scajanus

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by scajanus 1y ago
The granted is doing a lot of work there. In fact, if you imagine a computer being able to do similar tasks as human brain can in around 100 steps, it becomes clear that considering parallelism is absolutely critical.
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by scajanus 1y ago
This is partially why I like The Wire, which mirrors a Greek tragedy (1). The dysfunctional organizations play the role of the gods, against whose whims the mere mortals battle against and break. Another show that also competes for a spot a
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by scajanus 1y ago
This (1) suggests that it can perform some metabolism in anaerobic conditions, but not all that it would need to grow/replicate: "Deinococcus radiodurans is an exceptionally radiation-resistant microorganism capable of surviving a
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by scajanus 1y ago
There is a bit more flexibility to this than 1:1 mappings, since there are more codons (64) than amino acids coded (20). You could have both CUU and CUC be different characters on the DNA side, that both map to same character on the protein
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by scajanus 1y ago
I think this is the result of 1) it being a moving target and 2) HTML and CSS being a de facto standard rather than de jure, where the (differing) implementations define at least part of the spec. You also can't really embed fonts in a
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by scajanus 4y ago
Consuming content does not really make me happy or feel good. It is stimulating and addictive, but as of now I am still motivated to see friends, do sports, work towards goals etc. even if I often get sidetracked by my online material. If y
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by scajanus 4y ago
The article was not about that. The old memory stick was around 16,000,000,000 bytes; the new one 15,400,000,000. So even with the 1,000,000,000 bytes to a gigabyte it doesn't round up to 16 GB.
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by scajanus 4y ago
I think it only makes sense in a specific environment/context. And then you can also have a meaningful interpretation of "orient". It seems many people want to take these sort of decision making frame works to new contexts or
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by scajanus 4y ago
This seems to be the case for most science: You poke around in the dark, illuminated by past discoveries, you might need to wait for new tools for observation to be developed, you come up with some theories that are partly correct but only
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by scajanus 4y ago
I wasn't a fan of the former, even though it is mentioned way more often and liked the Tiny Habits approach more, too.
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by scajanus 4y ago
To add on to the last two points: 4) regular exercise and improving yourself also gives you a sense of achievement and something to be proud of if you set and achieve your goals. In addition to the physical changes, these will make you more
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by scajanus 4y ago
The years pass anyway, so why not get the process started like right now?
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by scajanus 4y ago
If anything, more intelligent people might be more suspectible to these kind of errors -- assuming their intelligence applies and extends to fields they have little knowledge of. And also just enjoy intellectual speculation as such. From th
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by scajanus 4y ago
Whistleblowing or audits, but the chance of that might depend on the client(s).
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by scajanus 4y ago
You forgot the /s again.
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by scajanus 4y ago
You don't think there's a causal relationship between being unhappy and seeking therapy? Also the goal of therapy is to get to a place where you can quit it, so it makes sense that once people are more content with their lives the
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by scajanus 4y ago
I don't think Italians are that squeamish about sex. They would have sex and then join the family for breakfast.
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by scajanus 4y ago
If a & b are both odd, you end up rounding twice vs. 0 times if you take the sum first.
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by scajanus 4y ago
"Programmer-archeologist", to borrow a term from Vernor Vinge. I imagine the job would entail refining the prompts and doing some work yourself to chain together modules or legacy software, sorta like splitting the tasks with the
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by scajanus 4y ago
Yeah -- a lot of the problems presented here (proper clothing for the weather, showering/changing/drying your commuting gear at the office) have simple and quite affordable solutions as soon as even a few people do it. Office and
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by scajanus 4y ago
It's different when you do the work to move you yourself (or even a part of it, on an e-bike). Other than that, a well designed hood helps, but at a cost of reducing your vision.
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by scajanus 4y ago
For short distances, getting my car out from under fresh snow is more work than taking the bike. Even when it's just a small layer of light snow that needs to be dusted off. Also if I'm going to spend any time outside, I need to s
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by scajanus 4y ago
They could, but at the risk of losing public mandate, leading to a change of government and/or losing in the next elections. In somewhat functional representative democracies, that is.
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by scajanus 4y ago
Male fertility is definitely in a decline and has been for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis . And, if it's caused by environmental factors, it's not really something evolution can
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by scajanus 4y ago
Having a ~/.vimrc, even if empty, sets 'nocompatible'.
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by scajanus 4y ago
On the other hand, having starring a repo made into a game will skew the stars' usability in gauging a project's popularity or quality. Maybe the "most starred repo for X" is just made by someone who's really into c
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by scajanus 4y ago
What I've found over the last 2 jobs/3 laptops is that I'm quite comfortable starting working and being productive with vi, and then over time I start setting 'nocompatible' when I need some feature from Vim, and th
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by scajanus 4y ago
> Even after 1-2 weeks You should accept a longer trajectory -- say 1-2 years to learn it and 7 years to get good at it. But even then it means you need to review things you do, look for repeated patterns and wonder about/hunt down
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by scajanus 4y ago
Same for me (and plenty of coworkers who took part in the same studies) -- hardest part of taking part in the fMRI experiments was staying awake through it.
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by scajanus 4y ago
Mine -- EE3 -- came without a cap but still works! I've been storing it in a case that blacks it out, but this is something that's good to know regardless.

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