bss03
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- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 days ago:
I’ve seen auto-calculated tip of all combinations of with/without tax, with/without percent discount, and with/without individual item discounts.
I wish tipping would end, by mandating a living wage for all workers from the chef to the diskwasher and including all the waitstaff and everyone else in both the front and the back. But, until it does, I try to be generous with my tips, but also kind to people that can’t or are simply tired of “tipflation”.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 days ago:
Maybe a comp’d desert (or app) that’s ~$8 ?
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
The way I had it described to me was that veganism is against the exploitation of all animals, including “stealing” honey from a hive.
But, “vegan” is a label at least as malleable as “Christian”.
To some people, this Foie Gras might be vegan, if they can’t find the exploitation. To others, large-scale U.S. produce might be non-vegan since it depends on exploitative labor (humans are animals) practices. To a few, mussels are vegan because there’s no mind to suffer or be exploited. To a very few, plants that show a “pain” response are non-vegan, even if that response happens over time, as long as it has a clear trigger in human interference (which is expliotation due to the “pain”), despite the complete lack of a nervous system, which humans (and other animals) use to feel pain.
Anyway, I’m NOT a vegan, but I do try to limit my meat consumption. It just feels like the amount I used to eat isn’t really globally sustainable, and I take up too many resources in to many other ways, too.
- Comment on This is WAR. 1 week ago:
Everyone is a Forklift Operator until the real Forklift Operator shows up. Drawfee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgdyhIuEhw
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 week ago:
Everything 1Upsmanship puts on their “Celestial Hard Drive”.
Or, Minecraft.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 2 weeks ago:
Dr., this is Captialism; that level of empathy is toxic.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 2 weeks ago:
Universal love and Transcendent joy
But, if you can’t do that, I’d like to enjoy the things I used to (~ 2019?) enjoy.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
I did know that. I don’t recall pronouncing it incorrectly since learning that fact, but I don’t talk about those books or their author frequently.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
It’s “Lay” because it’s borrowed from / referencing “lay person” i.e. not a member of the (TeX) priesthood.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
People should be able to name their own babies.
I disagree. I think persons should name themselves. But, I understand there are practicalities that require some name to be assigned by outsiders at least until the person can talk.
For things that aren’t conscious or are incapable of speech, I think we collectively assign a name. I’m fine giving higher weight to the name chosen by the “creator” or “discover”, but I’m not fine with giving them veto power / final cut.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
It’s “up tack”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack
I always pronounced it bottom because of en.wikipedia.org/…/Greatest_element_and_least_ele… or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_type which is how the Haskell report (where I got comfortable with the symbol) uses it.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
LaTeX (/ˈlɑːtɛk/ ⓘ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek,[2] often stylized as LaTeX) is a software system for typesetting documents
Note the pronunciation is distinct from /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ the material.
But, sure everyone has to make that joke at least once.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 3 weeks ago:
South Korea is OVER so… some problems there, too.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 5 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s got a finer point, but it actually just looks like an argument against categorization. It’s like saying I don’t trust math about “triangles” or “scalene triangles” or “rhombuses” when you find out about the special properties of the equilateral triangle or the square.
The fact that there are differences between elements of a category does not eliminate the utility of the commonalities shared by elements of a category. It does limit that utility, yes.
For example, just because you are getting plenty of protein, if you somehow completely avoid one of the amino acids that the human body uses but can’t synthesize, then eventually you will have some fairly specific health problems. That’s not strong evidence that it’s worth micromanaging your macronutrients by tracking your intake of all amino acids individually. (It might be; I haven’t seen it studies either way.)
Maybe I’m missing some context, but I also get the “anti-science” vibe from the image.
- Comment on Moon Dust 1 month ago:
Not every error bar represents a Gaussian, if for no other reason that most error bars aren’t symmetric.
The error bars for small sample size relative to population size are Gaussian.
Error due to a non-representative sample can have a variety of shapes, but their distribution might also be unknown. We do frequently, almost implicitly, assume unknown distributions to be Gaussian, but we should recognize that’s not necessarily a true fact about the universe.
- Comment on Moon Dust 1 month ago:
It’s a very non-reprrsentative, very small sample. The error bars in the statistical inference to the whole population includes both “very common” and “one-in-a-million”.
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 1 month ago:
When I started it was more of a walk (2.0 mph; 30 minutes), but it still wore me out.
Now, I do a 7min mile on Wednesdays, try to get my 5k @ 2% incline down to 28 minutes on Satruday (did ~32 minutes yesterday), and try to get a 10k in under the “club limit” of 1hr on the treadmill on Sunday (did 6.15 mi. in 1:02:00 [2 minute cooldown] today).
It’s the best way to get my recommended weekly cardio I’ve found.
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 1 month ago:
Don’t kill the part of you that’s cringe, kill the part that cringes.
– Kabona Drawfee
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 1 month ago:
Same… and my back no longer hurts after I started running. The back pain actually went away before the weight did.
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
My fave minimalist loss:
:.|:; - Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 months ago:
I think the subway stabbing is the main focus of the Cracked video I linked. But, maybe it’s a different subway stabbing.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 months ago:
“protect and serve” is copaganda, since SCOTUS ruled on en.wikipedia.org/…/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia in late 1981. “Fun” animated video to describe same: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
- Comment on kiwis! 2 months ago:
I have a prior source to refute that: www.arjen.eu/2011/09/how-to-prepare-a-kiwi/ /s
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 months ago:
“you’re just another evil ex waiting to happen”
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 months ago:
I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).
- Comment on Anyone else 2 months ago:
ISTR that canonically, Earth is under non-interference by The Culture (except for Special Circumstances) as a “control group”.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
Just FYI: rule34.xxx/index.php?page=icame
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 months ago:
I agree, but when you wouldn’t let Aspyr do a Linux port for BL3, I stopped being a “real fan”.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 2 months ago:
Make sure and get your colonoscopy this year.
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.