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Why is paying them for anything a scam?
I think for my ADHD child-self, this would have been a huge improvement. I didn’t need help learning, I needed help doing homework.
I was using it in a way not totally compatible with the article and that was misleading. I think of the activation energy in a person as what flows out, what overcomes the activation energy of a task.
Seems like a better way outcome than getting hit by artillery right now.
A good person to have on a team is someone with high sensitivity and high activation energy. They’re the ones who notice it’s getting stuffy and open a window (or onboarding is a total pain and rewrite it, etc).
By “experience”, I meant everything a customer goes through at a restaurant. Food quality, value, service, cleanliness, etc. I’m neutral on kiosks so I don’t hold that against them.
Public sentiment (at least that I hear) towards McDonald’s, Subway and Chipotle have dropped a lot.
Because there’s been a decline in experience across so many fast food and fast casual restaurants over the last ten years, regardless of when they were founded, it seems like something industry wide (maybe data is part of that) rather than a business cycle.
On top of the other comments, this reads like a half-joke.
> If we would guess that there is a bias in the distribution based on recently seen elements, the guess is at least as likely to be wrong as it is to be right.
This is true for abstract and random data. I don't think it's true for real world data.
For example, python's sort function "knows nothing" about the data you're passing in. But, it does look for some shortcuts and these end up saving time, on average.
Or like $5. This is the kind of thing it was very easy to hire people for. Dropping the price to near zero exploded the usage, though.
Neither are bug reports or feature requests.
I want all the colors! Give me the full spectral power distribution!
The name for the color doesn’t exist before the name. But, you can distinguish all sorts of colors you don’t know the name for. Look at a smooth color wheel or a wall of paint swatches.
That sounds like PageRank, Google’s original algorithm.
Perfectly clearly, just for a different audience.
No one who would ask that question would be able to understand your answer.
More directly than the other comments: No you can’t solve for x and y here and yes your intuition is wrong.
These are functions. I don’t know your level of knowledge in math or programming and what that would mean to you. Here’s an example.
double(x) -> x*2
So, double(3) = 6. You can’t solve for x because x doesn't have a value. It’s a placeholder for whatever you put in.
These combinators are functions that take other functions and return them unmodified. “Unmodified” is a little misleading because it can do things like drop inputs.
Yeah, I’m surprised this didn’t get a low impact. If just setting initial board state isn’t low, what is?
Wouldn’t that be hours and really really slowly? Could do seconds mod 12 (or any other factor of 60, which is a lot).
It’s pseudorandom. It’s predictable in theory because if you had another watch, or an
amazing sense of time, you could predict it. Is that realistic? Not really.
Computers use their clock to generate pseudorandom numbers all the time (hehe). It’s great randomness for something like shuffling songs or a sorting algorithm. You don’t want to use it with some “adversarial”, like online poker.
It's a bad idea to reward death threats like that. There would be more of them in the future.
That would mean the people who did the death threats get their money back.
> “It looks like” concisely signals that you have a good faith belief in your diagnosis but are not certain.
A lot of people never get past this level of sureness, so the signal is lost (or at least compressed). You can ask them for a number from a digital display and they’ll say it “looks like 54”.
One way to rectify the idea that these messages have signal (which I agree with) and what the article says is that it’s declaring bankruptcy on additional context. The extra text has so little value it’s worth removing as a rule.
Woah, you can sell it back to them? That’s normally the line that isn’t crossed. You sell it at the store next door (pachinko) or on the open market (trading card games and digital items).
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travisjungroth on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:37AM
from the self-post dept.
With USA losing to Italy 8-6 in the group stage, tie breaking rules are at play.Only two of these three teams can advance. Italy and Mexico are set to play each other at 7pm ET tomorrow.Winner advances.If Mexico wins with 4 or less runs, they both advance. (Maybe as many as 5 in an extra innings situation).Italy advancing by winning would give them a better seed than by losing.This creates a...
Birthday, zip code and gender is enough to uniquely identify most Americans.
It was the companies that were performing well in the stock market. Microsoft and Apple are much older and didn’t have the growth those did.
It’s funny they immediately launched a laptop with color options right after I left that comment, or at least I hadn’t seen it yet.
But, I don’t feel totally corrected since that laptop only has one binary choice besides color. It’s 256GB w/o Touch ID or 512GB w/ Touch ID.