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I also met some nz government workers teaching ppl how to farm. They said most Mongolians weren’t interested in working with the dirt. Understandable given their long long history as nomads.
Re:Those jobs you're applying to? They might not be real on Friday January 05, 2024 @12:12AM (#38875943)
This is like a modern version of the red headed league
It’s a prisoner dilemma! The only way to win is for both service providers and “bad people” to not escalate. That’s not going to happen.
Re:Why Is the Ocean Salty? on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:21AM (#37462840)
Makes you wonder how big the mountains were that dissolved into all that salt and other minerals…
Re:A Chiral Aperiodic Monotile on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:33PM (#36133077)
Plaster is better for ceramics because it helps to evenly dry the clay. Can use delrin to make a plaster mold though!
Re:A Chiral Aperiodic Monotile on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:20AM (#36123934)
I’ve spent a decent amount of time figuring out to make porcelain tile. The most reliable way to do so and avoid cracking is to use a plaster mold and push slabs of clay into it. Cookie cutter and other slab methods produce too much cracking without heavy duty equipment or maybe a different clay formulation (I’m using standard porcelain which isn’t the easiest material)
Re:A 1.5GB String on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:59PM (#35497571)
As others have pointed out for the authors discussion this fact doesn’t really matter.

However what does matter is that the authors probably is not estimating the average correctly partially due to this bug. If they scaled without fixing their excessive string storage, they would probably find their estimate to be off.

Even with the fix I’d be surprised if the underlying distribution of data per user is normally distributed.