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by fsckboy 6mo ago
visicalc was rewriten in the 80's for computers newer than the apple ][, so are you asking specifically about the original implementation or later implementations? it makes a difference and mostly disobviates the question.
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
but wasn't it documented to do it in some sort of "down and to the right" order, and if you wrote your formulas "up and to the left" everything would be hunky dory? tables generally have row and column sums, subtota
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> We've seen the kind of appeasement prose from their statement and FAQ [1] countless times before what are you referring to, who is being appeased who shouldn't be? what are you worried about happening?
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> Early adopters of solar panels tend to be people who are interested in innovative technology, who find an installer they trust, and who think having solar panels will benefit them. I'll bet early adopters of solar panels tend to
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
speaking of, Reclaim is the company TFA recommends Clockwise customers migrate to
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> Going on the stand and stating that you "don't know" whether the allegedly defamatory statements you are suing over are true or not is a... bold legal strategy. if the statement is true, that's a defense against de
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
growing companies generally have capital needs that exceed retained earnings, so paying dividends would by definition increase capital need.
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
combining repeated samples of any distribution* (any population density fuction including power law distributions) will converge to the normal distribution, that's why it appears everywhere. * excluding bizarre degenerates like constan
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
he only got away from it (it being the allegation)
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
Israel does military censorship, same as any other country, you can't communicate information that would harm the defense of the country or aid its enemies. Israel is in a hostile and armed neighborhood with frequent hot conflicts, bot
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
you can't experience Latino culture without thinking that they treat happiness as a goal, it's sort of like you're applying a Germanic/Protestant/Puritanical filter to Americans also I don't think the more subt
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
catholicism is not procreation only, for example sex on a calendar of "rhythm method" contraception is ok
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
any game with a positive expected value is also not gambling, it's mining
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
that makes no sense. companies need capital, that's why there is a stock market. dividends are paid from past earnings, never capital (earnings are only a %age of the value of the capital) and not from higher expectations of the future
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
you need to learn a little finance, i.e. that subset of economics dealing with financial markets. Markets "crowdsource" values in the face of changing needs, preferences, probability and volatility, and that's an incredibly u
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
because parents get to vote same as you, and it looks like they are winning. there are many problems in the libertarian utopia that could be dumped on individuals ("if you don't like it, don't leave your house") but equa
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
punishing failure is probably counterproductive? let me guess, participation trophies is the way...
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
a ravioli is a b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ beige box abstraction to which you pasta arguments interface usually after forking
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
paid by the original authors if their study fails to replicate
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
if ad hominem attacks were of no value, humans wouldn't have evolved the strong tendency to engage in them. they are not proofs in logic, hence the fallacy, but that does not mean they are irrational. it's irrational to think that
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> irrational management, and that predates AI actually, it's AI that will be doing the predating
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> One test → one implementation → repeat. > Because you just wrote the code, you know exactly what behavior matters and how to verify it. what you go on to describe is One implementation → one test → repeat.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
libreoffice is written in C++
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
there should be one text box with multiple lines and you enter your address the way you would write it on an envelope. works internationally, gets stuff delivered. If the postal service can parse it, so can a website. Typing in your address
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> the contradiction of "law as something impartial" and "law bends to the whims of power" will need to be resolved human nature will not change. the best change folks here could make is accepting that.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> Every time I read an article about people trying to solve the 'loneliness epidemic... you're reading the title wrong, they aren't "trying to solve the loneliness epidemic," they are trying to sell yogurt at a
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
combining the previous two comments, I once heard that there are chips/french fries all over the ground in Belgium because if you ask a Belge the time, they look at their wristwatch, immediately inverting the container of fries they ar
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> That was interesting, notwithstanding the editorialising comments by Tomasz Barański. you are upset by these comments which this article's author chose to quote?: As lead author Tomasz Barański explains, however, this transforma
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> "when Gates saw the Xerox machine, the display had no overlapping windows". So M/S cloned it as he saw it. Once M/S W1.0 was developed he saw the demo again and was surprised the windows overlapped. Microsoft had A
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
easy to remember, if you don't use trailing slashes ever, it will just work every time

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