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by JadeNB 2y ago
Maybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating. The question was about contracting “u’re” to “ur”, as is commonly done in text-ese, not to “re”.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Very little life exists at the ocean floor, since there are very few life sustaining resources there. I think that this isn't true even in light of our current known science; but our understanding of what "life sustaining res
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> What cost does Plex incur when I watch something from my friends server? They're not footing the bill for bandwidth that I can tell, so why is there going to be a cost associated with this beyond "we can"? Agreed. The a
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I am not freilanzer, who made the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410830 to which you responded, so, if you do think an apology is warranted, then it should probably be to them.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I think there is a lot of elitism about reading and the intellectualism around it. … Don't play the game. If you don't like reading books and don't get much out of it, don't do it. I wholeheartedly agree with the se
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by JadeNB 2y ago
The book that really got me hooked was The rise and fall of the Third Reich , by William Shirer. He was a journalist in Berlin before WWII, and you can see the journalistic background shine through in his narrative. A lot of what I'
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> You’ve been siding with Russia since 1776? Huh? In most senses of "siding with," I don't think that this statement has really been true for this broad a sweep of US history.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> $ git who table */**/*.go I might have my globbing syntax wrong, but I think that `*/**/*.go` is the same as `**/*.go` unless you have `*.go` files in the working directory.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> While we're talking about representations, there's something I've always wondered. Why are the objects that the maps which are the representations act on also called representations? Spinors don't act as the spinor
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Disgusting behaviour, as expected from the publishing industry I suppose. This "EDRLab" outfit appears to be little more than a non-profit front for Hachette. The quoted block is indeed disgusting, but it gets even weirder in
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The spinors/vectors relevant to the article are those of Spin(8), which has something to do with triality (still need to understand all of this better myself). Spin(8) itself doesn't have much to do with triality; it's j
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> How does one formally define a spinor? I've seen the definition of a spinor field as "things that transform like a spinor", and a spinor as a "representation of the spin group" (which representation), but I wou
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by JadeNB 2y ago
It's not that "representation of the spin group" is undefined, but that there are too many of them for it to pin things down uniquely. (In this case, fortunately, it's not hard to say which representation it is (see ht
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> He did. The parallels between Trump and Zaphod are not subtle. Zaphod was monstrously self-centred, and it could make him callous, but I don't think he was ever reported to experience hatred, or intentionally stoke it in others.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Just this week i was looking for more humour writing like Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse. They are both masters of producing an absolutely perfect phrase that could have come from no-one but them—so's Pterry, by the way—but otherwise
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Thank you for sharing your notes—everyone needs a different push/viewpoint to make key concepts click, and, the more expositions are out there, the more likely someone will be to find the one that's right for them! Is M^* Stewart&
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Galois theory is so useful that, besides its fundamental importance in algebra, it birthed the whole subject of Galois connections, which crop up all over the place, including in theoretical CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by JadeNB 2y ago
He describes the renovations being done taking two years: > A whole new roof, to start; now the building has a 50-year roof, which means it will almost certainly outlive me. The electricity was knob and tube and had to be redone. There w
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Somebody was telling me how Hal Varian was "evil" the other night and I added that Vint Cerf was one of the people Upton Sinclair meant when he said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depen
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Chutkan is quite familiar with this administration's methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Chutkan#Notable_cases
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> When I did desktop publishing in the early 90s and early 00s I never noticed that kerning was so bad and wonder if I had bad taste back then or if it really got worse, like we can blame a patent troll for bad kerning …. My suspicion is
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I think this should be front and center. To that end I propose "magnitude notation"[0] (and I don't think we should use the word logarithm, which sounds like advanced math and turns people away from the basic concept, wh
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> We do have road signs that proclaim: "New signage" or "New road system" etc. The locals know what has changed already and non locals are encountering it for the first time anyway, so why bother. I'm not sure it
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In my time, we used to bring floppies to the schoolyard and just swap them. Sneakernet!
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> During the brief period that open Airdrop / bluetooth file transfer was a thing, there was a short fad of spamming porn to nearby people on public transport. So that was the end of that. My recollection is that the end of that was
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I think people mean something seamless like AirDrop is on Apple devides Ha! I do wonder if I'm the only person who has errors where sometimes an AirDrop attempted transmission, from two devices sitting right next to each other, j
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> You don't really think that functional languages aren't appending things, using temp vars, and using conditional logic behind the scenes, do you? What do you think ".filter(node => !node.isHidden)" does? It'
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> 0) Don't buy from companies that treat me like a criminal. So don't buy printers, basically? That's sarcasm, but, non-sarcastically, do you know any printer companies that (make decent printers and) have basic respect f
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> I've done some intro to lean things, but no one in the maths program is into lean, so I'm just focusing on the math side. Terry Tao is big into the idea of lean tho, and combining LLMs with Lean. One of the best things about
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> NSO is at the other end. I thought I was familiar with the really big players in the privacy/anti-privacy space, but I don't know this one. What is NSO? These guys https://www.nsogroup.com/ ?

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