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3991.
by Y_Y 10y ago
If I hadn't seen this comment I would have posted something similar. I can't see why it should be downvoted.
3992.
by Y_Y 10y ago
And I was arguing that it is a bad idea to do that in an international forum.
3993.
by Y_Y 10y ago
"10.000" What number is this? Is it ten? Ten thousand? I don't think decimal (thousand) separators are necessary when you can write the number without, use scientific notation or the number in words. But there is an E
3994.
by Y_Y 10y ago
Combining the mendeley plugin with the automatic .bib generator and LyX means I can cite stuff pretty much as quickly as looking at the page.
3995.
by Y_Y 10y ago
For windows ten I'm using a combination of babun/WSL and cmder. But I agree that there is no good terminal emulator. It's not terribly surprising though. When those aren't enough I have a "seamless" ubuntu VM r
3996.
by Y_Y 10y ago
Thanks for caring about gendered language. I used this term because it's used (humorously) in the Unix Koans[0]. But maybe you're reading to far into it, I certainly don't mean to imply their gender had anything to do with C&
3997.
by Y_Y 10y ago
There's a GNU extension for it. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html But it's not a proper closure, and it's not GC'd, so it's pretty useless.
3998.
by Y_Y 10y ago
And yet so many people learn int* p; // p is an int pointer instead of int *p; // dereferencing p will give an int I know this is the subject of holy wars, but once I'd seen the second one my eyes were
3999.
by Y_Y 10y ago
Could you explain for the benefit of non-americans how Hispanics aren't white?
4000.
by Y_Y 10y ago
This may not be quite the case, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoburn_v_Sunderland_City_Co... .
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by Y_Y 10y ago
I took a "Computer Algebra" class in undergrad which was taught entirely in Mathematica. It was a lot of work to convert everything (and the instructor would jokingly refer to me as "sage guy") but I got an awful lot out
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by Y_Y 10y ago
The point of school (American school, at least) isnt to learn, its to get a good grade. When the goal is a number, than 'cheating' is simply trying to achieve the goal. Aka Goodhart's Law[0]. [0] https://en.m.wik
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by Y_Y 10y ago
Absolutely not. You could (if it's true, at a glance it's not terribly convincing) use this as a probe of curved-space QED (a very difficult field) or as a method to measure of the spin of black holes (currently done by different
4004.
by Y_Y 10y ago
I must have missed that war.
4005.
by Y_Y 10y ago
When will DeepMind be good enough to detect YouTube perverts?
4006.
by Y_Y 10y ago
As a quick aside, Google EU is based in Ireland, and under Ireland's data protection legislation you _are_ entitled to data the Google stores (including whatever tracking they're doing that you don't normally have access to).
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by Y_Y 10y ago
I've watched a couple of programmes on BBC Alba, and understood a good bit. It was somewhat like hearing Dutch as a German speaker, except maybe easier. There has been talk of an "Idir-Ghaeilge" reunified language. The Irish
4008.
by Y_Y 10y ago
The Irish Republic only existed from 1919 to 1922 :/ And Malta is another EU state with English as an official language.
4009.
by Y_Y 10y ago
You have to be careful. My cousin and his friends were being rather rude (in Irish) about a woman on a Belgian train, she managed to keep a straight face throughout, before lambasting them before leaving. Ach, ar aon nós, táim an-shásta bhe
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by Y_Y 10y ago
This is called linguistic determinism, or the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and is not widely accepted.
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by Y_Y 10y ago
I can see this being useful for police sketch artists.
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by Y_Y 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
4013.
by Y_Y 10y ago
I've been waiting for years for somebody to do something like this with emoji. All we'd need is a way to add radicals and a central dictionary.