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by edanm 3y ago
I'll have to disagree on this one. I'm a big Phillip K. Dick fan, and have read many of his works (though it's been a while), but I found Ubik to be a slog and didn't really enjoy it. To anyone reading this - I'm
902.
by edanm 3y ago
Can confirm - I'm a huge fan of Greg Egan and specifically Permutation city, and also a huge fan of qntm's stories. Lena is probably the most famous, though not even the best ("I don't know Timmy" is better IMO). Al
903.
by edanm 3y ago
> As an HP calculator lover (I wore the ENTER > = t-shirt 40 years ago) I understand the stack and RPN but have no idea how I'd write a trig or stat function if it weren't already built in! From talking to several people who
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by edanm 3y ago
Well not every author has helped develop actual mathematical proofs. :)
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by edanm 3y ago
I love Egan, and have planned to read more of his books. Haven't read this trilogy yet but definitely going on my list.
906.
by edanm 3y ago
I love that book, one of my favorite reads of last year. (Read it before the controversy.)
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by edanm 3y ago
Look, I wrote a huge reply, but I ended up deciding we agree more than we disagree, so I scrapped it. I think the only thing I'm trying to push back on is any kind of "conspiracy" thinking - this might not be anything coordin
908.
by edanm 3y ago
> [...] you are saying that users of "news.ycombinator.com" wanted to purposefully hide a story about [...] No, you're interpreting things here in a specific way. It could be that users didn't think it belonged on HN
909.
by edanm 3y ago
If you have a system that relies on voting, and people vote against some things appearing, that's not called censoring! That's just the system working as intended.
910.
by edanm 3y ago
I'm not sure if I missed it, but why do they call using ChatGPT "cheating"? It's only "cheating" if you are explicitly asked not to use ChatGTP. (Also, not sure if it really counts as cheating, wouldn't it
911.
by edanm 3y ago
Seconding this, Clojure was my introduction to Lisps, and I used only VSCode with it. One of the greatest development environments I've ever used, and about half the fun of learning Clojure for me. (The other half being learning the la
912.
by edanm 3y ago
I've seen a community-managed Anki Shared deck, I think the "Ultimate Geography" deck is community-shared.
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by edanm 3y ago
> We should indeed scrutinize the police judgement, and if the SWAT team goes in guns blazing killing some of the hostages in the cross fire, we should question that decision. As is often done in countries with free press. Absolutely. I&
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by edanm 3y ago
> The IDF says it is not morally sound to investigate the incidents Yes, sorry, of course, I miswrote that. (I edited the comment.) > They have released their own data (without allowing third party investigation) on friendly fire fo
915.
by edanm 3y ago
The world includes a lot of people and a lot of countries. Many of them strongly disagree with your characterization of what is happening as a genocide, including many of the world's democracies. You can think whatever you want about t
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by edanm 3y ago
> It is absolutely not "true both legally and morally." It all depends on scale and purpose of the operation. Well I wasn't making a general statement - I was talking in this specific case. Let's give an analogy - if
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by edanm 3y ago
EDIT: Mis-wrote something, see further comments for details. I went down the rabbit-hole trying to find out exactly what was said and meant. I don't consider Electronic Intifada a credible source (I mean, the bias is in the name!), but
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by edanm 3y ago
They're in a different territory that has no Israeli presence. That's like saying the US could've just arrested the members of ISIS..
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by edanm 3y ago
Israel has had peace with Egypt and Jordan, for a long time now.
920.
by edanm 3y ago
Are you literally judging a book by its title? I don't think dismissing books out of hand without actually engaging with anything they say, but rather by engaging with imagined arguments based on their titles, is not a good way of arri
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by edanm 3y ago
As far as has been credibly reported, it wasn't a "sizeable fraction", it was a very small number. There's only one incident I know of that is verified. I'm sure more will surface - such is war. Therefore I want to
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by edanm 3y ago
yes! Especially since The Office and Brooklyn Nine-Nine both made the cut, and are very related shows. (The Office finale is one of my favorite finales ever. While both are great, I'd probably say P&R beats Brooklyn Nine-Nine, thou
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by edanm 3y ago
If you don't mind my asking - how many kids do you have? And why did you choose that number?
924.
by edanm 3y ago
That's awesome! My friend and long-ago business partner was a unicyclist, and did mountain unicycling for a while as well. He recently switched to going around with free skates - I'm trying to learn them as well (I never did get a
925.
by edanm 3y ago
I think you're pointing out something true and worth mentioning, but - I'm not sure why you're comparing this to numerology. People can be interested in fun facts about numbers, whether about their digital representation or n
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by edanm 3y ago
> Huh, memorising songs is interesting, how do you do this? Split it into a set of cards per verse where each card in the set is of a different line hidden? I'm trying to find the best way to do this in 2024. What I used to do is us
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by edanm 3y ago
I used it to self-study some maths a few years ago. As I was reading a textbook, I'd add cards, usually things like definitions, examples and counterexamples, a few simple proofs. At some point I even added some more advanced proofs, w
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm not a nutrition scientist, so obviously not at all an expert that can probably chime in with some more findings. But generally - yes, afaik there's mostly a consensus that total caloric intake is the driver of amount of adipos
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by edanm 3y ago
What makes you think you're right about any of that? Do you have any evidence to back up your (crazy) theory that an entire field of study isn't real science? Cause from where I'm sitting, nutritional scientists do plenty of
930.
by edanm 3y ago
That's just not true. We know a lot about the basics of nutrition. Actual nutrition scientists mostly agree on lots of different things. The problem is that the public doesn't want to hear it, so the media keeps running articles t

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