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by kwoff 7y ago
I only use left shift, too. I think it's just that right shift is way over to the right compared to left shift. Though I did take a proper typing class in high school, so I wonder how I managed to get away with that... :)
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by kwoff 7y ago
If we define "elegant" as getting a lot done with a little, another BASIC (kinda..) one: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ (The last part of the song is so great, too.)
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by kwoff 7y ago
I also have Celiac but didn't assume that "you are" literally referred to you personally, but rather the very common alternative to "one is".
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by kwoff 7y ago
What is "bottled water" here? (What I have in mind is an obvious waste of money...)
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by kwoff 7y ago
Free on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...
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by kwoff 7y ago
https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/sites/c... Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students
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by kwoff 7y ago
Very nice visualization. It'd be interesting to see it extended to the galaxy, as in https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/orientation-of-the-ear...
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by kwoff 7y ago
It might depend on the location or the species. Behind my dad's place, there is a field. White-tailed deer come out of the woods at dusk to eat at the edge of the field. Every 15 seconds or so, the adults look up with their ears raised
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by kwoff 7y ago
Satire is all the more sweet when it almost crosses a line, isn't it?
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by kwoff 7y ago
Finally my obscure experience may be relevant! I'm an American who lived in Geneva (French-speaking side of Switzerland) for a while. One night I was watching a talk show on France 2 (TV channel): https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by kwoff 7y ago
You're getting the "blind" part, but assuming someone can talk to a human? Not to mention "sounds like"...
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by kwoff 7y ago
"set on course with the sun and let it burn off" - https://laughingsquid.com/why-it-is-more-difficult-to-crash-...
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by kwoff 7y ago
When I took an electronics class a couple decades ago, we built a 68k computer based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics
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by kwoff 7y ago
Maybe it's related to the brain maturation that apparently finishes up in the early 20s.
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by kwoff 7y ago
Kappa
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by kwoff 7y ago
"plummet": Closed 25,628.90 -623.34 -2.37% According to http://www.dogsofthedow.com/histogram-m.htm "95% of the time the Dow has a daily change between ±2.1%; and 99% of the time the Dow has a daily change be
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by kwoff 7y ago
“It is almost easier to deal with people who are being violent towards you, because you can use a level of force commensurate with that.”
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by kwoff 7y ago
Long ago I read something that questioned why we get so angry (or whatever emotion) that we kill insects like that so easily. Why end its life? I don't remember where I read it, but decades later I still think of that whenever I either
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by kwoff 7y ago
One of those quirky HN posts. :) I didn't understand what was meant at first. It's the part at the bottom of the back window that changes angle toward the front. The link in the article to C-pillar was also interesting: "As a
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by kwoff 7y ago
* https://www.youtube.com/user/TheScienceAsylum - like a kid's science channel but often surprisingly deep * https://www.youtube.com/user/lefticus1 - C++ trivia, weekly short * https:/&
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by kwoff 7y ago
No, it doesn't even sound like an American.. while the two downvoted ones do sound "correct".
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by kwoff 7y ago
It can be telling how people react to being asked about X. I tend to ignore conversations if someone gets annoyed about getting asked what they're really trying to do. Though you do have to consider whether they just don't underst
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by kwoff 7y ago
https://archive.org/details/elementsquaterni00hamirich/page/... Hamilton's "Elements of Quaternions"'s table of contents is about 60 pages long and includes footnotes.
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by kwoff 7y ago
When I was in high-school, I'd drive to the local university and head to the 500s section: astronomy, physics, math, and other science stuff; and though there weren't all that many books, I'd spend a lot of time just looking
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by kwoff 7y ago
boycott these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Products_and_brands (if you care anything about your health, this is not even difficult)
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by kwoff 7y ago
When I was an undergrad, a classmate told me a Master's in Physics was a "kiss of death". I did stop with a Master's (didn't even go to the graduation ceremony, since it felt like dropping out), though financially I
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by kwoff 7y ago
Thanks, I'll watch those. I think you might also like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ldatF3-aI
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by kwoff 8y ago
If you haven't seen this series: https://archive.org/details/The_Mechanical_Universe_and_Beyo... (it's a bit outdated, but the part around 23 minutes is still mind-blowing to me, especially in the context of
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by kwoff 8y ago
http://pdg.lbl.gov/2018/reviews/contents_sports.html
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by kwoff 8y ago
If you can find someone who's mastered emacs to show you around, I think that would be a good start. I was fortunate in the mid-90's that such a person sat with me in a computer lab and showed me how much more powerful emacs was t

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