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by leephillips 3mo ago
“The small screen discourages watching Youtube and scrolling social media.” I don’t get it. If you don’t want to do these things, don’t do them. Why do you need to buy a device that “discourages” you from doing them?
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by leephillips 3mo ago
I noticed the same lumping, and came to the same conclusion. When reading the NYT, keep in mind that the agenda comes first, and the way information is imparted serves that agenda. And, at times, if the facts can't be massaged to serve
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Hearts and Minds: An Ambivalent Review of "Project Hail Mary"(rifters.com)
3 points by leephillips 3mo ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 3mo ago
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080821/2b26e92cfbab110c/
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by leephillips 3mo ago
All HN readers should, obviously, subscribe to LWN. But, just in case, here’s a free guest link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080821/2b26e92cfbab110c/
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Kitty Chases the Mouse(lwn.net)
3 points by leephillips 3mo ago|3 comments
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by leephillips 3mo ago
But he didn’t say “scientific computing”. There are not “many other languages” that are used for the stuff that he did describe. Nevertheless, his claim is incorrect. C, C++, Julia, and Fortran are all routinely used for these purposes, som
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by leephillips 3mo ago
Seems clear to me: it’s a silly number that people think is important. Like the Dow, H-index, GNP, ...
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by leephillips 3mo ago
Lua filters for Pandoc have been around for a quite a while. What’s newer is Pandoc’s ability to be used in web browsers. There’s a bit more about this and a general rundown of Pandoc in my recent article for LWN: https://lwn.net
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Flexible Metaprogramming with Rhombus(lwn.net)
8 points by leephillips 3mo ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Exactly. I pointed this out in another comment before seeing yours. They admit they found nothing.
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by leephillips 4mo ago
From the Conclusion: “High-intensity training reduced fat and maintained lean mass in apparently healthy older adults, though changes were small and not clinically meaningful compared with exercise of lower intensity and considering measure
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Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices(eff.org)
11 points by leephillips 4mo ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 4mo ago
All difficult conjectures should be proved by reductio ad absurdum arguments. For if the proof is long and complicated enough you are bound to make a mistake somewhere and hence a contradiction will inevitably appear, and so the truth of th
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by leephillips 4mo ago
You’re welcome. I hope it’s useful. And I’m glad you loved my book!
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Well, yes. There are several ways to get papers: https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/
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by leephillips 4mo ago
It should be obvious that a company is responsible for what it says. I hope this decision spreads to other countries.
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by leephillips 4mo ago
These are civil penalties. I wonder if the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments applies to the (high) statutory punitive damages. Any legal scholars want to help us out?
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Good points, especially if one is familiar with the actions if U.S. banana companies in Central America (mainly 19th, early 20th c.).
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by leephillips 4mo ago
“life-ruining sums of money from legally careless bloggers” is deterrence. Don’t do the crime if you can’t .....
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by leephillips 4mo ago
The language of the article is strongly biased in favor of people stealing artwork: “photographers should stop suing bloggers for copyright infringement!” The plaintiff gets scolded for not trying to settle. But, by the article’s own accoun
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Vulgar Materialism(borretti.me)
10 points by leephillips 4mo ago|3 comments
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by leephillips 4mo ago
They would be in violation even if there were no copyright notice. You own the copyright to anything you create; no notice required.
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.
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Gregory Williams, Academic with an Uncommon Perspective on Race, Dies at 81(nytimes.com)
2 points by leephillips 4mo ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Unfortunately I’m not familiar with this case.
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by leephillips 4mo ago
The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-ga
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Scientists: better to stay away. https://lwn.net/Articles/1023299/
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by leephillips 4mo ago
Too bad Harvard doesn’t have similarly high standards.

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