SeanLuke

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   by SeanLuke 3y ago

   NXOR is normally called Equal, is it not?
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   I guess the Lisp example is an example of a nullable type, which he's railing against; he'd rather have prewrapped types like Some(result) vs None. But it's still an optional expression, and I'm not convinced that decla
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   So.... (if (/= den 0.0) (/ num den)) Languages keep reinventing Lisp. Greenspun's 10th rule.
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   Chemotaxis is the behavior of a small organism to follow a chemical gradient to find a higher concentration. Likewise, thermotaxis follows temperature. It took me several rereads to realize that robotaxis wasn't some kind of behavi
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   > “Any TV worth buying is very likely going to ask to connect to your Wi-Fi, and that’s been the case for many years now,” he says. “If you can find one manufactured recently that isn’t smart, I don’t know that I would trust it to be wor
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   Fascinating. But why are cos and sin implemented with different polynomials?
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   I'm pretty sure NS was NeXTSTEP. That was the assumption of developers at the time IIRC. Before NeXTSTEP existed there was just NeXT, hence the NX.
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   Hong Kong has very special circumstances which makes it quite different from other cities in this respect, including other asian cities. IIRC its building codes require skyscrapers to be about twice as dense and reinforced as other cities i
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   by SeanLuke 4y ago

   1930: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    The MIT license is worth nothing because it does not contain a patent release. Microsoft's sword of damocles has always been in patents they held with regard to C# and .NET. Have they released this IP as well?
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    My web page posted long ago is evergreen on HN!
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    Indeed it was!
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    The new Yamahas are ported and come with soft plastic cones. Their time domain response will be very different from NS10s, no matter how white Yamaha makes the cones look. [They also sound much better].
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    I own pair of original NS10s with upgraded tweeters. I bought them for $25 from my university with blown out tweeters and replaced the tweeters for $75. They're in mint condition: I still have the front grills. These speakers are fr
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    But their time-domain response is radically different, and that's what mattered.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    I do not think this is at all true. I'd say that a far larger group bedroom musicians have modern Yamaha monitors than KRK Rokits etc.; and in an amazing number of studios NS10s still predominate. There is a special sauce that makes
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    This is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    This is precisely what I do religiously in my latex: M-dashes are always {\,---\,}
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    > So what about Bachelor and Baccalaureate both being words that have their pre-Latin roots in Arabic What evidence do you have for this extraordinary claim? > Or the fact that ceremonial graduation garb in the EU and US, from the rob
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    Wait, to be a university you now have to have accreditation? That's part of your definition? > A 1643 publication defined the university's purpose In 1643. Harvard had changed quite a lot well before 1810.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    So by your definition, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Coumbia, U Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Oxford, Paris, Liepzig, Bordeau, Glascow, Istanbul, Granada, Strassburg, Moscow, Berlin Technical, Freiberg Technical, Cambridge, practically every major I
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    In Portugal I know someone required to dress like Zorro for your PhD defense and face faculty all dressed like grand inquisitors. That isn't a joke. It was an amazing thing to see.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    Sure? There are lots of resonable terms. And I don't want to denegrate Nalanda nor its historical import. But Bologna invented the concept and coined the term to specifically describe a new kind of institution with certain critical a
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    Actually a fair bit of the BBC article appears to have been derived from Wikipedia.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    The University of Bologna, where the word University came from, was: 1. A higher-education degree-awarding school 2. Offering publically recognized, official secular diplomas: originally they were grammar, rhetoric, logic, and different kin
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    > It depends on how you define a university. I think the institution that invented the term probably gets to define it. And that is the University of Bologna.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    I think what people are missing in my complaint is that the classic problem being faced right now is airline companies trying to force people to accept vouchers in lieu of refunds. In the US this is illegal as I understand it but they&#
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    Wait, so she requested vouchers, BA complied, and then later she demanded a refund instead of vouchers? I am not convinced we should be getting out the pitchforks in this case.
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    by SeanLuke 4y ago

    This sort of reads like an attempt at coming up with like a “English, 100 years after the apocalypse, in some super insular community” language. It sounded to me like English as spoken in Firefly.