mFixman

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by mFixman 7y ago
Doesn't work tire you down? I'm not able to do anything productive after leaving my office.
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by mFixman 7y ago
I had the exact opposite experience as you. I was a night owl my entire life until my last few years of college, when it got difficult. Then I was able to transition to being an early riser in a couple of weeks, and I carry that experience
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by mFixman 7y ago
The Germans definitely sent Lenin because he would pressure whichever government Russia ended up with to withdraw from the war. It's wrong to call Lenin a German agent the same way it's disingenuous to call Corbyn a Russian agent
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by mFixman 7y ago
The solution is to either provide a Rational type that doesn't uses fixed values instead of floating point or to have programmers understand how floating point works and why you shouldn't compare them by absolute equality.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Is this a new thing though? Bug threads about important issues were full of animated GIFs for the decade I've been following them.
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by mFixman 7y ago
That line became incredibly cheap since LNER took over from Virgin. I've taken several next-day return trips from London to Edinburgh for less than £100 return.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Dumb question: why is Huawei the only available provider of 5G technology? Are all other companies too far away?
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by mFixman 7y ago
They might have changed it in the last 8 years, but one of the worst things about this change is that the referrer requests were made in HTTP. Anyone sniffing your connection could find out what you were writing on the Ubuntu spotlight.
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by mFixman 7y ago
In 1939 Germany declared war on Poland after having invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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by mFixman 7y ago
I was taught that real numbers were countable before learning what computables numbers where. "There's a set of countable numbers that includes every real number you know and doesn't include handwavy concepts" was news t
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by mFixman 7y ago
One of the ways to define the set of computable numbers is as the set of numbers for which there exists a program that, given an integer, gives you the n'th digit of this number. This set is countable: each one of these programs repres
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by mFixman 7y ago
I find this constant to be the most intuitive way to define uncomputable numbers, which itself is the most intuitive way to define uncountable sets.
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by mFixman 7y ago
The article was frustrating to read. Most of it is unrelated to the move and instead talks about things Tiffany's did recently. 100% a paid ad.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Those 1–3 minutes can make a difference in a small amount of cases, like tight time spaces in connecting flights. My ideal plane de-boarding strategy would be to separate everyone in a few groups depending on priorities (people with connect
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by mFixman 7y ago
Yesterday there was a link in HN regarding artificial intelligence, and a user raised an interesting question: if a ML algorithm can be considered conscious, could a group of people doing the equivalent calculations by hand be the same? I t
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by mFixman 7y ago
Why is it that Hipmunk had the best travel search interface I've used while SAP Concur's is absolute rubbish? What did they gain from the acquisition other than stopping a minor competitor?
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by mFixman 7y ago
That's actually the issue. Most operating systems don't have the windowing capabilities of most Linux distributions. I'm stuck on a Mac, where I cannot always on top, hide the title bar, or alt-drag windows to move them.
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by mFixman 7y ago
I have a Kindle which I loved and used to be my main way to read books when I lived in a third world country. I've pretty much abandoned it since I moved to a next-day Amazon delivery country. Dead-tree books are much more convenient i
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by mFixman 7y ago
What's the problem with using a long but humanly readable password, like several concatenated words? It's not like you are trying to protect against large scale attacks.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Brazil.
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by mFixman 7y ago
The (IMO fantastic) Android app can pull your password file directly from Google Drive and other cloud providers. I'd assume the iOS app does the same.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Digg failed because Reddit existed. There's no similar social media for Reddit refugees to go to.
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by mFixman 7y ago
I have the same problem as your parent, and I'm convinced I don't have the usual sleep issues for several reasons. 1) I'm very sensitive of lack of sleep, and so I take having 8-hours or more of good sleep extremely seriously
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by mFixman 7y ago
I thought I was the only person with a serious case of useless-meeting narcolepsy. Keeping relatively active helps, just like taking walks roughly every hour at minimum during work. If I'm absolutely going to sleep I'll stop payin
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by mFixman 7y ago
I agree. Brain-dumping `\begin{float}[t]` while writing seems more natural than thinking "go to this menu, click this option, see if it inserted the float, and choose 'top' in its location properties dialog".
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by mFixman 7y ago
Purdue pharma knew that their drug was more addictive that what was reported by the FDA, and chose to keep distributing it and pushing doctors to recommend it to people who didn't need it instead of re-doing the evaluation.
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by mFixman 7y ago
I enjoy Haskell's approach to numbers. The type of any numeric literal is any type of the `Num` class. That means that they can be floating point, fractional, or integers "for free" depending on where you use them in your pro
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by mFixman 7y ago
I wonder why they didn't use `==>`, which PHP alternatives like Hack[1] already use. [1] https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/functions/anonymous-functions
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by mFixman 7y ago
Honestly, I dislike it. I already have visual clutter in the top of my phone with the Android status bar; I don't need more clutter in the bottom.
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by mFixman 7y ago
Spam accounts.

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