mjh2539

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by mjh2539 2mo ago
You can easily fit 8 full sheets of plywood (4ftx8ft) in a 2020 Honda Odyssey, with the seats still in the car. And you don't have to worry about them getting wet on the drive back home.
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
The problem with Galileo is that he did not yet have good enough evidence to assert what he was asserting (even though what he was asserting turned out to be true).
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
The point of the Chinese room is to show you that the guy who has memorized the standard responses to various questions in Chinese does not in fact know Chinese. He's mindlessly parroting things.
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
All living things have souls. For most Ur-Platonists (which includes nearly all orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, and pagan Greek and Roman philosophers/theologians until the Enlightenment), the soul is: * what makes a thing what it
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
> An example of a programming language with true Boolean logic is APL, where the logical truth values are the numbers "1" and "0" (which is very handy in expressing conditional operations on arrays), while all the pro
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
If Malaysia can't obtain 30% of its fuel because of the Hormuz closure, they don't just reduce their consumption of fuel by 30%, but make up for most of the deficit by buying it for a higher price somewhere else. But the fuel they
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by mjh2539 4mo ago
When trying to obtain evidence, investigators or regular officers will make frequent recourse to lies and intimidation to get you to admit to things that you may or may not have done. For example, "If you don't tell us where you w
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by mjh2539 6mo ago
This is the most apt answer I've read thus far.
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by mjh2539 6mo ago
Perhaps there is a stronger causal relationship between attractiveness in males and intelligence/academic performance than in women.
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by mjh2539 7mo ago
> One of the biggest repairability wins: fully modular, individually replaceable Thunderbolt ports. I think I'm going to cry...happy tears. :')
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by mjh2539 8mo ago
Except, as a rule, Jews, Muslims, and some Hindus.
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by mjh2539 9mo ago
In Germany, the state intentionally put children in the custody of pedophiles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp... I have absolutely no faith in German intuitions regarding wh
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by mjh2539 9mo ago
Tidings and good cheer to all.
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by mjh2539 9mo ago
I only ever see him on HN. He's smart, kind, and talks about interesting things. Are you sure what you're feeling isn't envy?
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by mjh2539 9mo ago
The cost of services will only decrease if labor inputs decrease in that particular sector more rapidly than the cost of labor increases (due to increased productivity).
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by mjh2539 10mo ago
Feel free to leave the West Yorkshire police department a message: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/form/leave-an-officer-a-...
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by mjh2539 10mo ago
Without load balancing, AI datacenters are very swingy (which is bad).
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by mjh2539 11mo ago
The skin of cucurbits is usually fairly high in cucurbitacins (usually much higher than the flesh).
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by mjh2539 11mo ago
I'm not sure if this helps or hurts your point, but the IQ bump is only for Ashkenazi Jews, and not the Mizrahim, Sephardim, Temanim, Beta Israel, etc. So it's actually more remarkable.
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by mjh2539 11mo ago
I usually use emacs-nox when running inside of a terminal. Not sure on how it's related exactly to emacs -nw. I do know it's a separate binary, so infer from that what you will.
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by mjh2539 11mo ago
There are dozens of us running it outside of a terminal. Dozens!
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by mjh2539 11mo ago
Because in the first world it is reasonable to believe that the tap water in major metropolitan areas is potable.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
I agree. There was (and still is) a trend in technical writing that began in the 2010s to be overly pedestrian and informal (and in many cases explicitly vulgar). The same impulse or geist resulted in many people naming their library or pro
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by mjh2539 1y ago
I bought that specific model because they're a step up from the E-series (which is actually good now), but not as expensive as the X or T series. I'm very familiar with Thinkpads (I personally have owned 5, and have bought 3 for f
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by mjh2539 1y ago
I guess I'm just lucky because none of the 8 laptops I've bought used off ebay in the last 13 years have failed yet.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
You can buy a near mint lenovo l14 gen 3 from 2022 for $200. I know this because I bought one for my in-laws a few days ago.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
Intel meteor lake chips support AV1 encode/decode.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
To be fair, whenever a DA/the DOJ/an agency has its sights on someone and is trying to pursue a civil suit/conviction/agency action, there is a presumption that it will continue until it's settled or goes to trial o
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by mjh2539 1y ago
> the only time that encryption will really matter is when emailing someone who is also using Proton. Correct, and this was/is explicit when you first sign up for a proton email account.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
Every single laptop I've bought off of ebay (all of which were used) over the past ten years has functioned perfectly and flawlessly. You just pay attention to the number of recent sales the account has had and their overall rating.

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