eicossa

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by eicossa 4y ago
Finally somebody other than me who is aware of Summoning. They are awesome. "The Passing of the Grey Company", "Land of the Dead", "Mirdautas Vras", "Nightshade Forests" and "Kor" all evoke
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by eicossa 5y ago
What's the difference between a real publisher and a publishing mill ? How would you categorize No Starch Press, Manning, OReilly as per this rubric ?
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by eicossa 6y ago
I couldn't have stated these things better.
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Ask HN: Why are most comments on this account downvoted?
7 points by eicossa 6y ago|6 comments
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by eicossa 6y ago
> Here is some Youtube channels that are very solid on approaching weightlifting grounded in real practice and science: Jeff Nippard, mountaindog1 (John Meadows), Greg Doucette, VitruvianPhysique and Renaissance Periodization. I'd a
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by eicossa 6y ago
Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ? I have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression.
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by eicossa 6y ago
I am one of the benfactors of your book. I heavily relied on it while trying to parallelize an ancient geophysical inversion code. Didn't think i'd actually be responding to an author whose book I have spent multiple hours with.
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by eicossa 7y ago
This is what i used too. I used CS maps. I knew a few of them so well (dust, dust2, office, piranesi etc)
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by eicossa 7y ago
Wait ... let me see if I can anticipate the top comment "Electron consumes so many resources ... Why so resource hungry ... My workstation already runs Chrome, can't have electron apps bogging it down ... Slack runs on Electron ..
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by eicossa 7y ago
I remember last week's episode on Darknet Diaries where NordVPN was offering 3y plans for a hefty discount. My first reaction was "Are they going out of business ?" This week's news lets me make sense of that ad.
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by eicossa 7y ago
"Life ... ummm, finds a way"
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by eicossa 7y ago
A moment to process the fact that the song has suddenly started playing sloooowly too :)
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by eicossa 7y ago
> I'm currently happily browsing from Windows 3.1! Why man ? Is this machine your daily driver or just for HNing ?
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by eicossa 9y ago
But there are a lot more adults than there are babies.
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by eicossa 9y ago
Why don't you want to upgrade beyond Yosemite ? I just bought a new Macbook Air and its been nagging me to update.
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by eicossa 9y ago
Could it be because older people are also going to be much more unwilling to try something new ? Noophilia seems to be a feature of youth.
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by eicossa 9y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Seems like a nice point to debate about.
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by eicossa 9y ago
Doing yearly releases is such an obviously great idea that there must be a big reason why they are NOT doing it.
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by eicossa 9y ago
> really enjoy everything about coffee from roasting to brewing You roast your own beans at home ? How expensive of a setup does that require ?
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by eicossa 9y ago
I've always wondered the same about iron ore, granite, marble etc.
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by eicossa 9y ago
> working on a simulation based game > stories like these are a great inspiration I'm sorry if I come across as stupid. I don't see the connection between these two assertions.
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by eicossa 9y ago
IIRC the whole "Gandhi is gonna nuke the rest of the world" meme came from such a bug occuring in the world-domination strategy game Civilization 2.
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by eicossa 9y ago
AFB ?
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by eicossa 9y ago
Is the link between risky behaviour and a toxoplasmosis infection that well established ?
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Biology and Traits: Intelligence [video](youtube.com)
1 points by eicossa 9y ago|0 comments
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Biology and Traits: Performance Prediction [video](youtube.com)
1 points by eicossa 9y ago|0 comments
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by eicossa 9y ago
NHST ? What's that ?
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by eicossa 10y ago
> I learned a lot more from making the cards than I did from studying them I found the same thing. The discipline of boiling things down into their essentials really forced me to pay attention and really thinking about the reading mate
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by eicossa 10y ago
I'm surprised you mention swimming has changed your life. I was always suspicious of the way I had begun thinking of my life in terms of "Before Swimming" and "After Swimming" phases. Has this been your experience t
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by eicossa 10y ago
Look at the Old Testament for descriptions of too many genocides. . If graded on a curve, the 20th century comes out as a pretty nonviolent genocide-free century.

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