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by DC-3 2y ago
You have to admit that quoting 1 Corinthians in an argument about text editors is pretty funny.
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by DC-3 3y ago
(in the USA)
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by DC-3 3y ago
There's a few references. 'A world to win' is from the closing remarks of the Manifesto. 'With GC, the material conditions are now in place' is a reference to the fundamental basis of Marxist theory. There's pr
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by DC-3 3y ago
It's a joke. The whole presentation is riffing on the Communist Manifesto.
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by DC-3 3y ago
> HN-level genius
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by DC-3 3y ago
Simply the desire to live in interesting times.
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by DC-3 3y ago
For anyone else totally clueless about chemistry: According to Wikipedia DFT in this context stands for 'Density-functional theory' and not 'Discrete Fourier Transform' as I assumed given the references to waves.
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by DC-3 3y ago
I have no great fondness for big tech companies, but equally I do believe that society is made worse by people who behave like this.
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by DC-3 3y ago
As I read it, your argument boils down to: > When a student who likes literature does poorly in mathematics, it is because he is not clever enough. > When a student who likes mathematics does poorly in literature, it is because it is
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by DC-3 3y ago
> math reasoning really filter out people in a way nothing else does. I have known many people, to whom mathematical reasoning comes as easily and naturally as flight does to a swallow, be defeated by literature. Every technical universi
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by DC-3 3y ago
This is true, but true in the sense of 'actually adults tended to live into their 60s not into their 40s'. In western countries today if someone dies in their 60s it seems very young.
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by DC-3 3y ago
> including Joyce’s notation that the book was based on “The Odyssey,” without which the world might never have noticed the connection Given that 'Ulysses' is the Roman name for Odysseus, I think we might've worked it out
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by DC-3 3y ago
When I'm definitely not upset about things I usually whine about them on twitter too.
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by DC-3 3y ago
Man does his job, gets bonus, complains about it. Ok.
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by DC-3 3y ago
This article is six years old, published only a year after the Brexit vote. Since then non-EU migration has risen dramatically; now outnumbering immigration from inside the EU by a ratio of about 8:1. Student visas provide an entryway to hu
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by DC-3 3y ago
Was it wrong? As I understand, South Asian immigration to the UK has increased since Brexit.
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by DC-3 3y ago
The second is profoundly better. The first is unpublishable.
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by DC-3 3y ago
Vim Pencil is a simple plugin that makes Vim a decent environment for writing. Plus Goyo for full minimalism.
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by DC-3 3y ago
At least a dozen times!
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by DC-3 3y ago
I haven't used GPT-4 for translation so I acknowledge I might be wrong. But GPT-3 was such an irredeemably terrible poet that it made me sceptical that this type of software could ever develop aesthetic taste or artistic vision. Moreov
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by DC-3 3y ago
I truly pity you for thinking that learning a foreign language is a redundant exercise because of machine translation. And besides, though machines may perform well on menus and tax returns, I hardly think them on the cusp of emitting fine
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by DC-3 4y ago
That's what I feared. Have you got any solution to make this play nicely with Visual Studio?
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by DC-3 4y ago
Have you got any more information on how to use Bazel with C#?
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by DC-3 4y ago
It's almost as if unethical behaviour is incentivized under capitalism...
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by DC-3 4y ago
I am also an english patriot so that doesn't bother me.
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by DC-3 4y ago
Nice project OP. I also love In Our Time. Some favourite episodes off the top of my head: * Wilfred Owen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48 * The Evolution of Crocodiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F
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by DC-3 4y ago
Mistranslation is unfair. It's a translation that best reflects the spirit of the original. It would be distracting to the modern reader to refer to a game which would be obscure and unfamiliar, when most likely the point of the origin
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by DC-3 4y ago
> Would Ramanujan have been happier if he didn't pursue math and became a taxi driver Depends what number cab he got!
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by DC-3 4y ago
An interesting example of how the old English class system wasn't just about venal entrenched self-advantage. The upper classes of old really did feel a noblesse oblige, and were killed in the trenches at considerably higher rates in
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by DC-3 4y ago
What was late-night food in Denmark before the advent of pizza and schwarma wraps?

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