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by lamacase 1y ago
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik might fit the bill? It's about the history and modern use of materials like glass, steel, concrete, etc. in everyday objects. Maybe not for very young kids. Wikipedia has a good summary of the content. W
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by lamacase 2y ago
Why can't tabs just be a visualization of browser history with the most recently used entries cached and bookmarks can go to hell (aka just be used for a hotbar)
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by lamacase 3y ago
> The project no longer involves collecting new bat samples or working with live viruses. WIV has no role beyond contributing more than 300 whole and partial genome sequences of SARS-related bat coronaviruses from its collection, Daszak
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by lamacase 3y ago
If you say "I don't see the grounds for banning or regulating porn" but you mean "I disagree with the concept of consumer protection regulation altogether", you're wasting people's time. Just say the more
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by lamacase 3y ago
It could be bad in terms of the outcomes for consumers even if it's produced ethically. Imagine all junk food and sugary soda was produced with sustainable farming and renewable energy. It could still be the case that it leads to worse
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by lamacase 4y ago
I don't think that's a fair bar. There are arguments for consciousness in non-human animals that don't depend on a full explanation of consciousness in humans. But that also doesn't imply we should suspect any particular
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by lamacase 4y ago
It does cover every case though. The solution for the orbit of a mass in a 2-body problem is always an ellipse! (Or a parabola/hyperbola for an escape trajectory). You can find the derivation here [1], it's not too complicated. Th
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by lamacase 4y ago
The equation is: if it isn't already in orbit, and it doesn't hit the atmosphere, then it flies past. For an incoming object to start orbiting earth, it has to decelerate through active propulsion or aerobraking or something like
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by lamacase 4y ago
A golf ball is around 4cm, and an arm's length is around 70cm. To be the same apparent size, it would have to maintain that same ratio. The atmosphere is like 50-100km thick (highest weather balloon flight was >50km) so you would ha
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by lamacase 4y ago
I was in a similar situation a year and a half ago. I quit my job with nothing else lined up, despite advice to the contrary, and found a new one in a few months. It worked out well for me, and I'd probably do it again without much hes
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by lamacase 4y ago
But CRC checks wouldn't prevent things like revealing units through fog of war right? The presentation of the game state couldn't be CRCd because each player has a different view of it. And the cheat client doesn't have to mo
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by lamacase 4y ago
> Cheating to reveal information locally was still possible, but these few leaks were relatively easy to secure in subsequent patches and revisions. I don't understand this. Running the whole simulation locally on both ends means th
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by lamacase 4y ago
I dunno, I think a lot of early windows icons were kind of hard to differentiate at a glance. A lot of them are just computers or windows with different smaller icons on them. You can see this even in the examples shown from the collection.
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by lamacase 4y ago
Ok, great idea. Now we just need an extension that auto-bookmarks every newly opened page until I unbookmark it, and a category of "super-bookmarks" to curate the pages I would manually bookmark now.
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by lamacase 5y ago
Re 2. I saw a tweet from a developer who ported Doom to the playdate. He made it so you could turn the crank to fire the chain gun.
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by lamacase 5y ago
I have read the book. He says that engineering degrees are basically the one exception. They're like trade schools. Also, e.g. a social science degree is useful if you're going to be a social science professor/academic, but o
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by lamacase 5y ago
If he's saying "everything is worse now that buildings don't look like the Taj Mahal, and clothes don't look like traditional Chinese ceremonial robes", how does this translate into support for Western exceptionalis
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by lamacase 6y ago
The monster math was "1/(planck time value from Wikipedia)"
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by lamacase 7y ago
What would this mean? You could have a rule that just implemented rule 30 for one adjacent row or column of the plane, but that would just give you stripes of 1d rule 30. Is there some obvious way of generalizing the 1d rules to 2d that I&#
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by lamacase 8y ago
How about a "Rosetta Proof" wiki in the style of "Rosetta Code"? You wouldn't need to settle on one language, and it might help clarify the advantages of one language or another.
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by lamacase 8y ago
By what definition? The "notion" of "justified true belief" WAS the definition of knowledge prior to these complications. Just saying "everything is subjective" is more tedious than making meaningful distinctio
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by lamacase 8y ago
I think you mean pedantic trie-hard
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by lamacase 9y ago
Comments in this thread seem kind of... defensive? Are people really worried that this is going to be extrapolated to "Dolphins are universally and forever smarter than humans" or what? I'm not sure what to make of the "
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by lamacase 9y ago
If anyone is interested in reading about a large telescope project from start to finish, I highly recommend this book: "The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope". The project started in the 1920s, but the Palomar telesc
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by lamacase 9y ago
How does the author think Zuckerberg's VR Avatar resembles clippy the paperclip?
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by lamacase 9y ago
What the author stated was: > I will argue that block comments are unnecessary, and in fact near-impossible to design and implement correctly (for my own pedantic notion of correctness) You might argue, subjectively or objectively, about
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by lamacase 9y ago
"I don't have these problems, therefore they are not real problems" The author makes almost exactly your point regarding the (non)importance of these issues in practice. What would the author have to write in order to be able
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by lamacase 9y ago
Submit an expense report to your employer and you'll be reimbursed for the extra bytes.
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by lamacase 10y ago
Yeah, I hate how women are never normally distributed. Only men operate in statistically simple distributions.
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by lamacase 10y ago
From the article: >Minimalism is a lifestyle that helps people question what things add value to their lives. The movement involves reflecting on your personal values, so of course it's going to have almost as many expressions as th

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