mlurp

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by mlurp 5y ago
I'm curious, how do you lay face down? Do you turn your head sideways or have a special pillow? It sounds painful to me.
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by mlurp 5y ago
I have an unpopular opinion: matplotlib sucks, but it's going to be really hard to improve on it. I don't think I need to give anyone reasons why it sucks, but the reason it's going to be hard to replace is that it can do so
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by mlurp 6y ago
I think this is a really valuable way of thinking. Something similar I wish everyone would ask themselves is "why do I have this opinion/belief/etc?" for any topic. Just like most religious people are the religion that t
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by mlurp 6y ago
I've done a few small personal projects in d3 and I like it a lot. My biggest gripe though, is that I can't find decent online help for it. It's not popular enough to have its own subreddit/stack exchange. So often when
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by mlurp 7y ago
Honestly, just being careful and catching mistakes. On almost every project I've worked on, I've found a few. When things get big enough, what's the chance that there's not some mistake? Just reviewing through things c
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by mlurp 7y ago
I'm hoping/wondering if 2020 will be the year there's some sort of real cultural shift in how this is all viewed. We already know about all the research pointing to social media making people generally less happy, but a huge
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by mlurp 7y ago
I don't have any love for Microsoft, but they at least have a handful of objectively useful products that probably make the world a little better. Pretty much all the research I've heard about social media indicates that it makes
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by mlurp 7y ago
I think it's a funny coincidence that he says "Light acts as a medium of information transfer here.", because IMO this article is only a medium of info transfer from the source he links at the bottom (to be fair, at least he
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by mlurp 7y ago
This can really apply to almost everything though, since if I understand you, it seems to be about progress in the face impermanence. The history of science is basically a constant process of things kind of working, then breaking. But overa
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by mlurp 7y ago
Is this true? From what I've read about Alpha Zero/etc, in both Go and chess, it's going interesting move sequences that people hadn't considered viable before. That certainly seems like an interesting thing to learn. Al
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by mlurp 7y ago
Wait, is that right? I thought your definition of immoral there is correct. But I thought that "gray area" means a person has morals, but the goodness of the topic is tricky to decide, while "amoral" just means the perso
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by mlurp 7y ago
Because you did 5-8-5!
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by mlurp 7y ago
I agree with you in general, but there are much better people to do that with than Crowder. He doesn't seem like he's acting in good faith, and more generally, think about stuff very much. There are plenty of intelligent conservat
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by mlurp 7y ago
I think a lot of AI research now is very narrow, but this ignores that there's also a lot of research in RL/etc that's working to solve the problem of generalization. Meta learning is for solving similar problems from a distr
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by mlurp 7y ago
Ah sorry, I think I see now. Do you mean that his baseline amount he uses every day is less than the deficit, so even if he consumed nothing, it still wouldn't be enough?
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by mlurp 7y ago
I might have misunderstood what you meant, but it seems like you're saying his problem is that the required deficit to lose that amount of weight in that time is more than a typical daily intake? If that's the case, it could just
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by mlurp 7y ago
Ahhhh, that makes sense. I'm on mobile. The choice of "bolded" words seemed to make no sense...
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by mlurp 7y ago
Professor Sapolsky has talked about this in a somewhat different context as well, about what it does during childhood development. Really tragic actually.
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by mlurp 7y ago
Interesting article, but the sporadic bolding of a few words is killing me: >The International Maritime Organisation has codes governing...
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by mlurp 7y ago
I think that's really more a function of what slant the market is currently in, ie, renter's or landlord's market. If there were a glut of apartments compared to renters, the desperateness would be reversed.
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by mlurp 7y ago
Yeaaaahhhhh..I found that option while searching, but I don't want to risk messing up my phone
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by mlurp 7y ago
When I try to turn it on, a dialog box pops up, telling me to go to some att website or dial 611. I think att because Cricket piggybacks off them.
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by mlurp 7y ago
Very interesting! I'm on a budget mobile service provider (Cricket), and only recently discovered that they disable using my phone as a hotspot on my plan. I called them up, because I wouldn't mind paying a small amount extra ever
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by mlurp 7y ago
I went to the maker faire in NYC a few years ago. There was lots of cool stuff, but unfortunately about 60% of it were various slight mods/etc of 3d printers. Lots weren't even special, just a brand promoting itself.
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by mlurp 7y ago
Not that I want extra bacteria, but I wonder how significant that increase is practically, or what the baseline is. I'll sometimes shake a dozen peoples' hands in a row if I'm at a party, or hold onto public transport rails.
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by mlurp 7y ago
I guess I'm not surprised. Articles on contentious topics have always had people trying to control the narrative. As Wikipedia got more and more widely trusted/respected, you'd imagine that people would pay money to do it. I
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by mlurp 7y ago
Does TAILS not do this? Forgive my ignorance, I only know the basic idea of it.
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by mlurp 7y ago
Haha I guess it's a as-many-legs-as-you-want-to-print-apod! The PWM modules are also driven through I2C. Do you mean the latency between the sending the command and the motor doing it?
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by mlurp 7y ago
Thanks! I only recently got one too, but it's been really useful for projects. Which did you get?
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by mlurp 7y ago
Oh neat! I made the centipede. I didn't realize someone posted this until I saw some traffic from HN. It's a work in progress, I have some fun plans for it. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

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