jimworm

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by jimworm 1y ago
That's only true in a theoretical sense. In practice capital needs to invest in the right things for that to happen, otherwise the people are better off working for their own immediate needs as subsistence farmers or hunter-gatherers.
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by jimworm 2y ago
I wouldn't mind if ruby copied the rails docs style exactly ( https://api.rubyonrails.org/ ), and I'm pretty sure rails wouldn't mind either.
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by jimworm 2y ago
Picking one point from there, possibly the one least connected to Signal: > The focus on deepfakes in a vacuum is actually missing the forest for the trees, with the ‘forest’ being the fact that we now rely on five massive social media p
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by jimworm 2y ago
Being excessively reclusive needn't be a death sentence. Have you tried to transition to home-schooling[0], which might get the law off your back? If he is interested in gaming, perhaps he could try his hand at game development, or par
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by jimworm 3y ago
Those books had tremendous impact. BBC Basic was the first programming language I ever saw, in a children's book in a library, years before I ever got to touch a PC. It made computers seem so straightforward that it felt natural to rea
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by jimworm 3y ago
Failure of imagination indeed. There's much more to energy than the regular usage cycle of the average electrical supply grid. What if creating easily-fusable isotopes is the most efficient way to store "renewable" energy? Fu
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by jimworm 3y ago
> If you see a three-syllable Chinese name, you can be confident that the two-syllable name is the given name, and the one-syllable name is the family name. Statistically speaking one could be fairly confident, but as a rule it is wrong
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by jimworm 3y ago
The popup window login with the many different domains doesn't work with isolation on. Hope they don't take the random meeting name (the last anonymous option) away.
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by jimworm 3y ago
What are the insurance payouts like when plants like these are destroyed? Could those be manipulated to balance the risk motives for omitting or delaying mitigations when warnings signs appear? Or would that just encourage poor record keepi
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by jimworm 3y ago
The touchbar feels to me like a time bomb that explodes when Apple thinks it's time for you to give another stack of cash to them.
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by jimworm 3y ago
The accidents you described didn't come from nuclear power plants. The Western Australian incident was mining equipment. The Goiânia accident happened in Brazil and was medical equipment. The Kramatorsk radiological accident was also m
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by jimworm 3y ago
At some point the blackout will be the thing saving them from losing data because shreddit can't delete posts from private subs.
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by jimworm 3y ago
How about being on hold, listening to repetitive music interspersed with a recorded "you are x in the queue, we'll be with you shortly" in a precisely-calculated interval to get your hopes up then immediately crush them, effi
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by jimworm 4y ago
I understood the GP as focussing more on the missed opportunity. Those cheap renewables didn't exist 40 years in the past. There could've been lots of nuclear energy built since then, a lot of emissions not generated, and those hy
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by jimworm 4y ago
One potential life-changing application I haven't yet found for eye tracking is to train monocular people to align their blind eye properly. I don't know if it's possible, but if it is at least partially successful for a mono
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by jimworm 4y ago
It's also a nifty way to loosen meat from the shells of lobsters, crabs, etc.
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by jimworm 5y ago
Why would they dirty bomb their own land? If anything it's a reason to have already taken some materials offsite to dirty bomb Moscow later. Or for the invaders to threaten dirty bombing if they're about to be driven away (like th
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by jimworm 5y ago
The perl-family heredoc syntax could be quite flexible with options. I'm used to ruby which does have an option for indent-stripping.
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by jimworm 5y ago
Heredoc by another name...?
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by jimworm 5y ago
For those wondering, the Q for this particular result was 0.33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99hvPlC4is&t=48m
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by jimworm 5y ago
This is the big one imo. Youtube's monopoly status is making creators sign unfair contracts, after which stealing from them becomes legal.
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by jimworm 5y ago
Once had a bug that set then re-set a cookie. Worked just fine in a browser. A customer wrote some automation that depended on the bug and ignored the first set-cookie. The bugfix caused some problems.
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by jimworm 5y ago
If they had put in these proposed charges from the start, it would protect the NZ government from the criticism they're facing. Ending MIQ is inevitable but it's a one-way decision. Once the virus takes hold there's no going
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by jimworm 5y ago
Even the most expensive MIQ places are incredibly cheap to the average millionaire, NZ$5520 for 14 days for a single adult, which gets cheaper per person when sharing [1]. There are also huge outstanding bills (over NZ$13M) from people that
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by jimworm 5y ago
That's merely refuting the least relevant part. The ideographs were important in that they could tie together vastly different spoken languages in the same family. Because the writing was unified, all the spoken variants had their own
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by jimworm 5y ago
> Rather, written Cantonese (or Shanghainese etc.) often use characters for phonetic purposes rather than true etymological meaning This is where the mistake is. Written Chinese does have all those characters - it is the adoption of a &q
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by jimworm 5y ago
There's no requirement for the pressure vessel to be the freezer itself. I'm imagining stainless-steel cylinders of wagyu steak or other similarly high-valued items lined up in a freezer, each with its own internal thermometer, to
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by jimworm 5y ago
Its very close cousin tetanus toxin has the opposite effect, but would also cause zombies to be immobile all the same.
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by jimworm 5y ago
It was not my intention - lab-grown meat is already on the market, a lot further along than those ornithopters were! What I meant to express is that for all we know, the lab-grown meat solutions being tried today could be approaching the pr
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by jimworm 5y ago
"Lab-grown" is such a vague term. There's no indication that today's tech is the best that could exist. The purpose of lab-grown meat is to remove unnecessary parts of the animal from meat production. While many animal p

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