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Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations (2020)(popularmechanics.com)
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by 40four 5y ago
People still use Facebook?! :p
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This is hilarious! Got a good laugh from this. It also illustrates how easy it is to impersonate other people in Git. I’m surprised this isn’t discussed more. To be honest, when you really think about it, any commit that is not GPG signed i
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by 40four 5y ago
So we’re talking about ’The boy who cried wolf’ here. There’s a reason it’s a timeless fable, dating back thousands of years. It’s a common dilemma that we might not ever solve. It seems to me ‘swatting’ is one of the most modern iterations
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I suspect you are right. I’m definitely not an email ‘power user’, not getting a huge volume of emails. So the issues aren’t as obvious to me.
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Wow so much hate for the mobile email client. I’ve been a happy user for a couple years now, I’m surprised there is so much distaste. Maybe I’m just not that picky? :) On this subject, I thought the recent upgrade of the email web client wa
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You make good points, I don’t necessarily disagree. But at a certain point I just don’t have the time or energy to analyze and stress over every detail of every company’s business practices. When it comes down to it and I’m presented with t
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I think this a logic fallacy. It’s a false/ incomplete comparison. Mozilla is not an advertising company. They have no incentive to track users or invade privacy. Their whole ethos as a company is pro-privacy obviously. Yes, they take
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That doesn’t mean anything. It’s a tired attack that gets repeated over and over, but has nothing to do with the values and goals Mozilla/ Firefox represent.
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How in the world is the #1 front page story a 404 not found? I mean, I see people posting working links in comments, but as of writing this comment, it only has 15 points!? Really makes me question the HN algorithm for determining top stori
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I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t the top comment, on the current #1 front page story, but Can someone please explain this command, and why it is presumably given as a criticism of this submission?
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Thanks, I did the calculation quickly & admittedly didn’t double check, so I’ll take your word on it. But the point stands true. This will certainly warm the lake in the local vicinity, where the quoted resident came from. But to slant
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If I may offer a little critical thinking, to a very biased, alarmist piece. This it seems very clear this is hit piece. It throws around some big numbers and a quote from some local, and comes up very short on analysis, and very big on lea
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If you are looking for specific recommendations of books to read, when I used to do sales I was always told to read Zig Ziglar’s ‘The Art of Closing the Sale’. It seems to be the gold standard. Or maybe start with ‘Selling 101’. Either way
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Fair enough, but when considering the reasons and decisions behind using this server from the developers, isn’t your point kind of moot? It’s not optimized for high ‘performance’. It’s optimized for low resource usage, and the ability to re
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Fair enough. I don't think I made my point exactly how I wanted on second though. Let me clarify. The term in and of itself is not racist. But the way it was used in American media, and the negative connotations that were fed to us alo
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I don't think I made my point very clear. And don't assume I did no research before you offer nonconstructive insults. Let me clarify. Sure the term, in and of itself isn't racist. It's the way it was used in our media,
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This is exactly my point. What exactly makes you think this is the case? How do you know there are animals in 'poor health' there? Maybe the term itself isn't the problem, but the way it was used in American media, especially
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Cool, good work! I see someone else posted the GitHub link, I’ll check it out.
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I’m curious, did you build the flash card UI yourself, or use a library? I’m not in the market for studying AWS skills, but I really like the flash card interface!
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I don’t get it. I’m mostly very skeptical of the claim of making a positive fingerprint ID through a picture. Has anyone ever heard of this before? Fingerprints are known to be very unreliable and subjective. I’m not convinced this is actua
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Well, I see you got a lot of the same, kind of generic answers. Deadlines motivate you, and this and that. That’s all good and well, but my initial thought is simple. Just remember the title. The author specifically designed this course to
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Yeah, I mean this story sucks, I feel for the creator. But my gut is telling me this is a perfect example we all shouldn’t just default to MIT license out of the ‘goodness of our hearts’.
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Really? I run Synapse for a half a dozen people, on an EC2 Ubuntu server with 2GB memory and it works great for me!
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Sorry, but I agree with @gojomo. Making it public in your bio that you are afilliated with a project, is very sufficient disclosure in my opinion. No one expects you to read every bio of every comment you read, but conversely we shouldn’t e
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Interesting, it’s not just me! Haha I thought my internet was acting up tonight, but apparently not. YouTube was being very unstable tonight for sure. Videos cutting to infinite loading spinner in the middle, or not playing at all, intermit
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Thanks for the detailed response! I’ve been trying to level up my bash lately, and I definitely have seen a lot of ‘poor’ examples where they bailed out & use eval plus something else, for something native bash can in fact handle just f
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Fair enough. I was mostly trying to point out there is no ‘local’ bat population tied to coronavirus. I appreciate you’re trying to look at it with critical thinking though. I don’t know the reason that lab is located in Wuhan specifically.
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Wow. This is fantastic writing. I’m not a big reader, and I was unaware of Robin Hobb. This definitely makes me want to read more of her stuff though. Kudos!
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Indeed, I’m not a bash expert, but I’ve heard multiple times that using eval is a bad idea. Your point is a good reminder of why.

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