mrkgnao

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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   Le Monde, mais Die Welt. :) (Right?)
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   That's what the timer reading froze at, but is that the same as the time when an abort sequence was initiated? This is the first time that I saw a livestream where an abort happened, so I'm curious. Is the timer freeze standard?
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   So, I can probably try to provide the beginnings of an ELI5 from a math point of view, since the heading really caught my eye: a sheaf is a way of assigning some data to subsets of a space which satisfied some commonsense axioms. For inst
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   > Loon engineers turned to the computing power of Google to improve the navigational system That earned a chuckle.
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   You just reminded me of something I've learned about in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_curve
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   Street phuchka vendors in Kolkata (they are what you call golgappas in Delhi) will hand you bowls made out of sal leaves. I wonder if that's the same as what you came across? https://billandpaige.files.wordpress.com&#x
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   Summer School at Tufts on the geometry of gerrymandering(sites.tufts.edu)

   2 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mrkgnao 10y ago

   That makes sense, in which case someone who's already had some experience thinking about liars-and-truthtellers puzzles gets nothing out new of it, and those are probably the overwhelming majority anyway.
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    Isn't this a spoiler? I haven't seen the puzzle in a while.
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    > vice after periods Is vice Latin? It reminds me of pace (because of the "shape" of the word, haha), but I guess it means something akin to except ?
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    And Dantzig himself was known for having mistaken a couple of unsolved problems for homework :)
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    Grammar isn't merely part of language (2016)(dam.brown.edu)

    124 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|68 comments
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    It might be that, in GP's experience, people who straightaway reply "I love Mozart" are less likely to actually have heard a substantial amount of his work, perhaps to have sat with them for some time, and (for lack of a be
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    Just in case you're counting replies, yes! Bring your dad too, it'd be an honor for a ton of people who haven't met anyone from that age, let alone had a parent with stories like that :)
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    How do you escape an asterisk on HN? Other than (a*)*c which seems to work.
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    I've seen it in older literature, as "within and without", where the latter approximately translates to "outside" and is supposed to be an opposite for "within". (I'm Indian, but I can't remember
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    This reminds me of the Joshua Bell- on-a-subway project some years back. :) : read en-dash
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    I've been (rightly) downvoted for pointing this out on HN in the past, but one of the main developers associated with the Urbit/Hoon/Tlön/Uqbar/etc project is someone active in the alt-right (although there may be s
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    I'd go further and say it's not complex, but rather complicated . In the same way that (forgive the example) the Vim command language is complex, but the Vim source code (gasp) is, well, very complicated. I use Emacs (Spacemacs,
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    Protecting Data Privacy Through Hard-To-Reverse Negative Databases (2005) [pdf](crypto.stanford.edu)

    2 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|0 comments
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    Anecdotal (counter)evidence: in India, Reliance ("Jio") has been offering free (which is a first) 4G (I believe only one other carrier offers that) data for a few months now, ending March of this year. (I believe they're usin
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    "Take a break!"
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    Steam deleted everything on system owned by user (2015)(github.com)

    7 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|1 comments
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    Minimal test cases sounds like QuickCheck.
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    “This module translates C to Rust”(github.com)

    2 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|0 comments
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    I'm a Refugee(bartoszmilewski.com)

    4 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|0 comments
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    s/bizarre/almost redeeming/ :)
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    I think bash was (is?) written in that kind of C.
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    by mrkgnao 10y ago

    I'd love a reference! This sounds very interesting.