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by apricot 9y ago
"Without permission." Translated: our lawyers say that some part of the 50-page user agreement you clicked can be interpreted in a way that technically allows us to do this.
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by apricot 9y ago
The Miranda book! I read this as a wet-behind-the-ears undergrad, and the scales fell from my eyes. Also, my copy had a weird binding that made a funny squeaking sound every time I turned a page.
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by apricot 9y ago
Also, green tea kit kats!
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by apricot 9y ago
Very interesting. Now, suppose I interpret this kind of action as spying on me, and I want to stop it, are there ways around it? Is not logging on to Google etc. and using the Privacy Badger extension enough, or do I have to ramp up the arm
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by apricot 9y ago
If every tech device over 12 years old I have stopped working tomorrow, I would be in a heap of trouble. That's the thing with streaming devices: they are dependent on external support for basic functionality, and manufacturers can arb
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by apricot 9y ago
Am bright child, can confirm. (Just kidding, I'm actually a foolish middle-aged man. But I'm talking about my inner bright child.)
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by apricot 9y ago
Thank you for the explanations. I agree with you that this more abstract view of the chain rule (and the derivative itself) is superior to the sum-of-products formula one usually sees in a first course in multivariable calculus, but I feel
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by apricot 9y ago
What do you mean by "derivative of a composition is the composition of the derivatives"?
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by apricot 9y ago
From the Project Euler website: I learned so much solving problem XXX so is it okay to publish my solution elsewhere? It appears that you have answered your own question. There is nothing quite like that "Aha!" moment when you fin
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by apricot 9y ago
Only in the sense that anything at all is just a form of brute force.
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by apricot 9y ago
> Like, how does AlphaZero optimize for “how to slow Climate Change”? Do you want AIs exterminating humans? Because that's how you get AIs exterminating humans.
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by apricot 9y ago
> During the design stage, Steve Jobs argued that the Apple II should have two expansion slots "Sorry, can't use a modem right now, I have both a floppy drive and a printer plugged in."
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by apricot 9y ago
> MBP rendered unusable by faulty X key. Apple wanted $400, he paid, then the G key went out. They wanted another $400. Act today and buy the entire alphabet for just $8000. That's a $2400 savings!
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by apricot 9y ago
Multiplan... now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
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by apricot 9y ago
Same here. I really hope the keyboard is as good as old-school Thinkpads and I'm crossing my fingers for 3:2 aspect ratio.
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by apricot 9y ago
Successful attempt at engineering cringe.
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by apricot 9y ago
Quebec uses something called the R score to rank applicants to universities. The R score of a student is the sum of the student's Z score (how many standard deviations above the mean), plus the group's Z score relative to all stud
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by apricot 9y ago
A Vacheron 57260 would go well with my daily carry Swiss Army knife: https://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/Wenger-Giant-85-tool-1...
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by apricot 10y ago
When Jobs came back to Apple, there was a similar chaos regarding the Macintosh models. Lots of numbers, letters, and qualifiers, and the purpose of a new model was seldom clear. He canceled the majority of them -- the "great extinctio
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by apricot 10y ago
"Could not find what's new. Any hints ?" This sums up Apple's problems better than anything I've seen.
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by apricot 10y ago
It's almost as if they were using a semantic markup language rather than a visual description language...
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by apricot 10y ago
Also see Keith Devlin's essay: In math you have to remember, in other subjects you can think about it at http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_06_10.html
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by apricot 10y ago
I got a hundred buckses in my pocketses.
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by apricot 10y ago
I play the piano and I never use the black keys, except C# once in a while.
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by apricot 10y ago
> I also have issues with the esc key though. First they came for Scroll Lock and I did not speak out -- because who uses Scroll Lock? Then they came for the PgUp and PgDown keys and I did not speak out -- because I could always use Fn-a
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by apricot 10y ago
Once I wrote a ten-line TeX program to add serial numbers to a large stack of Scantron forms. It worked well enough, but that's when I learned that laser printers are much less precise than I thought when it comes to positioning relati
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by apricot 10y ago
Isn't using LaTeX instead of Word in the DSM-5 already, right next to vi and Linux?
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by apricot 10y ago
Group therapy for tech C-suite, in blog form.
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by apricot 10y ago
Also, if you ever get bored putting junk mail in your recycling bin, why not mail it to the author of this article?
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by apricot 10y ago
So it's like Calculus textbooks. 13th edition versus 12th edition: let's add 8 pages of new contents, mostly about the early life of Leibniz, but most importantly, let's scramble all the exercise numbers.

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