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by dhosek 2y ago
Not necessarily. If you assume an ideal ruler and compass, it‘s pretty easy to construct the square root of any number which means that you can easily put a dot on that number line which is provably not a rational number. There is the quest
872.
by dhosek 2y ago
dancing hamster
873.
by dhosek 2y ago
I was thinking earlier that a big part of why musk’s team at doge is all kids who would be interns at any real company is that anyone with any real experience would say hell no to the kind of stuff they’re trying to do to production systems
874.
by dhosek 2y ago
Given the last three weeks, I would expect rules that are actively pedestrian-hostile.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Until I clicked the link I thought it was a post about spontaneous rodent combustion.
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by dhosek 2y ago
In Slavic languages, it’s not uncommon to do doubled diminutives, so Pavel ⇢ Pavlik ⇢ Pavliček. (Or my ex-wife who didn’t like the shortness of my name “Don” but liked the Czech vocative of it, Doničku¹ which she then abbreviated to Ičku, t
877.
by dhosek 2y ago
It had somehow never occurred to me before reading this that Dixon = Dickson and Nixon = Nickson.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I have no analytics or log analysis on my blog. The only way that I have any indication that it’s getting read are the rare occasions when someone leaves a comment, although in one case, it was the author of a book I wrote about responding
879.
by dhosek 2y ago
When I was a kid, we had an old Reader’s Digest atlas with historical world maps on the endpapers (Australia was connected to Antarctica on this map). There was an island in the southern Indian Ocean labeled “Los Romeros” which I decided
880.
by dhosek 2y ago
Mentioned in the article
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by dhosek 2y ago
Cloud chambers are surprisingly simple things. In grade school, following instructions from an old issue of Scientific American , I made one from a couple Mason jars (with assistance from my dad for the glass cutting) for the school scienc
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by dhosek 2y ago
Pretty much all kids want to write games.
883.
by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve only ever learned two assembly languages: 6502 (when I was in elementary school in the early 80s) and 370 (my senior year of high school when I had access to the UIC mainframe thanks to taking night classes there). I can roughly follow
884.
by dhosek 2y ago
I always fight to get this stuff into JIRA (or whatever equivalent tool we’re using), and then make sure that all commits have the JIRA ID in them.
885.
by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve not heard this claim, but even accepting that, it does not support your assertion, “There isn't a single story of a successful band that wouldn't hinge on having a big publisher exec approve them and work with them to change
886.
by dhosek 2y ago
Your depiction of iMessage (which is essentially SMS+encrypted communication with enhancements to people who also have Apple devices) seems disingenuous, as does your explanation of why people use alternatives outside the US. Outside the HN
887.
by dhosek 2y ago
Calendar invites and social invites are very different beasts.
888.
by dhosek 2y ago
Off the top of my head, how about the Beatles?
889.
by dhosek 2y ago
I don’t do any of the streaming services, but the bugginess around owned music in the Apple Music player is getting seriously frustrating.
890.
by dhosek 2y ago
Umm, gonna hard disagree. At least before the consolidation of media (whether publishers or record labels), the people who ran publishing houses and record labels did it because they loved books or music as appropriate. Publishing was never
891.
by dhosek 2y ago
Kind of reminds me of being on vacation with my family in Michigan and the only place with cell reception was a construction site nearby. While talking with my wife who was in Morocco at the time, I climbed inside a front loader to avoid th
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by dhosek 2y ago
Structurally, Bitcoin is a lousy idea for a currency as it is intrinsically deflationary (i.e., even without the speculative inflating of the cost of a Bitcoin, the structure of the coin is such that coins become increasingly scarce and exp
893.
by dhosek 2y ago
I heard a story of Seymour Cray doing a demo of one of the machines and it turned out there was a bug in some hardware procedure. While the customers were at lunch, Seymour opened up the machine, redid the wire wrap and had the bug fixed wh
894.
by dhosek 2y ago
The youngs have no idea. You used to have to pay for development tools. In high school, I would hand-assemble my 6502 assembler programs by writing them out longhand on graph paper, fill in the hex in the left columns than type in the hex i
895.
by dhosek 2y ago
I always think of Glengarry Glen Ross when I think about high and low quality leads. The leads are weak? You’re weak!
896.
by dhosek 2y ago
I found it a bit odd when I got a dog that I was struck with an instantaneous grief shortly after getting it as I considered the fact that I would almost certainly see it die.¹ Oddly, this has never happened with the many cats I’ve had alth
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by dhosek 2y ago
That said, especially for introverts, a dog can be a magical thing. Proper care requires daily walks and dogs are, by nature, gregarious. Some breeds will attract other people without effort (I had a beagle and had I known how appealing t
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by dhosek 2y ago
As an undergrad, thanks to the fact that I could easily do diacritics with TeX, I was overfond of using the diaeresis (I had gleaned from observation, not just in the New Yorker but also the writings of Donald Knuth, that a diaeresis serv
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by dhosek 2y ago
The author Mary Robinette Kowal has a cat, Elsie, who uses a button board. I’m reluctant to call it language exactly, but it is definitely a kind of communication. An example is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C48uKZ8
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by dhosek 2y ago
Lagrange points are a key plot device in Iain M. Banks’s The Algebraist . I did figure out the location of the Dweller wormhole pretty quickly, thanks to thinking about how Lagrange points worked, but it is a great work of science fiction.

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