linehedonist

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by linehedonist 3y ago
Doesn’t matter. He resigned in disgrace, will never work in academia again. Honestly I’m now curious what he’s been up to the last two years.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Cost is way too high. A few taxis and drivers won’t cut it.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Pretty dismissive of your wife’s patients. To your “welcome to parenthood” I might reply “welcome to being a pediatrician.”
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by linehedonist 3y ago
My glorious employer doesn’t pay for the Office suite, so I occasionally use Numbers for some very lightweight spreadsheet work on the work laptop.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Americans really do not have to go back and forth with metric a lot. Life in the glorious USA is lived unapologetically in imperial units.
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The Two-State Mirage: How to Break the Cycle of Violence in a One-State Reality(foreignaffairs.com)
3 points by linehedonist 3y ago|3 comments
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Kinda sounds like gpt prompting
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by linehedonist 3y ago
OED has /lʌɪd/, like lied (to my ears) https://www.oed.com/dictionary/lide_n
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Yup relativedelta https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/relativedelta.html
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by linehedonist 3y ago
2060 is 36 years from now, not 100. People having kids in 2060 are alive today or will be born in the next 20 years. Not crazy to make predictions about those people.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Who cares for your kids while you’re working? Who pays that person?
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Lots of people have no interest in cars, just like lots of people have no interest in computers. Not sure that says anything about the people’s intelligence. Plus on a desert island you’ll probably have bigger problems than what a transmis
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Your link doesn’t show what percentage of undergrads receive aid. I would imagine that the vast majority of MIT undergrads come from households making >$225k, and so would receive perhaps some but not much aid. Still paying $52k / y
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Agreed, lots of good options
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by linehedonist 3y ago
*threat protection, I think. I at least was confused for a second
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by linehedonist 3y ago
No idea. I left, and given that my hometown is shrinking at the rate of about -0.75% a year I’m not the only one.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
I agree, some kind of ranking would be helpful (length of Wikipedia article?)
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by linehedonist 3y ago
The GitHub repo for this project was posted two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498688
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by linehedonist 3y ago
What a claim. In all of human history? What about Cleopatra or Napoleon?
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Regional newspapers also by definition have a geographically restricted market. That worked well when there were geographical restrictions to distribution (printing and delivering newspapers), but less well in our modern age. NYT et al have
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by linehedonist 3y ago
The rust belt continues to contract and perish.
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FTC Order Will Ban InMarket from Selling Precise Consumer Location Data(ftc.gov)
2 points by linehedonist 3y ago|1 comments
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by linehedonist 3y ago
I think it’s the word ”Queen” (which is not normally used to refer to the ancient ruler). If I just google “Cleopatra” I only see results about the historical figure.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
(2023)
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Weirdly defensive about high hamburger prices.
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Sounds like it’s a dumping ground for anyone the local police accidentally (or intentionally) kill
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by linehedonist 3y ago
This author claims to be sending alumni newsletters from his server. I hey you anything that someone has (at least once) marked one of those newsletters as spam.
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This guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild(social.jvns.ca)
54 points by linehedonist 3y ago|71 comments
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by linehedonist 3y ago
Press x to doubt. The oldest datable example I can find of the Wren story is from 2000: https://books.google.com/books?id=L5n_uza-hl8C&pg=PA81&dq=Ch...