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by mikorym 6y ago
Looks like we are silent friends. The one thing I often get is just a message "JavaScript is not supported" and the other is wacky and long indices at the top. But, just having mywebsite.com/txt would not be a crazy idea...
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by mikorym 6y ago
As a South African growing up in a rural area, I always saw Into the Wild as an example of how Alaskans—or other people who don't die in the woods—with common sense are thrown under the bus in favour of general Americans with more gr
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by mikorym 6y ago
This is completely irrelevant, but I get pissed off even when websites don't support Lynx.
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by mikorym 6y ago
As mathematicians, we find solace in the void of the universe. We embrace it, we suppose the existence of the empty set, and we are forever saved from the apparent infinitude of assaults against the great potential of the human condition. O
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by mikorym 6y ago
While I agree that one shouldn't do bad things by doing a lot of things in general and some of them turning out to be bad, I also feel you shouldn't call all things bad just because there is a certain unknown probability thereof.
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by mikorym 6y ago
> Even today it’s regarded with suspicion in a way that most mathematical axioms aren’t. This is a common misconception. You either use it as an assumption, or you do not, as is the case with the parallel postulate. There need be no cont
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by mikorym 6y ago
AFAIK Garry Kasparov to this day does computer&human vs. computer&human chess research, and it's far from a solved problem.
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by mikorym 6y ago
This is why the need arose for talking about "orders of magnitude". If you use base 10, the order is 3, which is generally considered as a large difference. For a related reason you need "big oh" notation for computing s
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by mikorym 6y ago
I'm 30 now and my background is more in mathematics, so I do focus a lot on Python and R. A lot of my work is in statistics and also in agriculture. Hopefully, but the time I am your age, I will have some secret skills to teach the you
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by mikorym 6y ago
And conversely, some songs that I wrote for piano can have crazy jumps on an accordion.
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by mikorym 6y ago
Exactly because they have effects that sound different and are instances of the same general principle. Edit: The idea is not to stop there. You also have the minor 7th chord being dual to the major 7th chord (with the octave added implicit
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by mikorym 6y ago
I was expecting a bit more category theory. But I was glad to see that he alludes to the duality of minor chords and major chords. A simple way to look at it is like this: Pick two notes, i.e., an interval. Then pick a note in the middle of
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by mikorym 6y ago
I thought you were going to say you a violinist—that's the best example of perfect 4ths and 5ths that you can integrate with a band or orchestra that may include a normal 440 Hz A piano with equal temperament based on sqrt(2,12).
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by mikorym 6y ago
Then you just type: "!g something I am looking for via some super invasive method and random intimate knowledge about myself" and press enter. But I've found that I don't use Google that much. Maybe I type longer phrases
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think it would be cool if one started an online advertising company in 2020 that employs about 50% graphic designers and 50% other and that specialises on providing online JPEG or similar images for websites, and where each add is complet
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by mikorym 6y ago
There is a slider that allows you to put it on or off. If your IP is in the UK, the slider will say "United Kingdom on/off" or something like that.
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by mikorym 6y ago
As an aside, congratulations for finding an actual news article on Forbes in 2020! Looks like that's the part of forbes.com that is useful.
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by mikorym 6y ago
On HN, no less, someone told me that a cracker is fireworks. And that a Hacker is a Black Hat. The person sounded nice and law abiding... So my only question at this point is why they read "Hacker" News.
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by mikorym 6y ago
This comment should have a dualised state: downvotes that push it higher and upvotes that push it lower.
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by mikorym 6y ago
> DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's broken MongoDB
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by mikorym 6y ago
Why not make webpages that are not accessible by any of x in x = {Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Opera, ...} and only accessible via simplistic web interfaces? (Yes, IRC is like that.) The cool factor can be as much "everyone is doing it&q
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think the only thing saving me at this point is that I am obsessed with mathematics, not with tech. I have a lot of other hobbies that save me, but the math vs. tech mindset is very real to me in the workplace context. I am not saying all
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by mikorym 6y ago
I told my manager (yes, it is a generalisation): There are two people in life, those who think you solve problems with technology and those that believe you solve problems with humaneness. It's funny to me that people think the first o
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by mikorym 6y ago
You're right about C; I forgot that Java added it. I think that Delphi could be a good language to teach in, but in practice it doesn't seem to be. You lose a lot of students along the way that feel it's irrelevant. In classe
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by mikorym 6y ago
> There's nothing like the joy of programming for the very first time The first time I had an idea of what programming was, was when I saw my brother trying to explain to me that the window had code that ran it. Of course, I ignored
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by mikorym 6y ago
> Overall, Cessna is the Harley Davidson of the aviation world Not in terms of safety. I mentioned below somewhere that the main feature of a Cessna 182 is probably the very slow stalling speed. Cost of operation and cost ratio of the en
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by mikorym 6y ago
> Cessna has no timeline for the JT-A and the diesel 172. [1] This is quite interesting, as I have flown in a diesel trial Cessna 182. They paid people some nominal amount to test their diesel engine, and there were several failures (tho
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by mikorym 6y ago
IMO the main feature of the Cessna 182 is its very slow stalling speed. If you think about it, the stalling speed is the one thing that you can use to make a really tiny plane safer than a large plane that may have two or more engines. Ther
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by mikorym 6y ago
I recall that there were adverts on some of the top news sites that link to scams though dodgy companies like Outbrain. I checked BBC and CNN, and it seems like they don't have such links (anymore?). Do I remember this incorrectly, or
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by mikorym 6y ago
Maybe this question has an obvious answer, but will I still need to start my X Window System for graphics to display from my WSL terminal? My guess is that the answer is yes, but the type of applications that can be run is now extended? Con

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