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by hawkice 8y ago
There are ways to determine the relative size of numbers even when you cannot write down the digits. It's how we know TREE(3) is larger than Ackermann(20) (or maybe larger than any description of simple recursive uses of Ackermann usin
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by hawkice 8y ago
I mean, there might not be a point in optimizing a mechanical search of all possible contradictions in ZFC. Surely any contradiction would be ridiculously complex, and probably doesn't exist. No human-achievable amount of optimization
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by hawkice 8y ago
>> You can't sleep in an RV? > During certain hours while parked in a residential area. The hours you are talking about are night hours.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Oh sweet summer child. The police can just take your money. I love how you imagine you have to do something wrong or be opposed to something to trigger this. No. You have money. They can take it.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Garbage collection can handle reference cycles -- that's why it is better than reference counting (at handling the eventual freeing of arbitrary data).
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by hawkice 8y ago
It is shockingly unpleasant. But our lives should contain some unpleasantness, I think. Some difficulty.
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by hawkice 8y ago
My studies go back years, my residence here only weeks. I'm fixing the gaps in my education, but slowly.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Tech here seems more hardware oriented than I normally am, but beyond that, I don't know much yet. Taipei helps me study Chinese which is useful because 我的中文不好，但我每天学，住在这里让我沉浸其中。
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by hawkice 8y ago
I found that sentiment deeply off-putting, and I say that as an American in Taipei right now (which seems thematically similar). The author says 99% of things written are unavailable to him -- and I'm sure it's even more of the sp
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by hawkice 8y ago
Fun Unix Trivia Time: Touch is supposed to update modified times. That it creates files when they don't exist is only the most common use, not the point of the thing.
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by hawkice 8y ago
I am very skeptical of claims that outcomes are discontinuous in policy space. Going one step in direction A should give you information about going further in that same direction, at least on some scale of change. Clearly the people runnin
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by hawkice 8y ago
外国人 in simplified. To be fair, I've seen a Taiwanese person with the English "spice girl" as a tattoo, which is a reverse-poor-translation, because it sounds like a singular member of a defunct pop band. Makes more sense in C
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by hawkice 9y ago
From an OO perspective, Elm lacks interfaces. Typeclasses are probably the best way to handle the idea of interfaces in the functional programming model. Since functions are first class, you can bodge this with an object that has functions
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by hawkice 9y ago
I think the surprising part is the lack of a difference between renters and homeowners. You'd expect the policy to be the average of the two groups' preferences, but the fact they don't form two clusters in conflict is... Odd
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by hawkice 9y ago
Being within ~10x the noise of a car is pretty quiet, considering they'll be up in the air most of the time. Unless the video is really misleading about noise, this won't be an insane nuisance.
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by hawkice 9y ago
This is a typical work commitment in China. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2016-09/13/content_2677... It's not luxuriously easy, but it's not ridiculous, and is microscopically different from
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by hawkice 9y ago
I had a citation for only 22% of mergers meeting their revenue goals. If you have someone more likely to have quality guesses than McKinsey, then please share yours.
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by hawkice 9y ago
Important to note, it's very much an issue for the elderly and sick family. Not so much an issue for the person whose life gets derailed and cannot find love due to the overbearing demands of a less-than-grateful relative (which _might
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by hawkice 9y ago
To be fair, that is the response to all 'Why is X acquiring Y?' questions, and it's a terrible answer. M&A is hard to do right -- most fail, and a staggering percent have all the surplus delivered to the seller instead of
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by hawkice 9y ago
HN is like an infinite pit into which all sarcasm falls, so just in case: pornography with live subjects isn't necrophilia just because the subjects have, since the time of recording, died. Surely the more normal version is the one GP
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by hawkice 9y ago
Middle America is more socioeconomic than physical. Chicago, south of Detroit (but mostly just further from the border with Canada), wouldn't be considered Middle America. North Dakota probably would. Detroit is a strange city, but I t
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by hawkice 9y ago
I mean, the pi/tau thing is _purely_ aesthetic. That's a big waste of time for sure. Having a more coherent metaphor for the evolution of quantum systems might help with physical insight, though. If e.g. the universe isn't di
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by hawkice 9y ago
This is deeply strange to me. If he wanted to support an evil empire or grow a petroleum multinational, you admit you'd have no say. But Gates wants to serve the public good -- now suddenly you're in charge. Seems backwards, at th
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by hawkice 9y ago
>> It was a major change, and many power users (people managing multiple accounts or brand accounts) pointed out that it made their work a lot harder and more prone to error. > hard to take any particular moment of outrage too ser
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by hawkice 9y ago
If we want to talk about a geological era defined by human influence on the environment, it isn't _political_ to use environmental radioactivity signals. They'll be easy to notice in 100M years. Extinction rate change will be hard
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by hawkice 9y ago
Fair, but I think there's something to the opposite tone. A lot of people know that if you're healthy, you can generally avoid type 2 diabetes. Saying it basically 1:1's with weight issues is... important. Prevention is impor
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by hawkice 9y ago
I am glad earthlings chimed in here. To the space aliens that may not have met someone who shops at Walmart: I buy things that are not the absolute fanciest. Simple things aren't just cheaper. I like them more. I also ( gasp ) buy groc
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by hawkice 9y ago
This is about Medicaid, not Medicare (we should probably change the headline here).
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by hawkice 9y ago
Current US law about workplace safety proscribes a certain type of professionalism. The kind that says, "We can have a heated discussion on how text based web search works, but not anything else." There are other ways to be profes
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by hawkice 9y ago
Why? I looked at the code, it doesn't really do anything with the request, shouldn't be blocking any threads or anything.

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