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Rotten194··on The Joy of Aluminum Foil Lithography
Here's a video of the same process (but using vinegar for the acid instead of soda) that doesn't cost $8: https://youtu.be/tXaimUkCVU0
Rotten194··on Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent
what dosage of LSA? heard of people microdosing on LSD but not LSA -- do the nausea symptoms not express themselves at microdoses?
Rotten194··on Baby Boomers Who Won't Sell Are Dominating the Housing Market
stop stirring the generational warfare pot. boomers didnt ruin the economy, the banking class did. the solution to fixing it isn't kicking working-class people out of their homes. why should they sell if they enjoy where they live? and even if they did sell, where would they go? if there's a housing shortage, they'll have just as much trouble as everyone else buying a house -- if not more, because of ageism.

we need to fix the perverse incentives capitalism provides that discourage building enough housing. blaming old people accomplishes nothing.

Rotten194··on Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?
Capitalism has caused hundreds of millions of deaths as well, without the same military interference that socialist countries have experienced. Your analysis needs a lot more nuance.
Rotten194··on Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?
You should look into various flavors of anarchism, like Syndicalism, that have tried to answer that question.
Rotten194··on ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
isn't that hideously inefficient? you're making a new object each iteration.
Rotten194··on Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others
Removing the boundary doesn't really make sense -- if you allow people to go into negative dollars but still be able to give a dollar each tick, then there's no longer a finite amount of money in the system.
Rotten194··on Space Junk Solution? Tiny Cubesat to Test New De-Orbiting Thruster
I don't think the point is to deorbit cubesats, it's as an independent module to deorbit larger satellites.
Rotten194··on Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs
Did you read the article? It's about extensive bias in optimistic vs pessimistic questions and has nothing to do with pregnancy or 'gendered' issues.
Rotten194··on The newest and costliest U.S. aircraft carrier has been dogged by trouble
Directly funding research is far more efficient than letting a huge percentage of the money we spend go to lining the pockets of MIC billionaires.
Rotten194··on The newest and costliest U.S. aircraft carrier has been dogged by trouble
It only deserves respect if you believe the military deserves respect. The US spends more on it's military than every other militarily significant country combined -- what are we defending against? Besides a drop in stock price for Lockheed Martin.
Rotten194··on Ask HN: How do I dress better?
I would recommend keeping your current style if you don't want to try to hard, and simply tweaking it with new items.

For example -- keep wearing jeans, but buy a couple pairs of nice, dark/black well-cut jeans.

Instead of wearing a sweatshirt hoodie, wear a nice pullover sweater (H&M sells a nice waffle-texture sweater for fairly cheap, I got mine on clearance for $5 and I've worn it for years now).

Button-ups can easily look too formal, but flannel is a good middle ground.

Some nice-fabric solid-tone tshirts are a good basic, as well.

Now that you have a few pieces, you can mix-and-match as well. Sweater + flannel underneath, unbuttoned flannel with tshirt underneath, etc.

For shoes, instead of wearing cheap running shoes, find some nicer-looking neutral-color sneakers (might be worth looking thru https://www.reddit.com/r/Sneakers/comments/2e9b1o/we_should_..., but I can't vouch too hard for it). Depending on your style, you might also want some boots -- I have some big black Doc-esque boots that I love, but brown is a less-punk choice that's a classic.

FWIW: I'm not a guy, but this advice is pretty gender-neutral.

Good luck!

Rotten194··on Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
Writing a bunch of scripts can quickly become a mess. I was working on some twitter analysis for a project, and not really worrying about the code because I didn't intend for it to be used again, and it quickly became a mess of "run this script, then run that script on the generated file, then use this shell command to process the file, then run the final analysis step on that file, then clean up all the intermediates". Not to mention, say, "one-time" data cleanup through the shell / REPL that runs into problems months down the line when you want to update the data set. And, of course, invariably none of this is documented. Notebooks don't force you to organize your code and write documentation, but they strongly encourage it.
Rotten194··on Athens, Sparta and Rome: The Ancient Election
Constantinople was already doomed to fall before 1453. The 4th crusade hollowed out the city, and even after being retaken it was never the same -- by 1453, it was an island in a sea of Ottoman territory.
Rotten194··on Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker
'when' is a pretty strong statement for something so unlikely.
Rotten194··on A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD
It is marked, as Aelia Capitolina. It was renamed after the emperor Hadrian razed the city and expelled its Jewish population in the aftermath of a revolt.
Rotten194··on 4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys
Isn't that what the traditional 3d visualization of a hypercube is? e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube#/media/File%3AHype...
Rotten194··on New Surface Pro
You're missing the point -- that's very non-obvious if you haven't studied the signs.
Rotten194··on New paint colors invented by neural network
If the algorithm is trained on English words, it will learn English phonotactics (i.e., syllable structure, what sounds are allowed at the beginning of words, etc). That makes it much more likely to generate valid words, as the set of strings that follow English phonotactic rules << the set of gibberish strings.
Rotten194··on Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife
Why did you remove the last part of the title? ("and Is Offered a Deal for Less Than 30 Days in Jail")
Rotten194··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 3rd edition by Andrew Carnie. I got it used, so it's probably a bit more expensive if you want a new copy, but it's a great book.
Rotten194··on Textbook manifesto (2016)
I've had a similar experience with linguistics. The main textbook I've used was $40, is a bit under 500 pages (but is smaller than a typical textbook, and paperback), and I've used it for 3 classes. That's the kind of book I'm happy to buy. Meanwhile my experience with CS classes has been a > $150 textbook that is never referenced in class, is outdated, and is seemingly on the syllabus just to have something there. I ended up just not bothering with the books even if the syllabus claimed they were required.
Rotten194··on Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)

    ls | filter-hidden | sort | add-directory-slashes | mark-symlinks | mark-executables | colorize | display-in-grid
This seems really inconvenient, but who cares because it's ideologically sound!
Rotten194··on Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
I think most people just click the speaker icon to mute / unmute instead of using the menu options.
Rotten194··on Obama is seriously considering a pardon for Chelsea Manning
If Obama only pardons one person (hopefully unlikely) Chelsea is by far the correct choice imo. She did a great service to the world and has been horribly mistreated by the prison system for it.
Rotten194··on Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
I was wondering if that was a piece of jargon I didn't recognize or a very unfortunate typo...
Rotten194··on Ask HN: What are some good podcasts?
I always recommend The History of Rome and the Revolutions podcasts by Mike Duncan. Really incredibly interesting history podcasts.

I also have been really enjoying the History of English podcast as a neat hybrid linguistics / history podcast hybrid.

Rotten194··on WTF Is Apple Thinking with the New MacBook Pro and Touch Bar?
For "no apparent reason"? ESC is incredibly non-ergonomic. If you use vim and don't use capslock or jj you're setting yourself up for RSI.
Rotten194··on Ask HN: Why does Google get away with such bad recruiting practices?
Why do you think OP's friend is a "rando"?
Rotten194··on Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
There was a Kickstarter a while back for a Magsafe-like solution for USB-C. You might want to check it out if you haven't seen it already. Wish I remembered the name...
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