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by jfzoid 4y ago
For what it's worth, I logged into AirBnb just now and it showed me an option to "Display total price: all fees before taxes"
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by jfzoid 4y ago
Planetfall Enchanter Trilogy Starcross (took place inside a space station -- map was wrap-around) Suspended was harder but definitely very good
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by jfzoid 4y ago
Reiner Knizia is my favorite game designer of all time. I love how he takes familiar games and "bends" [1] them into new games by applying the right incentives into other games. For example, Lost Cities starts off looking like Sol
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by jfzoid 4y ago
Chinese saying: "the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away" （山高帝遠）
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by jfzoid 4y ago
for me, after obsessing over this for a few model releases, I realized that most years the new model doesn't add that much I really need. Usually it is a faster CPU, which matters less than it sounds because most things I do on the pho
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by jfzoid 4y ago
When I was in high school I used to dream about sticking high speed ethernet ports into my skull (because reading on a screen was too slow, plus this was the 80s and we though Neuromancer was really going to happen) Now I realize 1. I don&#
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by jfzoid 4y ago
that was a fantastic book, and the Arguing On the Internet in it was both very descriptive of it's time and very prescient of ours. and the aliens (no spoilers) in it were very cool
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by jfzoid 4y ago
I just tried doing this myself JFZ: how do we know there are infinitely many primes ChatGPT: One way to show that there are infinitely many prime numbers is to use the fact that the set of prime numbers is infinite to show that there must b
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by jfzoid 4y ago
this video where he explains Git's dag with tinkertoys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7BgIvC-uQ
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by jfzoid 4y ago
> Just because some tech bros with sexist issues can make an app and a service without customer service does not mean jack shit. this is an ad hominem attack and not helpful -- Kalanick's personal problems are separate from Uber&#x2
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by jfzoid 4y ago
According to this article, the word "lox" hasn't changed in 8000 years https://nautil.us/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sou...
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by jfzoid 4y ago
PBS Spacetime (physics) PBS Eons (paleontology) Cody's Lab and Nile Red (chemistry) 3blue1brown (mathematics)
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by jfzoid 4y ago
One thing that gives me comfort is that there is a difference between what they say on a poll, and what they actually do. Plenty of people are willing to say "I am willing to commit violence" on social media. My gut feeling is tha
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by jfzoid 4y ago
The greatest ever. A true maestro
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by jfzoid 4y ago
The book Curves for the Mathematically Curious ( https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180052/cu... ) has a whole chapter about the shape used instead of a circle, complete with equations and der
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by jfzoid 4y ago
for four players: Tigris and Euphrates for three players: Ra for two players: Quest for El Dorado or Azul for solitaire: Agricola Go is on my bucket list, I'll get "around to it" once I get some other stuff off my bucket list
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by jfzoid 4y ago
and wouldn't it be great if the people on that committee acted in the consumers best interests?
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by jfzoid 4y ago
I live in NYC so many of my friends and colleagues have had tech jobs in the well known banks. Here are some of the data points I've collected. Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus Persons
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Galois Theory lessons from a Fields Medal winner(youtube.com)
4 points by jfzoid 4y ago|0 comments
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by jfzoid 4y ago
I voted Mostly Good -- I feel valued at work, and employer puts an emphasis on work life balance, which lets me spend time with my family, deal with things like doctor appointments. Took a vacation day today and trying to crack open a book
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by jfzoid 4y ago
doubt it -- see my comment about how Chinese inputs are not using flags in Big Sur
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by jfzoid 4y ago
In Big Sur Apple was using a mix of flags and other icons. The flags seem to be for countries that use the Latin alphabet. Playing around with the Keyboard Preferences, I've found: Different Chinese inputs use different sinograms: the
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An Unorthodox Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory(youtube.com)
2 points by jfzoid 4y ago|0 comments
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Geometry and Topology Videos by Dr Tadashi Tokieda(youtube.com)
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by jfzoid 5y ago
I have a copy of this book, though I never got past the few pages. When I tried to read it I got through the first chapter, which says the first thing one should do is play many games, and I put the book down to do just that. It also makes
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by jfzoid 5y ago
An absolute classic. Happy campers are the best.
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by jfzoid 5y ago
remember, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
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by jfzoid 5y ago
> Personally, I know that I need a focus for my intellectual life. It needn’t be employment, but “work” is a fair way to describe it. "It is difficult for a man who always has a full stomach to put his mind to some use. Are there no
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by jfzoid 5y ago
Fancy business terms that'll help you spend money consciously: 1. Return on ROI: will I use this enough to get my money back 2. BATNA: is there something I can use that is an alternative (yes, I know not exact definition) 3. Opportunit
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by jfzoid 6y ago
There is a very nice, very accessible series of topology talks he did here : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTBqohhFNBE_09L0i-lf3fYXF... Very early on he covers Möbius Strips and Klein Bottles (what most amateur mathema

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