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by mrkgnao 10y ago
> And people quit electric guitars more often than acoustic ones, he said, because of the pain factor: Steel strings hurt delicate hands. Huh? I can only imagine that they meant s/acoustic/classical/, because both acoustic
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
That's very similar to what I do now. I was looking for something more systematic than "hope you stumble across cool words" :) I did not know that energy and lethargy come from the same Greek root, though, thanks!
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I wonder if the images are all that's on his slides when he gives a talk. It would certainly require a great deal of facility with public speaking to be able to pull that off. Kudos to 'idlewords if that is indeed the case.
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Maybe he just introduced it to Mathcamp? We teenagers can be a bit quick to make claims sometimes :)
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Huh, that's cool. I wonder if there's any way I can expand my etymology-fu apart from just picking stuff up randomly or learning Latin/Ancient Greek. (I did read Word Power Made Easy as a kid. It kicked off my interest in t
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Exploratory Haskell (2015)(parsonsmatt.org)
140 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|60 comments
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I was a Mathcamper this year. One of the most common things people said to me when I mentioned that I was a first-timer was that 2015 was the last year Conway attended, and how sad it was that I'd miss his lectures and general presence
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Is "thaumaturgic" related to "demiurge" etymologically?
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Can you get a Spacemacs setup working on NixOS, with layers and so on? In general, assuming one is willing to write a bit of glue code/NixOS versions of patches/ebuilds/PKGBUILDs, can one get one's configuration from $di
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Quick google says it talks about parallel transport. If that's true in any meaningful sense, I'm happy differential geometry science fiction is a thing. :)
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I've never heard my Chromebook (Asus, I think a C7[24]0) make any noise, although I do always have a fan running in my room.
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Use the colors layer and enable the Nyan cat option. ;)
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I come from a lower-middle-class family in Kolkata, and I can say from experience that a lot of older people (my parents!) are over the moon with the whole thing. My mother, in particular, has suddenly turned into some sort of Modi fangirl,
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
The ticker in the video is almost surreal, dispassionately telling you about murders and nightclubs being shot up, with that in the background.
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I never thought about this ... I've always wanted to smoke (the mechanics of the whole thing please(s) me on some level) but I suffer from asthma and a mild disinclination to lung cancer. Mind you, when I say "smoke", I mean
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I don't get how having type classes makes the learning curve steeper. It's not like the mere existence of type classes means you have to start writing your own and doing functional dependencies and all that. For a beginner, it jus
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Pux is great!
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Ask HN: What's the best aha moment you've had?
50 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|62 comments
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
> an interesting napping technique Here's Henri Poincaré on how how he discovered Fuchsian functions[1]: For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions. I
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
" Verrrrrückt "
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Really inexperienced German learner here: does verrückt have any subtle connotations that crazy or insane don't?
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Thanks!
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Before I start reading this comment (and I'm excited to!), let me admit that I know what qualia is, and obviously this opens up a whole new can of worms about what pain is, whether our conception of pain matches anything a shrimp is ab
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
I agree, but I'm curious if there is a way to tell "for sure".
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Gentoo is none of those, although the main "idea" of Gentoo - the compilation - scares a lot of people away. Suffice it to say that I was somewhat against Gentoo until I put it on an old, failing desktop - it absolutely purrs . I
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
> flat design I do not mean to nitpick - I enjoyed your comment - but isn't that more the preserve of Windows (post-8)?
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
> I humanely killed the shrimp using the splitting method which destroys the central nervous system (boiling alive is more painful). How do we know this?
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
Now you have a number of problems unbounded in the worst-case.
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by mrkgnao 10y ago
TIL there is a .wtf TLD.
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Evan Chen – An Infinitely Large Napkin(mit.edu)
2 points by mrkgnao 10y ago|0 comments

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