giggly_gopher

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by giggly_gopher 5y ago
Not sure what you're going to do to convince your boss. Though the machines might not be suited for the course, slapping a lightweight Linux distro on the old computers and giving them to parting gift to students without hardware would
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by giggly_gopher 5y ago
I got the baby Klein bottle from Cliff years ago. Nice little nerd tchotchke for the mantelpiece. He also wrote an awesome account of a KGB internet hacking from in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_
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by giggly_gopher 5y ago
Context is important. Imagine someone randomly starts talking to the one black man sitting in an Omaha airport about violent crime
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The Recurse Center's Social Rules(recurse.com)
1 points by giggly_gopher 6y ago|0 comments
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JMESPath is a query language for JSON(jmespath.org)
4 points by giggly_gopher 6y ago|0 comments
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by giggly_gopher 6y ago
I used to use dark mode, but now I just turn down the total brightness of my screen and I like it much more. I think people are confusing eye strain for staring at a bright light all day.
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by giggly_gopher 6y ago
I heard a story that someone giving a talk at IAS only used M's on the chalkboard (lowercase, uppercase, doublestroke, script, etx) before he was told to cut it out. I can't remember who it was if anyone else heard the story.
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by giggly_gopher 7y ago
New Kind of Science
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by giggly_gopher 7y ago
This seems like they just polished some rough edges off of the existing command line version of Mathematica. I wish they would not call it Wolfram Language. His ego/talent ratio is already so high it's NKS level buffoonery.
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by giggly_gopher 7y ago
This is not entirely true. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement
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by giggly_gopher 7y ago
I cringed when I read > The ordinary algorithm to do integer factorization takes sub-exponential time according to the Wikipedia. This is the fundamental reason which makes the RSA cryptosystem so reliable.
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by giggly_gopher 7y ago
On all other nights we drink Folgers, tonight Maxwell House.
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Ask HN: What subdirectories does your home directory contain?
1 points by giggly_gopher 7y ago|0 comments