Jtsummers

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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
The phrase is "memory palace": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> But if i have my eyes closed, it's not like I see it in the black of my closed eyes. Only the excessively literal think that this is what people mean when they say they "see" an image in their mind. Everyone else underst
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> I think conceptually, Lisp was an interpreted runtime. This is a strange statement. The manual for Lisp 1.5 describes a compiled language. Lisps have been compiled for over 64 years now using just that version as a baseline. Why do you
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Not American Enough(theatlantic.com)
4 points by Jtsummers 2mo ago|2 comments
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
https://archive.is/2UhnP https://web.archive.org/web/20260827135453/https://www.theat...
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
This is one of the reasons, beyond the constitutional requirement, Congress should be the one to declare wars. They also have the power of the purse and can, at the same time, allocate more funding toward the war effort. If Congress is will
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
Markdown didn't even exist when org-mode was first developed and released with many of the features you describe. But also, once you start extending markdown to support all these things you start getting something that's not mar
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> it seems more likely that I simply did not prioritize visualizing those other things past their rough properties, focusing instead on the ball. Right. Details come in, for me, based on: - Familiarity with the subject. "Imagine you
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> There are some theories that aphantasia allows complicated dreams like this as it is a difference between involuntary and voluntary, but then are controlled dreams truly involuntary? N of 1, but I do not have aphantasia and I regularly
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
The submitter editorialized the headline. This is about Nine PBS, not PBS , which is a specific PBS station not the overall organization known as PBS. And this article is now 10 days old, and published after a resolution was settled on. Th
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
Some do, some do something they call Scrum but it's their own thing (for better or worse). Others have moved on, recognizing that the best thing about Scrum was that it was agile training wheels and that once they could actually be agi
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> The answer, plain and simple for any 5-year-old to see, is Read it later. If you can't read it at work, you can read it on your phone or after work from another computer. Also, the guidelines and FAQ are both easy to read, and sho
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
The FAQ even addresses it: > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
https://www.fepblue.org/manage-your-health/incentives-discou... Some insurance companies offer something like that. It's not a discount, per se, but it is money that can go towards your medical expenses in exchang
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperabili... They seem to be using that. So only providers whose data is accessible via FHIR.
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> Heck, I'm not sure why I can't have it pull my labs by connecting other applications. You can do this by connecting to your provider already. Open Health, select the search (magnifying glass) icon, then scroll down and select
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
The major issue with the East Wing was how it was done, not that it was done ("it": renovations in general, possibly even tear down and full rebuild). Also the costs have been ballooning and the "no taxpayer funding" cla
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
It's not hard, with some modest experience (say 1-2 years of professional work or serious amateur interest), to extrapolate from his deliberately high-level discussion (it was written for a blog/newsletter, not for a book) to some
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> The problem is that this took years of legal work to get to the obvious outcome to make Nine PBS whole. Not years. This whole "saga" has been going on for 5 months, and the suit against Iron Mountain was only filed on 28 July
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
Sometimes these things can go better for companies like Iron Mountain when there's a court order/decision in place to cover them. Nine PBS, in order to access their own data, could end up accessing data belonging to other people a
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> why are people reusing it? Python has remained in the top 5 (often near or at the top) most used programming languages for years. Meaningful whitespace is not stopping people from using it in enough numbers to make it clear that it&#x2
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
The comment isn't removed, it's [dead]. Turn on showdead in your profile and you can still see it.
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
But that's not in the specification given above. That specification is entirely wrong to specify SORT. It requires no duplicates survive the sorting process.
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
What would be a modern name for a language?
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
You need a way to differentiate the two 5s, that isn't present. If you had a list like: L = [(5,foo), (2,bar), (2,baz),...] And did a: SORT(L, key=first) # or however it'd be specified Then the duplicate 2s would be
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> I'm sorry, do all 5's look the same to you!! /s You have that /s tag, but this is actually the problem with pastel8739's spec as written. >> 1. Every item in I is present exactly once in S This actually d
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> Have you seen how many users on this very forum have tried hard to bury it They aren't trying very hard, it's still on the front page and being discussed and read about.
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
James Stewart is the author, there are 8 or 9 edition of the same book. Any will do.
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Two slicks appear in Gulf as oil spill off Oman threatens disaster(reuters.com)
3 points by Jtsummers 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> In fact, the worst part about this dynamic is that these potential new backdoors will begin primarily useful for allowing the US to weaken its own systems, which will in turn allow foreign adversaries to find new ways to attack our com

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