FabHK

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by FabHK 5y ago
> taught in an incredibly abstract manner And that’s a shame, because a lot of group theory originated in concrete, tangible problems. Check out the book Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter, discussed (a bit) here: https://
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by FabHK 5y ago
Absolutely, I should’ve been more precise: it’s perfectly fine for most applications, but not for a library, or, say, manned aviation. So, yeah, when optimising for accuracy, range, or speed you might implement it differently, respectively.
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by FabHK 5y ago
I am not sure. I think the bundling of content might have a positive side effect: I think there is a lot of content that people love to consume (cat videos, food porn, sports, etc.), even if it is not particularly “worthy”, and vice versa c
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by FabHK 5y ago
He was probably expecting the totally neutral and impartial Facebook framing of “help small businesses and help us keep Facebook free”…
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Arizona lawsuit shows Google’s efforts to collect location, obfuscate settings(daringfireball.net)
2 points by FabHK 5y ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 5y ago
A few remarks: 0) Very nice practical introduction to quaternions and their application to rotation. 1) Neat didactic "textbook" implementation, but note that it is not production quality (eg potential overflow in the norm functio
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by FabHK 5y ago
Agreed. And the idea that miners have a god-given right to make $100 per transaction, $40m per day, and therefore if the mining reward halves, the price of BTC must inevitably double, is obviously preposterous.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Is there a halfway decent cookie manager for Safari (macOS, maybe iOS)?
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by FabHK 5y ago
GP is presumably talking about the halving of coinbase, ie the mining reward, every 4 years. Currently at 6.25 BTC per Block.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Indeed. And with “normal” shipping fees, customers have an incentive to make one big order rather than many small ones, which is more economical and more ecological, I’d think.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Tangential, but QuoteInvestigator is a great website, and quite entertaining. Many famous quotes are not from the people they're usually attributed to. Examples: "I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices
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by FabHK 5y ago
That would be interesting, if universities had full time academic integrity officers whose job was to detect academic fraud.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Wow. So many shady offers that you could use them as training data for a shady-offer generator.
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by FabHK 5y ago
I am not talking about Indian culture at all, and don’t know whether this specific encounter in this specific environment by this specific person was sexual or appropriate or whatever. I am specifically objecting to "This is not a cult
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by FabHK 5y ago
> how fake American smiles and “how are you?”s are Yeah, I wouldn't call it fake, just a different vocabulary, so to speak. You just need to mentally translate it into your cultural equivalent (smile = neutral face, “how are you?” =
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by FabHK 5y ago
It is very much a cultural thing. What makes you think that it isn't? In some cultures, men (non-romantically) holding hands is perfectly normal. In some cultures, a woman and a man shaking hands would be scandalous. In some cultures,
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by FabHK 5y ago
Yes, "take your head home" would be pars pro toto, but it is not something people usually say (in particularly, that's not what GP (or GGP or whatever) said).
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by FabHK 5y ago
Indeed. Got a new bicycle recently, and most components (saddle, light, brakes, gears, etc.) are better in many small ways and large.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Yes, the Nikkei 225 still hasn't reached its 1989 peak, see the graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 (Though, mind you, a price index, not total return, so not including dividends, IIRC)
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by FabHK 5y ago
> It's a big mystery for me how the things went down since seventies. There is a insightful (if a bit messy, and occasionally wrong) book that purports to answer that question: Where is my flying car?: A memoir of future past , by
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by FabHK 5y ago
No. It's not "take your head home", with your head (a noun) being the part standing in for the whole, namely you. Rather, "to head" is a verb that means (among other things) "to move in a specific direction&qu
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Facebook-Sponsored Research Paper Lambasts Apple's iOS 14.5 Privacy(daringfireball.net)
3 points by FabHK 5y ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 5y ago
Seconded. I use NetNewsWire on macOS/iOS.
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The Academy(aksh-at.github.io)
1 points by FabHK 5y ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 5y ago
That would be interesting. Not sure the airline has one, the CVR normally records only the last two hours IIRC.
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by FabHK 5y ago
You’re required to follow ATC instruction, yes, but usually in order to avoid other traffic and sequencing, not anything more. I mean, as a driver you’re required to obey traffic lights, but they would not normally impose a destination on y
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by FabHK 5y ago
Which is one particularly heinous aspect of this whole saga btw - the loss of trust due to the abuse of the emergency protocols. A bit like abusing the Red Cross or a white flag to commit an attack in war. One just doesn’t do that.
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by FabHK 5y ago
FWIW, I was very unsatisfied with my 2016 MBP USB-C ports and found them very unreliable, but am quite content with the ports on the mid 2019 MBP and the 2020 MBA (M1). So, maybe they've improved over time.
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by FabHK 5y ago
Oh, sorry. I must have set it up way back then, and pulled it forward with each migration to a new Mac.
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by FabHK 5y ago
I agree, though have to add that it adds stumbling blocks to people that don't come with the implicit knowledge (that was a matter of course when everything worked with floppy disks). I have seen people start the application directly

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