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by JadeNB 2y ago
> > What a lot of math learners fail to understand is that grinding through concrete examples imbues you with intuition that you will not get if you jump directly to studying the most abstract ideas. > I feel that's more a les
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I used it as my primary browser during the Firefox 57 saga As an early lover of Firefox, I'm sorry to see its progression away from its ideals, and can't keep track of which part of the saga happened when. Was that when they
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> If only a democrat majority had been elected at any point in the last 40 years that could have fixed this. I think that thinking of it this way shifts the blame unduly; it's not like Republicans as well as Democrats don't bea
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by JadeNB 2y ago
This kind of reasoning is self-perpetuating, though: there are no good museums here, so interesting things need to be shipped abroad to be exhibited properly, so there are no good museums here because there's nothing interesting to put
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> > If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several. > Then why doesn't he? I'm really curious about that last one: "People hav
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Personally I reduced our currently measurable monthly CO2 emissions from ~350kg/month to ~15kg/month. How?
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> To counteract the opposite incentive - "we learned there's a terrible side effect of what we're doing, the obvious choice is to bury that info and cover it up" by making you liable once others catch on. Doesn't
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I'm more interested in why someone created a new programming language. > That tells me way more than snippets ever will. Fortunately, it is easy for a landing page to include both.
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> You neglected to mention the president that has been convicted of multiple felonies I took "the last several years" to refer to the currently sitting president. Even including the incoming president still illustrates the poi
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> If there's any one lesson to draw from the last several years, it's that the executive branch can do anything they goddamn well please. You can agree or disagree with the goals and priorities of the Biden administration, but
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The accent grave (backtick) you're using in a Markdown-inspired way is utterly annoying to type on keyboards where accents are implemented as dead keys, to be combined with vowels, common on european keyboard layouts. … Also I fin
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Given that MIT was involved, she should thank her lucky stars that she didn’t get the Aaron Swartz level of support. You know, where MIT buys the bus, runs you over, and drags you around for days. That's mentioned in the quote fro
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The surprising part comes from the continued inability to predict these scenarios with anything less than 100% accuracy. I don't think Hanlon's razor applies here. If there's no penalty to the people who establish a syst
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Unless you work at Apple, none of us outsiders have even been able to look up other people's bug reports Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that I have in the past, and even that it used to be standard practice when discussing an
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In aviation? You know how big an aircraft is right? Exactly, which makes the headline particularly intriguing—how could a 3600 nanometer difference matter? The standard resolution, which I pursued, is to read the article to find out,
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In aviation? Literally everyone. Context clues should make it obvious. But this is Hacker News, not Aviation News, and there are plenty of people, like me, who might find this interesting but aren't in aviation. I also thought it
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Old phones no, but old apps yes. If a developer has abandoned an app and hasn't been investing in the update treadmill, but end users still care about it, that can make people feel negatively about Apple. On the other hand, it is
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In this case, it's an unintentional bug. How do you know? Maybe it's in the mentioned bug report 15774587; I tried to look at it, and was sure I could log into Radar at some point, but now I can't seem to dig up any val
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> It is easy to map all natural numbers between 0 and 1 on the real line. Just not 1 to 1. For the usual meaning of the term, you certainly can construct a 1-to-1 (that is, injective) map N \to [0, 1] (for example, n \mapsto 10^(-n)); th
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> With time travel, isn't the halting problem trivially solvable? You start the program, and then just jump to after the end of forever and see if the program terminated. Some programs won't halt even after forever, in the sens
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I whimsically imagine some version of bi-directional Hoare logic.
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What is gum?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Identity, authn and authn are hard. Just a typo, was one of those authns meant to be something else, or a meta-joke (of the "there are two hard problems" type)?
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> How many percent is "most" people? What about enterprise users with complex setups/requirements, will they be supported or out-of-luck? Typically you'll have print servers with centralized authentication, possibly l
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I always acknowledge ChatGPT in my writing and never cite it. These are not the uses with which I am familiar—as Fomite says in a sibling comment, I am used to referring to citing personal communications; but, if you are using "ci
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> Because otherwise it becomes convoluted. It is acceptable to cite and source published material. Having to account for the source of one’s ideas, however, citing friends and influences - it shouldn’t be a moral requirement, just imagin
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I think that the classic of the genre is "The feeling of power" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ).
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> I’ve seen a lot of places that require students to reference their ChatGPT use — and I think it is wrong headed. Because it is not a source to cite! Why is it not a source? I think that it is not if "source" means "repo
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Would it be a viable solution for teachers to ask everyone to do this? Like a mandatory part of the homework? And grade it? Just a random thought... To ask everyone to use ChatGPT, or to ask everyone to document their use of ChatGPT?
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Don't forget `tainted` ( https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec#Laundering-and-Detecting-Ta... )!

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