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by chongli 2y ago
I love the math pages on Wikipedia but I have a math degree. They are written (written clearly and concisely) for mathematicians. If you're a programmer (but don't have a math degree) then I would offer up API docs as a comparison
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by chongli 2y ago
Maybe at its core, but Haskell in the wild is monstrously complex because of all the language extensions. Many different people use different sets of extensions so you have to learn them to understand what’s going on!
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by chongli 2y ago
Westerners do use cheese but many of them are very unhappy about it. Probably its biggest detractor is Dan 'Artosis' Stemkosky, a man who has dedicated his life to StarCraft and who sees cheese strategies as a betrayal of the beau
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by chongli 2y ago
Instead of "cheese" or "all-in" they use "pil-sal-gi" which means ace/joker card That’s a really interesting one to me! One thing I’ve noticed is that Koreans do not seem to have the same hangups /
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by chongli 2y ago
I am a StarCraft fan and I have no idea what a courtyard or a frontyard is supposed to be! However I do know that the names of buildings, units, technologies, and strategies are usually heavily abbreviated in English. Perhaps the same is tr
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by chongli 2y ago
That’s going to be tough. Shaoxing wine and soy sauce both have lots of sodium in them because they’re intended for seasoning dishes without the need to add salt separately. Even dòuchǐ (fermented black soybeans), which offer a similar flav
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by chongli 2y ago
Streaming is a major use case where the camera may be recording continuously for several hours at a time. Another one is for video meetings, though in that case I’d prefer it if my camera forced the end of the meeting after 30 mins.
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by chongli 2y ago
Chinese cooking wines avoid alcohol taxes by adding salt. The salt is useful as a seasoning for food but makes the wine undrinkable!
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by chongli 2y ago
No, the moral of the story is that technology is an exponentially-growing force multiplier for scammers. Back in the hunter-gatherer days, you could be a fool and still survive by relying on your kinship group to protect you and take care o
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by chongli 2y ago
Most scientific advances throughout history prior to about the 1950s were made by people whose education was either informal or private (including apprenticeship). Private tutoring was the predominant mode of formal education (below univers
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by chongli 2y ago
Over a 100 year old grind, schooling fixed all that. Why can't it keep going? Schooling didn’t fix all that. There have been major advances throughout society in every area: medicine, nutrition, sanitation, manufacturing, electricity
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by chongli 2y ago
Or that bag of Doritos washed down with a bottle of Mountain Dew!
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by chongli 2y ago
Gay marriage succeeded as a movement long before the issue of wokeness came to the fore (with the BLM movement). If you actually read the positions of the thought leaders of the latter movement (people like Ta-Nehisi Coates) the argument is
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by chongli 2y ago
Absolutely love EV and EVO. I played a bit of Nova but it didn’t grab me the same way (perhaps it was too many years later, although I did replay EV much more recently and loved it). This is the second time today I’ve seen someone mention E
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by chongli 2y ago
If you’re going to the trouble to buy retro hardware for retro gaming, you probably don’t want to be settling for emulation. While Apple’s built-in 68K emulator for PowerPC is remarkably fast and compatible with a lot of software, there are
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by chongli 2y ago
I'm still a bit confused. Suppose you have another table, call it temperatures with columns id and temperature , where every row contains only a valid temperature (no NULL records), and you have a main logging table with date an
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by chongli 2y ago
What happens if your data is produced by some automated process such as a sensor reading and occasionally the sensor fails to return a value? NULL seems exactly the appropriate value to use.
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by chongli 2y ago
UNKNOWN isn’t always correct though. Let’s say your data is input by users filling out a form and some of the fields are allowed to be left blank. NULL captures both the case where the user intentionally left the field blank but also the ca
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by chongli 2y ago
I mean you just have to get to the point where all of the trailing decimal places (bits) form a repeating pattern with finite period. But since there are infinitely many such patterns it becomes extremely hard to rule out without some mecha
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by chongli 2y ago
If Hitler has been assassinated before he came to power then we wouldn’t have any idea of the significance of that. It’d be hard to say anyone would have supported the assassin besides the most ardent of the Nazi party’s political opponents
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by chongli 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for. I live in Canada. We have single payer health care here. The system is collapsing. Practitioners are getting burned out and extremely unhappy. Waiting lists for many common procedures just keep getting longer a
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by chongli 2y ago
Lying to preserve an institution is like playing Jenga: eroding the foundation in order to scale up the tower.
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by chongli 2y ago
This whole story was started by the fact that countless people have begun to revere Luigi Mangione as a Robin Hood -like folk hero. Whatever taboo put in place against violence seems to have failed in this case.
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by chongli 2y ago
Space is a fantastic insulator. Space suits for astronauts have to be cooled, not heated.
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by chongli 2y ago
WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get." If you want the title to be Courier 24 point Bold then that's what you see on the screen. If you are writing in a proportional font with proper kerning then that's what you s
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by chongli 2y ago
MacWrite was a WYSIWYG word processor. You could change the fonts or other formatting and see the results updated on the screen. WordStar and WordPerfect were for DOS. They were not WYSIWYG. Sure they were powerful word processors for profe
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by chongli 2y ago
That sounds amazing. And I bet you slept like a baby during those times! Nothing better for sleep than a hard day’s physical work!
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by chongli 2y ago
Thanks for clearing this up because I was confused by the other comments about how multi course meals are common in Italy but unknown in the US. So nobody in Italy is going to nonna’s house and sitting down to 10 courses of tiny amounts of
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by chongli 2y ago
No way that’s 50g of carbs. They started with 150g dry pasta and the serving they plated was less than 1/5th of it. I’d be surprised if there’s 20g of carbs in that serving.
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by chongli 2y ago
Thank you! I was totally caught off guard by the swiftness and harshness of the response to what I thought was a pretty innocent comment about the joy of Italian pasta. If I had to guess, the pasta serving in the video was no more than abou

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