funklute

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by funklute 2y ago
Perhaps some meaning is getting lost in translation here... If you mean curiosity as in academic achievement, then I think this is a deeply disrespectful way of thinking of other people. If you mean curiosity as in having empathy for the pe
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by funklute 2y ago
> The best people are naturally attracted to knowledge and intellect That is a pretty narrow-minded way of evaluating other people's worth...
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by funklute 3y ago
That's not the whole story though. Often, what is more important is how stable the oil is below the smoke point. There's a pretty decent video on this by Adam Ragusea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_aFHrzSBrM
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by funklute 3y ago
Ah, fair enough! On my team we use pre-commit[0] a lot. I guess I would define the history to be something like "has this commit ever been run through our pre-commit hooks?". If you rewrite history, you'll (usually) produce c
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by funklute 3y ago
> then git gives you the tools to ensure the repos you control are not rewritten I might betray my ignorance here, but what tools are those? If I host a git repo, then I can obviously ensure that any branches on the origin are never rewr
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by funklute 3y ago
It's not actually clear whether you're using Wayland and complaining about X11, or the other way around... (or on a different OS altogether...)
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by funklute 3y ago
That is a fair point!
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by funklute 3y ago
Your first suggestion is basically momentum investing [1]. But as the wikipedia article alludes to, there are some issues with this, such as a potentially high risk, that one would need to carefully consider. I think there is a big differen
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by funklute 3y ago
> Most people don't think critically about their money This is a bit of a naive viewpoint. Take your example of putting money in the stock market, regardless of its health and structure: So I'll follow your advice and I'll
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by funklute 3y ago
And am I correct that these dunkelflautes are becoming an increasing concern because of the increased likelihood of extreme weather events? Otherwise I don't really see why this is suddenly a bigger concern now, than it was, say, 50 ye
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by funklute 3y ago
I had to look up what a dunkelflaute is... but the last bit you said: > i.e. dunkelflauts in winter which neither batteries or nuclear particularly help with. doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Wikipedia defines a dunkelflaute as &q
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by funklute 3y ago
> for political reasons > (ignoring the fact that t takes longer to build than the available time to transition) My understanding is that nuclear is necessary, unless you believe in very optimistic development timelines for better bat
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by funklute 3y ago
> You don't want to end up like the french do you? Exactly what do you mean is the problem with the French? Assuming I've understood you correctly, I think it's worth pointing out that the French very consciously hold onto
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by funklute 3y ago
> This kind of flexibility in the labour market is clearly an advantage because the US and CH have some of the highest salaries and lowest unemployment in the world. It really is quite a big stretch to assume that this is a causal mechan
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by funklute 3y ago
hehe yes I can relate to that! I'm not sure if you had this in mind when you said "non-binary", but I also think along the same lines you just noted, that there is a difference between "not binary", and "non-bi
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by funklute 3y ago
In this case, it seems a perfectly valid choice of words. "irreconcilable" basically implies that there is a binary choice -- either use a TUI or aim for accessibility, but you can't have both. The responder was saying that a
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by funklute 3y ago
Do you mean for simple command line output, or also for actual TUIs, like htop and vim? If the latter, how does that even work? Presumably you'd have to configure it on a per-TUI basis, which is exactly the point of the parent -- it&#x
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by funklute 3y ago
> Do you think there is or isn't deleterious effects when children watch misogyny at a young age, what about watching programming that would show the beating of animals, even if animated and just for "fun", or programming
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by funklute 4y ago
I am perfectly aware what that word means, and it is exactly the word I wanted to use. Instead of being a condescending asshole, perhaps you can explain what you disagree with.
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by funklute 4y ago
Arguably, the terminal is more general. Pretty much every developer will at some point have significant interactions with a terminal. The same cannot be said for emacs. On top of that, the terminal is a more general-purpose tool than emacs,
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by funklute 4y ago
> Nothing is worse than trying to understand an issue with a program that heavily relies on environment variables for configuration I totally agree with this. > A good old configuration file is the best. But the issue with this is tha
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by funklute 4y ago
> not for reproducible/distributable configuration At my work, we use environment variables all the time for configurations, e.g. for telling a kubernetes pod where to find the database. In your opinion, what is the better option(s)
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by funklute 4y ago
> the Optical Winter of 2001-2006 I have never heard of this, and google doesn't return anything useful... what does this refer to?
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by funklute 4y ago
Using the bindings is only possible if the library itself is already installed (since the bindings directly make use of the library, under the hood).
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by funklute 4y ago
> Also, Python is the worst imaginable engine for running Lisp What exactly do you mean by this?
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by funklute 4y ago
> If you repeatedly re-measure for 95% confidence, you strongly select for random noise. You can't use standard methods for early stopping - as you rightly point out, you get gibberish if you naively keep peeking at a growing data s
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by funklute 4y ago
Yes, exactly. Control groups are incredibly important for ensuring good quality of clinical studies. It's a technique that solves multiple "calibration" problems, including: - being able to draw causal conclusions - being abl
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by funklute 4y ago
> Everyone knew If that was truly the case, then - as the parent hinted - it was the trial design that was the problem, and not the practice of having control groups. It is pretty common to stop trials early when it is obvious that the t
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by funklute 4y ago
I mean, if that's your angle, then I can sort of see your point. But at the same time: if I decided one day to properly learn lisp (so far my interest in it has been as a curious outsider), I would do so not because it's an active
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by funklute 4y ago
That they disagree with you, or have a different perspective than you, does not make anyone a troll.

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