thestu

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by thestu 21d ago
It sounds like you have something less than full aphantasia. Remember it's a spectrum, not a binary. For me with your triangle example, I know what the equilateral triangle and the parallelogram look like. I could describe them, or dra
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by thestu 1mo ago
Skeletons on the Zahara is a fantastic book related to this part of the world -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletons_on_the_Zahara
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by thestu 1y ago
I'd like to see the ability to save and reload chats. Also the newline key combo doesn't work when running in a terminal inside VSCode.
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by thestu 5y ago
Is this perhaps an opportunity for some companies to explicitly do blind hiring, or something along those lines? I'm thinking of Coinbase (and others) who have taken a somewhat contrarian approach and said that the workplace is just fo
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by thestu 5y ago
This is my general feeling as well. People enjoy catastrophizing, and also fail to appreciate that we as a species are actually fairly good at solving problems.
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by thestu 5y ago
if you hit play in the bottom left of the webcam image it gives you a little time lapse video.
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by thestu 5y ago
I think the most likely future is one where we do mostly nothing for a long time, until things get quite bad, and then one nation or a small group of nations does some kind of solar geoengineering to very quickly lower the temperature of th
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by thestu 5y ago
I'm halfway through the book. That opening bit is so great, and the rest has been a big letdown so far. Really feels like that opening was written as a short story and then the rest of the book was just tacked on. Maybe the second half
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by thestu 5y ago
HAG Capisco. I think a big detriment to many chairs is that you end up in one position and never move. The Capisco seems to encourage a lot of fidgeting around, in a good way.
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by thestu 6y ago
They verified via brainwaves that he was in the REM stage of sleep. I don't really know anything about brainwaves, but this seems like the kind of thing that's fairly definitive.
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by thestu 6y ago
Govt's adoption of technology seems to lag society as a whole. What I wonder about is, is the lag a steady 20 years behind for example, or is it that the pace of adoption is just slower, which would imply that the lag (or gap between t
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by thestu 6y ago
Would be cool to see this in bar graph form, broken down by day.
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by thestu 6y ago
Assuming this is all true, it still just feels like they're picking winners, which is probably the thing that's going to matter more than anything else going forward. People can and will point to a laundry list of rules violations
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by thestu 6y ago
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.HULAA.003 They mention an optional 2560×1440 monitor but it's right alongside a mention of an Intel CPU, which is incorrect, so maybe the 2560×144
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by thestu 6y ago
This post does the best job that I've seen of laying out the 'less inclined' argument: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...
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by thestu 6y ago
Tyler has spoken in the past about the huge amount of research he does for his podcast, and it shows. Always an interesting conversation.
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by thestu 6y ago
I went to my local big box store maybe three weeks ago and the whole fitness section had been cleaned out. It seems like bikes are getting very popular (at least here in PNW) and I wouldn't be surprised if it's very hard to find a
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by thestu 8y ago
ChartGuys | Fullstack Developer | Vancouver, BC, CA | ONSITE | https://alerts.chartguys.com ChartGuys does education and technical analysis around various financial markets (currently mostly crypto-currencies). We're lookin
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by thestu 11y ago
Don't know about him, but I use -- https://www.sync.com/
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by thestu 14y ago
It was a political science class, so you're probably right; but how exactly does it apply?
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by thestu 14y ago
I had a professor pose a similar idea to a class I was in, the idea being that if a perfectly simulated universe is a technological possibility at some point in the future, and that more than one simulation could be created, and that simula
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by thestu 14y ago
Probably the single program I miss the most on Linux. I've never been able to find an acceptable replacement.
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by thestu 14y ago
http://www.librarything.com is another that's quite popular.