sam-s

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by sam-s 3y ago
Gawain uses his sword to cut the ropes and free himself. Then he appears to be running around without the sword. Why?! PS. I understand that he is somewhat of a moron, but leaving an excellent weapon behind and running around unarmed goes f
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by sam-s 4y ago
Is it possible that the causality goes in the opposite direction - hormonal levels affect job selection?
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by sam-s 4y ago
I find it fascinating that no one dares even to mention IQ, either here or in the original article.
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by sam-s 4y ago
I learned that "garbage collection" is not just a memory management technique but also refers to big trucks removing the content of trash cans when I took a "nerd test".
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by sam-s 4y ago
The US nationality is listed as "American" between "Tuvaluan" and "Ugandan". Nice joke.
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by sam-s 4y ago
Why can't the server inherit the clipboard from the program being shut down? (unless the program crashes, it should go through the "official motions" and one of them should be notifying the server which then can request the c
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by sam-s 4y ago
They are not hoarding anything people need (like food or clothing). They are not even hoarding anything people don't need (like gold or diamonds). The "money" (they don't hoard cash either) they accumulate is _investment
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by sam-s 4y ago
Everything is possible. Feasible is a different issue. It is hugely expensive (give CO2 escape velocity) and wasteful (CO2 is a valuable substance, containing 2 important elements).
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by sam-s 4y ago
American civilians are being murdered by the police all the time - with complete impunity. This will continue until (1) the courts eliminate Qualified Immunity and (2) police unions have to carry liability insurance for all its members. It
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by sam-s 4y ago
Nope. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
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by sam-s 4y ago
What if a therapeutic bacteriophage (mutates and) attacks symbiotic gut bacteria? Note that 10% of a human's weight and 90% of the cell count are those symbiotic gut bacteria.
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by sam-s 4y ago
It was fashionable in the USSR to blame all problems on the legacy of WW2 ("we suffered so much destruction and made so many sacrifices, this is why we are so poor compared to the West"). I think blaming Apartheid for the current
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by sam-s 4y ago
The Institute for Justice ( https://ij.org/ ) has a podcast ( https://ij.org/podcasts/short-circuit/ ) were they regularly discuss these kinds of issues. It is hard to summarize the situations briefly
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by sam-s 4y ago
> ...companies can’t expect to capture most of the value they create... One does not have to capture "most of the value" to be profitable. In fact, aiming to capture _most_ of the value is what creates customer ill will because
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by sam-s 4y ago
> A dialect of Python with more explicit blocking instead of whitespace sensitivity would be excellent. It's called Scheme ;-)
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by sam-s 4y ago
Cultural imperialism is part and parcel of Russian literature. Brodsky derided the Ukrainian quest for independence 30 years ago just like Pushkin did the same for the Polish one 150 years before that. This is perfectly rational for a write
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by sam-s 4y ago
1. Lotteries are not taxes because the participation is voluntary (unlike the soviet lottery/got's bond combo). 2. People buy lottery tickets just like they buy movie tickets - it is a form of _entertainment_. They heard many time
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by sam-s 4y ago
I am surprised no one mentions the elephant in the room - rent control. It makes it harder to discover the true rent (one has to pay a large lump sum to the previous tenant to get a rent-controlled apartment) and it discourages rental housi
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by sam-s 4y ago
at that speed, the angle does not matter, the crater will be circular because the impact vaporized the rocket.
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by sam-s 4y ago
You (almost) never have to do pushups in RL, but you do them in a gym. Examples and exercises in textbooks are for _conceptual learning_. They have to be simple - and thus unrealistic.
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by sam-s 4y ago
I am surprised no one has mentioned the awful [garbage collector]( https://stackoverflow.com/q/14580233/850781 ). The R garbage collector is imperfect in the following (not so) subtle way: it does not move objects (
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by sam-s 5y ago
Same reason Gulag prisoners were released. It's a bureaucracy. The law says that this "crime" warrants a 15 year sentence. So he is sentenced to 15y. He is kept in the same labor camp with thieves &c. If he survives, he
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by sam-s 5y ago
One might consider the fate of Salvator Lombardo at Cornell University... No "aristocratic tutoring", just a self-driven genius, who was denied a stipend because he has the wrong skin color and genitals.
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by sam-s 5y ago
While I can commiserate with the author's feelings and dispute some of his observations, as others already did, I want to make an orthogonal observation. Software development differs from other engineering disciplines dramatically: a b
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by sam-s 5y ago
I can offer two salient datapoints: 1. bug [New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history]( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18808 ): `Opened 22 years ago` and `Updated 14 day
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by sam-s 8y ago
CLASH: CLisp As SHell http://clisp.org/clash.html