mFixman

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by mFixman 5y ago
> For each topic I counted how many times it had been mentioned in a post title, then calculated a 0-100 index, where 100 is the month with the most mentions. This is not really useful data then. A time series with a big spike will &quot
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Every website or internet community that I've used for over a year feels to me like it's dying, including HN. It's a natural reaction to change. I've been on Reddit for 11 years, and all your comments could apply to 2010
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I'm curious: what's the use case for microsecond-precise timekeeping?
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I normally have 2–3 browser windows open with at most 5 tabs each. I find that the window → tab hierarchy works very well with my workflow and it allows me to close tabs aggressively when I don't need them without being complex like Tr
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Weather isn't felt in a vacuum: you have to account for centuries of architecture and customs. Weather in London has become nicer in the last decade, with winters that are milder on average and summers that are warmer and sunnier (exce
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And this doesn't consider the prior of the amount of people reaching 100 each year. If a million people become centenarians each year and the yearly probability of death for one was 1/2, we would expect a to see a 122 year old eve
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> despite the protests of actual native Spanish speakers. The only people I've ever seen mad about "Latinx" were American internet free speech advocates.
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You don't have to tap the touchbar, you can just hold and slide it. It's easier to make both large and precise movements with your fingers. I just like it. Maybe it's because I can find the button in the touchbar without look
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It's a pity because holding and sliding the Touchbar to change the volume and brightness using the touch bar is much faster and more accurate than pressing buttons N times. There's a lot of good customisation options for the Touch
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Check again. Most pubs are open until midnight, and some are open further than that.
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A Google Employee working from home could save $200/day versus getting a fancy limousine to go to work. Nobody buys prepared food every day, and the costs of food are negligible for a Google employee.
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Motorcycles are lethal _because_ of cars. Blaming people for injuries are deaths caused by cars is the most discusting tactic the car industry has used to fight against road safety. Just look at any newspaper article about car drivers murde
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Vim's documentation is complete and very well-written. I've been using the editor for over 10 years and I still learn new things when perusing :help.
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This looks like the sort of thing you would intuitively solve with visual selection and a regex. ``` Vjj:s/\v'(.*)',/'\1': Enum.\u\1,/ ``` This is all just muscle memory. It seems impossible until
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You could ask the same question to anyone who touch types. Muscle memory is a marvellous thing.
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I use it every once in a while to truncate aligned text in tables. It's not very useful, but I'm glad it's there. The big question for me is whether anyone knew of virtual select mode, enabled by `gR`. It's like select m
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It's 2021, why are sans-serif typefaces still the most common way to read text? My 4K monitor can render detailed serif typefaces at very small sizes which are nicer and more legible than most of the text in the internet.
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The article doesn't mention Navigation Popups[1], a Wikipedia extension that you can activate from you profile that does basically the same thing as the new link previews. I've been using it since 2007, and to me it was always a m
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It wasn't mentioned in this article, but a commonly repeated complaint during COVID times is that season tickets don't work for people who commute 2–3 times per week and work from home the rest of the days. A possible flexible sol
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What I never understood about the Drake equation and the search for intelligent alien life is why people assume that "intelligence" is something special and not something inherently human. There's no reason to see human-like
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My biggest drawback for fish is that there is no way to concatenate several commands inside a block that I know of. In bash, I can run the following do the following, and the only ways I found to do this in fish are using several commands o
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As a third-worlder from a loud country that's very happy after emigrating to Britain I had the opposite experience: the culture and the British character are big positives of living in London and the UK. Maybe the grass is always green
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> Dogecoin has exactly the same energy spending incentives as Bitcoin. Does it? I thought that Bitcoin was particularly bad because block sizes were small, so there's a big incentive to mine and get mining fees. Dogecoin is still wa
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This is amazing! I'm also surprised that Github Pages lets you present arbitrary JS to the point where you can upload SQLite as WebAssembly. Isn't this dangerous?
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That only works if the IRS considers the price of the art to be $20m. If it were that easy then you could just donate anything at whatever price you want. High art is valuable because high art is expensive. I'm not losing $450 million
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Thanks, edited. I first understood the conjecture as bounding the exponential function on the size of the graph of an element of `F_H`, but apparently the odd thing is the exponent depends solely on `H`.
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The Erdős–Hajnal conjecture says that for any graph `H`, then every graph in the set of graphs `F_H` that does not contain `H` as an induced subgraph will either have a polynomial amount of cliques or a polymomial amount of independent sets
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Because you are finding the secrets of the Universe? Because math is fun? Not all work has to have a real world application ($$$). It would help if the you included at least one real world application of writing your comment.
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I'm impressed by how clear the article is for a layman. I only know the very basics of graph theory and Ramsay theory and I understood the topic perfectly. This is in comparison to the paper [1] which at a glance seems terse and diffic
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This is not just the people getting used to wearing mask. This is the government having an existing plan to actually combat a pandemic. The response of most Western governments have been shambolic: here in the UK the government didn't

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