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by JadeNB 2y ago
> edit: also, unless you are the digital equivalent of "off the grid", I would argue most people are going to need some sort of cloud-based identity anyway for messaging, file-sharing, etc. iCloud is far and away the most secur
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> But when you really want to think something trough it's advised to slow down. For those cases paper and pen is the perfect medium. Or chalk on blackboard/marker on whiteboard. A marvelous way to get thoughts flowing that jus
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Like probably many people here, I enjoy Money Matters, and so enjoy any sensible discussion of it, especially if it might lead to more Money Matters-like content in my life—but an elaborate explanation after the fact of why a circumstance t
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> I think it's just a pity that LaTeX with microtype is still the pinnacle of automatic typesetting, after all these years. I really enjoy good typography, but the Web, App and even Desktop world seems not to care about such details
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> Open-source-ness only depends on the source code being released under a suitable license. It has nothing to do with complexity or maintainability of it. That's a definition, but I think that stavros was proposing that, much like M
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> Do you seek out newspaper opinions? I do.
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> It works. This strategy actually works It works because, in any context, people are easily persuaded that something that they want to believe is true. Willingly or not, people are often looking for excuses to believe something, not ev
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The problem is that remote solutions to the privacy problem inevitably involve my trusting someone else's privacy assurances. On-device processing reduces the trust required, although of course it doesn't eliminate it. The common
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What surprises me about the story is how weak the effect is, which is stripped by the title mangler: only 25% of users report not finding AI features helpful.
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> Wait, am I crazy for thinking relations are not sets? Two sets can be coextensive without the relation have the same intension, no? Like the set of all Kings of Mars and the set of Queens of Jupiter are coextensive, but the relations a
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Isn't the loop let max = list[0]; for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) { max = Math.max(list[i], max); } at the end just implementing the variadic `Math.max()` of JavaScript by pretending that it's binary
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> I would submit Incandescence as the best sci-fi novel ever written. In a world with both Greg Egan and Ted Chiang writing sci-fi, one has to exclude their novels from any best-of comparisons just to give other authors a fighting chance
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> Do you pronounce the vowel in /var as in "bar" or as in "bare"? Ha, they're everywhere!
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> Surely the logical pronunciation is the way you'd pronounce it in library, so a long 'ai' rather than any kind of 'i'? Yep, that's what I meant to say with: > … never noticed until I heard someone else
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> Sounds like it is more a framework than a tool. > Not everybody wants a framework. The second part of this comment seems strange to me. Surely nothing on Hacker News is shared with the expectation that it will be interesting, or us
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And now we can perhaps hash out whether the `lib` in `/usr/lib` is pronounced with a long or short 'i'. I hope I'm not the only one who pronounced it the first way with no real thought, and never noticed until I he
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Huh, interesting! The introduction is explicit that it is considering old languages, but somehow I'd thought that occam was comparatively recent—at least, 21st-century. Wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam
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I was always fascinated by that whole lineage Snobol -> Icon -> Unicon. I seem to remember one of the members (Icon?) is in "7 languages in 7 weeks." I'm sorry not to see them take off, although the recent flood of st
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> That's a problem right there. Maybe that made sense to the Greeks, but it definitely doesn't make any sense in the 21st century. "Knowing" falsehoods is something we broadly acknowledge that we all do. I think the p
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> TFA does not mention "veganism" even once. Though you're right about the headline, I don't think that your claim is true. Here's the first sentence (or maybe it's the caption of the first picture, or mayb
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> Or just use the file date. Your parent says they don't want to wait for the file system: > Now, instead of having to parse the entire document to get the modified date, or wait for the file system, I can just sort by the UUID v
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> Emacs is fine, but buggy as hell. Is this so obvious as to go without examples? I'm no Emacs power user, nor even really an Emacs user, but it certainly conflicts with my understanding of core Emacs.
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> That's my point. The mathematical operations are not hard (even the "fancy" ones like the trig functions). Formatting a number to be displayed is also not hard (again, those $100 calculators do it just fine). Right, and
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> It's fallacious to assume that your own usage patterns are common. Hell, with as much evidence as you (none) …. I don't assume that my usage pattern is common. (My usage pattern is to drop to `bc`.) I assume that Calculator
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> macOS is produced by the richest company on Earth and a few years ago the CALCULATOR app had a bug that made it give the wrong answers... This is stated as if surprising, presumably because we think of a calculator app as a simple thin
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> I don't see where we disagree. That's pretty much exactly why my points are less relevant for math papers: they are supposed to be self-contained. I'd certainly disagree that math papers are supposed to be self-contained
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> To be fair, it is less applicable to math papers, than other topics, but academic papers are not easy to get information from, the main thing they are supposedly exist for. You say that this is less applicable to math than other topics
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> I'm amazed that directory traversal wasn't disabled. Why would it have been? It seems intended to be navigated by visitors.
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Although this is about LaTeX (not AMS-LaTeX) and is from 2014 (and I don't remember when this AMS-LaTeXism was introduced), nowadays instead of having to decide when to use `\ldots` and when to use `\cdots` one can use things like `\do
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That's true; there are a lot of reasons not to rely passively on digital media for archival purposes. But I'm speaking here even of digital media from the lost, pre-cloud, pre-SAAS age when one could loosely presume to own at leas

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