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lahvak
4y ago
Does this mean that the police unions did not protest the firing and did not force the city to hire the officers back? What gives? I am confused.
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lahvak
4y ago
That does not make any sense. Suppose I was upset that other people now have free speech; how would me quitting twitter affect it in any way? If I really wanted to somehow (what whatever reason) prevent others from having free speech, how w
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lahvak
4y ago
I have been sort of an early adopter of GIMP, and in the past I was quite a heavy user for many years, and I never really understood all this bad press that GIMP gets, especially the UI. I used GIMP for many years, some months on daily bas
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lahvak
5y ago
Have you considered using HTML based slides? That way the LaTeX math gets rendered at presentation time using MathJaX or KaTeX, so you don't need a local LaTeX. There are many options, my personal recommendation is Quarto ( https:/
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lahvak
5y ago
It seems to me that they achieve this by increasing the relevance of common, often made searches at the expense of rare specialized ones. Google used to be very good for special narrow searches on technical topics. Lately when I search for
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lahvak
5y ago
Which means their email will go straight into the trash.
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lahvak
5y ago
Sure, and in the next few weeks, they are going to decrease!
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lahvak
5y ago
Why is Czechia listed as 31 years while Slovakia only 27?
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lahvak
5y ago
RIP Sven!
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lahvak
5y ago
I am very skeptical about this. I remember enough from my own childhood to know that a request "Don't throw sand at Tommy" would be met with "OK, that make sense, Tommy probably does not want to have sand thrown at him&
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lahvak
5y ago
I don't know, I hear this argument a lot, but it does not make any sense to me. With `foldl1 (||) (map ($x) tests)`, my guess is that I am folding an operation denoted by || (my guess is or?) over some sort of collection that was obta
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lahvak
6y ago
A mathematician here. The problem is that both 0 and 1 are useful in different situations: when dealing with sequences and series, especially ones arising from discrete models where the important thing to consider is going from one term to
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lahvak
6y ago
I did not know anything about FP, so I looked it up, and my first reaction was that it sounds a lot like APL, but then APL predates FP. But APL and its derivatives, like j, are still in use.
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lahvak
8y ago
So that more people can read it? I mean, they could have used some other dialect of Chinese, but Mandarin seems to be the safest bet.
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lahvak
9y ago
de fsck? I see what looks like a scree full of random garbage with something very slowly happening on the status line, but I have no idea what to look for.