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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You've basically just re-defined intelligence as selfishness.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

It's paid, but (at least in my case) doesn't pay that much. It's barely enough to live off of if you're really careful with your money. I wouldn't have been able to do it without accumulating significant savings beforehand.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A little bit of rubbing alcohol and it comes right off

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

I rely pretty heavily on meal replacement shakes (not Soylent; they taste like ass, and not the good kind). It's part of what allows me to actually enjoy solid food. I'm sure you can imagine that force feeding yourself something that you normally enjoy would quickly make you form negative associations with that food.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

I would argue that the flexibility of Arch is what makes it a perfect base for other distros.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

This triggered my shitpost Spidey senses. But what do I know. I never studied in the US.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I'm autistic with quite a few ADHD friends. What I've gathered from sharing our experiences is that we all encounter similar problems with everyday life, but our internal experiences (and thus probably also the underlying causes) differ so much. For example, I may go to the kitchen because it's lunch time, but since that lunch time is interrupting my work, all of my mental energy is going towards trying to not forget the things I'm working on, which will often push out the reason I went to the kitchen in the first place. The experience I hear from all my ADHD friends is that they have new trains of thought entering and leaving their heads at all times, and those new thoughts are what make them forget their reason for being in the kitchen. Holding multiple thoughts is hard for me, while it seems to be the natural state of things for ADHD.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I've been told the French is rather mediocre compared to the English.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

My genetics already has me barred.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

What that random idiot said

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55105241

Conference is at Simon Fraser University.

Two rounds of submissions. First deadline is 22 Dec 2025. Second is 13 Feb 2026.

 

Conference is at Simon Fraser University.

Two rounds of submissions. First deadline is 22 Dec 2025. Second is 13 Feb 2026.

 

Say it's 25C outside and 30C indoors. I want to bring the indoor temp down to 25C, but opening all the windows barely makes a dent. Does it make sense to have the AC turned on and set to 25C while I have the windows open? Or should I be closing them anyway?

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EWRL 2025 - Program and Accepted Papers (euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io)
 

RL is still nowhere near the scale where this matters, but it's always good to get an idea of how things are going to look when they inevitably reach that point.

 

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

 

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine,

Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.

Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,

Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time,

Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.

Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."

Three?

Oh me . . .

I guess it's not as perfect

As I thought it would be.

 

I don't know very well how the legislative process works, but to the best of my understanding, the last step involves a vote where we decide whether to pass a bill. A simple majority means it passes, otherwise it's rejected. This leads to an interesting (and possibly dangerous) dynamic where the government can be very different depending on whether or not the winning party has a majority. It means that when we have a majority, it can lead to what we call "tyranny of the majority". It also means that there's very little difference in how much influence a smaller party can have between having a single MP until the point where they can team up with another party to form a majority. It means that even if we get proportional voting for selecting MPs, we might still need to vote strategically in order to either ensure or prevent a majority government, or to encourage a specific coalition government.

Do we have any potential solutions for this? Or did I maybe misunderstand how things work and this isn't actually a problem?

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