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by Tainnor 2y ago
you should read a textbook
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by Tainnor 2y ago
You're playing semantic games. If it doesn't satisfy the triangle inequality it's a quasi-nonorm. When you say "norm", people understand it to imply the triangle inequality. That doesn't mean that spaces withou
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Definitions are generalized all the time in mathematics. If Minkowski discovered something that was similar to a norm but not quite, that may be interesting, but it's still not a norm. It also has nothing to do with the complex numbers
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> The trouble is that complex conjugation is not holomorphic (analytic) over the complex numbers. Even more generally, a real-differentiable function is complex differentiable iff its (Wirtinger) derivative with respect to z* is 0.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I don't understand the starting point of this blog post. Why should one intuitively think that |z|^2 = zz? I've never seen anyone been confused by this. It's like writing an article about why 2*3 can't be 5 or something.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> theorems like ∗22.92: α⊂β→α∪(β−α) Either I misunderstand the notation or there seems to be something missing there - the right hand side of that implication arrow is not a formula. I would assume that what is meant is α⊂β→α∪(β−α)=β
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by Tainnor 2y ago
The confusion is in a sense intentional as the whole point of Chomsky's program (Universal Grammar) is that natural languages essentially work like formal languages. I don't think that this is actually true at all (and modern neur
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by Tainnor 2y ago
There are 1-2 people here on HN that routinely shit on Kotlin any time it's even tangentially related to the topic at hand.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
No, but you can say "I don't know", "I can't do this in my head", "Why is this important?", "Let me get my calculator" or any other thing that is categorically more useful than just making u
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Ok but this thread is about Tibetan and not about emojis.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Yes and they weren't "Frenchmen".
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by Tainnor 2y ago
It wasn't all sunshine and roses back then. When the Reconquista was completed, one of the first thing Spain did was expel all the Jews. Jews could in theory convert to Christianity instead, but then they became the prime targets of th
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Saying "catholics" instead of "Christians" is about the same as saying "Visigoths" instead of "Germanic tribes". I don't know why you would resist more precision. In the context of the times, it
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> Too many big discoveries were made by people who were "too idiotic or hard headed" to realize that something is impossible. While this does sometimes happen, I do think that the more common situation is that people actually r
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> I also don't understand why people get a boner with Columbus. It is since the Greeks that people knew the world was not flat, and the vikings (presumably Leif Erikson) landed in Canada much earlier after a quick hop from Greeland.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
From my point of view, representation of minority languages matters no matter the political situation. I'm aware that this isn't always (and wasn't always) universally accepted, but I would still think that it's less con
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you politically (with what little I know about this conflict which admittedly is... almost nothing), but I don't think this kind of political discourse is very appropriate for HN. You can already see fro
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> except throwing OOP into something that doesn't need it I feel like you're jumping to wild conclusions. All I'm suggesting is to change your code to private object EUR : Currency private object USD : Currency da
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by Tainnor 2y ago
A writing system being phonetic would be impractical, because most languages have tons of little phonetic alterations of individual sounds depending on position in the word/syllable, regional variation, etc. What you usually want is
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by Tainnor 2y ago
While I personally dislike this for "aesthetic" reasons, I do recognise that languages change and that's fine. It used to be that very few people would read and write, but with the advent of the internet, text messaging, etc.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Microservices are distributed and distributed systems are inherently more complex than non-distributed ones.[0] > A microservice can be as simple as studying it's inputs and outputs and nothing more. All of which can be observed via
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by Tainnor 2y ago
This could be mitigated by making the currency interface / abstract class open to extension by the user. The common currencies would be provided by the library and any additional ones could be defined by the user.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> - The ability to find the n most or least used tags with a single method call - The ability to track which user tagged a record - The ability to find records with the same tags - Calculation of tag statistics for a tag cloud What'
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by Tainnor 2y ago
As someone who started his career writing Ruby (but has since migrated to statically typed languages), I agree with your criticism. One big problem I had with the Rails community was the overemphasis on libraries/frameworks that make t
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I'd question that it's the "best" if you read it as an adult (though it's probably still good), but I feel like Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (which I read as a child / young teen) has influenced me
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Defaults are fine if you live a default life. I moved to another country 15 years ago, but I was never going to learn a different keyboard layout after having already been quite proficient in my previous one. And if I use e.g. a Mac at work
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by Tainnor 2y ago
ok fair enough, thanks for explaining.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Thanks for writing this. I hadn't clicked on the link and wasn't aware that the person you responded to was using data that's 20 years old. It's really awful that that is currently the top-rated comment.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I agree that the tone shifts depending on the user base, but your comment appears to imply that there are more fringe takes when European users are online. I don't think that's the case and I also wouldn't know why Europeans
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> a lot of the comments take a particular political stance about the topic. And oftentimes, these political stances are US-centric and don't make sense to anyone else, e.g. you might have an article about the efficacy of masks and t

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