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by conceit 10y ago
> jacked Do you mean jagged, as in jagged edge? That is how new words are born, people accept it as if words wouldn't have to mean anything.
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by conceit 10y ago
Bah, the past tense in a summary is just bad grammar. It is regularly correct to use the present, also called the narrative present as wikipedia will have you know.
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by conceit 10y ago
needs another image link for visualization
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by conceit 10y ago
Why doesn't it make sense without any LISP? I read only the first chapters and found the concept of composition immediately applicable in C and as a C programmer I would write the same way in python, probably.
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by conceit 10y ago
That's a bold claim indeed, especially with that attempt at an explanation. > You cause a neuron to fire and it fires Tautology much? > it does not care why it fired. That's not even good English grammar. I mean, it's a
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by conceit 10y ago
That's what hippies call the setting. That's literally what the hip in hippie means to me, the ridiculous enthusiasm. I don't mean offense, but I find other words for the kind of careful optimism that is necessary to keep thi
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by conceit 10y ago
> [Idris] is a total language: your function must come with a proof that it terminates. So, you can't express the programs that never terminate, but can you express all the programs that would terminate? Point in case, you probably
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by conceit 11y ago
> Being a Windows user having tried to get into linux, there is a lot more than user inertia There's a specific friction coefficient?
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by conceit 11y ago
Would seem silly to use rust for all it's safety features to then call into c libraries, anyhow. So much for Heartbleed wouldn't happen with rust.
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by conceit 11y ago
If thinking about ownership of orphaned data is horrible, that still doesn't mean that there is no general solution. I can't support your argument, because I'm not capable. If I was, I probably wasn't asking in the first
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by conceit 11y ago
Doesn't mean it doesn't collect data server-side, now does it? And even if, there's still a blatant amount of scheming involved.
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by conceit 11y ago
Aren't king the copy cats doing candy crush, ripping off a lone dev? "We do cool stuff" , yeah, no.
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by conceit 11y ago
What reverse? No, I don't know.
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by conceit 11y ago
If you talk about illness, it's not about importance, it's about detriment. It's a matter of perspective and an agent can only consider one perspective. Altruism can impose unsolvable constraints on that perspective. You can&
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by conceit 11y ago
You couldn't possibly mean that enough people are working on it and that monoculture is fine, with that argument. You just state the status quo, but make it sound like a good thing, but the impliciy reason is, that there aren't en
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by conceit 11y ago
... which may then be confirmed by mathematical models, what else?
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by conceit 11y ago
> Mitochondria are purely a maternal gift. Sperm do not pass them on; only a mother’s egg does. Some species' sperm do pass mitochondria successfully. Human sperm passes mitochondrial dna, but the egg kills it off.
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by conceit 11y ago
> It is the integral over Omega in the rendering equation [1]. This is expensive to compute. The approach would be just exhaustive summation, I suppose. Would symbolic integration be equally expansive for simple enough geometry? Simplifi
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by conceit 11y ago
That's the kinda arms-industry I like.
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by conceit 11y ago
She talks about econ and, as you diligently pointed out, that's not her area of expertise, exactly. OTOH I would assume that a professional does have a clue about adjacent topics.
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by conceit 11y ago
Spreadsheet software is improving here and there. Excel today is not your old lotus-1-2-3. Although you'd be hard pressed to notice.
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by conceit 11y ago
Because econ is usually a different faculty
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by conceit 11y ago
As a German with an interest in computer and electrical engineering looking for a viable career path, I'd like to know, what companies are y'all talking about?
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by conceit 11y ago
or the Eisern Kreuz
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by conceit 11y ago
that the parameters are not codependent, as it's called in linear algebra, perhaps?
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by conceit 11y ago
And its his decision alone that makes it worth it, indeed. Nothing to do with economic pressure.
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by conceit 11y ago
have to admit, can't read my own ramblings there That's 50% of the university students, obviously, rough estimate. The implicit statement that it is the students' fault, when their education goes wrong, implies that our educa
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by conceit 11y ago
> education to the university level which realistically only 50% graduate from. Very naive to assume, that's not at all state funded educations fault. As if indoctrination wasn't part of that as well in the first place. > cr
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by conceit 11y ago
Ever heard of price differentiation, is that what you allude to? Also, it's not like %2 was a small gain for stable growth. On a individual level 10.000$ per month of activity, not counting 2 months vacation per semester, would be enou
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by conceit 11y ago
They did, not Christians specifically, but I remember crowds with signs and candles.

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