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by gjm11 6y ago
This https://quackwatch.org/research-projects/stemcell/ isn't encouraging. The fact that they've been running for 30 years proves nothing. See e.g. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article&
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by gjm11 6y ago
> people our age So far as I can see, cheschire didn't say anything to indicate their age. Careful with those assumptions!
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by gjm11 6y ago
I too am underwhelmed by the article, but I don't think it's fair to call the books he describes "mediocre pop science books". By way of reminder, they're Dawkins's The selfish gene , Kahneman's Thinking
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by gjm11 6y ago
On the one hand, I think your comment is correct, insightful and important. On the other hand, I have a firm policy of always downvoting comments on HN that say things like "I know I'm going to get downvoted for posting this"
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by gjm11 6y ago
"It is a sobering thought that by the time Mozart was my age ... he had been dead for three years." -- Tom Lehrer
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by gjm11 6y ago
Uncapitalized "french" is common in "french fries" and is also a verb meaning to remove meat from the end of a bone. I think English is almost always capitalized even when it means spin on a billiard ball. (I'm not
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by gjm11 6y ago
> Whatever does a rental property have to do with OpenZFS? Not much (though I think it's fair to say that when someone is praised for their "refined leadership" it's talking about more than just the quality of their c
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by gjm11 6y ago
Trying to rewrite that sentence so it's comprehensible is an interesting exercise. How about this? (I don't know anything about Vulkan, and there is some ambiguity in the quoted sentence, so I've given a few different version
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by gjm11 6y ago
Whatever does this have to do with codes of conduct? I mean, maybe software projects should have CoCs that say "do not do things likely to kill your tenants", but normally they're concerned with conduct within a project, an
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by gjm11 6y ago
In the limit of very large puzzles, N/5 is right. # . . . . # . . . . # . . . # . . . . # . . . . . . . . # . . . . # . . . # . . . . # . . . . # . . . # . . . . # . . . # . . . . # . . . . # . . . # . . . . # . . . .
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by gjm11 6y ago
Ohhhh, duh, so they did. Thanks.
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by gjm11 6y ago
(Apologies for the very slow response.) W Richard Stevens died in 1999. HN started in 2007. Is it possible that you're thinking of someone else?
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by gjm11 6y ago
Huh? Last I heard, Tom Christiansen is still alive. And I'm not sure what the connection is, other than that he's done a lot of work with perl.
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by gjm11 6y ago
I think this makes it worse . You have companies full of smart people working hard who want to make the world a better place -- and the result is still eroding privacy, driving "attention economy" addictions, promoting the shal
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by gjm11 6y ago
Most of my emails / are already present-tense -- / so nothing would change. (Pedantic note: of course neither of these is actually a haiku, which means more than just 5-7-5 syllable count. I did manage a kinda-sorta-kireji, though
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by gjm11 6y ago
I've never seen anyone downvoted here for admitting to being a Christian. (Or a Buddhist or atheist or whatever.) I have seen people, completely deservedly , get downvoted for trying to use HN as a venue for proselytism, or for deny
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by gjm11 6y ago
Something seems badly off to me with the phrase "candidates who stumped 40 year veterans with elegant code". I don't want code that stumps anyone. I want code that delights 40-year veterans, for sure. But the signal of ge
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by gjm11 6y ago
The very first non-navigation-bar text on the linked site says: "The Next Generation Spaced Repetition Tool to help you Retain More Knowledge: Create memory cards anywhere on the web", which should give some clues. A little lower
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by gjm11 6y ago
I'm afraid there are quite a lot of errors here. (Not everything in the following is pointing out errors, but most of it is.) 1. Yes, the quantity in the PNT is an estimate of the number of primes below a certain N. As usually stated
920.
by gjm11 6y ago
The style guide says: > When referring to Church members, the terms "members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," "Latter-day Saints,” "members of the Church of Jesus Christ" and "members of
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by gjm11 6y ago
The trouble is that "saints" or "Saints" already has a meaning, which is not "members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints". (In fact, it has multiple long-standing meanings, of which that is no
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by gjm11 6y ago
Even a single personal anecdote is good evidence when the claim in question is "basically everyone there is right-wing". As someone else mentioned, there are in fact readership surveys there every now and then, and guess what?, th
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by gjm11 6y ago
Hi. EU-leftist generally-pro-SJ type here. I'm a big fan of Slate Star Codex. I just sent an email to the NYT about what a bad idea publishing Scott's real name would be. I don't think a "quick very unscientific glance a
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by gjm11 6y ago
Those people already know his real name. So the extra danger from that direction associated with the NYT publishing his real name in an article about SSC is that they might read that article, discover that Xxxxx Xxxxx who treats them for pa
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by gjm11 6y ago
I think it's interesting that Ruskin and Berger were the first two that I thought of too. If we'd both named three painters I think it's much less likely that we'd have picked the same ones, because there are so very m
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by gjm11 6y ago
Pretty much anything that isn't body text. Headings. Words on posters. Book covers and spines. Advertisements (unless they're very wordy ones). Street signs. Of course these don't all want the same sort of treatment, but they
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by gjm11 6y ago
(Obviously "sans serif" should say "serif".) I suggest that on any occasion when you're inclined to use Palatino for substantial quantities of text (as opposed to titles, posters, book covers, etc.) you would do bet
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by gjm11 6y ago
There's a recording of the WTC by Richard Egarr that uses the tuning system derived by Bradley Lehman from the squiggles on the cover-page of the WTC manuscript. (See http://www.larips.com/ for more about that.) It sou
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by gjm11 7y ago
The first bit ("The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there") is from L P Hartley's novel "The Go-between". The "ugly tourist" bit is a later addition. (Very likely you already knew thi
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by gjm11 7y ago
I'd suggest: Because creating a new branch just for a one-off look at some diffs seems kinda heavyweight, and because it requires several separate operations in order to do a single thing.

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