johnday

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by johnday 4y ago
> For every n irrational numbers you name, I can name n+1 rationals. I name "x+pi for every rational number x". Good luck!
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by johnday 4y ago
If we give these tax dollars to General Motors, they could turn into anything! Even tax dollars!
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by johnday 4y ago
Yeah, it's different: "Didn't use(d) to [...]" means that there was a time where it did not [...]; whereas "Never used to" means that at every previous time it did not [...].
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by johnday 4y ago
> Most English speakers would accept ñ and even write it e.g "El Niño event" FWIW this may be true in the USA but in the UK and other non-NA English-speaking countries I don't think this holds.
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by johnday 4y ago
This is a naïve take which I find über annoying. Maybe I'll tell my local café owner, Emily Brontë, about it.
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by johnday 4y ago
> Comparing LGBT activism in rural Poland and ultra liberal parts of London, is not valid. Go to Luton or Yorkshire and see what happens... Oh, you mean like Pride in Luton ( https://prideinluton.org/ ) or Yorkshire Pride?
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by johnday 4y ago
In fact, I would recommend against enabling OverloadedStrings while writing parsers, since it can be confusing. Some bright spark added an IsString instance for IsString a => Parser a, meaning that "Hello" is a parser for the
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by johnday 4y ago
> There are only 36 weeks in a pregnancy. What an extremely weird thing to get wrong. Pregnancies are 40 weeks long.
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by johnday 4y ago
> Like it or not, most problems you will want to solve are not "purely functional" but rely on sound management of shared mutable state. This is a claim which is certainly not true in all domains. For example, web applications
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by johnday 4y ago
> which means that's de facto what it says. ITYM that it's de jure what it says. de facto is the opposite.
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by johnday 4y ago
Because puzzles have unique solutions. This is often (but, admittedly, not always) part of the definition of a puzzle, as a specific form of a problem or a game. If the fact that a solution is unique is given as part of the rules, then it c
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by johnday 4y ago
The subway tunnel from London Bridge national rail station to the Underground has some of this, but I agree that it's astonishingly rare. Very few stations even have so much as a toilet, let alone a cafe or shops. Personally I'm a
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by johnday 4y ago
And, obviously, (3) how do you recoup a multi-year investment across the period of only some months? Making games is extremely expensive and MMOs are by far the most expensive type to make.
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by johnday 4y ago
> Disney pretty clearly proves rehashing the exact same thing over and over again is a never ending gold mine. And yet, Disney's business itself was once a brand new, revolutionary idea. Perhaps the table stakes aren't just &qu
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by johnday 4y ago
Seconding this. On my c.2020 high-end laptop running Win11, from switching on my BT headphones to hearing audio through them takes around 8 seconds and sometimes requires manual intervention. On my c.2013 laptop running Arch+PW, 3 seconds.
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by johnday 4y ago
> ...breast cancer is one of the most survivable (in part because, well, everyone loves boobs. Prostate cancer, on the other hand...) Extremely weird take. Not least because the survival rates for breast cancer and prostate cancer are ve
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by johnday 4y ago
You'd be hard pressed to find an academic who would be willing to defend the position that climate change doesn't exist, or that the sea is luminous purple. The parameters of Brexit are sufficiently well understood by any academic
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by johnday 4y ago
I do something similar! Can highly recommend greasemonkey for automating the process. Once it's in place it makes the web so much nicer.
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by johnday 4y ago
It seems like an almost-free, unlimited-use ticket would suffer the same way.
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by johnday 4y ago
The person I'm replying to dropped in "albeit with a reference" as if that's not the critical point. If the author referred to in the original article had cited the plagiarism website, there would be no issue here whatso
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by johnday 4y ago
This will be significantly faster, since it only queries the DOM once, rather than O(n) times.
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by johnday 4y ago
> It just baffles how much effort as humans of modern education and academia have put into being super mad for using other people's ideas. Sure, I agree that this guy is somewhat the victim and she shouldn't have done that. Deg
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by johnday 4y ago
They're not written completely differently. They share the same structure and cover the same content using the same rhetorical devices. The fact that they use different words does not diminish the fact that this is plagiarism.
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by johnday 4y ago
That's not plagiarism, that's (cited) paraphrasing. In this case, the author of the original work is explicitly named. It's literally step one in the link that you just posted. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work an
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by johnday 4y ago
MITM is more general and includes the case where the MITM alters the information in transit to misrepresent the communications of the two parties to each other.
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by johnday 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I really don't think this is "clear to consumers".
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by johnday 4y ago
Per the end of the attached article, you're wrong - maybe their price would quadruple, but their value would not change at all.
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by johnday 4y ago
No - the second law of thermodynamics implies that, sadly, the ride will come to a stop eventually.
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by johnday 4y ago
Pseudorandomly generated data is not random data. There is no way to compress actually random information, by definition.
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by johnday 4y ago
I believe that powertoys enables this.

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