jonasenordin

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by jonasenordin 3mo ago
Went ahead and clicked anyway, scientifically-minded that I am. No appreciable disillusionment occurred. Didn't Excel gain the ability to use names at some point? Is 'anominal' a word? As in 'anominal' or 'non-
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by jonasenordin 3mo ago
Important_Distinction. _That_Should_Be_in_the_Headline_Maybe. Thanks, saving a click, not going for the article; not that it's necessarily bad or uninteresting; not that I wouldn't if I had more time on this planet.
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by jonasenordin 5mo ago
I recently happened upon a comment (not on HN) that seemed to treat 'zugzwang' as a synonym for 'deadlock'. Possibly because 'zugzwang' sounds really cool and makes your inner voice sound intelligent to your in
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by jonasenordin 7mo ago
I haven't kept up with C++ in a few years - what does constexpr do for local variables? constexpr double a0 = 1.5707288;
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by jonasenordin 10mo ago
Tell it to "always when I search for quoted text, pretend you're the Galaxy S20 gallery app"
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by jonasenordin 1y ago
And it's actually a good thing that it hasn't come any closer.
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by jonasenordin 1y ago
The simple English article seems to imply the True Justified Belief 'definition'. I don't think the TJB really gets us anything. For instance: why is 'true' included in the TJB triad? 'Justified' should co
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
Conductivity: Film at Eleven
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
Java has interface types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(Java)
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
This expression is often misused, it seems. It sounds so cool, 'scorched-earth tactics'... like 'medieval', 'fire-and-brimstone', 'kill it with fire', etcetera. Maybe read up on the specifics: https:
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
The alternatives to using previously or normally civilian buildings are, I believe, to be outdoors or in tents. Originally military buildings are too few and probably already in bad shape.
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
Is this _really_ how you want the game to be played?
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by jonasenordin 2y ago
Very nice. Made me think of Paul Simon, made me relisten to Graceland, the song. Always a great listen, great sound. Thought it was just about him paying tribute to musical roots, 'Mississippi delta' and all that. But wait what? &
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by jonasenordin 3y ago
I use a very low-tech solution: I stick a <pre> tag at the start of javadoc comments, and make liberal use of empty lines for spacing. So I don't use any advanced html tags and stuff. Of course I use @link, which is the most usef
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by jonasenordin 3y ago
If status codes bleed into 6xx we'll know HE COMES. I am starting an early warning system, a daemon process, polling random web sites for status lines like this. Do I need to handle Unicode?
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by jonasenordin 3y ago
Brings to mind Robert Pirsig's 'value rigidity' concept: 'an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values.' I don't remember if there was a term for the opposite, but 'flexib
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by jonasenordin 4y ago
Good observations. Actually more important than it looks, I think. All those little helpful things. Also worth discussing: micro-misfeatures to be avoided when designing new languages. Maybe non-micro-misfeatures, ie the lack thereof, can b
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by jonasenordin 4y ago
Nestable comment syntax is also nice. At least some MLs (eg SML) has it, that I know of. Indentation-sensitivity can also solve similar problems. (Indentation does not have to exclude requiring graphic termination. A formal language can req
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by jonasenordin 4y ago
Yes! And corresponds nicely with 'spats' for solid angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spat_(angular_unit) 1 spat = 4 pi steradians.
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
True. Many tanks have been destroyed. But the zillion tanks destroyed are often presented without context, and used to imply that resistance has a better prospect than is realistic. The number of remaining enemy tanks (or whatever) is seldo
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
Yes, for individuals, it's worse. For accurate information, it's probably a wash, or a close call. There are so many other ways of biasing information streams than overt oppression.
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The Kiev Convoy Mystery
5 points by jonasenordin 5y ago|9 comments
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
Thanks. This article seems to bear this out: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60638949
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
If Chernobyl is in Russian hands, how do the Ukrainians know it's lost power?
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
It seems that the plane had to go all the way around the closed airspaces of Finland and Norway (well, Scandinavia) to reach the Atlantic. Or maybe it's the projection.
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
Add Pi to locale?
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
I guess the article was too complete, too well laid out, to leave room for comments.
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
I think if you buy a first ticket, and somehow found out (but lotteries usually don't allow this) that it wasn't a winner, and only _then_ buying a second one, your reasoning would be correct.
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by jonasenordin 5y ago
This is turns out to be rather straightforward once you realize that this is perfectly symmetric: it's just a matter of in which order you are revealing the colors. So this problem is exactly the same as looking at the first (second) b
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by jonasenordin 6y ago
Children have a very strong sense of fairness!

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