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by hughdbrown 2y ago
> that I should avoid a word solely because people will assume Nice deployment of 'solely.' I can see you did not want to say 'just because.'
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
I clicked on In Bruges, too, and was tortured to hear the AI voices repeatedly and consistently mispronouncing Bruges. It's not one Bruge, two Bruges -- the 's' is silent, like it rhymes with 'rouge'. Far too annoyi
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
There's a show that plays on my Samsung's TV channels that has a camera crew that follows a bunch of car repo guys in a tow truck. My suspicion is that it's scripted and fake (from the times I have flipped past it), but you c
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Here is a fuller expansion of the thinking behind my sentence you quote. The usual construction is: - in order to have a peaceful and ordered society, citizens renounce the use of violence and interact only by peaceful means - citizens of a
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
I am not conversant in this field, but this portion of the author's profile made me think that she favors the money launderers on some libertarian grounds: > Her dissertation explores how the illicit market intersects and coexists w
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
> were only able to hold on to for a year before getting overrun by much better supplied American and Canadian soldiers Not especially accurate. The US and Canadian forces that landed on Kiska had no opposition because the Japanese had a
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Okay, then think of it from a strictly quantitative viewpoint. Euclid's proof of the irrationality of root two was known circa 300 BCE. Mathematicians would have to wait until 1670-ish for the math to be invented to understand the proo
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
That's one possible outcome. Another is that you resolve with your teacher early in the year the role of experimental results.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
My son is starting his first week of high school. I am recommending to him that he pose related questions to his physics teacher: - "Is it okay to wash a toaster in a dishwasher?" - "Is it okay to put an electric hair drier i
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
I don't know why this would qualify as simple. Compare it with the proof by contradiction that the square root of 2 is rational: $$\sqrt{2} = \frac{a}{b} 2 {b^2} = {a^2} {b^2} and {a^2} have an even number of factors of 2 Therefore 2 {
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
There's no installable version for pyenv. In general, how well does this work with virtualenvs?
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Humans: Dual action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible. Bacteria: Hold my beer.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
When I write programs like this, I have my program write out shell commands for moving/deleting/renaming files to stdout. Then I review the changes and if I like them, I pip to `sh` or `bash`. Assuming that the file renames are id
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Reading the author's explanation of how Quora became awful by using AI to generate questions gives me a view into the dystopian future where the deluge of AI-generated books on Amazon pollutes and undercuts the whole concept of "k
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
If you did not make it past season one of Money Heist, then you missed out on: - outstanding performances by Spanish actresses Ursula Corbrero, Itziar Ituno, Alba Flores, and Najwa Nimri and - humming Bella Ciao to yourself for two months.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Try this: look up the most highly rated episodes on IMDB and watch only those. Missing the crummy episodes usually does not interfere with understanding the story arc. Often, I set a minimum IMDB score that I will watch, like 8.5 or 9.0 to
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
This code terminates only if all child-problems eventually are found not to have subproblems. So either it has infinite subproblems or it returns true. So recursion is good for a use case unless the problem decomposes into infinite subprobl
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I got this far: "The office and our apartment were a few blocks away from each other..." and figured it had to be a line of sight transmission. I encountered this in summer of 1993 when the company I worked at installed infrared (
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I have not read all the code closely but it looks like you are scraping the HTML directly. True? It would be easier to use the JSON feed for a couple of reasons: - the data is segregated into types of things that you otherwise have to back
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
According to this site, ever city in Canada is more densely populated than Toronto. It says 10 000 people live within 18 km of Toronto versus 1.5 million for Vancouver.
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
My favorite trie implementation defines the trie as: ``` from collections import defaultdict def trie(): return defaultdict(trie) ``` Yeah, a `trie` is a dictionary whose values are tries. And the values are automatically created b
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
When I moved to NYC from Canada in 1998, I gleefully took my hiring bonus check drawn on a major US custodial bank to local banks in the expectation that I might easily open a bank account and begin integrating myself into the mainstream. A
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
> ... who survived history’s worst maritime disaster ... Not the worst maritime disaster by loss of life (90K in Second Punic War storm; 100K in Mongol naval invasion typhoon disaster). Not even the worst of peacetime maritime accidents
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
.9 * x = 0.5 x ln 0.9 = ln 0.5 x = ln 0.5 / ln 0.9 x = 6.5788 So decreasing runtime by 10% 6.5788 times results in the code running in half the original time.
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I have a similar-but-hacky command-line app that I put together to find just Rust positions: https://github.com/hughdbrown/who-is-hiring It's built to be pretty fast by not pulling data it does not need. Since it
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
Usual practice is to tailor your resume to match the job posting, emphasizing points of agreement. Is Netflix a special case where you have to look up the company values/culture and amend to match that?
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
Surely the moment calls for something closer to: Cur suffragia malores dejiciuntur?
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
I see your transient crowd of loud motorcycles and raise you a stationary team of suburban gas-powered leaf blowers.
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
From Latin grex/gregoris (flock) and ex- (out of). egregious comes from a root which means "stands out from the flock" -- it's exceptional. Centuries ago, it had a positive meaning but not it is reserved for describing o
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by hughdbrown 3y ago
Tout le monde connait Bob le Flambeur. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_le_flambeur Sort of a French Ocean's Eleven in the 1950s.

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