trobertson

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by trobertson 10mo ago
> Lore and story wise [Oblivion and Skyrim] have incredible depth. As you said, you never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. Just about all of the lore in Oblivion and Skyrim comes from Daggerfall, Redguard, and Morrowind. As for the storie
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Mullvad VPN 2024 Security Audit Results(mullvad.net)
3 points by trobertson 2y ago|2 comments
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by trobertson 2y ago
> unfortunately KQL doesn't seem to have INSERT, UPDATE etc. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Microsoft, and I use Kusto basically every day) This seems to me to be a deliberate design choice. Microsoft doesn't want enginee
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by trobertson 3y ago
Looking at the Colonial era is looking at slavery ~300 years before it peaked just before the Civil War. Therefore, the numbers you give for the Colonial times don't have anything to do with the conversation.
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by trobertson 3y ago
> Demand grows to meet supply. Well, that's where you're wrong (with respect to housing in the USA). Municipal zoning laws mean that houses are not getting built. Apartment growth is not keeping up either. Nor is condo growth.
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by trobertson 3y ago
It's due to the Universal Postal Union, which is a UN agreement that governs the costs and subsidies associated with international shipping. The link below explains it well, but the gist is that China was rated to be a "poor"
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by trobertson 3y ago
> this site is a blast from the past > I'm frequently asked where people can get such a ridiculously large amount of pi. Be warned that 50 million digits of pi takes up 50 megabytes. This can take up to 4 hours to download with a
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by trobertson 3y ago
> Fortunately it was a granite countertop and not quartz. Granites are primarily composed of feldspar and quartz, which are both primarily composed of silica. Silica is the thing that causes silicosis, and when that granite was cut it wa
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by trobertson 3y ago
> Hard drugs are not pot or alcohol In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined: CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year according to data between 2015 and 2019 CDC [1]: All other drug
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by trobertson 3y ago
An adaptation of the "narcissist's prayer" for climate change deniers: --- Climate Change isn't happening And if it is, it isn't that bad. And if it is, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not our
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by trobertson 3y ago
That's what they're saying. It's spelled "lede": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
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by trobertson 3y ago
Which is still a full order of magnitude worse than the German numbers. Blaming nature for our shit infrastructure is only going to harm ourselves.
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by trobertson 4y ago
The original text has a lot more Islam than the movies do. The most recent film deliberately toned down the Islam.
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by trobertson 4y ago
There's no goalpost to move. Psychologists have been saying that IQ tests are of limited scope and utility for decades. Specifically, it is widely agreed that an IQ test is not a valid way "to assess intelligence in a broader sens
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by trobertson 4y ago
It's not abandoned. Access still has an engineering team working on it, and that team still goes to conferences to talk with their users. Source: I work in the same org as them, and ate lunch daily with a few of them before the pandemi
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by trobertson 4y ago
"Full Self Driving"
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by trobertson 4y ago
HoloISO is what you're looking for: https://old.reddit.com/r/holoiso/
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by trobertson 4y ago
It's important to mention that Schmidhuber is usually correct, in that his lab has been decades ahead in both theory and proofs-of-concept. The reason his lab is so under-cited is that his lab made these advances before the hardware to
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by trobertson 4y ago
> I still think it could have the potential be a really interesting TV show. It's already a movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
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by trobertson 4y ago
I've been working at Microsoft (in the Office org) for a bit over three years now and this managerial attitude is very common. I'd go so far as to say that managers making sure their reports have a good work life balance is standa
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by trobertson 4y ago
It's plenty plausible. Every civilization collapses eventually, sometimes totally and sometimes partially. The western Great Depression wasn't all that long ago, historically speaking. The USSR wasn't that long ago, at all. E
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Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe vs. Wade(businessinsider.com)
140 points by trobertson 4y ago|271 comments
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by trobertson 5y ago
> twitter community This is where the disconnect is coming from. Twitter 'communities' are a tiny minority of persons. They do not represent the everyday person. This is particularly so with autism, as autism frequently entails
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by trobertson 5y ago
From the GP: > Two people having breakthrough infections for any variant is not at all unlikely The point is that this fact isn't newsworthy... unless Reuters is running an agenda. This article is blatant fearmongering.
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by trobertson 5y ago
All the non-Apple software that people needed to spend months fixing. There's a variety of posts on HN about being "M1 ready".
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by trobertson 5y ago
> How do you deal with shy students, or ones who don't like to participate? With students who aren't participating in the current model? They will (have the opportunity to) do better than they are now, as when they watch prerec
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by trobertson 6y ago
Org mode is great because it does 2 things extremely well: 1. Document structure. Folding, tree structures, linking, etc. are done very well in org-mode. But that's not unique to org-mode, several other solutions do that well. 2. org-m
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by trobertson 6y ago
The classic (multi-decade problem repeated again, and again, and again...) is face detection. Face detection models continue to get trained by primarily white developers/researches who continue to use primarily white people as their tr
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by trobertson 6y ago
If your flour is unbleached it'll already have yeast in it. You can turn it into a starter with a bit of easy regular work: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/gastroegyptology
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by trobertson 6y ago
> Honestly, who has the best track record of tackling this issue and taking it seriously. Taiwan, who the WHO regularly denies exists. South Korea, whose success and strategies have been ignored. This crisis has shown us the true face of

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