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Re:What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic? on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:41AM (#43059259)
Or in a vacuum.
These are all the same artwork.
Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:19PM (#32842796)
You said a thousand words worth with "bimodal".
Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:15PM (#32842755)
They made their own actually better if that matters to you. The iOS weather app now has many of DarkSky's features.
Date and time sliders really highlight the shadow features.
Re:Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:07PM (#32785468)
Relatively very frequent rest and activation, I think is a charitably agreeable analogy. A heart muscle that never released would not be healthy.
Re:Map Projection Transitions on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:59PM (#31829574)
Can confirm (but in Firefox), additionally, going back from Mercator to Loximuthal causes an odd inverted bowl-shaped border.
Re:Making a falling sand simulator on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:40AM (#31310693)
I also observe this bias, I imagine it is an artifact of > versus >= on the pixel boundary.
Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:54PM (#29545759)
"Why it will be years before robot butlers take over your household chores"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/23/future-...

Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:51PM (#29545730)
That is impressive mileage. I've heard mention that classic car owners are especially excited to keep their show vehicles running indefinitely with new 3D printed parts.
Re:Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#29512877)
As the baseline comparison of inflation rate to all other examples of "year-over-year" is pretty obviously skewed by circumstances, it would be potentially less misleading to the general public to say something contextual like "2021-over-2020" than "year-over-year".
Re:Facts don’t change our minds (2018) on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:25PM (#29512635)
By simply telling people the same thing several times, almost literally word-for-word, people will go from blank stares almost miraculously to collaborating with and understanding the simplest explanations. Or else.
Because "ships to trade" is the Black Death equivalent of something like "Wuhan flu".

Not even close to obesity. Maybe you are looking for "allowing home ovens to bake bread attracts rats."

If something is so obvious as to need no explanation, it just might be worth understanding what about it is causal. What can be done given the predisposition to obesity in a time of abundant necessities? It seems your conclusion is to let it go to the joint processes of sin and natural selection, which would tend to call into question your moral certainty.

EDIT: Another post today titled "Causal Information Affects Decisions" seems relevant here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509236

Since GP refers to ubiquitous systemic issues, not xenophobia, not technological ventures, "ships to trade" seems to be a red herring. Also worth noting: "congratulations" reads more than a bit disingenuously.
These types of foods are more tasty and snackable than following the money and/or turning the justifiable complaints of overworked healthcare professionals to effect systematic prevention.
Re:PCB Business Card on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:02PM (#29468956)
How could it only be a copy, when great artists steal?

https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists...

Re:Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:54PM (#29412692)
If you don't then solve it, you burned $100,000 in good will and a year of your life. Better not to even suggest it, there's little enough going around as is.
Sure it gets more people to vote, but for whom, and how are the benefits distributed, and by whom?

Not proof, and I may not like the inevitable conclusion, but this would be immediately corrupted by the democracy it intends to improve, if not sooner.

I had to Google ubiquitin to verify that this wasn't a dryly elaborate reddit-surprise thread. It is indeed a well-named compound, ubiquitous among eukaryotes, and even if "boc" and "fmoc" are basically just fizz and buzz to me, it sure sounds like you know what you're doing.
Re:Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:41AM (#29176760)
I miss those days four billion years ago, before modern worries and before days.
Re:Write thin to write fast on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:33AM (#29171739)
Poet William Carlos Williams famously wrote on prescription pads[1] and the constraint was defining in his work's simplicity.

I'm not sold (ahem) that the New York Times newspaper chose columns strictly for the purpose of reading speed.

[1]https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11870008

EDIT: I've recently been printing text on a thermal printer ribbon and editing with scissors. As the author writes, and as I write less, weight this accordingly.

I understand the concept, but there have been several search engines that return a richer UI, the name "Clusty" comes to mind among others, and Google did not invent the relevance-sorted list, just [famously] improved relevancy.
Re:Does having prime neighbors make you more composite? on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:36PM (#29122374)
2 is the least prime number
Endogenously, from the fat/glucose pathway. Not sure that any glucose is required to be consumed directly. But we do love sweets, and fat cells love saving energy.
Re:The strange path of accepting how your brain works on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:18PM (#29086848)
Excepting von Neumann, I've recently enjoyed the parts in Turing's Cathedral on Nils Barricelli, and would encourage anyone interested to look into the sections about his kilobyte-scale genetic algorithms.
Re:Meadowlark, a DAW written in Rust on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:58AM (#29083133)
Or fixing headline widths to 60 characters plus "..."
Re:Simple product management tricks on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:21AM (#29080787)
It means that becoming the CEO of a transnational corporation is a pretty strong filter for effectiveness, and the comment I replied to is probably not in the spirit of their advice.
Re:Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:21AM (#29080151)
Isn't it a little strange that these red-staters don't even know their own name?

The lowercase "party" in my mind removes the redundancy as a class description for the collection of all political parties rather than as part of an abbreviated name for the one in question.

Unlike the "P" which stands for Preproccessor, in PHP.

Edit: whoops, they are both capitalized. Too bad I wrote with an ink pen.

Re:Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’ on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:09AM (#29080061)
Not sure exactly how to quantify "physical impact", but in many US states, the crime of misdemeanor battery is defined as any "unwanted" contact, such that cases without any apparent physical harm become crimes based on thought processes and feelings of the aggrieved party.

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