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by Y_Y 1y ago
It's an emulated sim card, it really does emulate that weird little Java processor and everything. It's totally "SIM technology" in that sense, even if it's not conventient because of the restrictions of the emulati
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by Y_Y 1y ago
They have a lot of obnoxious advertising which makes me not trust them. I've used Airalo without much hassle, but I can't say that they're any better. I did have an incident where the phone I was using broke, and I was unplea
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The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance(smithsonianmag.com)
10 points by Y_Y 1y ago|1 comments
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by Y_Y 1y ago
The guitar cat is on the back of a guy's t-shirt, he's on the opposite side of the square to the stage and facing away from it.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I realise now you were most likely referring to Hindenburg Research https://hindenburgresearch.com/ But some may find amusing my initial interpretation, that this was an oblique reference to Paul von Hindenburg effectively
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by Y_Y 1y ago
If you're following this path, make sure to use the finest traditional server rack that money can buy: https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/p/lack-side-table-white-30449908/
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Stephen Wolfram has done real worthwhile physics. He's an exceptionally smart dude, even if that doesn't come across in some of his writing. Just to pour some more opinions on the fire, I think he's been descending into crank
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Scooping the Loop Snooper (an elementary proof of the undecidability of the halting problem) No program can say what another will do. Now, I won't just assert that, I'll prove it to you: I will prove that although you might work t
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by Y_Y 1y ago
If I hadn't wanted to avoid diet and exercise more than I wanted to not be weak and overweight then we wouldn't be here.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Why would you do a thing you didn't ultimately want to do though?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. - Mogens Jallberg Regarding your Stalin "quote", please see https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stalin-vote-count
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Balderdash! Sorry to be standoffish, but you must distinguish between dictionaries. My distro has chosen to impoverish me with a nightmarish 315. (wamerican 2017.08.24-1 from Ubuntu 18.04)
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by Y_Y 1y ago
See also: Experts Exchange, Pen Island
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Ask HN/PG: Is the average screen resolution good enough for serif fonts yet?
1 points by Y_Y 1y ago|0 comments
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Obituaries can be really nice bits of writing
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Thanks. Starting with the butterfly and playing with the rotation slider I did manage to produce some seriously "biblically accurate" butterflies. No emergent evolutionary biology yet, but still fun.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I was doing something similar with fluid equations on meshes more than ten years ago. Once you have Automatic Differentiation it's fairly straightforward to reformulate a time evolution process into one that solves for some free parame
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Thank you for engaging with me so politely and constructively. I care probably more than I should about good science and honesty in academia, and so I feel compelled to push back in cases where I see things like: blatant overstating of capa
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by Y_Y 1y ago
As you compose fuzzy operations your errors multiply! Nobody is asking for perfection, but this tool seems to me a straightforward way to launder bad data. If you want to do a quick check of an idea then it's probably great, but if you
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Self-smoked salmon
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by Y_Y 1y ago
>>> await sort(presidents, by="right-leaning") ['Jimmy Carter', 'Bill Clinton', 'George H. W. Bush', 'Ronald Reagan'] Is this supposed to be impressive? GIGO, if you want
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. > (Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator.) http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Linux_Quotes.html That's t
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Haha, I didn't even mentioned Cryptonomicon since I feel like privacy and cryptocurrency are sailed ships, but it's a good reference.
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Ask HN: Are we all re-reading Neal Stephenson again?
3 points by Y_Y 1y ago|3 comments
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by Y_Y 1y ago
YMMV, my probability professor forbade typeset homework submissions, regardless of how well presented they were. I don't recommend SP's section for MA421, regardless of the excellent teaching quality.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
https://www.spacemacs.org/ Well integrated with vim keys, batteries-included conf. Maybe I'm just not ready for Doom Emacs yet, but this is what works for me.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
What's the difference between that and an incriminating paper document that the police believe you have hidden somewhere in the vast woods?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Highly specialised education doesn't scale well. Computers and factories keep getting more efficient, but a professor can only handle so many students still. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Luckily the politicians involved are set to expire around the same time
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by Y_Y 1y ago
A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics https://genius.com/Radiohead-fitter-happier-lyrics Ok Computer came out twenty-eight years ago (!)

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