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Comment · 19 hours ago
In Sweden we had this in the news: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsala/hon-pendlar-860-mi... A US nurse moved to Sweden and preferred to fly to San Fransisco to work ten days at a time, then fly back to be off for six weeks, rather than taking a job as a nurse in Sweden. The salaries are very different.
Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Well, all that says is that something that is activated by seeing something can be activate by other means (and that some lack this). What does it mean to "see something" in the mind's eye? For me it triggers a similar response to if I saw it, but I certainly do not see it. I see a lot of people that believe they have aphantasia just because they don't actually see things when they imagine them and this "aphantasia test" should be truthfully answered by "everyone" that they do not see it.

On the other hand, I can do hypnagogic meditation where I am on the verge of falling asleep, and something like visual dreams start before actually falling asleep, and in that case I can actually see things as if I saw them with my eyes, and I can look at details and so on.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
It would be so nice to see how many zero-days are going away for bad players right now.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have to say that it was surprisingly snappy when selecting a train or scrolling the map.
Comment · 4 months ago
No, it's not satire. The difficulty of finding the optimal solution says nothing about what it takes to come within 99.999% of optimal with 99.999% probability.

So I'm not talking about the number of steps needed to prove optimality with a correct P algorithm versus an exponential one.

I'm only talking about how this applies to the efficient market hypothesis.

Comment · 4 months ago
A lot of things are only true if P != NP but says nothing about P being within epsilon of NP.
Comment · 4 months ago
Obviously, in his example it would be RateLimiter not Option<RateLimiter>, so no check necessary.
Comment · 4 months ago
I thought these were just about limestone blocks being transported from quarries in Tura to Giza.
Comment · 5 months ago
Former Ferrari chairman Montezemolo:

“I cannot say what I really think: I would harm Ferrari. We risk the destruction of a legend. So sorry. Take the Prancing Horse off. At least the Chinese won’t copy this car”

Comment · 5 months ago
And by accident, 42 happens to be the first base after her multiplication gives the answer 19 here (when 20 would be expected), although it would produce an answer of "tenteen", not twenty.
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks! Do you mean long during the current session or counting all sessions since it started?

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