rectangletangle

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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   "Practicality beats purity"
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   Orange juice isn't actually all that healthy. Many "natural" sugars are bound up with fiber, diluting them lowering their glycemic index. Also IIRC there was some research a few years back that asserted the ratio of different
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   I actually attempted to do this. I used ML techniques to help smooth over some of the difficult parts (there are many difficult parts). The hardest cases are ambiguous names, for instance delineating Hispanic vs. Puerto Rican naming convent
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   I actually wrote an API for handling personal names, because software mangling people's names irked my pedanticism. The fundamental takeaway is that names are ridiculously complex, equivalent to any other part of natural language. For
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   >>> wiki_list = [] >>> wiki_list.append(wiki_list) >>> print(wiki_list) [[...]]
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   Transposing a matrix in Python is pretty neat. >>>list(zip(*[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9)])) [(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   It exists in California too at least.
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   These exist in the US, but they're called black and white cookies. According to Wikipedia they may have been created in New York by Bavarian immigrants. But it's unclear if the confection's origin is German or American.
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   by rectangletangle 7y ago

   Not quite, I'm referring to american fritessaus, which is more like mayonaise, and distinct from thousand island dressing (which is popular in the US, In-N-Out calls it "spread"). Digging a little deeper it appears like McDon
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    https://www.hollandsupermarket.eu/remia-fritessaus-american-... http://www.typicaldutchstuff.com/ahamericanfritessaus-pi-364... https://cf.geekdo-images.com/camo/271763ae14b82c0f612b6b9
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Lol reminds me of Hawaiian pizza (pizza topped with pineapples and thinly sliced ham). Hawaiian pizza is actually a Canadian dish, though it's now popular in most of the US, including Hawaii.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    On the west coast of the US people sometimes jokingly refer to Oregon as "God's Country," because it has lots of churches.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Not exactly the same thing. It's like mayo but thinner and sweeter, and has little green fleks in it.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    For those who are curious it's basically mayonnaise, but not quite. There is no direct equivalent in US cuisine to my knowledge.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Kind of curious what the counterpart to this would be. What things are typically ascribed to Americans, that Americans are often unaware of? American Sauce in the Netherlands comes to mind.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    You're certainly correct. But in this case it might bolster human specific pathogens. I know there is some overlap between human an animal pathogens, but unfettered access to antibiotics might accelerate the problem for humans specific
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    What's your stance on antibiotics? Or did you only mean "recreational" drugs? The reason why I bring this up is that antimicrobial resistance is an externality of widespread antibiotic usage. Unfettered access to all drugs wo
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    I would honestly be surprised if this kind of link didn't have at least some measurable impact, physiology is hardly decoupled (in the coding sense). It's been well established that poor mental health (loss of will to live) correl
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    I did some interesting work in this space. With several thousand seasons of data I used an MLP network to visualize phenotypic plasticity (how plants react to a range of environmental conditions). Accurately cleaning the input data proved t
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    I'm a huge fan of Django, but I always felt that this was true. I wish there was more of a push to decouple parts of the framework. Keep the magic, but allow usage without it.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Dynamic typing vs. static typing is on a different axis than strong vs. weak typing. Python is a strong dynamically typed language, with some "static lite" features introduced in Python 3. Dynamic typing means that types can be ch
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    It is an interesting approach, though I feel like this could introduce some nasty unintended consequences given how dynamic and introspective Python can be (admittedly I haven't studied this particular implementation). I always treated
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    >In web development, losing a connection is a failure case. That's changing with the advent of progressive web apps. It's possible to write web apps now that are robust in the face of network problems, e.g., the web app renders
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    >Well you can add that to my list of horrifying potential outcomes of being human. Pretty much, fortunately it's very rare. However you shouldn't eat sport caught shellfish without first checking for local warnings regarding ha
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Although it's not quite the same thing, this reminds me a bit of amnesic shellfish poisoning. In addition to all the terrible gastric problems ASP has the curious side-effect of severe permanent anterograde amnesia, where all memories
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Both?
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    The New Caledonian crested gecko was thought to be extinct for over 100 years until they were rediscovered in 1994. Now they're common place in the pet trade because they're so hardy. Rediscovery of "extinct" species is
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Had issues dragging the rotary bit on my iPhone in landscape mode. I noticed that it didn't entirely fit on the screen, so perhaps that's causing the issue. However it works great in portrait mode.
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    I'm pretty sure there's more than a few options out there. Just a quick google search found these: https://www.floydhub.com/ https://algorithmia.com/product (I'm not affiliated with them in a
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    by rectangletangle 7y ago

    Binary search.