Eldandan

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by Eldandan 7y ago
I'm pretty sure covid-19 doesn't read Hacker News.
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by Eldandan 7y ago
Some climate change deniers will say they don't disagree it is real, but that it is man-made. I didn't know enough of the science at the time to confidently rebut the argument, so left it at that. That was the first and last time
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by Eldandan 7y ago
It is institution-dependent, and a bit odd. I believe the American Psychological Association have advocated for this. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/07-08/sd
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by Eldandan 7y ago
The payoff is indeed learning the intuition, but also learning how to prove things and learning how to learn math. The content itself is only as important as whatever field you're in, or whatever application you're studying that r
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by Eldandan 8y ago
Oh wow. I have an X62 and T70, but skipped the X210 because of the display. If I knew you could get it with a 3:2 display I'd have been really tempted to get one. Do you do the mod yourself or purchase it pre-installed?
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by Eldandan 8y ago
Oof! This is where I am with teaching post-secondary at a non-research institution in California. 6 weeks of Winter and 6 weeks of summer off, with added pay to teach those intercessions? Scheduling classes so I get every Friday off? Yes pl
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by Eldandan 8y ago
I think of a little maze for the rats to find the cheddar, which they endlessly repeat just to get more meaningless rewards while never being able to escape the maze. What you describe sounds more like a hamster wheel. Do rats also run on s
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by Eldandan 8y ago
The first link is to purchase a TEX Yoda II. They're now regularly stocked at mechanicalkeyboards.com, which is awesome.
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by Eldandan 8y ago
Sounded like a dark, tongue-in-cheek response to the "never work for amazon" advice. Like, his only other option is death according to HN commenters, since the only place he got an offer from was amazon. Or so I hope...
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by Eldandan 8y ago
I think amateur in this case refers to non-professional / research mathematician with a PhD working at a University or a Research Institute. You still need to have some serious math chops to get this kind of result, it just isn't
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by Eldandan 8y ago
It's like the definition of set defined here should really be a subset, and the definition of space should be a set. Maybe just say a set is any collection of objects?
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by Eldandan 9y ago
Haha, I guess it makes total sense that the HN community and mech community have some overlap. I am guilty of spending a lot on keyboards, keysets, and artisans.
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by Eldandan 10y ago
I really hate using esc in its default position so I always map caps lock to esc. Mapping caps lock to ctrl seems so much more useful; I had no idea ^[ is the same thing.
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by Eldandan 10y ago
These professionals in several industries paid handsomely for the Adaptive keys on the 2nd generation Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. So much so that Lenovo had to remove adaptive keys for the next iterations.
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by Eldandan 10y ago
>I sometimes like to scare kids by telling them about the time when I surfed the Internet with 14.4 kbit modem You just gave me a great idea for a Halloween costume.
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by Eldandan 10y ago
Gonna show this to my stats students and see if they can identify why it is misleading.
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by Eldandan 11y ago
Well then! It's settled.
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by Eldandan 12y ago
It's all in the hips.
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by Eldandan 12y ago
T61 on Xubuntu 14.10 working great! Like others though, there is always a 'but': -correctly installed and configured Thinkfan to control fan speed. The default is a bit annoying.
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by Eldandan 12y ago
Ah, I was wondering about the '23' in the name '23andme'.