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https://based.cooking/
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Interviewer: "We have heard that a half a million children have died. I mean that's more children than died in Hiroshima. You know, is the price worth it?" Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we
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Is this true about the x64 Linux tarball [1] that Mozilla distributes? It's difficult for Mozilla to create new tarballs for each download. [1]: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linu...
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> We really need a 'Bash: The Good Parts' book like Doug Crockford did for Javascript. Bash is incredibly less complex than Javascript and there is such a resource: the "Bash guide" [1] and "Bash pitfalls"
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He is a full professor and this article, although critical of Columbia's push to improve its ranking, is dry and lacks hot-button topics.
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Not to whatabout, but the US has had its fair share of war criminals, some of whom are now treated with admiration by the liberal press [1,2] since they have come out against Trump and Putin. [1]: https://twitter.com/ABCPoli
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Very interesting website. I would never have imagined a 21st actor to have a webpage that looks like that of a professor from the mid 1990s. Hiroshi Abe is also an excellent actor -- Still Walking and After the Storm (both directed by
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a) Makes no difference to the argument. I'm not criticizing the student for writing to Feynman. I'm just saying that Feynman was absolutely right in his criticism, considering how elementary the subject matter is. b) Also doesn&#
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> Like if I wrote in an article or book chapter that 2 + 3 = 7. I’d know what the error was when it was pointed out to me. But I wouldn’t be able to imagine how in the world I made such an elementary goof. And why would that make you l
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> The student wasn't sure if the paragraph was wrong or if she'd misunderstood what Feynman was saying in it. So she asked him. And he answered that question. > I thought the point was that she wasn't supposed to &#x
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That paragraph is wrong. So it's pointless to wonder why Feynman wrote what he wrote (that is unless you are interested in the man himself). She specifically had a PS in the letter where she said she had "a devious motive in wri
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I don't think people in this thread have realized this, but the issue here is about an application of Gauss's law, not the law itself. If you write in a math test "d^2/dx^2 sin(x) = sin(x)" and complain that you ha
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> But all this begs the question. Why should we believe Gauss's law? This particular incident had nothing to do with the validity of Gauss's law, which is nothing but a restatement of Coulomb's law in electrostatics, and
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> he gives evidence for why he should not be trusted as an authority-- he goofed and doesn't even know why! Your comment is very hilarious since Gauss's law is high-school physics. So Feynman would have clearly known how h
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The commenter is probably referring to the various attempts [1] (some successful) to tarnish Feynman's image since his death. I agree that the comment is completely irrelevant to this particular discussion though. [1]: https:/&#
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> I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language and seems like Mathematica is the only CAS on the list. Interesting, and thanks for the link. I didn't know such a term existed, althoug
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If he's being coerced, he still has the option of saying nothing.
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http://100rsns.blogspot.com/
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> I'm not up-to-date about opportunities in India, but I can certainly say that the remark about prospects in China are outdated for Chinese citizens. After spending around 5 years in a mid-ranked American university, I have to ad
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The essay is from 1999, so the salaries are a little off -- it's something like $50,000 +/- $15,000 for most postdoctoral positions now. Yes, you can go to Wall St with a physics PhD and have a great career. But the thing is tha
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Also worth reading: "Don't Become a Scientist!" by Jonathan Katz [1], "Women in Science" by Philip Greenspun [2], and "What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?" by Bob Henderson [3]. [1]: https:&#x2
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> It is a horrible language, I think some called it a write-only language. TBH, I don't think that the language is badly designed for a CAS. Most CAS (e.g., Maxima, Maple, etc.) all use a language that's heavily influenced b
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Mathematica. Clunky interface on Linux, requires that you use the Notebook interface for most things, terrible to run headlessly on a server, need to be happy with the defaults that Wolfram provides, etc. However, it's still the best
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I've had good experiences with XnView on Linux even though it's proprietary.
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How come Hollywood hasn't turned this into a horror film already?
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Browse the Internet with one line of Bash: firefox https://news.ycombinator.com But seriously, the commands in the article are not Bash commands (they don't even use Bashisms) and are valid in any POSIX-compliant shell
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> On the one hand, it is to my eyes one of the ugliest fonts designed during the 20th century; on the other, my experience of it as a reader (hence again, my eyes) is that it is one of the easiest to read fonts ever created. For me it&#x
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Surprising to see that this article has snubbed Chinese FP manufacturers. I own over 20 FPs and some of my favorites are ones made by Jinhao and WingSung. One might even say that the WingSung 300x [1] is better made than the pens that it
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> AAS is a nonprofit society, though, so while there may be some cross-subsidy of other activities those page charges must reflect to some degree the actual costs to maintain the journal. I've published with ApJ. In late 2016, ApJ
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> So I'll personally still submit to journals without page charges and upload pre-prints on arxiv. All the major journals in astronomy/astrophysics (ApJ, ApJ Letters, A&A, PASP, etc.) require article processing charges. Th

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