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The granted is doing a lot of work there. In fact, if you imagine a computer being able to do similar tasks as human brain can in around 100 steps, it becomes clear that considerin…

This is partially why I like The Wire, which mirrors a Greek tragedy (1). The dysfunctional organizations play the role of the gods, against whose whims the mere mortals battle aga…

This (1) suggests that it can perform some metabolism in anaerobic conditions, but not all that it would need to grow/replicate: "Deinococcus radiodurans is an exceptionally radiat…

There is a bit more flexibility to this than 1:1 mappings, since there are more codons (64) than amino acids coded (20). You could have both CUU and CUC be different characters on …

I think this is the result of 1) it being a moving target and 2) HTML and CSS being a de facto standard rather than de jure, where the (differing) implementations define at least p…

Consuming content does not really make me happy or feel good. It is stimulating and addictive, but as of now I am still motivated to see friends, do sports, work towards goals etc.…

The article was not about that. The old memory stick was around 16,000,000,000 bytes; the new one 15,400,000,000. So even with the 1,000,000,000 bytes to a gigabyte it doesn't roun…

I think it only makes sense in a specific environment/context. And then you can also have a meaningful interpretation of "orient". It seems many people want to take these sort of d…

This seems to be the case for most science: You poke around in the dark, illuminated by past discoveries, you might need to wait for new tools for observation to be developed, you …

I wasn't a fan of the former, even though it is mentioned way more often and liked the Tiny Habits approach more, too.

To add on to the last two points: 4) regular exercise and improving yourself also gives you a sense of achievement and something to be proud of if you set and achieve your goals. I…

The years pass anyway, so why not get the process started like right now?

If anything, more intelligent people might be more suspectible to these kind of errors -- assuming their intelligence applies and extends to fields they have little knowledge of. A…

Whistleblowing or audits, but the chance of that might depend on the client(s).

You forgot the /s again.

You don't think there's a causal relationship between being unhappy and seeking therapy? Also the goal of therapy is to get to a place where you can quit it, so it makes sense that…

I don't think Italians are that squeamish about sex. They would have sex and then join the family for breakfast.

If a & b are both odd, you end up rounding twice vs. 0 times if you take the sum first.

"Programmer-archeologist", to borrow a term from Vernor Vinge. I imagine the job would entail refining the prompts and doing some work yourself to chain together modules or legacy …

Yeah -- a lot of the problems presented here (proper clothing for the weather, showering/changing/drying your commuting gear at the office) have simple and quite affordable solutio…

It's different when you do the work to move you yourself (or even a part of it, on an e-bike). Other than that, a well designed hood helps, but at a cost of reducing your vision.

For short distances, getting my car out from under fresh snow is more work than taking the bike. Even when it's just a small layer of light snow that needs to be dusted off. Also i…

They could, but at the risk of losing public mandate, leading to a change of government and/or losing in the next elections. In somewhat functional representative democracies, that…

Male fertility is definitely in a decline and has been for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis . And, if it's caused by environmental factors, it's not r…

Having a ~/.vimrc, even if empty, sets 'nocompatible'.