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  • New Hobby unlocked: Skyfishing

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  • Veritasium made a video talking about IQ tests, their validity and so on. https://youtu.be/FkKPsLxgpuY

    One of my key takeaways: IQ tests have some validity as a diagnostic tool for asessing cognitive disabilities or illnesses, but they should not be taken as serious and significant as many less informed people seem to do.

  • I suppose GitHub Copilot is meant, which is a different thing.

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  • What are we seeing here?

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  • Strawberries are not berries (but aggregate accessory fruits). Cucumber, watermelon and pumpkin belong to the same family of plants. Tomatoes are fruit. Well botanically, vegetables do not exist anyway. Vegetables are a social construct. Also, wheat is a kind of grass. Isn't our world beautiful?

  • After what Snowden has uncovered, Palantir plain in the open, companies like Meta/Facebook and Alphabet/Google shitting on your privacy , I am absolutely sure you will be subject to spying always and regardless of what you're doing.

  • *understands

  • You guys are still using Google?

  • It has helped to improve on those issues though.

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  • You know how easy it was when we were children? Just talk to someone and ask them whether they'll want to be your friend.

    Even though as adults we have added multiple layers of awkwardness and social nuances on top, I suppose that in its core it is still as simple as that. Just politely talk to someone and see what happens.

    I always wanted to try that. Glad to see how it worked for you.

  • Alphas.

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  • That's rather optimistic, that she assumes there will still be elections in the near future.

  • It was certainly the last one that I voluntarily used.

  • Does this dog buff stack? If I get 5 dogs, wil? I have a ~100 % immunity for the next ten years? Is there a cooldown? /j

  • If you git gud, a lot of people will find you cunning to let you lingus.

  • Contributing is such a wonderful way to give back to the community. And isn't it heartwarming to know that a contribution you have made, regardless how small, is then being integrated into something that is used by dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of people?

    That's a little way to leave a mark on this planet, and possibly improve the life of people.

  • Git is a software versioning system, originally created by Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux. If you 'git gud', you have mastered git. If you did not master it and your software stack became a mess as a consequence, you better 'git out'.

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  • Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it's a win-win.

    This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.

    The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.