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by zen_of_prog 2y ago
Haha, I just heard JG Ballard referenced in a recent podcast episode [1]. My first thought was if he was related to Geoffrey Ballard [2]. [1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/philip-ball/ [2] https:&#x
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by zen_of_prog 2y ago
I’m reading and so far enjoying “A Brief History of Timekeeping” by Chad Orzel. Not to discount Harrison’s achievements, but there are other interesting navigational approaches - using Tobias Mayer’s Lunar tables: > Mayer is far less cel
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by zen_of_prog 2y ago
Even better, 4D Golf was released a couple weeks ago [1] [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147950/4D_Golf/
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
Depends on the definition of efficiency since a lot of it comes down to who or what is deciding to > pass the savings back to the parts of society doing more interesting things But in terms of successful monopolies, a lot of state-owned
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
Here's a super neat Strange Loop talk about implementing and animating SICM: https://youtu.be/Jv2JgzAl5yU?si=_dHboDt-MKXon2-c
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
And I don't think American citizens living in other countries are protected by the second amendment...
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
I think the message is useful for people who receive or want to give recommendations. The reason I often pick up something is that it was rated highly on some online review, or that somebody told me I should read it under the assumption tha
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
His arguments definitely don't have the same academic rigor as someone in their own field, but I felt like everything was pretty defensible. Ox-drawn plows are at least 4000 years old, and I feel like seeing an animal pulling a plow al
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
I wonder if that's how we got the pronunciation for Chevrolet as well (: . In Korean it's 현대. Theㅕmakes a yuh sound with a short y, and projecting one writing system onto another can get tricky.
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by zen_of_prog 3y ago
I don't know if it would have been that high, but the whole (initial) idea of "flatten the curve" was exactly that. Saturated systems stop working as expected. When hospitals reach capacity then neither covid nor non-covid pa
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
Anxiety, sure, but it's not a new trend and I don't think we're any more stupid than we were before. https://xkcd.com/1227/
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
I would think the weight would play a much greater role than the material. The Sea Witch would have to be pretty light, since a witch weighs the same as a duck.
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
Definitely. I'd like to better understand the extent to which environment is a factor. The author mentions that too: > Give a group of passionate people complete ownership over designing, building, and delivering a piece of software
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
For context, Tyler Cowen, the person quoted, would like to be an "information trillionaire". He consumes a lot of information and gives good interviews with people who specialize in a wide variety of subjects. He's able to de
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
It seems that tunesmith has stumbled upon the paradox paradox.
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
Yep, for foreign policy as well [1]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-is-worried-abou...
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
Concrete is made up of both cement (the CONtinuous part) and aggregate/stone (the disCRETE part), so cement vs concrete is kind of like broth vs soup, and concrete and stone like soup vs vegetables. > So the main difference is that
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
My theory is that he misinterpreted https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
For the record, the ones that I noticed a few weeks ago on the English site were "human hair wigs" and "dildo". Could be that they don't blacklist at all, or that they have a fun test data set that was accidentally
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by zen_of_prog 4y ago
Guess that makes you a visionary too
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by zen_of_prog 5y ago
Nice, I hadn't heard of that [1]! I'm pretty indifferent towards owning a Blockchained micro-share of a publicly listed company, but I'd be very interested if reddit were to end up user-owned akin to the Packers [1] https:&#
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by zen_of_prog 5y ago
I think they do mean inventory, just not sitting around in a forgotten storage room. To try other computer analogies, it might be increasing the queue size or using a capacitor.
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by zen_of_prog 5y ago
But the trade-offs are already affected by policy. Do people want oil policies that make driving cheap? Do people want subsidized corn leading to cheap sugary foods? It's worth questioning what led to policies existing in their current
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by zen_of_prog 5y ago
If the pattern matches the top three tiles, then the tile below is defined by the bottom tile in the rules. This is done top down, row by row for each 3-tile section of a row. You're totally right though.
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by zen_of_prog 6y ago
My first thought was The Simpsons
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by zen_of_prog 6y ago
Not anyone, only those who have money or connections
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by zen_of_prog 7y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4130
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by zen_of_prog 7y ago
This video explains it well: https://youtu.be/thqbjA2DC-E
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by zen_of_prog 8y ago
Link [3] is about libertarians being more analytical. From the article: > Democrats/liberals measure as somewhat more analytical than Republicans/conservatives