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by jlgreco 13y ago
For typing equations quickly, I found that a quick (not so pretty) ascii-art notation was fastest. I would transcribe them to latex later. I only did that for a year or two before I decided that laptops and note-taking in general were coun
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Maybe "piss people off" is a bit strong, but it really seems like he is trying first and foremost to "get a rise out of people". I don't think he simultaneously thinks that white people with beards are trying to &qu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Rambling? Perhaps. But I would hardly say that tokenadult is known for "handwaving". Quite the opposite actually, his long posts are typically the best researched and cited posts on this site.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In one of those tweets he seems to think that beards are problematic because they are some sort of Muslim culture appropriation (bizarrely ignoring the long history of beards in Europe...). In the other tweet he isn't talking about cu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Strictly speaking , neither can cancer. Both are limited by the capacity of the host.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I see.. I looked for that tweet to find context but couldn't find it. However I did find two others in which he claims that white people having beards is racist, or something: https://twitter.com/umairh/status&#x
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't make this mistake of confusing "being irritating" for "having a point" . It is easy to be both irritating and very wrong.
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What the hell does that even mean?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I got flagged as a freshman for "55% similarity" (whatever that meant) to another students submission in a "learn how to write shit in C++" type assignment. As far as I could tell, the only thing that triggered the soft
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is a perfect example of what I have talked about elsewhere in this thread: finding a weirdness, declaring it a supporting detail of your pet conspiracy theory, and absolutely failing to describe how the detail is any less weird w
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by jlgreco 13y ago
No, some very certainly are crazy, and are likely the product of mental illness. See: The Queen is a lizard. It's a shame that "The CIA is making shit up again" and "The CIA shot somebody" gets mixed in with &
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think you may have responded to the wrong person. I'm just making a point that who you credit with a discovery can change many times if you are willing to point at the owner of the shoulders that the inventor was standing on. Transi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is it more dangerous in terms of injuries, or in terms of deaths? I would expect injuries to be very frequent, but frequent deaths would surprise me.
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Aye, rigging a real plane with a real schedule to be remote controlled would make a great deal more sense.
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imho, this is a large portion of the killer feature of zsh: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html
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Perhaps his exception is to the "high-powered" claim.
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The problem isn't remotely controlling the plane. The problem is all the problems not actually doing it introduces. You now have more, many more , people that need to be involved because you now need to fake grieving families for
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If we are assuming a shadowy organization of conspirators, the lead conspirators don't have to be in the plane themselves. The idea that the CIA, able to find people that are willing to remotely fly a plane into a building full of peo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Let's say that a "non-deformed" bullet was actually suspicious and present. Why would the conspiracy plant a non-deformed bullet? Do they lack bullet deforming capabilities? Are they blithering idiots who, despite being
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> The real world is messy, and conspiracy theorists will always be able to find things to stoke their suspicions One of the things I have noticed over the years is that conspiracy theorists will often latch onto one detail that they th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Weird then that the overwhelming majority of meetings at my workplace are scheduled by programmers, not managers. Meetings scheduled by managers stand out from the crowd, but if you count them up, are actually a minority (at least for me).
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Perhaps that 'they' is meant to refer to the country.
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I really don't think that zsh is born of some desire to keep things from getting messy. That doesn't seem to be what it does in practice anyway, particularly with the popularity of things like oh-my-zsh. Rather I think zsh is
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The history-beginning-search-backward widget, which is standard to the zsh line editor, does it. You don't need to pull in all of oh-my-zsh. To use it, I use: bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I have no idea what you are getting at. I am familiar with the invention of the transistor, and understand the comment I was replying to completely. Furthermore, there are no sibling comments to my comment.... What I am guessing went wron
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If you want to play this game, you can go back even further and find that they built on work done by privately funded individuals during the Victorian Era and during the Enlightenment. Go back even further and you'll find that much (b
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Are nicotine skin patches causing an epidemic of skin cancer where they are placed? Not all side effects are caused by the active ingredient.
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Particularly when comparing it to tylenol.
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Cute story, but don't mistake it for a second for any sort of casual indictment of the scientific process. ...the story does not even feature the scientific process in the first place (which goes a long way to explain why we find it s
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Delirium Tremens is no laughing matter. Most alcoholics won't get it when they go through withdrawal, but those that do will very likely die without medical treatment. With modern medical treatment, the death rate is 'merely&#x2

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