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by JadeNB 1y ago
> If a pattern is a common problem (e.g., becoming accustomed to a spectacular view) and generally-useful solution to that problem (blocking the view so that effort is required to obtain it), then an anti-pattern is what? Strange choice
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by JadeNB 1y ago
The trivial partition n = n also usually counts as a partition. This is useful if you want to be able to dualize partitions, and want n = 1 + 1 + ... + 1 to have a dual partition.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Can't you literally install Linux on Apple hardware?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
I'm no expert in this domain, but I suspect it's less "this is a bad problem to solve" and more "every solution to a problem moves farther away from the ideal simplicity of a markup langage." (I'm not weig
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> I just wish MacOS would allow me to have the Minimize, Maximize/Restore,Close buttons on top-right corner (default in Windows), rather than top-left (which is counter-intuitive for right-handed users, using the mouse). > Even L
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> You mean, is there any state funded system in which the primary drive of the system is to elrotect and expand itself, even at the expense of providing the good ir service for which it was created? > History says no... Aside from the
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Sorry, "I'm not trying to talk my position out of existence", not "… out of experience".
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Certainly agreed. As I say, I'm an educator, and I'm not trying to talk my position out of experience; but neither do I want to diminish the potential of the self taught.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> I have friends who complain that they are engineers, and had to take so much math in school they don’t use. This seems to me like saying "I could be a better engineer by combining engineering expertise with mathematical knowledge,
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> In my experience, people who are self-taught or who learned by experience tend to have odd gaps in their knowledge. On the other hand, people who learn from experts learn, in addition to the experts' wisdom, also the experts'
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Trust that needs to be technologically mediated like that isn't trust.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Isn't attaching a Bluetooth receiver to your car easier than rejecting a phone based on no headphone jack? At least my 2010 Toyota Prius still has the equivalent of a cigarette lighter, and I just bought a Bluetooth receiver that plug
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Dyscalculia means that you should probably avoid situations that require you to do your own arithmetic, but there's way more to math than arithmetic, and most professional mathematicians aren't that great at arithmetic either.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
It sounds like it must inevitably be uncomfortable and stressful—why do they do it with the patient awake?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
You can check out the HN em dash leaderboard to see that people definitely do use them in comments. (I was pleased to come in at #16.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722
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by JadeNB 1y ago
I think it's also an old greentext. (A quick search doesn't turn up exactly that, though I'm sure I remember it with slightly different wording, but there is https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comme
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> Those whose property has been destroyed or mined should be compensated with seized Russian assets. Unless you think the resources of the clearly guilty are limitless, this sounds like Versailles-type collective punishment that may be s
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> You can even find them for used for for free. I live in a university town with lots of rich kids, which seems like the kind of place to find good-quality used backpacks if there were one. If there's an easy way to get my hands on
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by JadeNB 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusions, but I know that I haven't thought about it in detail and you obviously have. Thank you for the considered argument.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Why would this be an issue with the driver? I don't mean that combatively; I really don't see it. It seems to me that any form of transit, autonomous or not, either runs on some sort of centrally controlled schedule subject to o
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> I recently saw that Canadian passenger railways have security checks and bag check-in just like airlines :-)) It's probably harder to drive a train into something than it is to fly a plane into something, but a bomb on a train cou
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> Fun fact: by law, Amtrak has priority. Not that it matters much, even back when laws themselves mattered. Are you sure about that? I've never looked up the law, but my understanding is that, for most (all?) of its routes, Amtrak
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> > Assuming they own the house outright, that absolutely does qualify as wealthy. > I didn't say it wouldn't. I said it didn't qualify as ready cash. I think you did say it didn't qualify as wealthy ( https:&#x
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> There it is, the implication that "North is up" is morally bad. Since it's an implication, it does not need to be read that way, but it's clearly there. I see the statement that the decision of orientation might see
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> Yeah, but the government would have to prove it in court, which is hard and takes a long time. Isn't this "undeveloped in perpetuity" status an application, so that you have to request an agreement to your valuation and
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by JadeNB 1y ago
That's it exactly! Thanks.
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by JadeNB 1y ago
This was used in some early-20th-century astronomical setting, I think to detect supernovae. I can't find any documentation now, but my memory is that it was called "blink testing" or something similar, where one switched ra
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by JadeNB 1y ago
"Purposely" seems strong, though. Is it believed that Apple intended this corruption?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
Purposely? Could you elaborate?
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by JadeNB 1y ago
> Lets say your name is alex and you share the computer with tony. Both of you have folders called "My Pictures". That "My" is simply false if you look at the files in Tonys directory. The conceptually much better sol

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