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by gjm11 3y ago
Yes.
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by gjm11 3y ago
It's not a bad idea to exclude all vowels -- which gets rid of the ambiguous I and O -- for a different reason: some people are going to be unhappy if something like SHIT appears in the middle of their randomly-generated promo code. (T
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by gjm11 3y ago
In fairness, the days when it's -15°C outside are exactly the days when you really want your heating to work well ...
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by gjm11 3y ago
Yup! (If I were trying to present this stuff in a maximally-elegant order without too much regard for what order human brains like to learn things in, the order of things would be: complex numbers, calculus, trigonometry. Then we define s
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by gjm11 3y ago
Yes. (I assume that by "the intuitive definition based on the trigonometric circle" you mean that (cos t, sin t) is the point at angle t on the unit circle. If you meant something else, then what follows may not be helpful.) APPRO
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by gjm11 3y ago
I don't agree with the perspective taken here; I don't see any reason to think that the definition in terms of triangles is the simplest or most natural, and I suspect the author feels that way just because it's how they were
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by gjm11 3y ago
(I bet I am working with an older version -- I ran across an error in one of the puzzles, and presumably you've fixed that now.)
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by gjm11 3y ago
Am I working with an older version of the file or something, perhaps? My copy of the initial file says: 01: 851fa86ed725c26b712ca1218cdec5782259240e403166c5c6c379b22656290b and that's the sha256sum of my 01.txt .
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by gjm11 3y ago
Dunno if it's helpful for diagnosis, but my 01.txt that yields the expected sha256 sum ... ... is 0x3E1051 bytes long ... starts with <<Congratulations>>, as you already knew it should ... ends with <<IX%7M3+]vW7+zB]{
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by gjm11 3y ago
Interesting: maybe I added it by mistake in a text editor mishap or something :-).
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by gjm11 3y ago
You should be (1) deleting everything up to and including "1.#####", then (2) applying the appropriate transformation to what remains. Looking at my code for this step, I see that I removed one newline character at the end of the
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by gjm11 3y ago
(Apologies for the very slow response; I forgot that this discussion was ongoing.) "The dose makes the poison" and even without hormesis it can be the case that very small doses of something do you no actual harm because whatever
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by gjm11 3y ago
That seems like a bit of a leap. I mean, the quantities are very small and so far as I know no one has seriously claimed that eating Brie or Camembert is bad for you (or at any rate that it's any worse than eating any other cheese). Lo
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by gjm11 3y ago
What is their relevance to this article, beyond the fact that they mention P. camemberti?
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by gjm11 3y ago
Another instance where HN auto-anti-clickbait makes nonsense of the title. (But also another where arguably the right solution is to change the title further, rather than undoing what the auto-anti-clickbait machine did.) The original title
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by gjm11 3y ago
Those do not appear to be quotations from the article. Have I missed something, and if not why are you posting them here? (E.g., is there some implicit argument along the lines of "Brie and Camembert are dangerous, so it will be a good
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by gjm11 3y ago
"the Apple of Android" doesn't communicate anything to me other than that you dislike both Samsung and Apple; there are any number of things someone might dislike about Apple and so far as I know there isn't the sort of
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by gjm11 3y ago
I don't think "The real Miss Julie" is a clickbaity title. It's a perplexing title if you haven't heard of Strindberg's play, for sure, but that's no different from a title like "Improving Kubernetes&
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by gjm11 3y ago
Does anyone have anything resembling statistics on how often the HN auto-de-clickbaiter actually improves article titles? I only notice it when it wrecks them, which it seems like it does really often, but maybe there are dozens of cases
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by gjm11 3y ago
In the same way as a theorem that says "the sequence of prime numbers is infinite" can be finitely long, or a theorem that says "the square root of 2 is irrational" can be rational :-). If the theorem just said "eve
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by gjm11 3y ago
Or at least one of his (allegedly many) sock-puppets.
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by gjm11 3y ago
I am pretty sure this is one of two things: (1) https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html or (2) reporters desperately casting about for a story to write and landing on a non-story.
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by gjm11 3y ago
Ah yes, as Pullum timelessly put it, "To continue reading for FREE, please sign up". An un-walled version is (legitimately, so far as I know) at https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager&#x
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by gjm11 3y ago
Could you be specific enough that interested parties have some way to find out what you're referring to, please?
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by gjm11 3y ago
The empty space in the middle is pretty easy. These are roots of polynomials of the form +- z^n +- z^(n-1) +- ... +- 1. If |z| is small then the earlier terms are smaller; the absolute value of their sum is at most |z|^n + ... + |z|^1 which
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by gjm11 3y ago
The quotation from Quanta was incomplete, and the Quanta article doesn't in fact claim that "totally real" means what "algebraic" actually means. Here's what the article actually says (added emphasis mine): &gt
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by gjm11 3y ago
So far as I can tell, the fact that "particles" are just what we call particular kinds of excitations in quantum fields doesn't in any way answer, or obviate, or otherwise demystify the question of why the electric charge
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by gjm11 3y ago
A key idea here is that being poor makes you do worse at high school relative to how well you would do at university . Being stupid probably doesn't. So being more generous to poorer students may result in getting an academically stro
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by gjm11 3y ago
So is what happens in an actual literal human brain. And yet, we spend quite a lot of our time thinking about what human brains do, and sometimes it's pretty useful. For a lot of this, we treat the actual brain as a black box and don&#
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by gjm11 3y ago
That may well be some people's experience. It wasn't mine. Not because I didn't like it: I enjoyed it a lot, I learned things from it, it was one of my favourite books, etc. I still think it's an impressive piece of work

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