifier like “excessively economical” would’ve been good I think.
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by LeonB 4mo ago
Herodotus wouldn’t have written it quite the same — no Jupyter notebook for example, Jupiter being a Roman term; the nearest equivalent for the Ancient Greeks was Zeus.
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by LeonB 4mo ago
Finally C# will have a more idiomatic way to represent this classic code example from “The Daily WTF” in 2005 — enum Bool { True, False, FileNotFound }; See https://thedailywtf.com&#x
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by LeonB 5mo ago
…months after it began.
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by LeonB 7mo ago
You must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt
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by LeonB 11mo ago
In Superman III, the eponymous man straightens the leaning tower of Pisa, and in Superman II he spins the earth backwards to reverse time. A better idea would be to un-tilt the earth’s axis, thus getting rid of variable day lengths, annual
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by LeonB 1y ago
> Yurchick was one of 21 people that had been indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Texas and elsewhere from August 2019 to March 2021 … Yurchick subsequently pleaded guilt
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by LeonB 1y ago
Interesting point. It’s a kind of reframing (or consequence of) the bullshit asymmetry principle.
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by LeonB 1y ago
Yes, absolutely. The survey could say, “given that the existence of corporate monopolies demonstrates weak and non functional governments, should governments a) cede more power to the monopolies, or b) pretend to claw power back from the mo
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by LeonB 1y ago
Absolutely. They hand-wave tremendously complex questions, in such a way that the respondent is free to interpret them any way you wish. A similar survey question might be: > I am thinking of a number. Is it, a) too high or b) too low?
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by LeonB 1y ago
A “ministry of truth” would (I assume) be a part of the executive branch of government. Whereas the creation of laws and the interpretation of laws are powers that the executive branch does not have, and are held separately by the legislati
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by LeonB 1y ago
> These days, American meat is absolutely overflowing with antibiotics. I don’t know if there’s any kind of serious effort to address that There’s several clearly wrong claims in that paragraph alone. Here’s one counter claim with source
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by LeonB 1y ago
Recently I had the screen replaced on my child’s iPad. The tech asked for passcode, and I refused to provide it. The tech complained and said when I came to pick it up he’d need to guide me through some things. Indeed, there were some setti
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by LeonB 1y ago
There’s never a train when you want one, but when you don’t they’re everywhere!
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by LeonB 1y ago
He’s not that popular, but Billy Pilgrim keeps wandering back and forth in time, buying up all the Vonnegut books, juicing the figures. What Billy really wants is a good Kilgore Trout book, but the supply of those seems to be dead. So it go
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by LeonB 1y ago
Take a slow and steady look through every second-hand book store within travelling distance. You might find it or you might not. But the search will be far more interesting than browsing any website.
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by LeonB 1y ago
Chance of Iran launching a nuclear strike on the US has gone from 0% to 0%. Chance of terrorist activity on US soil in the next 10 years has increased. I don’t think it’s improved things for the US.
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by LeonB 1y ago
A community where every household does not have guns is safer than one that does: but not for a simple reason like “because we have the police which is meant to give security to people” A safe community isn’t one where people are held in ch
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by LeonB 1y ago
Washing machines created a revolution where we could now expend 1/10th of the human labour to wash the same amount of clothes as before. We now have more than 10 times as much clothes to wash. I don’t know if it’s induced demand, revea
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by LeonB 1y ago
If the King — without the support of the general populace or of the parliament, but acting in his own interests, like a king of old — dissolved the Parliament, he could and very swiftly would be ousted, legally. The line of succession would
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by LeonB 1y ago
The parliament can (and has previously) kick out the king and put in another king. The king has very limited power.
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by LeonB 1y ago
My Google skills are failing me here — can you provide a link, and/or some more search terms, regarding these citizen councils? Is it specific to Melbourne municipal council or other Victorian LGA’s?
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by LeonB 1y ago
I spent a little time writing software for a plastic injection moulding company who supplied parts for a range of different automotive suppliers. You could say that they were all made the same way — they were all moulded from tiny little pl
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by LeonB 1y ago
This isn’t the factory of the future. The factory of the future will have only two employees, one human and one dog. - The human feeds the dog. - The dog makes sure no one touches the equipment. https://quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F
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by LeonB 1y ago
Same here. I’m not saying my first website was impressive — but as a programmer there’s no way I was copying and pasting the same header / footer stuff into each page and quickly found “shtml” and used that as much as possible. Then us
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by LeonB 1y ago
Bertie Wooster > “I never actually knew I had an unconscious mind, but I suppose I must have done all along, without realising it.”
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by LeonB 1y ago
Kiwis also have a larger brain than other birds their size. The causes and consequences of this are worth investigating. A lot of animals have an architecture where they can’t carry a large brain, so a slightly larger brain is more of a hin
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by LeonB 1y ago
An “average” (whether a mean/ median etc) is a very lossy compression algorithm. You’re attempting to describe a whole series of numbers with just one (or two) numbers. Trying to come up with a good general purpose way to reduce/c

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