markeroon

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by markeroon 24d ago
Started using recently after decades of using vim because :DiffviewOpen is so good. The only diff tool I enjoy using almost as much as gerrit.
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by markeroon 8mo ago
Do you have more info about this? Never heard it before
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by markeroon 8mo ago
I learned so much installing and using Gentoo about 20 years ago
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by markeroon 9mo ago
That's strange, I know a bunch of guys in my hometown who hang out at the Elks who aren't religious. Most of them are probably confirmed or at least baptized though.
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by markeroon 9mo ago
Enough with the pedantry please: "Driving under the influence of cannabis was associated with a significantly increased risk of motor vehicle collisions compared with unimpaired driving (odds ratio 1.92 (95% confidence interval 1.35 to
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by markeroon 9mo ago
If we're doing anecdotes I'm sure there are lots of drunk drivers with spotless records. I understand that you're taking issue with the idea of always being impaired, but the article indicates that there's a pretty clear
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by markeroon 10mo ago
I think that this is an opinion. For instance, one might think online gambling should be illegal, regardless of whether it causes addictive behavior or exacerbates some genetic predisposition to it.
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by markeroon 10mo ago
Is it important to stress that though? This feels like a personal responsibility argument while also acknowledging that it disproportionately affects people who don't have a ton of control over their response to it.
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by markeroon 1y ago
I noticed that you posted the story, are you one of the authors of the paper? It mentions a number of potential treatments including mindfulness, CBT and metacognition -- do you think one of these is potentially more effective than the othe
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by markeroon 1y ago
Look into pruning
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by markeroon 1y ago
Most provinces in Canada have $10/day childcare
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by markeroon 1y ago
Was this book any good?
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by markeroon 1y ago
Great reference https://x.com/dril/status/384408932061417472?lang=en
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by markeroon 1y ago
Jim Ryun ran 3:59 as a high schooler in 1964 (and then 3:55 in 1965). Alan Webb ran 3:53 in high school in 2001.
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by markeroon 2y ago
I’m curious how this aligns with the thinking on sauna and short-term heat exposure being healthy?
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by markeroon 2y ago
Ever hear of Afghanistan or, I don’t know, World War Two? Do you know what the word ally means?
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by markeroon 2y ago
I edited my link to better capture how much twitter is bleeding in terms of valuation, but you had replied in the interim. My bad! Fair point re: selling the debt.
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by markeroon 2y ago
“The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is worth almost 80% less than two years ago when Elon Musk bought it, according to estimates from investment giant Fidelity.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02&#x2F
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by markeroon 2y ago
Is that true of something like NPD also?
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by markeroon 2y ago
The recommendation engine is at least partially learned so it’s fairly likely that it’s the latter
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by markeroon 2y ago
This is a good summary that captures the discourse in Canada presently, very different from what people seem to be focusing on here on HN. One caveat: as far as I know, taxation in Canada is pretty similar to New York or California.
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by markeroon 2y ago
> Extroverts don't understand this concept of limited capacity for socialization. Othering >50% of your audience isn’t the best way to make a point, and plenty of extroverts understand this concept perfectly well (myself as an ex
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by markeroon 2y ago
Only 300 lines of code, impressive! I love this.
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by markeroon 2y ago
This blew my mind when I first learned of it
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by markeroon 2y ago
Imo the biggest issue (from memory) was that Tensorflow used a static computation graph. PyTorch was so much easier to work with.
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by markeroon 2y ago
Already invented the transformer
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by markeroon 9y ago
Not your fault, bud. Offer to help train your replacement if you feel that bad and it!
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by markeroon 9y ago
Given that Facebook is now worth $500B, this seems like a weird article to post.
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by markeroon 9y ago
Agree with this completely. Takes a bit longer to get spun up on a topic but it's so worth it.
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by markeroon 9y ago
This is true, but the bioavailability of non-heme iron is 14-18% of heme iron https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/ It makes sense to just eat a balanced diet.

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