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You can easily fit 8 full sheets of plywood (4ftx8ft) in a 2020 Honda Odyssey, with the seats still in the car. And you don't have to worry about them getting wet on the drive back home.

The problem with Galileo is that he did not yet have good enough evidence to assert what he was asserting (even though what he was asserting turned out to be true).

The point of the Chinese room is to show you that the guy who has memorized the standard responses to various questions in Chinese does not in fact know Chinese. He's mindlessly parroting things.

All living things have souls. For most Ur-Platonists (which includes nearly all orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, and pagan Greek and Roman philosophers/theologians until the Enlightenment), the soul is:

* what makes a thing what it is (it's form/eidos/essence/universal/nature)

* what makes a thing a living thing at all

* what unifies and coheres the many disparate parts of a living thing

The relevant difference between those of us with human natures and those beings who lacked human natures is that our human nature (i.e. our souls) has the power to come to know universals/natures/forms themselves (albeit imperfectly), whereas other beings do not. For a dog, their senses are acquainted with many instances of cats, but they never are able to go from these individual sense impressions to the form/nature/universal of cat, or ficus carica, or what have you.

An example of a programming language with true Boolean logic is APL, where the logical truth values are the numbers "1" and "0" (which is very handy in expressing conditional operations on arrays), while all the programming languages that use "true" and "false" do not use Boolean logic, despite claiming to do so.

So Bash could be considered the red-headed, left-handed sibling to APL?

If Malaysia can't obtain 30% of its fuel because of the Hormuz closure, they don't just reduce their consumption of fuel by 30%, but make up for most of the deficit by buying it for a higher price somewhere else. But the fuel they buy to make up for the deficit simply means there's less fuel for other folks buying in that market to purchase, which drives up prices. This process repeats until prices stabilize worldwide, which ultimately results in higher prices for fuel in the UK.

When trying to obtain evidence, investigators or regular officers will make frequent recourse to lies and intimidation to get you to admit to things that you may or may not have done. For example, "If you don't tell us where you were that day, CPS will take your kids away" or "Look, if you just admit what you did, we can let you go" or "We've already detained your wife/brother/mother/father and they've fessed up; just yadayada."

This is the most apt answer I've read thus far.

Perhaps there is a stronger causal relationship between attractiveness in males and intelligence/academic performance than in women.

One of the biggest repairability wins: fully modular, individually replaceable Thunderbolt ports.

I think I'm going to cry...happy tears. :')

Except, as a rule, Jews, Muslims, and some Hindus.

In Germany, the state intentionally put children in the custody of pedophiles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp...

I have absolutely no faith in German intuitions regarding what is appropriate or inappropriate about the care of children. Ask me again in a century and I will reevaluate my opinion.

Tidings and good cheer to all.

I only ever see him on HN. He's smart, kind, and talks about interesting things. Are you sure what you're feeling isn't envy?

The cost of services will only decrease if labor inputs decrease in that particular sector more rapidly than the cost of labor increases (due to increased productivity).

Feel free to leave the West Yorkshire police department a message: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/form/leave-an-officer-a-...

Without load balancing, AI datacenters are very swingy (which is bad).

The skin of cucurbits is usually fairly high in cucurbitacins (usually much higher than the flesh).

I'm not sure if this helps or hurts your point, but the IQ bump is only for Ashkenazi Jews, and not the Mizrahim, Sephardim, Temanim, Beta Israel, etc. So it's actually more remarkable.

I usually use emacs-nox when running inside of a terminal. Not sure on how it's related exactly to emacs -nw. I do know it's a separate binary, so infer from that what you will.

There are dozens of us running it outside of a terminal. Dozens!

Because in the first world it is reasonable to believe that the tap water in major metropolitan areas is potable.

I agree. There was (and still is) a trend in technical writing that began in the 2010s to be overly pedestrian and informal (and in many cases explicitly vulgar). The same impulse or geist resulted in many people naming their library or product a cute or contrived or irrelevant word.

Get off my lawn! And start giving things long descriptive names that are aliased to acronyms again! db2, netcat, socat, emacs (editing macros), wget...etc.

I bought that specific model because they're a step up from the E-series (which is actually good now), but not as expensive as the X or T series. I'm very familiar with Thinkpads (I personally have owned 5, and have bought 3 for family, all used, all functioning perfectly). That specific model does not have soldered ram, has lots of replacement parts, is still fairly new, I'd owned an L14 Gen 1, and to be honest, it was just a good deal considering it was in mint condition.

With thinkpads, assuming you're buying used, you can pay the premium for a T or X series, and get a laptop with essentially the same parts, but maybe a better screen or chassis, or you can save money and go with the L or E series. NB, the T and X series oftentimes have soldered RAM, so if you're not satisfied with the amount of ram already in it, do your due diligence to ensure that the model support using SODIMM/replacing the ram.

I guess I'm just lucky because none of the 8 laptops I've bought used off ebay in the last 13 years have failed yet.

You can buy a near mint lenovo l14 gen 3 from 2022 for $200. I know this because I bought one for my in-laws a few days ago.

Intel meteor lake chips support AV1 encode/decode.

To be fair, whenever a DA/the DOJ/an agency has its sights on someone and is trying to pursue a civil suit/conviction/agency action, there is a presumption that it will continue until it's settled or goes to trial or what have you. When they give up, it's an exception to the general rule.

the only time that encryption will really matter is when emailing someone who is also using Proton.

Correct, and this was/is explicit when you first sign up for a proton email account.

Every single laptop I've bought off of ebay (all of which were used) over the past ten years has functioned perfectly and flawlessly. You just pay attention to the number of recent sales the account has had and their overall rating.