marcelluspye

12 ms·

61.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
Because "higher level people" are the ones who make the decisions to do things like this, and they nearly always get away with it. The engineers who added the system are responsible, too, but at the end of the day, if they had sai
62.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
Based on this article, I would venture to guess that Axler is also not a fan of the cross product, though, so he wouldn't feel that much is lost. Cross products are practically a vector-calculus hack that lack generality and risk obscu
63.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the message of this article. Is it just that people in a (good) marriage have better (emotional, financial) support systems, and are therefore happier? The subtitle would lead me to believe that the article is
64.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
It's only informative if you take what they said at face value.
65.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
>Among the very smartest people I know, I count both Trump supporters and anyone-but-Trump supporters. Not the guy you were replying to, but I can't say the same. I know plenty of smart conservatives, and plenty of smart republicans
66.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
I think a lot of people are going against the author's narrative because they don't agree with her conclusions based on the evidence she presents. I think even the people who sound like they're defending Mark would admit his
67.
The UK no longer has a national public library system(theguardian.com)
8 points by marcelluspye 9y ago|1 comments
68.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
There was Joe Barton's summary paragraph edited to remove mention that he told someone at a town hall meeting to "shut up," and replaced with what was essentially an ad, which only cited his own website. Seems to have changed
69.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
What I took away is that while plenty of poor people might believe/agree with thought leaders, it's the rich who enable them, by giving them a platform. I'd say the article is not so much academics vs. "thought leaders
70.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
The only time I've observed people in real life acting like people in video games is at a chess tournament. Constantly trash-talking until they lose, then accusations of cheating. You certainly don't see this type at all (or most)
71.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
I don't do my calculations/scratchwork in latex, but I know people who do, and take notes with it, etc. It's definitely got a learning curve, but once you've got it down it can be faster than writing by hand for a lot of
72.
by marcelluspye 9y ago
For a good while, Yik Yak was very popular on my campus. Then when handles became mandatory, basically everyone stopped using it. Even after they back-pedaled, though, our feed was merged with several in the surrounding area, so we lost the
73.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
>30 years ago there was no internet, no smoothy bar equipped fitness rooms, no pretty dorms and everything upscale. How certain are you that these are the reasons school has gotten more expensive? I'm a student at a school with a de
74.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
Not the poster above you, but the ACLU is pro-choice, and the comment you replied to sounds to be pro-life.
75.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
My experience with linux power management has been alright, or at least better than my expectations. I have an asus laptop that gets f *-all battery life under windows (either 8 or 10, though it seems to be worse now) but I can usually get
76.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
The advantage of a swappable battery isn't having multiple charges worth of power on your person, it's not having to ditch the phone/potentially deal with warranty problems when your battery starts to go. It isn't about
77.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
Administrators suck up a huge amount of money these days as well. That's the real scam, considering they only seem to make my life harder. My institution has the added administerial tax of those offices inhabiting all the nicest buildi
78.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
I feel there needs to necessarily be a separation of the doing of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics in these kinds of matters. In the teaching of mathematics, especially in the more 'abstract' areas, there is not nearly
79.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
I don't think it was a case of abandoning equality, as much as it was about defering 'colorblindness' until there is actual equality. However, the people on the left espousing these ideas seem to have forgotten to tell every
80.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
While possibility is another question entirely, from a design standpoint I can definitely see why an app might want to bundle the font together with the rest of the package. It guarantees a homogeneous user experience.
81.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
How old is older? There are a lot of distros designed with the purpose of making old hardware useful, up to definition of old.
82.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
I'm confused by this response (not the OP). Do you think that they were saying Clinton's being a woman would make her a worse president? I took it to mean that there are a decent-sized group of Americans who do believe that (proba
83.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
>SO isn't dying any time soon, and the content is still good. While I'd say this is currently true, answers on SO tend to stick around for a long time, and the 'marked as duplicate'-heavy behavior means that even if t
84.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
There's a relationship between the incompleteness theorems and the halting problem in that no turing machine can decide whether an arbitrary statement in a logical system where the incompleteness theorems apply is derivable or not. Equ
85.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
Well, for one thing, you have to define 'true'. The incompleteness theorems don't have anything to do with what's 'true', they have to do with what's 'derivable'. It's a consequence of the c
86.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
Well, it doesn't really emulate the gameboy game either, so noone wins.
87.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone's aware of the stated purpose of the section. It's not like there were a bunch of execs and lobbyists sitting around going "there's too much creativity in the world." But the intentions
88.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
I remember showing some of my A.V. club buddies my Note 2 not long after it came out and getting laughed at. "It's like holding a magazine to your head!" Without changing phone size, most of my friends now have bigger or equa
89.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
This doesn't seem quite right either, though. People had been talking about 'virtual reality' for a long time, but only recently has there been so much activity in trying to make available to consumers. It's true that a
90.
by marcelluspye 10y ago
It's a reaction to the question, "can bootcamps replace a CS degree?", to which these people would say, "no." On the question, "are bootcamps good or bad?" I think most people would tend towards good, thou

More ›