stdbrouw

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by stdbrouw 8d ago
I used to think this too, but e.g. Bosch and IKEA have great replacement parts websites accessible to the consumer. IKEA’s parts are mostly free, too! With modern logistics (automated warehouses, cheap shipping, ordering online) it is actua
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by stdbrouw 9d ago
Rethinking is indeed written for people who have some or even a lot of existing proficiency in statistics, but for whom it never really clicked. If that’s not your background, I can understand that it might feel disjointed.
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by stdbrouw 10d ago
+ Krushke’s Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, and for the very basics there is Downey’s Think Bayes. I guess there might be a gap in the literature for a different approach, heck, I’d read it, but there is some very good material already out th
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by stdbrouw 14d ago
That was a good read, thanks! I think one thing the blog post perhaps misses is that although humans are nice throughout the movie, we are supposed to view a lot of their best behavior near the end as part of their "awakening", th
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by stdbrouw 15d ago
It would be ontology if you consider salad (properly defined) to be part of the fundamental fabric of the universe.
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by stdbrouw 15d ago
This seems like the opposite from what the OP is describing. There is a lot of affordable expertise going around, you just have to find it, and it's extremely frustrating because often you can't! Almost by accident we found out th
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by stdbrouw 2mo ago
Same thing with beer and wine awards, some are good but most are just a paid promotion lottery.
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by stdbrouw 3mo ago
One aspect is perhaps that simple things aren't necessarily cheap. One Laptop per Child struggled to get costs down, whereas a mass market solar panel is not self-serviceable but at their current cost, who cares. Even in the developed
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by stdbrouw 3mo ago
Yes, ggplot2 is lovely to work with for complex graphs. Whereas a classic plotting library will have one function to create a bar graph, another to create a line graph, etc., in ggplot instead you can stack layers, each with different prope
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by stdbrouw 3mo ago
OTOH, motion sickness is often called "car sickness" for a reason, people who suffer from it only sometimes suffer on a bus, and rarely if ever on a train or a plane, so I'm not sure I would agree that "all transportatio
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by stdbrouw 3mo ago
... yet you still conclude "AI translation has gotten so good", so which is it?
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by stdbrouw 4mo ago
Phenomenal author indeed. "Capital", a novel about the financial crisis and bankers on the hedonic treadmill, is wonderful too. Too bad either Lanchester or his publisher has beef with Amazon, most of his work is not available as
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by stdbrouw 4mo ago
Side note: what a stunning art deco (?) building! (There's a photo on the front page of the site.)
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by stdbrouw 5mo ago
"The boy who cried wolf" is a story about false positives, so if that's what you want to avoid then you want to get close to 100% specificity, and accept that there are many things that the tool will not catch. If, as you pro
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by stdbrouw 5mo ago
Before Netflix was a thing, I sometimes tried to have conversations with people about "gee, it's a bit annoying that my only options to watch a movie is to buy an expensive dvd that I will watch once, or to pirate it" and the
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by stdbrouw 5mo ago
You just have to go along with the idea that skin provides no indication of meatiness and that the two aliens are Ford Prefect types, then the short film lands just fine.
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
The AITA comparison seems apt insofar as chatbots function as a second opinion. You're consciously or subconsciously looking for an outside perspective that might differ from that of your friends, provided to you by a computer that doe
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
My subjective impression is that 5 years ago AITA was actually quite wholesome and the top comments tended to be insightful. The shift towards "set boundaries, always choose yourself, you don't owe anybody anything" seems fai
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
I read the Norwegian article that was linked, and it isn't actually similar: you would only have to pay taxes on food you've grown on your balcony (and mean to consume yourself) if you are a farmer, are growing it during regular w
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
I get the impression that most desktop users enable zram or zswap to get a little bit more out of their RAM but there is never any real worry about OOM, not regularly anyway, so then (according to the principles laid out in the article) it
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
It doesn't really need any config on most distros, no. That said, if you want it to behave at its best when OOM, it does help to tweak vm.swappiness, vm.watermark_scale_factor, vm.min_free_kbytes, vm.page-cluster and a couple of other
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
You don’t get more income, but you do get more disposable income.
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
You don't have to pay VAT on things you fix for yourself, because you don't pay yourself at all. This is in fact a kind of (legal) tax avoidance, but not (illegal) tax evasion. Given the cost of housing, being able to build your o
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by stdbrouw 6mo ago
Well, it implies that the "grassroots" element of it is fake, the message itself being false is optional.
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by stdbrouw 7mo ago
Doesn't this argument hinge on equivocating between two different definitions of aversion, though? I'm averse to bananas, but that doesn't mean I think it's immoral to eat them. The moral dimension kicks in if somebody e
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by stdbrouw 7mo ago
So if I send an email that lacks a feature that MUST be there, will the email police come get me? At a certain point, looking for an analogy stops making sense I think.
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by stdbrouw 8mo ago
One of the things I like most about CachyOS is that the configuration is all just in text files, one of the things I like least is that I am never quite sure whether to modify the systemd unit settings that are usually in /usr/lib
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by stdbrouw 8mo ago
Hah! Thanks for the correction.
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by stdbrouw 8mo ago
Cute and thus worthy of an upvote, but whenever I see scientists or economists refer to first or second order effects it pertains to things that are subsequent to each other in time, or at least intended vs. ancillary. I don't think an
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by stdbrouw 8mo ago
The thing about second order effects is that they are almost never larger than the first order effect. Furthermore, GLP-1 users report having fewer cravings or just reduced appetite in general, whereas what you describe would require some s

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