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by JadeNB 2y ago
> In handwritten and typewritten material—where italics are impossible to render—titles of works normally italicized, words used as words, and letters used as letters are underlined: What in the world does "words used as words"
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Ok joking aside, it caused the proverbial lightbulb to turn on in my brain, and helped tremendously in my career later when I ran into folks trying to seem smart because they understood ECC or ZKPs. Presumably it helped to know that th
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> But that's the problem. Crimes are profitable. Which is why we need the law to make crimes not profitable, or at least to attach enough personal risk to dissuade decision makers. It's how we got US corporations to stop disp
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_and_the_Viper
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The author says just that in the previous sentences: > I'm saddened to report that the chemical literature contains descriptions of dimethylcadmium's smell. Whoever provided these reports was surely exposed to far more of the v
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I dunno—I see the appeal of what you say, but, on the other hand, the closer the OS comes to locking in different things that an app might want to do, the more we risk the iOS set-up where you can use any browser you want, as long as it&#x2
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by JadeNB 2y ago
In Sonoma, the same preference is there, but it's one level less nested: System Settings > Desktop & Dock etc.
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> Also annoying that relaunching the browser reopens all those windows in the first place. This is the browser's decision, not macOS's, though. At least for Firefox, you can turn it off ("Open previous windows and tabs&qu
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> Well, a second is also a pretty good approximate resting heart rate (60 bpm) I'm sorry to be the kind of person who feels compelled to make this comment, but you mean a Hertz, not a second.
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> huh? People are going to buy cars. They will be electric or they won't. Either way, people are going to buy cars. I think that this is a short-term picture. The US infrastructure has been set up to make owning a car a very reward
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> I guess my point is I'd like for these to offer a model with or without cellular. More options is always better. I think that shopping for a PC vs. a Mac shows that this isn't always true. (Or, at least, it didn't used
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The site speaks to that: https://ewritable.com/when-will-the-ratta-supernote-a5-x2-be... . In brief, Ratta is open on Reddit, but I don't think anyone has much faith that they'll meet their latest estimate, so we
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> Not having to write and perform migrations for every small schema change is a bore, but it means your software doesn't have to worry about handling different versions of data. Is that "not" at the front supposed to be th
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> The color yellow has been an issue for many decades and diverse combinations of wavelengths evoke identical conscious yellow percepts. How can you possibly determine whether different stimuli evoke identical percepts? (I don't kn
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> - Since the printing press was created, humanity has never lost the ability to mass-copy and distribute information. > - Since airplanes were invented, humans have never been unable to achieve flight. This is 600 years and, dependin
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> The Constitution provides a process for amending it, and that process has been used twenty-seven times. That is the proper process for "acting for changes" if you think they are needed. That is the process for amending the Co
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But "works as designed" isn't the end of argument; things can be working exactly as the founding fathers expected (though only Scalia, with his powers of divination, could tell us for sure what they would think of today'
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> I have no idea how I could accurately report my experience of the apple test. I could say I see it clearly or not at all depending on what you mean by seeing. Same on my end. As far as I'm concerned, I don't see an apple, bu
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> I'm not a history buff, but believe deeply that it's a predictor of the future. Are there historical examples you can think of where the institutions were better than they are today? The problems with this question are at lea
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> Yes, this I generally believe, at least as far as societal maturity is concerned. That's probably too big a discussion for here, but, on the institutional rather than the societal level, is that what you observe? Certainly it see
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> I feel like there's probably an excellent reason that the order is the way it is, due to the wonderful process of time. But this assumes that the process of time is tending towards the better. Each change that was made was surely
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> 6.3.2 "shortest job first": https://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CourseNotes/OperatingSystems/6... > > SJF can be proven to be the fastest scheduling algorithm That's not fully analogous, s
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> On the specific note, I frequently make these mistakes, despite having read his books and knowing the problem to which he’s referring. I say “could you just…” and “we should really do x today”. In the abstract, we can all see the probl
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This seems a lot more like a story of how the writer would like to imagine a productive workshop going than of something that actually did happen; I felt patronized just reading it, and I only had to spend a few minutes on it. Of course we
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Thanks! I understood the meaning of [flagged] (sorry, that was definitely unclear from my question). What surprised me was that [bot thread] wasn't in the original submission, so I thought that it had been added automatically.
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What does "[flagged] [bot thread]" mean? The submitter keepamovin seems to be a legitimate user with plenty of valid submissions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=keepamovin ) (and more reputation than I
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It would probably have sufficed to excerpt the clickbait. The one question, as near as is articulated, seems to be three: > Customers in restaurants have a fanatical interest in the level of education achieved by the people serving them
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> Put me in the disrespectful category. > > I had a first-class honours degree > If you want to pay for your own education then feel free to pursue any field of study you like. Why do you want me to pay for it if you're the
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> Is it not friendly and normal to ask young wait staff what they are studying on the assumption that they are students earning their way though college? I think any "… on the assumption that …" is going to cause trouble on a s
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Are there any other mathematicians out there? I love TeX, while freely acknowledging that it has flaws, but maybe it's just because it is the water in which mathematical writers swim, so that we learn it from such an early age and it

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