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I'm not sure that's really an example of "understanding the steps without understanding the why". I'd say it's an example where there's no more to "understanding the why" than "understanding
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Pedantic note, which I'm writing just in case anyone misunderstands your recommendation: "The TeXbook" is the user manual for TeX. It is not the same thing as the book containing the (literate-program) source code for TeX, wh
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Do you mean that Amazon's price for a given product is higher for Prime customers? Or do you mean the following? for a given product, some sellers are Prime-compatible and some aren't, and if you're a Prime customer the pri
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As it happens, I genuinely didn't know what decremental had in mind. It seemed likely that it was something race-related (because why else be so coy?) but I wasn't going to not seek clarification just because it was possible tha
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by gjm11 4y ago
I don't think I've ever seen the plural form "Nazies". (Maybe I'm missing a jokey reference or something?)
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What do you think Munch meant? I don't know whether there's more context for his quip that makes its meaning more explicit, but it looks to me as if it means: the painter, unlike the camera, is not limited to neutral depiction of
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What do you think they are that isn't French or Danish?
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Imagine two papers of equal scientific merit: equally strong or weak evidence, equally rigorous or sloppy reasoning, etc. One of them finds that certain races are genetically inferior. One of them finds that democratic countries have stro
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There's a kinda-parallel pun between "Son" and "sun", too.
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The article tells you plenty of things about John Donne. It tells you a thing or two about his life: that he was born a Catholic and some of his family were imprisoned on account of their religion; that he went to sea with the Earl of Essex
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The comment in question is (I believe) referring specifically to how things are in the Netherlands , where my understanding is that long commutes are much less common than they are in the United States, and many more people cycle as well a
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<pedant>Thomas Young was one of the people involved in figuring out the Rosetta Stone, but it was J-F Champollion who actually cracked it.</pedant>
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I expect you asked the physicists rather than the mathematicians. The mathematicians might roll their eyes a little at those awful sloppy physicists, but would also be able to explain why it works (in so far as it does) and say a bit about
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As an example of what I find when I look, here's Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... 'We had indicated in our initial coverage that it appears that Apple’s new M1 P
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Are you sure about that? Everything I can find says that the M1 Pro and M1 Max do use the same cores as the M1, which are not based on the ones in the A15.
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You'd buy a new car because the UI feels a bit dated?
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Yup, very much also a thing, and very much also an obstacle to doing a lot of other work at the same time.
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"Mozart died in 1791 and his widow, Constanze Mozart, sent the manuscripts of the canons to publishers Breitkopf & Härtel in 1799 saying that they would need to be adapted for publication." Yeah, maybe just a little. (They tur
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Let's see how its viewing rates hold up over the next 200 years and then decide.
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"It is a sobering thought, for example, that by the time Mozart was my age ... he had been dead for six years." -- Tom Lehrer.
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I think most not-employed people fall into categories like these: - People too young to be in employment. - People too old to be in employment. - People with illnesses or disabilities that make employment difficult or impossible. - People w
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It seems likely to me that the site isn't particularly intended to be effective in making Apple fix their integration with non-iMessage texting . It's intended to be effective in raising awareness that Apple is deliberately doin
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https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/articles/the-origin-o... implies (if I'm understanding correctly what it is) that in 1973 Jaynes was saying that he had already been thinking for many years about "
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I think this is wrong. A user interface needn't be all visual (e.g., in a device with physical buttons, the buttons are part of the UI). Some visual things might not be best thought of as part of the UI (e.g., if you have a piece of so
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The UI, the user interface , is the part of a system that you directly interact with. The UX, the user experience , is what it's actually like to use it, which is affected not only by the UI but also by other parts of the software. &
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You could pay them, say, 3x the 20th percentile salary. (I'm not sure it's _civil servants_ this sort of thing should be considered for. They don't make the decisions and there's little a civil servant can do that will c
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Pretty sure it's meant to be parsed as "(mass shooting and terrorism) rate": that is, he's claiming that the rate of mass-shootings and the rate of terrorist atrocities are both increasing. I don't know whether eith
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You might be off on holiday, or asleep, or in hospital under anaesthesia, and the police might not be able to get in touch with you quickly.
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[EDITED to say explicitly:] You can translate any goto-laden code into "conventionally structured" code mechanically, if you don't care about having the structure of the resulting code actually indicate what it does. Here&#x2
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> but we feel that our vote matters more now. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but: I am in the UK, and I absolutely 100% do not feel that any vote of mine matters more now that we have left the EU. (And, also, there are votes I no l

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