anon_123g987

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by anon_123g987 4y ago
I've only ever read this on Hacker News, in the form "Welcome to $current_year !", where $ is the scalar sigil in the Perl programming language, indicating that it's a variable, and should be substituted by the reader a
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
You are shadowbanned.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Your comments are not visible because you were shadowbanned years ago. You should create a new account.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
FYI, you were shadowbanned four days ago, probably automatically for your multiple flagged-to-death comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208156 . Maybe you should try to appeal to the mods.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
> [...] the camera needed frequent enough service [...] Let's hope that in the future software engineering becomes mature enough that we don't need daily security updates.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
https://archive.ph/XTtzc
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
"qbittorrent-nox" is the name of the headless package.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
I found out that's just disk cache. Try launching some memory hungry programs and you'll see the cache released and qBittorrent running at around 150 MB again.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
I "just Googled" it: > In recent decades, as understanding of human genetics has advanced, claims of inherent differences in intelligence between races have been broadly rejected by scientists on both theoretical and empirical
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Privacy Redirect: Redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and more to privacy friendly alternatives. https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect...
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Pay with an NFT! https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
English has "verbing", too. > "[E]asy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English." https://www.thoughtco.com/ver
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
In Hungarian it's "izé". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iz%C3%A9
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Compare yourself to others every time you want, but always remember this Venn diagram: https://i.imgur.com/pVoiW0l.png .
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
The word "meme" was created by Dawkins to be similar to "gene", because they spread similarly. Cancer is, in a certain sense, a genetic disease, the result of the malfunction of genes caused by mutation. So, to continue
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Thanks for the correction! I also think that both "in the head" and "on paper" work is necessary, of course, and I also think that Feynman did both, like everyone else. But we know that he often presented himself in the
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Also: The Feynman Algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution. Implying that the "thinking" happens in the head, not on the paper. There's a quote for everything, and
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
I don't think there's a difference here between Science and Mathematics. Scientists also study their tools (e.g. telescopes are studied by Optics), and use the objects of their studies as tools (e.g. galaxies can be used as telesc
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit. They continue wa
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Nature/evolution is working on a macroscopic scale, too, for billions of years. Still, there was and is a lot of "combinatorial space" for human engineers to explore, like inventing the wheel, for example, with which nature d
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
That's a preview of the first word of the next page. I guess it helps to switch between pages more smoothly.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
I think Ganzflicker is something similar. Article and discussion: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's (sciencealert.com) 177 points by smusamashah on June 28, 2021 | 146 comments https:/
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
> Russia today is a faint ghost of the former USSR. Russia was only a part of the USSR. Their main problem is that they, too, believe that they are the former USSR, and try to restore the former glory. Well, the state of the war in U
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
> A "mind worm" (to coin a phrase) It's called a "meme" (in its original definition by Richard Dawkins). And this kind of forcing a rebuttal is "trolling". Dismissing this trolling is phrased as "D
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
There was something like this a month ago on Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32230329
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Nah, it's standard engineering procedure: https://i.imgur.com/rKPe0Av.jpeg
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Every field does this trolling in some form. The sentence "The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader." should be familiar for everyone who studied Math.
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by anon_123g987 4y ago
Awesome Falsehood - A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

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