JadeNB

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by JadeNB 10mo ago
Educating people on how to schedule meetings requires that everyone else have the skill for you to benefit. Educating people on how to attend meetings only requires that you have the skill for you to benefit.
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by JadeNB 10mo ago
You're right. Thanks.
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
Gabriel's horn is the same phenomenon one dimension up: finite surface area but infinite volume.
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
> Depression is caused by laziness and anxiety by hopelessness. My kids know that they aren't permitted to be lazy or say they are bored. They don't have anxiety because they have hope despite circumstances. This sounds horribl
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
For some reason, the title mangler chopped off the word "say": "Prozac ‘no better than placebo’ for treating children with depression, experts say."
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
The title got mangled from the grammatically correct "40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page" (though some of us learned "Hobbes's" in elementary school) to "40 year
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
I suppose you could argue when it started being a major driver of progress, but it's actually been around for 3.5 decades! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell#Haskell_1.0_to_1.4
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
I haven't, because I'm not an SWE. I'm sure some SWE has, but I can't point to them as an example. But, even in the extremely unlikely case that that's never happened, the reason such a person isn't a mathema
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
> Yes and you have to be invited to publish in a place. Meaning at least one other person has to believe your opinion is significant........ I don't think that this is true. The vast majority of technical math publications, for ex
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
> do we really have to retread this? unless you are employed by a university to perform research (or another research organization), you are not a computer scientist or a mathematician or anything else of that sort. no more so than an ac
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
> They’re opt-out and can be disabled in the settings or fully disabled in about:config. Any setting where there's a difference between "disabled" and "fully disabled" is user hostile. And, for a company that ad
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
But US law isn't even the law of the world, let alone the definition of reality.
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
Also preserves more semantic information!
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
> And an accepted journal paper presumably cannot be submitted to arXiv anyway unless it’s an open journal. Why not? I don't know about in CS, but, in math, it's increasingly common for authors to have the option to retain the
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by JadeNB 11mo ago
Definitely one of the downsides of aging is the shock of realizing that movies that you vaguely remember as being fairly new are now old. (I was expecting a movie from the '40s, not 2003.) Also, to save a click, the movie is Phone Boo
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by JadeNB 1y ago
But how can you measure except subjectively, and how can you compare subjective measurements when the whole point is that people's very idea of the meaning of phrases like "close friendship" have changed?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
How could one compare depth of friendship of even two current friendships, let alone of current friendships with historical ones that are only accessible through people's mutable memories?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
You're obviously being sarcastic, but I don't think that it's a given that "those are old font-size defaults" means "those are bad font-size defaults." I like the default HN size. There's no reason
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Lots of fun, though I think "less than nothing" oversells (undersells?) it. I appreciate the author's taking time to explain somewhat at the end, rather than leaving the reader just to feel stupid if they miss, for example, t
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by JadeNB 1y ago
A sibling comment by evilpie says that it is enabled in Firefox Nightly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674985
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Counteropinion: agile laws would be absolutely terrible. Either people wouldn't take them seriously because they're going to change in a few minutes anyway, or people would take them seriously and be bound by law by the equivalent
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Right, by which standard truth has never been a shared grounds of discussion. I think that there's a big difference between "some people lie" and "there's no agreement on shared truth."
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> > I can't see how functioning democracy can survive without truth as shared grounds of discussion. > I don't think the US was a monarchy for its first hundred years. Did the US not have truth as shared grounds of discus
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> I moved into a new house and did not set up the lawn irrigation system. Despite being disconnected from the cloud service, the system kept running its schedule, when I would have expected it turn off in order to conserve water. Not run
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Surely fungi in the subway is absolutely universal—the only question is whether it's interesting fungi that we know are interesting.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Maybe I'm being overly simplistic, but water that's been used once for cooling can't be used again until something else, possibly time or other natural processes, has cooled the water itself off, right?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Do you find that reading Pratchett made the Canterbury Tales more accessible, or changed how you perceive them, or otherwise affected your reading?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> That would be what root is. In this analogy, I think the analogue of the owner of the bank safe is the owner of the file. Unless you're envisioning the bank safe as representing all the files, rather than just one ...?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
A rare pre-William the Conqueror essay on functional programming.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
But imagine if you were the bank-safe owner. Shouldn't you be able to change the lock?

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