tduberne

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A geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled(phys.org)
1 points by tduberne 3y ago|0 comments
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by tduberne 4y ago
This is a classical circular problem of transportation planning: when deciding whether to get a car, and if yes which car, people often use their vacation as a use case. And then, when they got that VW bus to go to the seeside once a year,
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by tduberne 4y ago
Very interesting. I first wondered how nature can randomly generate such a pattern, and then realized we are just falling for our "built in" pattern recognition: it would feel much more "natural" for the stop sequence to
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by tduberne 4y ago
This was my question as well. I was myself directly involved for about 10 years in the development and maintenance of a medium-sized open source project, and am still part of the community, and there was never really any form of "exte
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by tduberne 4y ago
For anyone interested in those topics, I can really recommend the report of the Galileo commission: https://galileocommission.org/report/ It is a report from a number of established scientists and philosophers, which q
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by tduberne 4y ago
To be honest, there are 1000 ways to see this work, and he probably had a very different view of what he was doing than "chipping a the same rock for 5 years". Here is a proposal that might be closer to what he was feeling: carefu
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by tduberne 4y ago
I wanted to say the same thing. Here i Germany the choice of vegan sausage and cold cuts is huge, even in small grocery shops. I know lot of people who eat meat regularly _and_ buy the vegan alternatives on a regular basis.
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by tduberne 4y ago
I would argue the opposite. Give anyone who can write reasonnably the abstract of a few dozen papers in a given field, and I am confident they would be able to produce a convincing bullshit abstract. Most abstracts in a given field sound ex
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by tduberne 4y ago
I do not live in Switzerland anymore, so I cannot do a survey, but I can tell you helicopters are used an absurd amount in Switzerland, and everyone seems fine with it. For instance I personally saw, with my own eyes, helicopters used to: -
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by tduberne 4y ago
Re looking silly, I am not so sure. Only 10 years ago no one would have expected adults to proudly navigate the city on flashy colored elwctric kick scooters, and yet look at any big (european?) city nowadays. Even investment bankers in tai
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by tduberne 4y ago
Trying to interpret dreams logically is unlikely to generate explanations that are helpful: there are so many possibilities, and even when one finds an explanation that makes sense, one is left wonderingwhat to do with it. A much more pote
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by tduberne 5y ago
I read it as well, and also listened to his podcast (which is where I learned about "TEAM-CBT", his supposedly highly effective new approach). The concepts and arguments in the book (and podcast) make total sense to me, but the _w
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by tduberne 5y ago
(Before anything: sorry if that nessage comes accross as insensitive, this is not the purpose. More on this at the end) Your situation sounds like the textbook description of depression as caused by "mental distortions" from propo
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by tduberne 5y ago
I did not read the book, but my understanding of "bullshit job" is a job that is useless to the entity paying for it: you could remove that person completely, and everything would continue to work. This seems very different from w
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by tduberne 5y ago
> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no c
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by tduberne 5y ago
In French cuisine fish sausages ("quenelles") exist since a long time, though I expect they might taste quite different from the ones described here.
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by tduberne 5y ago
The article makes the exact opposite claim: the cultural imprint does ot need to evoke a feeling in you, you just need to believe that others are associating the product with a certain image (to which the company hopes lots of customers wi
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by tduberne 5y ago
I am not sure that this really changes the situation. The fact that peopke do use guns in defensive situations do not meant that this is the best option. I would expect most of those situations to be armed robberies, and there an obvious al
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by tduberne 5y ago
I once read something that went like: - do not carry a gun if you are not ready to draw it - do not draw a gun if you are not ready to shoot - do not shoot if you are not ready to kill Because when faced with an opponent with a gun, one mom
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by tduberne 6y ago
One requirement seems to be that the driver can access the mailbox without leaving the vehicle. So the equivalent in Europe would be the bikes (or, nowadays, electric scooters) that are used to deliver mail. They are typically specifically
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by tduberne 6y ago
This might be related to people not having English as their native language and just absorbing whatever formulations they read most. I thought about it, and in English I would say "I am really exited to share some great news", whe
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by tduberne 6y ago
That's funny, I had exactly the opposite reaction. Almost 20 light hours sounds far for something we basically strapped on the top of a big firecracker, which probably provided propulsion for at most a few dozen minutes... The fact tha
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by tduberne 6y ago
Am I the only one wondering why they used 40 computers, if the computation only lasted for 30 minutes? Does anyone who read the full paper jnow the reason? The article does not explain anything in that direction, but I would expect that if
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by tduberne 6y ago
Really interesting paper. Layman summary for those not used to network science: infection rate are lower than expected from standard models, because they consider each infected person meets new completely random strangers, while in reality,
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by tduberne 6y ago
This might sound silly, but the following, cited in Getting Things Done, helped me a lot: "The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster" Whenever I have setbacks, delays, whatever, this sentence can help me put thi
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The use of Roman ingots to investigate dark matter and neutrinos (2013)(phys.org)
6 points by tduberne 6y ago|1 comments
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by tduberne 6y ago
You got me thinking... Would a webmention-based aggregator make sense? In the sense that you link to it from your post and send a mention to it, and your post appears on it? I see a potential for spam, but on the other side I always found
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by tduberne 6y ago
There is worse: websites that redirect you to the homepage in your detected language, rather than the same page in "your" language if it exists, or the original if not. I often have this problem with web shops with my wife, who ha
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by tduberne 6y ago
A lot of the advice given is good, but I would like to add something I did not see: you can only be really fluent at a language you practice daily. I speak three foreign languages fluently, and speak two of them daily (English and German).
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by tduberne 6y ago
It is very present in the current discussion around open access publications in academia. Lots of universities and funding agencies encourage or even enforce that scientific papers and/or teaching material they finance be published und

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