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by lainga 2y ago
What a fucking website this is! Farewell, cruel dang!
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by lainga 2y ago
Nobody ever bikesheds me or makes me break flow to attend a Fun Team Event in Factorio :)
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by lainga 2y ago
I guess there would be a silicate famine in the seas, that seems to be the limiting factor for diatom presence overall among plankton [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom#/media/File:Diatoms_Egg...
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by lainga 2y ago
I encourage you to explore, as a thought experiment, what profit opportunities can arise from the intersection of mass medicalisation and body positivity.
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by lainga 2y ago
What solution do you propose? No more UCLA?
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by lainga 2y ago
I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.
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by lainga 2y ago
Try this talk about sqlite! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKLA81tBis
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by lainga 2y ago
Did you RTFA? "This jaundiced real-estate porn is meant to satirize the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the commenters are all in on the joke" I come from a cultural background such that I clued in on thi
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by lainga 2y ago
what does the # insert your code to print out some C code mean?
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by lainga 2y ago
The author's workflow sounds like writing ideas onto a block of post-its and then having them slosh around like they're boats lashed up at harbour. He wasn't actually gaining any new information - nothing that really surprise
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by lainga 2y ago
Close! If Hollywood starts doing it, it will become copyrightable. (But somehow only if you can retain 5+ lawyers.)
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by lainga 2y ago
People in meatspace are not (in James C. Scott's sense) legible to HN's user base, and never will be.
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by lainga 2y ago
What was he selling?
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by lainga 2y ago
You call some numbers in an ACHS a concrete achievement? I was thinking more like a dam or a school or something...
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by lainga 2y ago
Mit dem nächste Kapitalrunde wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.
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by lainga 2y ago
> Add in the challenge of remote learning Why? Are K-12 keeping on with remote classes now in the USA? > not to mention smartphone access prevalently available Also why? Has there been a change in policy about bag and equipment checks
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by lainga 2y ago
What privileges the square root over any other fractional power?
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by lainga 2y ago
Petrarch climbed a mountain for fun in 1336. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_Mont_Ventoux
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by lainga 2y ago
Has anyone used `git describe` in anger?
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by lainga 2y ago
Very! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy_Engloys
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by lainga 2y ago
And it went right into the little shelf in many Canadians' heads of "Canadian companies destroyed by the USA". Mauldite en soit trestoute la lignye.
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by lainga 2y ago
Sunk-tax fallacy.
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by lainga 2y ago
Sure! sqrt(-1) is actually (-1/12), as proved by Ramanujan summation.
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by lainga 2y ago
Would you then call it a buzzword, or is there some gentler excluded-middle interpretation of that word's application to the project?
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by lainga 2y ago
IME you get the same amount of back and forth but I get to write "as the comment says" a few times
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by lainga 2y ago
Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly, LLM gotta answer "why, why, why?" Tiger gotta sleep, bird gotta land, LLM gotta produce a token from the context at hand
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by lainga 2y ago
I think it just throws me off due to cultural differences. Most homes and offices in my country have electric lighting, which means we can end up living and working outside of daylight hours, especially on Fridays. I have on numerous occasi
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by lainga 2y ago
...How recent? Bellman coined curse of dimensionality in 1957.
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by lainga 2y ago
Does unreal expose an interface like GDCLASS for new types?
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by lainga 2y ago
What prevents engineering firms from acting like law firms?

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