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by JadeNB 3y ago
Your sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39073132 mentioned a similar thing. The reference to Github and what could cause a takedown there was the parent's, not mine.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The implicit question of: > Would be far less worthy if, by the time we get to the README, we only get to see a take down notice from Github. Instigated by Spotify for breach of not sure what. was what violation would cause Github specif
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Would be far less worthy if, by the time we get to the README, we only get to see a take down notice from Github. Instigated by Spotify for breach of not sure what. Circumventing DRM, no matter how trivial, is a violation of the DMCA.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> It's for him to know, but I don't think it's ridiculous for me to question. My reference to ridiculous was to the ridiculousness of my thinking that I have any insight into Reiser's character—a disclaimer at the beg
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I want to believe redemption is possible, especially given how eloquent he is, but his demonstration of calculation over emotion in her murder makes me strongly question his change. I think it would be ridiculous for me to presume that
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I hated arithmetic … That is to say, ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> > Funny how HN tries to save face for Apple at all costs. > It doesn't. It's not you vs Big HN. Stop talking like it. It's just some people with different opinions. Did your parent ( https://news.ycombina
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> What happened to fobs/keycards? Do people not want those? Apartment owners prefer not to give them. Don't ask me why.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The capitalization stripped out by the title mangler is significant: Knuth's creation is called TeX, not Tex (and actually the X is a capital chi, Χ).
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by JadeNB 3y ago
That sounds like re-inventing the Sidekick ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop )!
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> They don't, if we went ahead and were mesmerised by random symbols we couldn't get good at anything because becoming good means you have to filter out the BS from the signal. As I say, I'm not a good hacker, but I am a m
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Is this symbol also fascinating to you ! How about this one . or this one ? Yes, they've got interesting histories, and, for example, Shady characters ( https://wwnorton.com/books/shady-characters/ ) has
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Although Bourbaki was/were capable of being plenty pretentious, I think that it might seem less pretentious if read not as "from our lofty viewpoint, we can see that this is too tough for you," but rather as a very literal an
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The usual response from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I would hate to see something like this in my code base: > a = x = y; > If that meant “set ‘a’ to true if ‘x’ is equal to ‘y’, and false otherwise.” I would, honestly, be a little pissed off. Would you find it more acceptable
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> a Prolog program written in TECO I know we don't do general-purpose "I like this" comments on HN, but, as a Christmas treat to myself, I'm just going to say how happy this little sentence fragment makes me.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Wouldn’t Saturday be the seventh cycle, given it is the end of the week? Every 7th cycle would be the start of the week; the 6th cycle would be the end. (Think, for example, if you had a 2-day week; the 1st cycle would take you to t
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason. I don't know any individual's reason for being biased for or against anything, but I think that, if the claim is that there is no go
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I'd say the gold standard is DOI, though, for many journals, that's easily derived from the URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/361/1/012015
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> For anyone who's confused about where to find the images: Click "Figures" in the sidebar on the right. Thank you! Here's a link: https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Immediate Reaction: Um, yes? Only the naive, self-deluding, and techno-utopians would have expected otherwise. Vs. an experienced teller from a well-run 1950's podunk bank could tell you that no security technology is worth crap i
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I wouldn't expect a brick and mortar store to certify that the products they sell are impossible to be 'used to “infringe privacy,” “surreptitiously record others for sexual purposes,” or “create and store child sex abuse mat
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> The only "algorithm" that can effectively transform text between English and Chinese would be one that understands the source and target texts like a human. How do you know?
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> So I can choose between closing all of my open tabs at the end of each workday or randomly losing them during the workday. Since having my tabs open when I start work helps me jump back in, I've settled on randomly losing my tabs.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I had this happen repeatedly but relatively rarely on a Galaxy A51, and now on a Galaxy A54. I don't browse on my phone much, but it felt like much less than 20% of the time. At least, it was rare enough that I'd always forget i
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> At least we won’t have to worry about it obtaining god-like powers over our society… We all know someone who's better at self promotion than at whatever they're supposed to be doing. Those people often get far more power tha
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> One thing I like to point out for people is that milkweed has the second-most advanced flowers on the planet, following only orchids. What does "advanced" mean, of flowers?
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I think that the mangler deleted the relevant part of the address, namely the anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_... . (I'm not sure whether this is something that's relevant
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Wikipedia is not an authoritative identity layer, it provides no proof of identity and is thus strictly weaker than any other proof you can come up with. If you don't trust any arbitrary website that Wikipedia cites, then you have
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> And that's for good reason. Encyclopedias are supposed to be tertiary sources, not primary sources. Having an explicit cited reference makes it easier to judge the veracity of a statement compared to digging through the page histo

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