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by aaachilless 9y ago
I wish, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, so not really. All I’ve repaired so far is a couple pairs of Levi’s that I keep tearing on my desks at school. I mentioned sweaters from CVS because I bought one for ~$9 and the seams are com
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I find that the most cost-effective clothes are usually those that you won’t find at Wal-Mart or K-Mart nor at, for example, Sack’s Off Fifth. $50 dollar Levi’s, $100 Nike running shoes, $10 tee shirts, etc seem to last way longer than the
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I think I think this is pretty cool, but I'm not sure if the reasons I think it's cool are valid. For example, I can imagine a jukebox app for parties or bars accessible via SMS, but I can't tell if Spotifyd actually enables
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by aaachilless 9y ago
It's really beautiful how the entire world [1] has in unison recognized the life of this great man. There's something uncanny, sort of cinematic, about the information of his death radiating out across the globe and "lighting
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by aaachilless 9y ago
The usability difference between scooters and bikes is meaningful. They fit into a totally seamless user experience that would be very difficult to manage with bikes. They’re more tamper-proof, smaller, easier to hop on and off of, easier t
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by aaachilless 9y ago
The humanity in this comment is invigorating. I appreciate the time you took to share it!
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by aaachilless 9y ago
> I appreciated the good man pages, as I tried to do everything within the self contained system, without resorting to internet searches. I've been trying pretty hard to commit to this style of learning. It seems to me that using th
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Maybe, but “applied mathematics” is conventionally more similar to “how to apply mathematics” than it is to “mathematics that is applied”. Studying how to apply mathematics is qualitatively different in many ways than studying pure mathemat
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by aaachilless 9y ago
You'll see the chaotic behavior if you look around the vertical initial state at the top center of the graph. The initial states nearby evolve quite differently than each other. "Chaotic" describes a system only locally aroun
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by aaachilless 9y ago
In my opinion the goal of a thread like this isn't to share missed opportunities but to highlight potential opportunities for readers today.
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by aaachilless 9y ago
To me this comment is actually good evidence for why 0 shouldn’t be truthy. The reason you gave sounds like an anti-pattern that can only exist because 0 is truthy; so a good reason to have a falsy 0 is that you couldn’t do what you said yo
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Words they've used like "State B, Colour 16: Stay in state B, colour this space 18, move one step right" are just mnemonics, for the sake of keeping track of information relevant to Turing completeness, that could be replaced
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I'm not sure if you meant to imply the contrary, but club soda isn't the same as tonic water--club soda doesn't have sugar added. So if you're yet to find a replacement for your gin and tonics, you could try out vodka so
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by aaachilless 9y ago
The course in question contains topics like imaginary numbers, sequences/series, and conic sections along with the more practical topics like basic inequalities, graphs of functions, and simple systems of equations. The alternative pat
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by aaachilless 9y ago
disclaimer: I've read (but am aware of the premises of) none of the books the article mentions, so I might have misunderstood the message/tone of the article. > Like all real literature, it aims above all to tell a truth, howe
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Looks very similar to HN but, at a first glance, I don't see much activity there? would your experience contradict this observation?
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by aaachilless 9y ago
LitHub looks interesting but it's more of a publication than a forum, yeah?
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Ask HN: Where can I find a “literary” equivalent to HN?
7 points by aaachilless 9y ago|5 comments
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I didn't and for essentially the reason you described. The minutiae of the setting kept getting in the way of enjoying the story and the characters. Maybe I'll give it another go. Still, 300 pages is quite the hurdle.
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by aaachilless 9y ago
There must be some fundamental difference between the way you and I read, because I feel like I'm wading through a sea of gems when it comes to choosing books. Every once in a while I come upon a dud, but not often at all. And the duds
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I see what you mean. Something I've been doing recently to help with that problem is reading clusters of books that all relate to each other. For example, I'm currently reading a bunch of Hemingway's stories and next I'm
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Do many people have a hard time finding books to read? I have the exact opposite problem: I'm constantly overwhelmed by the tidal wave of books that is my to-read list. I'd give my right arm to be able to read 2x as fast as I do t
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by aaachilless 9y ago
This is not a nitpick, I'm actually curious: When you say "absolutely not a philosophy text" do you mean that it's definitely not 100% philosophy? Or do you mean that it's actually 0% philosophy?
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by aaachilless 9y ago
So if a 50-year-old wiseman writes a book, a 20-year-old reads it and copies its ideas into a letter for a friend in need of some wisdown, and I read the letter 60 years later, what do I do? To help with the prescription: I'm in my mid
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by aaachilless 9y ago
Is this level of density typical for some subset of advanced maths texts? I've never seen anything like it and I'm about to receive an undergrad maths degree.
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I don't find the title misleading, but I think it's worth noting that the message isn't very R- or ecology-specific. The message is something like "if you do science, you should use scriptable data processing tools.&quot
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by aaachilless 9y ago
A different interpretation could be that seeing information embedded in different contexts signals your brain that the information is sufficiently generic as to merit storing it. In a way this might be somewhat analogous to spaced repetitio
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by aaachilless 9y ago
His answer was not vanity. Vanity is just probably, not nescessarily, and surely not uniquely, one of the reasons behind his answer.
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by aaachilless 9y ago
I think maybe there's some confusion here regarding the definitions of symmetry and antisymmetry, because they're very closely related. Symmetry says "whenever A, then B" and antisymmetry says "whenever A, then not
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by aaachilless 9y ago
In this case there's not really a naming problem either. The confusion comes from the idea that ((A -> B) && (A -> ~B)) is sometimes true. Capturing that subtlety in a name doesn't seem practical to me.

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