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by JadeNB 5y ago
With macOS making it harder and harder to run X11 programs—I don't even know how, these days—is there anything that allows you to run an Xfig-alike on macOS? (I've seen recommendations for Inkscape, and I'll give it a try, b
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> the author having 20K as all his money(if true, not confirmed in the article) The author explicitly indicates that it is all of their savings: > I sat there with my $173.12 of remaining savings and $25 in I-bonds, feeling like I had
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> Also, in Swift "\(foo)" does string interpolation. I haven’t seen people complain it leaks data or makes Swift slow (but then, it’s not fast at compiling at all because of its rather complicated type inference) I think that t
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> Do humans really review these requests manually? How would that scale? A slow and frustrating process to stop displaying your private information does Google no harm, so the answer from their side is likely "who cares?"
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> Because this effectively bans any kind of tracking cookies which, while most are kind of awful, there are legitimate reasons for their existence. Shifting the conversation from a user choice to an effective ban is a completely differen
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by JadeNB 5y ago
I can believe that there are some people who don't care if they're tracked, but do you believe that there's anyone who wants to be tracked? Maybe someone out there somewhere does, but surely such people, who actively wan
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by JadeNB 5y ago
We've already encountered that with "Do Not Track"—as soon as you have anything that doesn't require user intervention, websites start arguing that it doesn't reflect the users' intention, and so they have to
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work. Can't you have a separate, tiny window?
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> a number system in base e (so 1, 2, 2.1, ..., 2.7, 2.71, ..., 10) I don't think I understand the significance of those dots. How would one write, say, 100 in this number system? With that said, the usual "base" notation
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by JadeNB 5y ago
I'm sorry to nitpick, but, for some reason, Tao has one of those names that just begs for inadvertent misspellings, and it seems like a shame. His first name is "Terence".
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by JadeNB 5y ago
A warning, though: trying to switch from a mathematician's idea of Lie groups and algebras to a physicist's, or anyone else's, is not easy. I am a mathematician with a research specialty in Lie groups, and I remember being
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> This is a false dichotomy. OP can be wrong with their new prediction too. It's not "I was wrong, therefore CRDTs are the future" but "CRDTs are the future, therefore I was wrong." As you say, this new predicti
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> the mw 1k Mac book air was a surprisingly good deal, still a few hundred bugs too expensive for a lot of humans That's a funny typo, but it is a typo, right?
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> I am wondering, are there any organizations that actively scan and archive books, even if they don't share them because of copyright laws? Amazon is almost a monopoly when it comes to books, and we cannot rely on it to preserve th
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> Take my dad for instance - a quite profilic and famous mid level artist. It’s coming to the point where not much people remember him. And when my siblings pass on that will be that. Why not say his name here, to give him a bit more mem
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> Critic reviews are prescriptive: what they think the masses should watch. I think this really depends on the critics. Lots of critics never explicitly articulate a philosophy—or, if they do, I don't bother to seek it out—but, f
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by JadeNB 5y ago
He appealed his conviction in 1999 ( https://www.anylaw.com/case/baker-v-state/court-of-appeals-o... ), so must subsequently have been caught.
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The author seems explicitly to indicate that they're not chiding anyone, nor defending themselves: > It's not meant to bash news outlets over journalistic integrity. The internet is a difficult thing to document. It's not
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> In another HN thread just the other day (paraphrasing, but the tone is accurate): "macOS is shit because cmd+Q kills my programs and it's too easy to hit accidentally while trying to strike cmd+A" On the other hand, macO
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> If the software can't do that gracefully, then it's bad software. What I want is that the software itself doesn't even get a chance to interfere with demands like ⌘Q. There's no reason Chrome should get to decide t
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> Is there some theory in which the tangent curve has its +/- infinities connected? I'm sure there are much simpler ways in which this can be done, but one need only regard the tangent function as valued in the one-point compac
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> I was going to reply to your comment with the best introduction to Bézier curves I've read (and I'm a math guy), before realizing that it was you who wrote it. Would you link it anyway, please, for the benefit of those of us
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by JadeNB 5y ago
The focus on Asia, specifically China, as a uniquely threatening force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril .
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by JadeNB 5y ago
I'm all for Bezos-focussed conspiracy theories, but I don't think you need a conspiracy theory to explain negative coverage of Facebook.
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> Why does nobody do this in their readmes normally? They just let you look into their code and tell you "now figure it all out yourself". I think it's worth praising this repo without knocking others. Open source authors
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by JadeNB 5y ago
It certainly seems clear that renato_cassutt, who it is clear can taken constructive criticism and who has given very useful replies throughout the comments, meant no-one any harm; and neither I nor, I am sure, kranner meant to impute any i
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves I assume that was sarcastic, but why not? Do you have any right to choose the emoji to identify me? I mean, you surely have every right to editorialis
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by JadeNB 5y ago
> Go find any popular article that makes factual claims. Then, read comments about it on some high-quality forum. Almost always, you will see comments that are deeply problematic for the original thesis. > How much should these commen
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> Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more import
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This was taken to a ridiculous extreme in the marvellous The Spanish Prisoner , where the whole point at the end is that you can't hear a certain conversation—but it's still subtitled!

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