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by JadeNB 2y ago
> For these reasons, Jimmy Carter is my third-favorite president of the 20th century, behind my favorite, Calvin Coolidge, and my second-favorite, Dwight Eisenhower. Aside from Amity Shlaes, who seems to have worked backwards from her de
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by JadeNB 2y ago
In case it helps to clarify, probably Ted Kennedy, not JFK.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I had no idea that there was a NeovimConf! It's kind of a shame that it's so low in the search rankings that searching directly for it seemed to turn up only hits for Neovim configuration files, so I hope that I may be forgiven f
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Light is not an abstraction, a contract is not an abstraction. 10 is not an abstraction, it is an ordinal [1]. It seems to me that all of those things very much are abstractions. They are not the utmost level of abstraction, but they
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I do not understand, average wattage/power would be integration of wattage (joules) divided by time (so back to watts), it’s still watts? Average wattage is measured in watts. You compute it by integrating and then dividing by t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I wonder if this guy is slowly going off the deep end like a number of other past chess masters. He's been such a great example for aspiring players for a while now but I can't help but worry. I don't know much else abou
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Sure, no knock on the tool; it's good for people to choose where they want to spend their technical understanding. Just funny to be old enough to have seen some cycles firsthand.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> This is all much more convenient in its WYSIWYG interface than manually planning and coding these figures in LaTeX, as had previously been the standard way to create them for mathematical papers. While I'm all for such convenience
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> For example, associativity is inherent in the notation: A→B→C→D is the only way to express the composition of three functions, you can't even write the difference between (f∘g)∘h and f∘(g∘h). It's only unwritable in a linear
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by JadeNB 2y ago
OK, thanks. Is the rest of it right?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I checked the post, but it's from someone who's far more comfortable with Mathematica than I am, so I hope you won't mind my asking about the maths. First, the T vs. t in T * sin(t) doesn't mean anything, right? Second,
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Pareto victim right here I'm pretty sure deskr was making a joke.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> What other countries do with their trees is not my problem. You may mean that what you don't want to worry about it, which is a reasonable position as you can't worry about everything, but it certainly is your problem in the
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Built in weather widget Thanks. I figured, but boy, does this annoy me. Google, for example, refuses to show me the weather without location permission. I am perfectly capable of telling it where I want to see the weather, but it wi
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> return x if defined? x It's a natural pattern, and translates with obvious changes to Perl, but still `x = defined? x ? x : y` is longer than `x //= y`, so all I was meaning to say in my original comment was that I wa
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Some languages like Common Lisp have multiple return values. The gethash function in Common Lisp returns a second value which indicates whether the key is present. If the first value is nil, but the second value is t, then it indicates
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Why would a launcher need to share my location with third parties?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I really like my Supernote A5X. I can use the whole thing offline. They even finally released the A5 X2!
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Imagine this: Newton formalized calculus in 1671, yet the first (known) visualization of a continuous was drawn in 1669. I guess the missing word is "curve?" I find that a little hard to believe; surely continuous curves wer
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I don't think Ruby has this natively, but Rails adds it with Object#presence. > https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Object.html#method-i-pre... It's not immediately obvious to me how one could use th
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by JadeNB 2y ago
These thoughts on proper typing discipline are a valuable perspective on good programming-language design, but I think that they probably don't help much for writing code in Ruby, which, I believe, doesn't behave this way. (I&#x2
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Good idea. Although, from the little exploration I did with examples for small n, given the low stopping times, the behaviour was very boring. Nothing necessarily interesting. But then again, I didn't explore it exhaustively. Long
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Hints at deep stuff between the two simplest prime divisors of integers: 2 and 3, you have this iterated function that branches based on divisibility by 2 and changes proportional to 3. The addition of plus one really throws a spanner
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Please promote Firefox extensions. Chrome and Google are on a dangerous trajectoryin ruining peoples lives. Unfortunately, Firefox is on a trajectory of "imitate what Chrome's doing." I certainly no longer trust Mozilla
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I’d really like to know what exactly you are looking for? There is no such thing as “free” and no browser extension will give you something for free. You are paying, one way or the other… Sometimes there are really-free things. Old-sty
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Tons of them. Custom download page, to avoid seeing the old ugly Chrome'a download shelf at the bottom of the screen. Just to make sure—you seem to be replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493152 , whi
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by JadeNB 2y ago
With all that it borrowed from Perl, I'm surprised Ruby didn't also borrow the defined-or operator `//=` ( https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Logical-Defined-Or ). (Or, if it did, I guess the author hadn&#x2
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by JadeNB 2y ago
That's a neat observation! But isn't it for the naïve reason that, with negligible overhead, the run time of executing `fib(n) = fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)` is the run time of executing `fib(n - 1)`, plus the run time of executing `
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by JadeNB 2y ago
You left out a further explicit mention of conditional requests: > Advised (via Retry-After header) to come back in one day since they are unwilling or unable to do conditional requests. But I think it's still unarguable that the p
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The library seems to use BibLatex, which is pretty standard. No reference managers I know understands the above HTML. It should be easy to write some once-and-for-all XSLT (or other processor, that's just what I'm used to for

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