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by atticora 2y ago
There's a nice discussion of this in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! > I discovered a very strange phenomenon: I could ask a question, which the students would answer immediately. But the next time I would ask the question –
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by atticora 3y ago
Hey this is a good stackoverflow answer, why can't I upvote it? Oh.
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by atticora 3y ago
Learning to use a REPL. It's been at the core of my coding practice since. Especially using it as a debugger in an interpreted language was a game changer for me. It converts programming into a fast interactive game.
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by atticora 3y ago
Is the code for the weather report at all similar to the one for "help I am a prisoner in a vintage dress factory"?
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by atticora 3y ago
I aim higher.
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by atticora 3y ago
It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.
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by atticora 3y ago
The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007. As of November 2018 more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. The child suicide rate topped out when the cell phone market became saturated. Hardly proof but it would be interest
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From 2007 to 2017 US age 10-14 suicide rate tripled, quadrupled for girls(shoresofacademia.substack.com)
4 points by atticora 3y ago|1 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
conscious, kŏn′shəs, adjective -- Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. synonym: aware. Self-attention seems to be at least a proxy for "awaren
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by atticora 3y ago
No mention of how this can translate smooth motion without VR sickness. Perhaps its a revolution for the people who can tolerate it.
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by atticora 3y ago
This is a very frustrating app for me. It is one of the best document sources out there but has become unusable because it cannot retain my selection of documentation. Almost every other time I visit I have to start from scratch picking the
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An Infuriating Man [1970](freetochoosenetwork.org)
2 points by atticora 3y ago|0 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
I agree with that paleo approach to diet, and your conclusions. In my case my gastroparesis prevents me from eating any significant amount of fiber and diabetes II from eating many carbs. Meat is what's left. I tolerate beef best so ea
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by atticora 3y ago
Hey that works! Thanks!
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by atticora 3y ago
So should Hacker News. As is a comment with 2 up and 0 down votes looks the same as one with 102 up 100 down.
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by atticora 3y ago
What I really want is an extension that will let me open a retweet by right clicking and opening it in new tab. That way I don't lose my scroll position and can get a collection of things I want to read. I went looking for such a thing
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by atticora 3y ago
> The important factors with meat consumption are: 1) how they're prepared ('low and slow' is the best method of cooking, i.e., at a relatively low temperature and for a relatively long time in order to avoid creation of A
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by atticora 3y ago
My car moves me from point to point and emits carbon monoxide. It would be nonsense to claim that the purpose of my car is to emit carbon monoxide.
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by atticora 3y ago
Fighting the media negativity bias, the local Russian newspaper City Reporter decided in 2014 to report only positive news for a day and lost two-thirds of its readers. It's hard to blame a business for failing to commit financ
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by atticora 3y ago
Here's a PDF of the paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32026/w320...
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by atticora 3y ago
Cosmologists discuss gravitational collapse that takes place over billions of years.
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Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years(ft.com)
51 points by atticora 3y ago|105 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1745073339767410693.html
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Imagine you're at a flea market and you see this chair(twitter.com)
4 points by atticora 3y ago|1 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
That was fast! Are you notified on keywords or just happened by? It seems like an LLM assistant could make this task much easier.
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by atticora 3y ago
I disagree. AI is becoming an increasingly important tool for telling stories, and making it harder to tell stories about true crimes and dead children is not a good thing. We need our full range of tools to think about and communicate abou
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by atticora 3y ago
Ackman went after Gay for permitting Harvard antisemitism, which didn't get her removed. Others went after her for plagiarism, which led to her resignation. So other others went after Ackman's wife for plagiarism as a way to hurt
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by atticora 3y ago
Since a given niche can only support a given population size, aging reduces generation time by hitting a ceiling on population size. Some organisms get around this by spawning thousands of offspring and all but approximately one fails fast.
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by atticora 3y ago
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by atticora 3y ago
> Then it dawned on me that the survival of the species is not aligned with the survival of an individual. The selfish genes control, and their survival is not perfectly aligned with either the individual or the species. If aging becomes

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