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by helmholtz 4y ago
Bah. Each time this comes up, people are quick to bash on Matlab. I won't stand for it. Matlab is not many things. It is certainly not all things to all men. But it is Fucking. Productive. for the kinds of quick numerical analyses that
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Nah. Had the same thing happen to me. I once asked dang to delete my account, and he stated much the same to me. In his defence, he was polite, and offered to rename my account to a random name, dissociating me from it. He also On the other
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by helmholtz 4y ago
It was a joke by the inimitable Mitch Hedberg.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
I regret reading this "article". 58000 views on one video, a tag that has 158 million views, and a whole lot of tempest in a teapot. I learned nothing of value from this. People hating consumerism is not new. Just like nothing in
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by helmholtz 4y ago
> I saw a billboard for a lottery, it said "estimated lotto jackpot 55 million." See, I did not know that shit was estimated. That would suck if you won and they go, "oh, sorry, we were off by two zeros. We estimate that y
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by helmholtz 4y ago
The problem there is you need to install the Google app in addition to the podcast app, something I refuse to do. I just don't get why podcast search is so appalling, and why it's not a bigger deal. It drives me bananas.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Read my lips: "Episodes". I want to search through bloody episodes! I want it to go through it's entire index of ALL episode titles, show-notes and transcripts and find me relevant podcast episodes where the phrase I searched
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by helmholtz 4y ago
By contrast, Spotify's Episode Search is the best in the business, bar none. At least on Android. All the other options are so fucking bad, it makes me mad. Let's say I want to search not for a podcast, but all podcasts featuring
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Mr Joe Hypothetical and Mrs Jane Hypothetical here need a good deal of FacePunches™ and a strong dose of MrMoneyMustache: https://mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/22/what-is-hedonic-adapt...
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by helmholtz 4y ago
My god, I absolutely agree. On Outlook, you can "Pop Out" the draft of your own email, leaving the original email intact in the background ready for side-by-side view, but that's the only solution I know of.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
> Sir Humphrey: I gather there's an airborne battalion in the air. > Jim Hacker: Sounds like the right place for it. With the best shit-eating grin ever. I love Yes Prime Minister with all my heart. And the event le
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by helmholtz 4y ago
You missed the motivation behind my diatribe. Wanting black on white is fine (it's what I do on my text editors). I just hate that up and down this thread, that's all I get to read, although the list is full of other nuggets that
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by helmholtz 4y ago
It's wearisome how predictable HN is. I guess I've spent too much time on here (and continue to do so!). Every single time something vaguely design-related comes up, the entire discussion is about how thou shalt not steal my god-g
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Whoops. My apologies. Thought when you said "No catia", you meant "Never again" or something along those lines. Didn't realise you'd never used it.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
People talk shit about CATIA all the time, and I never understand why. There are not many things that can do what CATIA does. Big assemblies, things with a huge number of moving parts, are all CATIA when they're not NX, because you act
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Making it strictly worse. TOO_MANY_REQUESTS? How many is too much? In what scenarios? The code comment in the GP is pithy, explanatory, and reads in plain English. Yours is ripe for misunderstanding.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
1920x1200? 96 DPI?! Both those fonts look like absolute garbage, and how could they not? Only, in my opinion, Berkeley Mono actually looks more passable of the two. Something about the one on the right makes it look ethereal. Like it's
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by helmholtz 4y ago
That's a bit too much of a blanket statement. Latex isn't special. Everyone I know has used it, 100% of them have struggled with margins and fonts and images and equations needing to be rewritten three times and so on. I would n
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by helmholtz 4y ago
> Is there a right to stay employed? People have spouses, kids, mortgages. They relocate for work. They pour a lot of their time, energy & emotion into it. It causes people strokes, and hairloss. People bring the stress of their work
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Profound statement. Relatedly: "I still have 6 hours before the deadline. I'll spend the first two watching YouTube, and then I'll be ready."
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Depends who you're talking about. Those of us who've literally skipped work to play video games definitely find it easier to watch others play rather than dip our toes in ourselves.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Sorry, but sadly not. Rather after Hermann von Helmholtz, who made some pretty sweet contributions to thermodynamics.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Man, HN is bursting at the seams with "intellectually stimulating discussions" to whet the appetite of even the most committed intellectual mastorbator. I liked the guy's username and made a remark that it fit the situation w
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Brilliant.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
You insure _against_ something. You ensure something. GP is right.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
If you're going to be dismissing well-meaning political actions with hand-waving and vague insinuations that it's ecobullshit, one would hope you could do better than just a shrug and a "beats me".
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by helmholtz 4y ago
My man, you still haven't told me what this regulation is going to affect. What are the side effects? I'm not talking about energy infrastructure in Europe, nor am I interested in a wider discussion about 'eco-bullshit&#x27
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Your comment is high on inflamatory polemics but lacking in substance. If you'd listed _what_ side effects you do foresee, that would have been a much more interesting comment.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
> https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/22/amanda-palmer- ... So, she seems quite alright then. A bit egotistical, perhaps not the wisest with the 1.2M USD, a bit 'arty', but nothing to
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by helmholtz 4y ago
And, might I add, paid a fitting tribute to Terry Davis.

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