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Start the timer on the beginning cue and it will vibrate at pee times.

Unfortunately that doesn’t work anymore either, unless you only go browse those subreddits. It’s fully gone the Facebook way, where 90% of your home feed is then “Suggested” or “Promoted” posts from elsewhere.

What I can’t imagine is your comment to be in good faith.

The quote is from the Mormon girl, specifically referring to the “Mormon church” as opposed to your “[Mormons]”, in the context of all informed officials of said church deliberately having allowed her and her infant sister to be raped for seven years, by explicit written church policy according to the article.

If your takeaway from that was that printing the quote is offensive to Mormons, mine would be that you are either trolling, reading below the article’s grade level, or morally in support of the church’s decisions.

Tragic really how smart people know perfectly well that you shouldn’t exercise if you don’t want to accidentally turn into a grotesque muscle freak, but rarely use the same caution in brain exercise.

With larger data it really depends on the algorithm. If you must iterate over more than a few GB at a time, GPU memory capacity and bus speeds become prohibitive, while a dead-simple implementation on a single CPU with 100+ cores and TBs of RAM goes brrr.

I’ve changed half a dozen MacBook batteries with Anker over the years, and all worked flawlessly. One I thought was swollen and they promptly moved to send a replacement, but turned out it was my case that was warped.

Fork put-downs and table push-aways.

> shouldn't the math on that work out to nine women?

The average term being a round 40 weeks, a pregnancy “month” is 4 weeks by convention.

What a clever turn of phrase!

Nice story, though daytrader orders are very unlikely to be matched with such algorithms in practice. The majority get filled internally by the retail provider, or by order flow aggregators they route to before the orders make it out to an open market exchange.

XNOR is the (only) other binary operator that also works.

So sorry to hear that. Did you experience any warning signs before, like mild chest pains, palpitations, or shortness of breath, that day or in the weeks prior? Also, were you pushing yourself on that day compared to other days of your week, or did it just come out of nowhere at an average pace day?

FH does not seem all that well understood. It runs in my spouse's family, multiple clinical/genetic diagnoses, but no history of cardiovascular disease. Doctors haven't been convinced whether intervening with statins is necessarily justified, especially in the face of any side effects.

My family on the other hand, generally normal bloodwork, normal BMI/fitness levels, and everyone dies of heart disease fairly young. At least it's one way to avoid cancer.

I don't get either of you, at all. I greatly enjoy both.

I am not a serious runner, just ~20mi/week for health, but being outside, getting into that zone, the mental space for work/etc. as you mention (though math gets difficult with pace), or just listening to audiobooks as I watch the scenery change, it's great.

Weight training, on the other hand, is very technical. Mesocycles planned months out, tweaked as targets are crushed or missed, every set recorded with rates of perceived exertion, everything on timers, the constant strategizing over which variation of which accessory exercise might help with a particular sticking point and add a few lbs to a main lift in the long run. It's intoxicating.

I feel like people who find these things boring sat in a race car in a parking lot and decided race cars were boring.

How is that safe to say? There are plenty of 23-year-old alcoholics, having lost control over their alcohol consumption, in full-blown physical and/or psychological addiction. You don't have to age into it, or take a test, or carry a card. It just happens to you.

If you don't know what you're looking for, it works well. If you know exactly what you want, specific keywords etc., good luck because it's gone from the mildly condescending "Did you mean..." corrections to "Yeah I am going to ignore all that, I bet what you really want to find is some ads."

Yes, thank you, this is very important. Whenever someone says they might be asking a stupid question, I make sure to interrupt and remind that there are no stupid questions, only stupid people asking questions.

If you want it to just work and work well, the answer is Prusa Mini+ (with the optional filament sensor) or the larger Prusa i3 MK3S+. Anything cheaper and you're looking at your new hobby to be fixing and tinkering with your 3D printer.

*Monty Hall

Ha! Grandparent comment's "droog" is also A Clockwork Orange coinage, and also from Russian: друг /drug/ "friend".

"Christ, what an evolutionary marvel!"

> The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe

SimBudweiser?

Ah yes, and he seems to have typeset it all nicely in Word.

I have never seen relative humidity budge more than a few percent using any portable humidifer. Sitting at 10% here, hard cases with humidity packs is the only way I can keep acoustics in one piece, though as a result I hardly ever play them anymore.

That is outrageous. Of course it's not a vegetable, tomato is a fruit.

> smart policies and responsible governance

Agreed, they certainly have some people in charge with their heads screwed on right. From October's NPR interview [1] with "digital minister" Audrey Tang (of myriad Perl fame):

> There was a case when a worker in an intimate drinking bar was diagnosed with COVID. She did not initially review the contact because of, you know, professional requirements. But, of course, that will hurt the reliable information requirement for contact tracing. And we did not, however, do any top-down, shutdown, takedown, lockdown of those places.

> But rather, the people in the CECC, because they already had extensive prior experience working with HIV-positive communities - so they designed what we call a real contact system. So as long as people can be effective contacted and also social distancing requirements are met, no data is sent to the central government. And so they develop creative approaches such as leaving codenames, single-use email, pre-paid mobile phone numbers, hats with the plastic chuting to maintain physical distancing. And then they reopened."

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/12/923066322/digital-minister-on...

I wrote a simple chess AI for fun before I had really played much chess beyond knowing the rules, and the AI pulled it on me in one of the earlier test runs. I remember feeling stupid and proud at the same time.

Right, it rings too much like "You can't teach Chinese." It's more likely a combination of it being really difficult past childhood to begin with, and also that we haven't figured out how to teach it yet.

From personal experience, long ago I spent some time trying to acquire perfect pitch using a synesthetic method from somewhere, and eventually convinced myself that I was making some progress, but that the effort required to take it to the point of being at all useful wasn't going to be worth my practice time.

The seat attachment types are excellent. I installed a $50 Luxe model in one of our office bathrooms, it really was a breeze to put in, and works just great.

For reference, I have high-end Japanese units at home, and here's what an extra $1,200 buys you:

- Remote control (slower than manual)

- Heated seat (I don't care)

- Heated water ($55 models have hot connection, if you care)

- Dryer (useless, as you will wipe anyway)

- Remote-controlled jet positioning (easier to move your ass by half an inch)

- Disinfecting UV light, purified water, etc. (marketing BS)

- Nightlight (...)

I really wish we could have LyX functionality in source editors for comment blocks. I end up having to maintain an accompanying LyX/LaTeX file for every piece of serious scientific code I write, because there's a massive gap of intelligibility between the math and its optimized implementation in code, and sticking LaTeX source or other text approximation of complex formulas into the comments hardly helps at all.