MathMonkeyMan

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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
I like this analogy. At a Walmart I'm more likely to find a good deal, and will encounter people who I wouldn't at home/work/friends, yet I prefer the idea of a farmers' market.
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
It's usually evolution or sex or race or something like that. One of my friends was home schooled. It was at least partly about religious values, but I think it was also partly about him being a bit of a strange kid and getting along b
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
In my experience they become regular adults. Whatever made them an asshole is still there, but they've either learned to deal with it or the context has changed such that there's no point in being that kind of asshole anymore. Nob
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
If you're on a web browser, there are extensions that hide them (for now). That and members only and such. Soon, assuming my setup continues to work, my youtube experience will be completely unlike the default: no shorts, no autoplay,
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
Here's my attempt: # Multi-pass FizzBuzz n = 100 # [['1'], ['2'], ['3'], ['4'], ['5'], ...] seq = [[str(i)] for i in range(1, n + 1)] # [['1'], ['
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
I don't know much about militaries or nuclear reactors, but I know that reactors are used in some submarines and in some aircraft carriers -- situations where you want a vessel to to remain at sea for long periods of time without refue
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
I suspect that the reason is: "I don't want to do that, and if I don't do it then somebody else eventually will, and if they don't eventually do it then that's their problem, and in any case I don't care."
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
Publix also advises customers not to tip the kid who unloads the groceries into your car. You will accept our service and you will do nothing more!
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
It's an odd framing. Out of R_t total raccoons, R_e bite or scratch (potentially "expose") humans. R_e / 10 of those were carrying rabies. So it could be that raccoons almost never bite/scratch humans, such that the
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
I don't have knowledge, but my understanding based on a conversation I had on the topic with a friend of mine is that the "let's use hydraulic fracturing to make geothermal energy feasible in North America" idea involves
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
I use LibreWolf at work, and I exempt most internal sites from aggressive anti-tracking stuff, but otherwise it works fine.
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by MathMonkeyMan 10mo ago
Yes but they're quite good at it. Reliable OCR is font dependent, whereas I think a lot of models just kind of figure it out regardless.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
Yeah the first thing that came to mind when I started reading the readme file was "that's not bit-banging -- this is the whole point of PIO."
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
That's true, but if the use case is to display text and to optimize keyboard navigation, then the added complexity of a GUI might be unnecessary. Variable width fonts and style sheets are nice, though.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I recently rediscovered that I can do GUI menu things on the keyboard in apps like VLC. Feels like a magic trick -- the best of both worlds. Was it the move to phones that did it? Or did most people not use alt shortcuts?
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I find it helps to leave the phone at home when I'm running errands. It helps that I work from home so I can mostly just leave it in my bedroom all day.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
In this case it suffices to disable javascript. The article loads in full and the paywall is generated on the client side.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
When I saw the first episode of the first season of the reboot, I was hooked. I couldn't believe that there was really a show that went all in with that zany, campy, sci-fi vibe. There's something about the britishness that makes
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
Yes, I meant the 2005 series.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I remember seeing Doctor Who for the first time circa 2011 when it was on Amazon Prime. First few seasons were very much early 2000s TV, and then suddenly it got all big budget Netflix style in season five. The older look doesn't bothe
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
All I need is notepad and paint, but I work on a Mac and daily drive a Gnome so I use TextEdit/gedit and GIMP. LibreOffice for presentations and spreadsheets, the few that I create.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I don't know, probably not. My dad has wet macular degeneration, and it's treated with injections into the eyeball every few months. The treatment works well, but timing the injections is tricky. Too often and the side-effects bec
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I've read that migrating herds change their course from year to year to avoid the recently hatched swarms of mosquitoes.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I was wondering how to deal with that when this becomes a therapeutic option. Worst case might be a colostomy, so somebody whose lungs don't work at all anymore can still "breathe" and poop long term. On the other hand, maybe
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
For those unfamiliar with this piece of internet history: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twpdnV2Yq1E >
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
/dev/null is persistent across restarts and cache friendly, so it's got you covered.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
At the bottom is < https://xkcd.com/1654/ >, which is actually pretty funny.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
tl;dr median journalists are no better than LLMs.
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
I like to imagine that thermodynamics happened because industrial metallurgy and boiler design advanced to the point where people started asking "what are the fundamental constraints?" There's a chance that it didn't act
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by MathMonkeyMan 11mo ago
> The specific problems in the example could be solved by changing how the data is represented. Finding the "right" representation for a given set of data is an interesting problem, but most (all) of the time the representation

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