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The Source of "Water" (2020)(jamesgill.net)
12 points by stakkur 1y ago|7 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
There are many guitar 'tunings', and many predate the 'standard' tuning the article refers to. Also, players make up different ones all the time, including using capos to temporarily change 'tuning' on the fl
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by stakkur 4y ago
If storing information and creating associations between bits of it were 'learning', then databases would be very smart indeed. No, learning is not 'storing pieces of information in long-term memory and recalling them'.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Ah, cue the long thread of “No because my special combination of hardware/special configuration demands caused problems so Linux bad!”
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by stakkur 4y ago
* In order to write cursive legibly, you need to slow down* And right there is one of the crucial cognitive and proprioceptive benefits of handwriting over ‘keyboarding’.
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by stakkur 4y ago
This is not true, of course. In the US, millions of students still learn and write cursive. Yes, even in public schools. Is it uniformly taught/practiced? No, but it’s far from ‘dying out’. My wife is a 20+ year public school teacher,
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by stakkur 4y ago
A: "I have nothing to hide!" B: "Then stop wearing clothes." A: "That's stupid, it's against the law to run around naked in public!" B: "So what if we had privacy laws like that?" A: "T
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by stakkur 4y ago
I would go further than the writer and say SQLite would be appropriate for almost all WP applications. Offhand, I can’t think of a meaningful use case that would make MySQL more preferable to SQLite.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Thereby defeating the fundamental benefit of playing with Legos. So much software tries so hard to replace what never needed replacing.
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by stakkur 4y ago
As Queen, she met 14 US Presidents (15 total) and 16 Prime Ministers (17 total). Whatever our feelings toward the anachronism of hereditary monarchies, she's been a participant in (and witness to) a significant amount of modern history
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by stakkur 4y ago
frequency of appearance != favorite.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Yep, I do.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Reason #368 why I cover all cameras and disable mics by default, and only uncover/enable when in use.
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by stakkur 4y ago
In fact, this is most recruiter inquiries.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Consider the dataset. Adjust expectations accordingly.
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Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?(sfexaminer.com)
42 points by stakkur 4y ago|13 comments
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Fountain: Plain Text Markup for Screenwriting(fountain.io)
3 points by stakkur 4y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
Russia didn’t ‘transition to democracy’. This seems to be a particularly American fantasy.
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Philosopher Emily Levine: I don't fear death, and you shouldn't either(youtube.com)
3 points by stakkur 4y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
Based only on your comment, I'm guessing you're unaware of Palantir's work with intelligence agencies even when Tan was there. Also, Thiel's mission from the start was this kind of work. I served in the Marine Corps. I&#
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by stakkur 4y ago
I have no strong opinion of Tan, but calling a person who happily worked for (and profited from) Palantir a 'moral canary in a coal mine' seems a bit of a stretch.
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by stakkur 4y ago
After requesting the crack pipe from my fellow traveler, I conclude that the answer doesn’t matter. The universe Is.
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The use of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric disorders(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by stakkur 4y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
There’s no such thing as a ‘realistic engineering take-home test’. When will we admit tests are not only unrealistic, but an utterly useless predictor of…anything?
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by stakkur 4y ago
Every conversation about “NIMBYs” and “we don’t have enough affordable housing” needs to account for this. Building doesn’t lower prices, it creates a fat investment opportunity.
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by stakkur 4y ago
I've used pikepdf (a Python lib) with success: https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf
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by stakkur 4y ago
It's somewhat comforting to hear even Brian K. say he doesn't understand Git well.
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by stakkur 4y ago
When I see expensive ($600+), small niche toys like this, I always think "what is that, a keyboard for ants?" I appreciate clever ideas, but it has to be practical--and my hands (and neck and shoulders) need a usable keyboard. Oth
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by stakkur 4y ago
But can you become a laird?
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by stakkur 4y ago
The challenge of course will always be hardware—notice the evolution of Asahi Linux on Apple hardware and how difficult it is. Then, throw in the device driver hellscape (wifi cards, drives, sound, video, etc.) This OS sounds like a dream

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