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by alephu5 7y ago
I have been learning Haskell from these two books over the last 4 months: "Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano" and "Practical Web Development with Haskell" by Ecky Putrady. With other languages I usually just skim th
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by alephu5 7y ago
I'm a self-taught developer with haskell in my arsenal, although that being said I have an MSc in theoretical physics which probably helps me appreciate the power of its paradigm.
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by alephu5 7y ago
I don't really know how you can understand Feynman diagrams without seeing how annihilation and creation operators act on the vacuum. They are the mathematical building blocks of qft; formally they are linear operators that represent t
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by alephu5 7y ago
Maybe you'd like NixOS?
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by alephu5 8y ago
Not just paying interest, actually paying whole mortgages for other people. Since the financial crisis of 2007 it's unrealistic for most young people to save to pay a deposit on their own mortgage. Where I live they want about 5 years
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by alephu5 8y ago
Why was it such a bad experience for you?
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by alephu5 8y ago
I'm currently living in south America and thanks to a lack of net neutrality it's very difficult to not use WhatsApp. For as little as $2 a month you can have unlimited use of WhatsApp, messenger and Waze. SMS and classic phone ca
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by alephu5 9y ago
The USA is a joke when it comes to security. They've got all this stupid and expensive beauracracy for coming in and out of the country that does nothing but irritate people. I recently flew through the US on a connection flight from t
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by alephu5 9y ago
If it turns out that this type of DMCA use is legally valid, adblockers could be modified to reject pages that embed URLs that have filed such requests. So if a particular site uses admiral to protect its ads, it loses traffic.
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by alephu5 10y ago
Is it feasible to add pseudorandom Gaussian noise to their aim that is multiplied by distance÷√difficulty in each axis?
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by alephu5 10y ago
When I get a new computer with Windows preinstalled, the first thing I do is split the hard disk and put a nice Linux distro on. On the odd occasion I need to use Windows it's really no big deal having to navigate the ocean of bloat an
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by alephu5 10y ago
I respect that ethical motivations of free software in an age of mass surveillance, retail tracking and the copyright war but I routinely use proprietary software. In practice when a free clone lacks a feature or has a bug that stops me, I
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by alephu5 10y ago
What if there are terrorists in parliament? How will the security agencies be able to find them if they are allowed privacy?
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by alephu5 10y ago
If fb can't support basic browser based text chat they have a major lack of talent. If it's costing them much to support they have serious financial problems. I don't think that either is true so I guess they just want to sni
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by alephu5 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment 100%, but if you insist on doing things safely while your colleagues do not, you might get a reputation for being slow and be earmarked for replacement. Perhaps it's worth losing a job over, but your replace
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by alephu5 11y ago
Moral issues aside, don't you think that crashing well is an important design feature? For example, to use ultrasound to map the hardness of nearby obstacles and go for the one that provides the quickest safe deceleration, or to orches
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by alephu5 11y ago
I'm not sure the reductionist approach is the best for this. Many people use alcohol to find mates and court, or socialise with friends; both of which lead to measurable mental and physical health benefits. People who drink recreationa
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by alephu5 11y ago
In this documentary, two twins compare the effect of binge drinking to regular alcohol intake. In one experiment, they both drink the same amount of fluid and collect their urine in measuring cylinders. Only one of the twins drinks alcohol