bingerman

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by bingerman 6y ago
I thought occupy wall street was backed more by those who identify as democrats or at least leaning that way. And I see this short squeeze just as a more concrete way to f*ck with the big money. Granted, big money rules them all.
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by bingerman 6y ago
Offtopic but what we really need is a model where producing maximum amount of calories with minimum cost is heavily discouraged.
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by bingerman 6y ago
My grandfather bought a new mf 165 in 60s. It is still going strong and used for productive work. It has even fully functional original tires! Always been stored inside and almost always handled with thought. Ergonomics suck compared to mor
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by bingerman 6y ago
That's true if you were just managing the home. I know that "homework" and caring for kids alone may sometimes be exhausting, but regularly allocating time for studying is usually worth it for everyone. I personally know two
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by bingerman 6y ago
What do you mean by current music? I have absolutely no idea what kind of garbage is pushed on teenagers these days but a lot of new music is produced.
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by bingerman 6y ago
I prefer managing my childrens' screen time myself rather than delegating yet another thing to some cold institution or those outright evil companies. Thankfully in my case they are usually more interested in real three dimensional thi
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by bingerman 6y ago
The thing is, bad guys have guns too. You can't really defend against many thugs if they take you by surprise. Somebody could just wait somewhere near you house and snipe you, it's impossible to detect everything all the time if y
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by bingerman 6y ago
Prepping beyond basic bugout-bag and having some extra food is pretty worthless if you are alone. Once you have a real community doing it to some degree it's absolutely worth it. City folks have very limited possibilities in any case.
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by bingerman 6y ago
Take this with a grain of salt but I've heard that some kind of typewriters are still used in some countries for the top secret material.
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by bingerman 6y ago
How does this compare with unicomp keyboards ( https://www.pckeyboard.com/ ) Both are marketed as buckling spring monsters but surely there are some competent actual reasons to spend the extra money on the model-F?
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by bingerman 6y ago
The quality of general music teaching in schools varies wildly, and I'm afraid the average experience is not too helpful. As usual, some countries are better than others. Personal anecdote from a medium sized generally pretty average s
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by bingerman 6y ago
I learned awk before Perl and it helped a lot. I still use awk (and sed) regularly but for more complex tasks involving regexes and such Perl is my favourite.
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by bingerman 6y ago
If you seriously consider enjoying "unlimited" social and health benefits of NZ, you may just retire immediately with $2M in bank and lead more luxurious life in most places in the world no matter if you are 60 or 20 years old. II
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by bingerman 6y ago
Not the parent but anyway: my completely tech-illiterare parents have been using Antergos (which is based on Arch, and with Cinnamon) now for several years without any issues. They use only browser and email most of the time, but it's
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by bingerman 6y ago
In ConTeXt many people use mainly lua for scripting. Not strongly typed but still an improvement. After the initial struggle ConTeXt also feels more integrated than just a system of TeX macros but that's just my opinion. At one point p
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by bingerman 6y ago
You know, life is pretty good when you never 100% agree with everything random people are saying in any subreddit.
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by bingerman 6y ago
Looks interesting, gotta take a closer look in the summer. I think it's Stanislaw (Ulam) not Stainslaw.
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by bingerman 6y ago
IIRC there were some studies saying that higher CO2 in the atmosphere leads to better growth but lower nutritional value so that's one possible side-effect.
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by bingerman 6y ago
Knuth still does code basically on a daily basis. At least that's what he said in some interview (writing two complete programs per week on average, small and large, and that definitely qualifies him as software engineer among other th
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by bingerman 6y ago
I don't think they proved the correctness, just read it very thoroughly and were convinced by Perelman's reasoning.
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by bingerman 6y ago
This. The supply of cheap human labor tends to make technological progress slower.
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by bingerman 6y ago
What resources you used to learn elm? I'm looking for a good book on 0.19 elm that is written to folks who can already program (probably even in functional style and just want to learn the specific tricks of elm).
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by bingerman 7y ago
Left pinky for ctrl (capslock) and right ring finger for L. Works incredibly well for my hands (a quality keyboard helps too). The capslock mapping is obviously meant for vim but works great for many shortcuts like this (ideally there would
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by bingerman 7y ago
There is not too much common with having a farm and having a homestead except (in most cases) rurality. To support your homestead financially you can be a farmer but you can be a software engineer too like I am. Farming is commercial activi
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by bingerman 7y ago
I have mapped capslock to ctrl (esc if used without modifiers) which made ctrl+L extremely comfortable for me.
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by bingerman 7y ago
I don't get it. Why did he enjoy destroying those family ancestors shrines? And surely that kind of behavior would be noticed by others and result in serious social damage, no?
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by bingerman 7y ago
Tangentially related fun fact: square pegs fitted in round holes is a traditional way of doing things when building log cabins/houses. They actually fit pretty well and are faster to make than perfectly fitting round ones with simple t
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by bingerman 7y ago
Equating serious concern of the effects of cheap foreign labour with racism is a wonderful way to prevent any meaningful discussion. Bonus points for antagonizing white people, that kind of pure racism is not really helping anyone.
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by bingerman 7y ago
I have the impression that at least the training phase of alphago needs much resources to achieve superior results, though it would be nice to see some "exact" numbers. IMO combined limit for runtime+training energy would be the b
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by bingerman 7y ago
This is why I always export my slides to pdf. (Obviously doesn't work so well if you've got fancy slides.)

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