jojobas
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- jojobasThe whole publication model is broken, not just the incentives. It used to be researchers eager to share their new findings with the few hundred people that could understand them, now it's throngs of PhD students grinding their way to degrees and postdocs trying to secure tenure. The journals are flooded with nonsense and actual researchers resort to word of mouth point out valuable papers to each other.
- This guy invented a spec?
- So twists of training data procurement bring us the best of doing the needful through Africa.
- Elementum to the rescue, all atmos/4k you can find.
- Setting up the toolchain that's not Arduino IDE is a prohibitively high bar for a school child that wants to blink leds.
- So far nothing prevents you from spending $100 to set up LibreElec on an RPi and leave the TV offline and dumb.
- Chinese coal power outgrows renewables still. A Western country with already cleaner energy destroying whatever remains of their manufacturing only to be moved to China and powered by mostly coal is not only treason of its own citizens but also bad for the climate. Feels so good to be "net zero" while importing materialized coal with not much to trade back (other than coal of course).
- It can, especially when some other countries commission a new coal power plant every week.
- Any other motivation forfeiting citizens' interests are perceived as treason, therefore immoral, so yes.
- Slave labour is very inefficient. It was found to be more beneficial to lure non-citizens with temporary working visas.
- Liberalism means no state-enforced classes but doesn't promise forcing everyone into the same class. Commies promise the latter, but in fact enforce a class structure of their own.
- Funny you should ask, but yes, communism is evil. Whenever somebody promises a classless society you can be sure they're about to enslave, kill and torture people in great numbers.
I guess if I have to explain it I might as well not bother.
- > What makes 1950s Korea evil?
Soviet occupation. Korea was supposed to be unified and elect a government back in 1950, Soviets made sure it didn't happen because they had no chance of winning.
That and, you know, the whole invasion thing.
- So, piecemeal cede every bit of land to the evil? Like Trump wants with Ukraine now?
If you exclude the outliers like Campuchia and Nazi Germany, even the most benign commies are always way more deadly than the most ferocious fascists.
- How is nuking Japan different from nuking Korea? Everybody agrees that forcing Japan to surrender with nukes was much better for everyone involved than a ground invasion.
- It was way too late, look up Operation Unthinkable.
- s/DRPK survived as a people/Kim dynasty survived in power/g.
Sure it was a correct thing for Kims to do, millions of Koreans be damned.
- You must be somewhat right, however only 4 gets biased up:
In [18]: n = 10000000
In [19]: tally = [0,0,0,0,0,0]
In [20]: for i in range(n): ...: tally[(random.randint(0,9)+ random.randint(0,9))%6]+=1 ...:
In [21]: tally Out[21]: [1600008, 1600460, 1699599, 1799697, 1699604, 1600632]
- Isn't it inevitable for some cases of inheritance? A superclass does something basic and doesn't need all parameters, child classes require additional ones.
- Sounds like a bit more complicated odds-and-evens. Rather than mess with pi and circles, you could just cast 0-9 fingers and get mod 6 + 1.