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by dizzant 2y ago
This is an interesting take, the article touches on it too. > “Physicists are much less concerned than mathematicians about rigorous proofs,” says Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the Collège de France and a Fields Medal winner. Someti
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by dizzant 3y ago
If this is real, this might be the most helpful thing I learn all day. Thanks stranger
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by dizzant 3y ago
Great video, thanks for sharing!
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by dizzant 4y ago
Did you happen to attend a prestigious school? I find that the level of rigor (and corresponding freedom) varies tremendously from program to program. I did my undergrad at a state school with a middling engineering program, where I had amp
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by dizzant 4y ago
Is the original intent of strncpy() germane to the GPs comment? Explicitly stating the max length to copy is an effective tool for avoiding buffer overruns, regardless of whether the designers imagined that important use case.
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by dizzant 4y ago
This is a fascinating observation about the funding of nutrition education, thank you for sharing it. What do you think are the reasons most education efforts are spent on children? It seems to mirror the fact that children spend a signific
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by dizzant 4y ago
The press release that went along with the study is here: https://iac.gatech.edu/electric-scooters-car-use-atlanta?utm...
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Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta(nature.com)
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by dizzant 4y ago
> We have largely moved away from viewing humans or “consciousness” as something special. Who is “we” in this comment? Christianity and Islam emphasize consciousness and the uniqueness of human experience, and their adherents still accou
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by dizzant 4y ago
The link you posted supports the GP’s assertion that not declaring the current economic situation as a recession is politically motivated. The third paragraph specific cites common criticism of the NBER on that very front. That there could
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by dizzant 4y ago
I really like the idea of using the motor as a combined power source/user interface component! As the proud owner of a 2004 sedan, hacks to get digital audio on the original stereo are a common daydream of mine. Maybe Bluetooth low ene
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by dizzant 4y ago
The appearance of this article on HN strikes an uncanny valley for me. I independently recalled and told a friend about this river just a few hours ago, having not thought of it or done any digital interactions with the idea in probably mor
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by dizzant 4y ago
> Competition keeps people from being evil. Evil only happens when there's no reason for them to NOT do evil things. I don’t agree. People generally don’t steal, but if they have no food, they will resort to theft to survive. Compet
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by dizzant 4y ago
When motor vehicles do that, it’s called Talladega.
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by dizzant 4y ago
I don’t understand the downvotes. Your conclusion is wrong but you make a good contribution. Thanks for the anecdata. I too have seen this phenomenon, and I think it’s pretty common recently because the used car market is really out of whac
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by dizzant 4y ago
He discusses the engine in a previous video. The integrator is RK4 with fixed step size (no error adjustment) and constraints are maintained by reaction forces. Numerical instability in that type of system comes primarily from energy added
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by dizzant 4y ago
Are you defending the position that as a society, we should continue to allow funding the creation of child pornography through means of crypto? Visa states openly that they weren’t aware of the situation at issue, don’t support child porno
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by dizzant 4y ago
For me, "no one" translates more accurately to "no one I care about." I keep my journal physically on my person, in the backpack with my laptop. If the backpack is stolen, I actually don't care if the thief reads my
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by dizzant 4y ago
As with most things related to the interior life, what works best for you is intensely personal. For myself, I have journaled sporadically for the last decade, as the occasion presented itself. At first, I bought the notebook to catalogue a
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by dizzant 4y ago
While retaining the typical high school separation between math, biology, chemistry, and physics, but given control over the curricula taught in those courses, do you think it is possible to teach a single very high-level concept such as th
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by dizzant 4y ago
Wow I needed precisely -Wl,-whole-archive about a month ago to solve a missing symbol issue in a plug-in. I didn’t find the solution then, and moved on to a different strategy. This is why is scroll hacker news! The random tidbits are essen
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by dizzant 4y ago
OWA has a known issue with Firefox on Linux where it incorrectly believes that Ctrl is pressed while typing an email. This results in frequent missed characters and spurious actions, including moving focus to the search bar, archiving messa
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by dizzant 4y ago
This. I've been looking for a new Exchange client since Outlook Web stopped properly supporting Firefox. I reached immediately for Thunderbird, but switched away quickly because of the need to pay for (somewhat clumsy) Exchange integra
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by dizzant 4y ago
I use high math (very high math — control theory, numerical analysis, theory of optimization) in my day job as I finish grad school. I believe the article is correct in that I am one of very few in my office who actually employ this level o
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by dizzant 4y ago
Can you expand on why you think performance hacking degrades correctness? As I understand it, “yes” (with no arguments) is supposed to output “y\n” continuously until terminated. Throughout/latency are unspecified, admitting various im
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by dizzant 4y ago
Thanks for this perspective. I am one of these mismatched PhD students. When I entered 6 years ago, no professors in my department had time to advise me. The professor for whom I was a GTA took pity on me after two years of rejection, and n
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by dizzant 4y ago
I work in academia. Frequently, I need to convey various levels of confidence about facts when writing emails to my colleagues. Microsoft Outlooks suggestions are more than a mere annoyance on this front. They consistently suggest that &quo
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by dizzant 4y ago
This grinds my gears. I'm a part time at my office (govt contractor), and do more work in 20 hours than some others on my team do in 40. Restrictions on firing underperformers put us in the position of "needing" 40 hours in t
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by dizzant 5y ago
Comments like this are a dime a dozen on HN. Every time I see one, I wonder what horror raises such ire. I like C++ and use it voluntarily for my research. How did it bite you?
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by dizzant 5y ago
It is good to see support for better urban planning on Hacker News. Issues of urban planning and city design often escape notice of the popular milieu due to the banality of local politics, but are nonetheless important. One of the lasting

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