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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The bad feeling I get from cashless is "what if some future political conflict will lower the status of my ethnicity to such a low position, so I'll be denied buying food and nobody will care?" or some similar scenario.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Your first sentence is a little confusing, but I can confirm that Google, at least, uses lots of open source software, and the build system automatically checks that all the third-party libraries used in an executable have a suitable l
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I think we should pass a hacker news law via referendum (that's a thing, right? It should be!) that any article mentioning quaternions must also generalize to Octonions …. Given how much weirder octonions are than quaternions, I t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Same in Canada. The reusable bags that the stores sell are 5-20$. Cents, not dollars, right?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> To start, this experiment will only be available to Nightly users, and the AI functionality will be entirely optional. There are at least two ways of reading the scope of the initial qualifier, but, given Mozilla's fondness for tr
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Funny that this and "Round Rects Are Everywhere" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781838 ) are on the front page at the same time ….
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> a new language (Scroll) that is mathematically shown to be the simplest/most powerful language yet invented This is, at best, ambiguous. To show something mathematically, you have to have a precise definition of it, and neither &
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> OK, table of contents, you're cool. I also vote for turning plausible link targets into links, or at least giving them IDs so that they can be linked without cruft; and, ever so much, especially for posts in a group that are not
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I would like to take this opportunity to complain that LaTeX iS cApItAlIzEd lIkE tHiS. In case you were complaining because you don't know why, rather than because you knew why but don't like it, it's LaTeX because it&#x
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Way back when, we used to call ASCII like ":)" smilies , didn't we? I'm so old I don't even remember clearly. x_x I always thought that ~it's only called Champagne if it's from the Champagne region o
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Markdown is not a typesetting engine. It is a markup language. What pandoc does is convert the markdown syntax into LaTeX syntax and then run a TeX engine to produce the desired PDF. If we're going to go that route, neither is LaT
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> You can still run 3.5 applications Given the discussion in a sibling (nephew?) thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40755845 ), I thought at first that this was a description of how many modern, bloated apps you
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I know iPads aren't macOS, but, despite the mention that "My Mac doesn't feel subsidized," one of the cheapest-feeling things to me about my iPad is that I've got an un-dismissible notification constantly asking me
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Thank you. Do you know anything about the latency? Note-taking tablets are an area where tiny differences in latency can make huge differences to usability, or at least to "pleasant-to-use"ability.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Does anyone know about the writing experience? Specifically, I've been looking at a Supernote, but the A5 X2 seems perpetually delayed, and I'm wondering if it's worth going for this now.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
The reason that I know UWaterloo is mathNEWS ( https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca ).
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Ah, I seem to have skipped over that. Thanks!
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Is it clear to you what is done? As far as I can tell, we are instructed to "empty" the text, then to compile three lists, but the article I see ends with: > In the example Le Lionnais gives, the liste M is the list of all ver
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Have you seen Miracle on 34th Street, where Kris Kringle convinces Macy's and Gimbels to tell their customers that their competition has what they're looking for? That isn't as fictional as Santa Claus. I was in a Walmar
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> This feels like a big missing piece at this stage of AIs evolution. I just searched on Amazon for five inch chair casters. They used to have them but don't anymore. But that took me a long time to find out. Instead it just dumped
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The movie isn't a literal adaption of the short story, but IMHO it is very true to the original. I think it depends on what you mean. It takes the literal plot in a different direction—I think necessarily, because it'd be ve
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> 'Praising with faint critique'? I had hoped so, but I can see how it wouldn't come across that way.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Ha, right, thanks! The original title was "as simply as possibly."
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by JadeNB 2y ago
It is discussed that the algorithm handles non-convex shapes by breaking them into convex shapes.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I am a mathematician, and the worst that I can say is that, if I were writing for a mathematical audience, I might have phrased some things slightly differently. (Oh, and the title should be "as simply as possible", not "as
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by JadeNB 2y ago
There's got to be an about:config entry that tells Firefox whether it's already displayed that tab, which, at worst, you could manually edit before starting. But, even if that were an acceptable solution, I couldn't find i
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by JadeNB 2y ago
To avoid burying information, that's "The storm before the storm" (as the slug suggests), by Mike Duncan. I can second that someone who enjoyed SPQR is likely to enjoy this one.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Also on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40608332
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> (Many thanks to Elon for making it impossible to read more than the first tweet on x.com without an account...) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362557149147058178.html
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The new machines with screens are terrible. Apparently to you. But also to those of us who have no idea what you’re talking about with this Lorax for the laundry talk. I think it's just a simple statement that, for example, an app

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