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by konjin 6y ago
It isn't. You can tell how much a language is used by the inverse of the number of blogposts about it. People who have jobs don't have the time to write about how they would solve problems using that language, because they already
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by konjin 6y ago
> I feel that this also gets at a sort of toxic notion that I've noticed some high energy physicists in my own department have (not all, but you probably know the people that I'm talking about). The notion is that if you aren&#
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by konjin 6y ago
We have never had the case where _everyone_ has to work remotely. One of the reasons why offshoring failed is that you needed to be in the office to have a 30 second chat about something that saved you a few minutes of digging to find it yo
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by konjin 6y ago
I have a 5 minute commute. I make it 30 min by walking through a park to have a coffee in the morning and unwind before going home in the afternoon.
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by konjin 6y ago
You sound like a third year maths student who has just been taught the Lebesgue integral and has decided that it is the _real_ definition of definite integration. Quite frankly I don't have the energy or inclination to have adversarial
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by konjin 6y ago
>So yeah, here's where I get the feeling that some people should do some more maths and spend good parts of their days proving theorems and playing with definitions before they start complaining about how dumb its language is. Some
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by konjin 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but the culprits for the fires are Eucalyptus trees imported from Australia. It seems a bit backwards that American Indians would know how Australian Aborigines dealt with forests.
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes. There have been periods of decades where the East Coast was basically uninhabitable. There is a reason why civilization was just barely in the megalithic in America when Columbus arrived.
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by konjin 6y ago
Casual inference is the bottom most rug of what gives hard sciences its power. It is that we understand the objects we are manipulating at a much deeper level so we don't sound like idiots. Suppose that we take: g = ma A perfectly vali
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I find it odd that you pretend a meta-mathematical question is a mathematical one. You are dismissing constructivism as not mathematics, and you ignore that the halting problem is a way to deal with a class of results which include non-exis
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by konjin 6y ago
The people who use Hanlon's razor to explain away malice are both incompetent and malicious. Only someone who is an idiot would ever think to use 'I'm very stupid' as an excuse or explanation why they did something very
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by konjin 6y ago
>Physics demands that we respect electricity and don't increase the infrared opacity of the atmosphere. Physics does no such thing. It tells us that increasing the heat retained in the atmosphere increases the planets surface temper
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by konjin 6y ago
I'm sorry, but this is such a ridiculous counter argument I'm speechless. An explanation point as criticism? >How dare he wear tweed, his argument is invalid. >The replication study isn't magically more accurate than th
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by konjin 6y ago
There were a bunch of mathematicians who used roman numerals for arithmetic between 0 AD and 1200AD. That they existed is not a counter-argument to the fact roman numerals are terrible to do arithmetic in. That is an argument that people ca
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by konjin 6y ago
1 + 1 = 2 Aren't formulas easy to insert in plain text? The problem with maths notation is that it was invented by sighted people for sighted people as a short hand for very complex ideas, which at the time weren't fully understoo
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by konjin 6y ago
Standard maths notation is sight first and sight only. If you want maths for the blind you need to convert to something like s-expressions, which emacspeak and read perfectly.
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>Take your average computer science graduate from the last ten years. Do you think anyone would be remotely able to understand what is going on there? Yes, you literally read the literate program of TeX and understand what's going o
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by konjin 6y ago
>I am in another Australian state, the lockdowns have been lifted and I can go to work with little fear of contracting COVID. Try living under curfew for a few months and see if you still think that keeping 10000 people in their 80s aliv
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by konjin 6y ago
It works badly in most cases. Hacker News and Google are at the limit of what's usable. For a very lose definition of limit.
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Posting from Emacs ================== It works well enough to post in hacker news. You just need to enter all the text in another buffer first, add a line of blank spaces at the top, and then kill and yank into the t
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by konjin 6y ago
Ah yes, the great roaring success that is the Australian lock down: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/18/hotel...
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by konjin 6y ago
Great, is the oculus go open source?
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Race is an arbitrary grouping no more meaningful than organizing people by earlobe shape. Gender is meaningless. Sex is biological, simple and since the invention of contraception unimportant. Everything else is a taxonomy for people who wa
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I've ran emacs in cocalc's terminal emulator in the browser, non-ironically doing real work. It works pretty well.
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You can post on hacker news from it too. Sent from eww.
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Name one country that has had hospital overload. Any country. This was an expectation that was reasonable in February, and become a talking point for people who want lockdowns for ideological reasons and aren't willing to look at new e
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[[citation needed]]
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Yes, Victoria has managed to combine the economic catastrophe of a New Zealand lock down with the death rate of a Swedish no lock down. And this will continue for at least another month. All in all it's rather amazing how by trying to
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> And your conscience still allowed you to sleep at night? The average American endorses slavery in their clothes, Christmas decorations and electronics. By comparison creating some bad links in a search engine is so low on my list of mo

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