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by andagainagain 5y ago
Facebook doesn't want to be a utility as far as I can tell, they want to be a functional monopoly. They want to be so big that people effectively can't leave the platform even if they wanted to. And then they would use smaller &qu
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Use the wiki. Even better, abuse the wiki, and use tutorials excessively. Even better imo is to play until you get really confused, then use all the internet resources possible to understand wtf is going on.Then repeat. I tend to avoid thin
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Honestly I though it was going to be the story of an early bug where dwarves would carry around an arm in their mouth forever.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
It's definitely has major design philosophy differences that make it scratch a very different itch then dwarf fortress. Both good games, but not really equivalent imo. RimWorld randomizes difficulty through the game. So when things go
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by andagainagain 5y ago
That is indeed the reference. I don't remember where I read it, but it came from toadyone I'm pretty sure. Might have been one of his early podcasts?
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Quick plug that system76 uses core boot in modern hardware. If anyone is in the market for a Linux pc anyways. Not sure if anyone else installs it by default, it's been awhile since I've looked.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I bought a set of 1cm element cubes awhile ago. There is definitely a change of perspective of density when you see several things of one generic size, and yet they are dramatically different weights. I think it's fairly common to see
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by andagainagain 5y ago
What I said applies to all topics. Including ones that you personally value. As for whether math is useful or not... I'll just say I REALLY wish more of my coworkers knew their math. I work in a factory, and it's useful WAY more o
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by andagainagain 5y ago
"Russian Math" seems to just be "More Math". The basic education concepts at ploy here are well known, just not widely deployed. Why? IMO it's because of what I think is the sole problem with american education - pa
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by andagainagain 5y ago
That isn't necessarily true. All you have to do to keep the concept of external soul alive is to accept the idea of simpler souls. Maybe there isn't am irreducibly complex soul.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
part of the issue is how fast they want to hire them too. People do not just think of themselves as employees in waiting. If you are a business that is going to lay off a bunch of people... temporarily... then be sure get an agreement that
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Scientists that I used to know would just quietly judge people who they suspected of fraud. Several classes I had emphasized that peer reviewed journal papers were basically only good for reading their methods and results of those methods.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
So many things annoy me about this sort of self-help guru vagueness. "One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard" - this is not true. You have to work, but the "hard" part
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by andagainagain 5y ago
This makes sense from all sorts of different perspectives. Heuristics have, over and over again, proved to be faster than manual logic for basically everything. And, if the heuristic is well trained, it can often be equal to or better in st
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I think there is a similarity between both statements. The issue as I see it comes when people have strong opinions not based in commonly agreed upon facts. So what we end up having is person A saying "we should get rid of ABC, it caus
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by andagainagain 5y ago
A local union factory relatively recently started hiring like crazy a few years back. Their wages were higher than every other job in the area, and the same thing happened. Within a year a job that WAS offering $10.50 and saying that they w
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I just looked up the volume of aluminum vs lithium here: https://www.periodic-table.org/lithium-atomic-radius/ They have the same atomic radius of 121 pm. The length of bonds might change the calculation when you actua
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Meta analysis is a great way to look at data that isn't actually showing what you want, and make it show what you want. What we would want is access to both the meta study and all the studies it referenced, just to see if there actuall
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by andagainagain 5y ago
When we get to "experiment with large double-blind randomized sample shows that..." , then this will be interesting. "study finds" means very little. You can quite easily make a "study" in all sorts of ways to
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Thanks, I'll save that for later reading.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I read about half of "The Republic". I would pull out the book again to find a good example, but I think I donated the book a few months ago.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Name me two. And I've read some Plato some years ago. I would not classify him as a clear thinker by any remotely modern standards.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
why would that be true? Many things that are true are socially uncomfortable and are still known. History is chock full of examples of things which others in the field (and society) hated but could not disprove, and then became well known.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
Every time I've looked at philosophy in my life, I kept searching for this promise - where intellectual giants grapple the truth and discover their secrets. What I've found, from famous books by famous philosophers all the way to
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by andagainagain 5y ago
The problem with dream laptops is that dreams change all the time due to marketing and newness. 16:10 screen is better largely because some fancy models today come with 16:10. 5 years ago that same feature wouldn't have mattered. It&#x
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I assumed the majority of distro makers chose it because of red hat and canonical choosing it, making it a defacto standard. Kinda like gnome, even though kde is more customizable and has more features.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
I haven't done an lscpu check in a long time... at some point apparently it started telling me whether I am vulnerable to a whole bunch of cpu issues. That's amazing.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
once I stopped respecting coworkers personal decisions, it made more sense to just ignore them and get what makes sense to me. they don't like my phone, too bad for them. I don't like theirs.
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by andagainagain 5y ago
This will always be a problem, because the problem is basically "It suprises me that not everyone has the fancy features advertised 3 years ago on a flagship device". It's like people being suprised that the newest laptops do
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by andagainagain 5y ago
It is indeed faster and more accurate to use physical keys on a smaller device. The competition is the exact same thing btw, with less screen and tactile feedback. Both will give you text thumb repetitive stress problems, but doing that on

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