croo

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by croo 7d ago
Actually split brain experiments tells a different story. The left hemisphere actively confabulates, inventing plausible explanations for actions it didn’t initiate, suggesting that much of human self-narrative may be post-hoc storytelling.
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by croo 18d ago
The example is not helpful though, probably a lot of carpenter said similar things. knowledge and attention to detail is absolutely lost with power tools and loud machines can take away a lot from the experience of working with wood. It als
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by croo 9mo ago
I am sorry that this is your experience. A newborn brings in so much responsibility and unknowns and there is no rest - as with anything with a lot of responsibility, unknowns and no rest, it can cause tremendous amount of stress. For centu
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by croo 1y ago
Related easter egg in Android Chrome: after 100 (or 1000?) tabs it just prints ":D" instead of a number.
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by croo 2y ago
I never know what is lesser known but my faviourite is: * searches for the word under the cursor, # searches backwards. You can also use n for next and N for previous hit.
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by croo 2y ago
Never considered. It's a search engine where I need to phrase my questions differently.
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by croo 2y ago
Nice! Feature request : conditional expressions should start with the "else" branch.
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by croo 2y ago
In 1973 Clifford Cock solved the problem of public keys first time in history that no one in GCHQ managed to solve in the past 3 years. He jolted down the solution in half hour after hearing about it then wondered why is it such a big thin
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by croo 2y ago
Right? People forget history faster than ever.
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by croo 2y ago
Or they know how to advertise to their target audience well.
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by croo 2y ago
Baraka movie is a colorful vivid beautiful impactful movie without any narrative. Babies movie (1 hour documentary) is about 4 newborns in different locations of the world, again colored, beautiful shots and without any narrative.
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by croo 2y ago
Haha, yeah, personal experiences. Tha answer to the first is "to the floor" because they cannot fall from there. The answer to the second is to praise them every time they successfully close it. Positive reinforcement seems to wo
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by croo 2y ago
I strongly disagree with this comment. For centuries we lived in large families and those within communities where everyone witnessed birth at home with multiple siblings and responsibilities around raising children from a small age. The cu
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by croo 2y ago
"From this study we can see the paradox: the Java compiler is blazing fast, while Java build tools are dreadfully slow." Hi, nice article! I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion after 10 years of fighting with maven for perfor
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by croo 2y ago
Huh, so for anyone interested but did not have the time to do the comparison of the two links of OP and parent post: * java (on a cold jvm): 18.000-32.000 line per second on a single core * java (on a hot jvm): 102.000-115.000 line per seco
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by croo 2y ago
Python. I want to focus on having fun with the puzzles instead of decrypting unfamiliar syntax errors.
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by croo 2y ago
Singh Simon - Code book is an excellent and fantastic read about the history of cryptography and provide insights of what really drove technical improvements in ww1 and 2.
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by croo 2y ago
Think about what annoys you at your current workplace, what really pisses you off. That is a great indicator that you give a fuck about it and you can use that passion as a force to drive a change no one asked for but you.
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by croo 2y ago
That game was made out of 3.5 tonns of clay.
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by croo 2y ago
I had the same line of thought as I am not following the topic and media hype can make an elephant out of a mouse. But based on this 2022 statistics USA really has a thing going on with school shootings... more than a hundred per year is wa
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by croo 2y ago
For anyone who actually tried it : Does it respects/builds some kind of game map in the process or is it just a bizarre psychedelic dream walk experience where you cannot go back the same place twice and space dimensions are just funny
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by croo 2y ago
One of my friends old office had speakers and every time Jenkins failed with a build it made a short sound. It was different for each project so everyone familiar with the sound would instantly know which project pipeline failed. He liked i
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by croo 2y ago
I went from zero to hero with phind.com from last year September because my role change required it. It was a great experience as I usually knew what I wanted to do but did not know how to do it. So I just asked for solutions as I would fro
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by croo 2y ago
I agree with the person you are responding to and your snarky remark bothers me to no end. No one will care more about your house and problems than you do so they will often do a more sloppy job and the only thing that saves their face is t
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by croo 2y ago
> decision was entirely down to cost > Whole family uses Apple products I cannot prove it but I feel a contradiction
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by croo 2y ago
It is almost as if humans are not made for sitting 8-10 hours learning abstract stuff and thinking really hard about imagined logic puzzles in constant stress.
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by croo 2y ago
Dark mode
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by croo 2y ago
Okay, anecdotal data point: I have a friend who works as a part time translator for books and other documents. She said she heard about it's existence from news but never tried to use it.
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by croo 2y ago
We have a Jura machine at my workplace since the beginning of time. It brews coffee as good as good the bean you use. After a month it asks for a cleaning cycle which is arcane magic, but other than that it just works and creates its daily
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by croo 2y ago
I agreecand I would add that waterfall too has its place as you OP luckily experienced. It forces you to design and plan the whole thing before execution and it also works better on projects that have a rigid unmoveable deadline.

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