AlanYx

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by AlanYx 5y ago
I don't really understand the author's comment that "it cannot be solved without very sophisticated math, rarely studied even in college". That would be true if the lengths of the fences were arbitrary or the fences were
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by AlanYx 5y ago
To a large extent it probably depends on the nature of your work. I found that once I transitioned to more horizontal roles at work, taking good, organized notes became more essential. I don't think the specific system matters all that
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by AlanYx 5y ago
It bears emphasizing that Hacker News will likely be forced to geoblock Canadian users if this legislative draft becomes law. It applies extraterritorially and the absurdly large administrative burden and financial penalties for noncomplian
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by AlanYx 5y ago
If you like this, check out Lingdong Huang's personal website. It's chock-full of really joyful little projects.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
My current beef with Image Capture is that in either Big Sur or Catalina (can't remember which), they defaulted to converting HEIC to JPG, rather than preserving the original format, and moved the checkbox that let you know it's d
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by AlanYx 5y ago
But the GDPR is not clear -- I gave two examples from the linked article to support my point. The same thing is true across the GDPR... I'm more familiar with the academic literature around whether there is a "right to an explan
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Doesn't this approach put the cart before the horse? The GDPR contains a lot of aspirational language, but European data protection authorities haven't yet articulated clear, binding common standards in this area. In the linked
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by AlanYx 5y ago
For a lot of custom carpentry, it's pretty common for carpenters to make their own jigs to solve specific problems (e.g., if you need to use your router a bit like a thickness plane to mill down some object by a couple of millimetres a
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Does anyone know what software the author uses to prepare Figures 1 and 2 (the figures showing the syntax, with colored labels)?
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The maneuver that always astounded me at the time was right clicking on the menu bar and pulling it down, to reveal whatever application was open on the "screen" behind it. (The Amiga had separate windows and screen abstractions,
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The appeal of RAD: makes more intuitive sense if you think of it as a kind of clipboard that you access via filesystem operations, rather than clipboard operations (though the Amiga had a clipboard too). It did make more sense in an era whe
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Thanks -- that's fascinating. I can imagine it works well for planning multi-course meals. You've piqued my interest enough to give it another look one of these days. I had looked into it briefly a few years ago when it was pitche
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by AlanYx 5y ago
FYI, Org-mode supports multiple dependencies via org-depend (blocking entries do not have to be nearby and can even be located in a different file). Thanks for the recommendation for Taskheat BTW; that looks pretty amazing. I'm curious
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Good, easy support for nested checklists is probably the main reason that org-mode became so popular IMHO.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I've noticed that full sun makes a surprisingly big difference, even with the naturally good tasting heirloom varieties (Cherokee purple, Brandywine, etc.). I wonder what the science there is. You'd think the slower ripening in pa
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Is there a difference between the tech used in the panel you linked to and RLCD panels, or are they the same tech?
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by AlanYx 5y ago
After reading the poem, I agree that it's open to interpretation, but I also wonder whether the author of the linked article has really thought about what the poem means. As far as I can tell, the poem seems to be about how icebergs ex
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Can anyone explain the "We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship" expression? I understand the overall point of the article, but I'm having trouble parsing the last paragraph, where he seems to assume that one reading of th
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I wonder if there's an issue in translation. How could they "combine" their money if Masha had nothing to begin with? But if we assume quantities of money can be non-integers, then the problem is underconstrained.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
From the linked article, it sounds like this work is getting pretty close to being able to provide a single error-corrected logical qubit, depending on what threshold one expects for the error rate. Is that a fair reading? How close are we
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I was curious about the quotation from the linked article that says: "The World Bank has described what is happening in Lebanon as possibly one of the top three economic collapses seen since the mid 19th Century." It turns out tha
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by AlanYx 6y ago
>in the late 90s (fishwrap I think? out of MIT) That's a project I haven't heard mentioned in a long while! We're both getting old though... Fishwrap is from the early 90s... got started in 1993 and the main paper on it wa
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Previous articles about his death mentioned that he also had portable nitrous tanks that he'd use on walks outdoors in Park City and in other situations where he couldn't go through individual whip-its. His being tethered to the t
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by AlanYx 6y ago
>In Brutain in 1800 judges were not paid by the state, the people being judged paid them. And the more they paid, the 'better' they were judged. That was official policy. Now obviously we call that corruption. Assuming you mean
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by AlanYx 6y ago
The low/high trust distinction for many writers (e.g., Fukuyama in Trust ) isn't primarily about trust in government to be uncorrupt (or even societal trust in government more generally), but rather about a shared consensus about
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by AlanYx 6y ago
The UK has been relatively proactive regarding money laundering. It was actually one of the first countries to mandate a publicly accessible company registry that includes beneficial owners. Canada is on the other end of the spectrum in ter
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by AlanYx 6y ago
It's likely this interaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Until someone successfully demonstrates an error-corrected qubit, it's probably fair to still call a lot of work in the quantum computing realm theoretical.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I agree with you. The EPA classifies it as a Group B2 probable human carcinogen, and it has been shown to cause liver and intestinal tumors in animals. I wonder if the reason the industry is pushing red seaweed supplementation rather than d
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by AlanYx 6y ago
It's actually not true that family dairy farms in Ontario are doing well. If you look at actual data (search for "D056 Number of farms with shipments of milk by province"), you'll see that the number of independent farms

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