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Russell's Paradox(iep.utm.edu)
3 points by lordleft 6y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 6y ago
It’s amazing how vivid the blue paint deep into the tomb has remained.
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by lordleft 7y ago
For additional context, other Socratic schools like Stoicism are also virtue-ethical schools. For folks who are looking for a very specific rule to a life situation, virtue ethics can feel too ambiguous, but for someone like myself, who bel
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by lordleft 7y ago
OS/2 always intrigued me because it looked like a strange cousin of Windows; it so clearly shared the design language (and some actual code) with that family of operating systems.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Any issue with nvidia cards?
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by lordleft 7y ago
I have no comment re: the actual campaign but I find the site wonderfully clean.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Donald Knuth manages to be brilliant, well-read and also just a nice person. Sort of refreshing given our field's tendency to let mean-spirited people off the hook if they happen to be good at what they do.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Amazing video. A lot of the quirks of UNIX and editors like vi make way more sense when you become aware of the role of the teletype in early computing.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Loved this article!
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by lordleft 7y ago
Didn't the infamous SecurOM also do this?
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by lordleft 7y ago
I think the point is that more than just this worker was exposed to COVID-19...shouldn't the entire warehouse be shuttered?
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by lordleft 7y ago
This is a great story. I feel like talented CS students are particularly prone to this sort of myopic thinking; their professors introduce them to functional programming, or the philosophy of UNIX, and they carry that approach everywhere, i
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by lordleft 7y ago
He was also an accomplished scientist who contributed to our understanding of color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe#Sci...
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by lordleft 7y ago
I so desperately want to like adventure games. I love the visual styles, I love the storytelling opportunities, but the idea of being defeated by an opaque puzzle infuriates me.
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Doom Runs on Anything(youtube.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Might be region locked? I get a free option in the US (NY-State)
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by lordleft 7y ago
There is a real sense of rating inflation happening here. It makes a 4-starred place seem especially sub-standard, even though it might be the result of a single unreasonable guest, or even a reasonable guest providing a muted review. Yelp
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by lordleft 7y ago
My take-away from Oliver Sacks memoir is the value of a historically grounded science. Sacks got a lot of grief for reading the primary sources of naturalists writing in the 19th century, but it helped him develop a phenomenal facility for
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by lordleft 7y ago
Could you imagine life prior to widely available HVAC? These cramped streets, heaving with people and heat. It's all the more remarkable given the sartorial expectation of the time. How did people wear suits and dense dresses regularly
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by lordleft 7y ago
God I love heroic epithets. I wish they would come back in modern life: “swiftly coding Dylan” or “ceaselessly refactoring Anna”
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by lordleft 7y ago
Rest in Peace. And amazing example of academic and intellectual success sans-phd.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Rest in Peace. And amazing example of academic and intellectual success sans-phd.
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by lordleft 7y ago
The state does not always have to directly constrain speech to create an environment hostile to free expression. Though they've certainly censored media connected to controversial topics like Kashmir before. In a sense, this sort of vo
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by lordleft 7y ago
This is ridiculous. India is a democracy. Spirited debate and criticism is salutary and necessary. I am deeply disappointed by this decision. It only strengthens those voices in the subcontinent that equate critique to betrayal.
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by lordleft 7y ago
If the author is right, what subfields of mathematics will likely be the most salient? Linear Algebra? Stats? Category Theory? Isn't it possible that the species of math you invest in will turn out to not be so valuable in an AI-driven
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by lordleft 7y ago
I've heard ghastly horror stories from PhD friends of mine at the Ivy I attended. I don't think the average person appreciate how unbalanced the power dynamic can be for doctoral students. An advisor can exert a fearsome pressure
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by lordleft 7y ago
Anyone else unable to find the Ghibli albums mentioned in the article in Spotify yet? I've tried the desktop and web app to no avail.
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Zelda, Speedrunning and the Controversy over Arbitrary Code Execution(reddit.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Gilbert Strang has this lovely patrician, avuncular energy that puts me at ease. I feel like he's as likely to pour me a cup of tea as he is to expound on matrices. He feels less like an MIT professor and more like a shared pedagogical
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by lordleft 7y ago
There's definitely some cherry-picking of history going on.

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