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by n4r9 1y ago
What do you mean, you're not convinced that the brain stores memories? What is happening in the brain when you have an experience and later recall that same experience? It might not be perfect recall but something is being stored.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Works okay until someone opens the file in Excel, writes "2-9" into a cell, and saves it without realising it's been changed to "02/09/2025" behind the scenes.
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by n4r9 1y ago
There are aspects of YT that I simply cannot see TikTok or Instagram disrupting. Music is one of them. I just searched for one of my favourite musicians Lisa O'Neill on TikTok. There are literally 6 videos in the results, mostly just
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by n4r9 1y ago
I can think of several reasons why the US public finds Trump more appealing. Trump is a US national born and bred, whilst Musk was born in South Africa and holds Canadian as well as US citizenship. Trump absolutely nails populist rhetoric,
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by n4r9 1y ago
Which links to https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker
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by n4r9 1y ago
> As The Register's European editor wearily remarked: "Search the site for Simon and VMware. We've got pages of this stuff. Go. Look." In case anyone else was wondering who "Simon" is, I'm pretty sure i
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by n4r9 1y ago
It's tempting to see security guards as a basic response to criminal behaviour. But I wonder if the causality is more complex than that. I can easily imagine growing up under different circumstances to view society as a case of "m
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by n4r9 1y ago
> parents should feed their kids if they believe food to be dangerous? In case anyone thinks this is purely hypothetical: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62v59621dro
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by n4r9 1y ago
One of the functions of government is to ensure the health of its citizens. Potential harms have to be weighed against individual liberty. Parental choices can affect the health of their and other children. The line has to go somewhere. Som
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by n4r9 1y ago
> People leave Google's ecosystem all the time; it's practically sport here on HN. That supports the original argument if anything. If "Here's how I did X" generates interest on HN, it's quite likely that X
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by n4r9 1y ago
I read some advice from an experienced academic about this which stuck with me (unfortunately can't remember who!). If you want to keep people's attention, make every slide as minimally simple as possible. Like one diagram and may
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by n4r9 1y ago
In which case he's misusing the term "miasma", oversimplifying modern medicine by labelling the entire practice as "germ theory", and presenting a false balance on the issue. And it's kinda dangerous to dog-whi
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by n4r9 1y ago
I guess it depends what mean by "elegant". For me, an elegant solution makes it obvious that certain classes of bugs will not be present. For example, suppose you have an application that connects to 17 queues and processes a diff
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by n4r9 1y ago
So what? Geocentricity can predict some observations but it's bonkers to believe in it today.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Oh my Lord, you're right: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine...
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by n4r9 1y ago
Obligatory how? It's sort of funny but comes across as uninformed, over the top, and lacking substance.
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by n4r9 1y ago
It depends greatly on the situation. If you have five different methods for fetching WidgetInfo from the database and a requirement comes in to add TextProperty to Widget in all views, you're more likely to accidentally miss one of the
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by n4r9 1y ago
That's the one, thank you. Likewise about the MMath.
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by n4r9 1y ago
True, but we shouldn't understate how beneficial elegant solutions can be in the appropriate setting. Sometimes you read code that gives you a new and memorable way to think about a certain kind of problem.
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by n4r9 1y ago
I vaguely remember that Prof Thomas Körner in Cambridge used to have some good notes on mathematical writing. I can't find them now but here is another lecturer's notes that look quite good: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk&
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by n4r9 1y ago
> I can't turn my weird off, so I think I defensively dial it up sometimes Hits close to home! For what it's worth, it sounds like you have an admirable level of self-reflection and - despite being painful at times - I expect t
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by n4r9 1y ago
If you have to share the prize money with other people that guessed the same numbers, then it seems sensible to avoid obvious patterns.
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I'm inclined to a different interpretation of "common hazards" and "adequate provision" but otherwise don't massively disagree, so would be happy to leave it there. My takeaway is that Hayek falls somewhere inb
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by n4r9 1y ago
The article and specifically your post brings back vivid memories! My wife and I hiked the Dolomites starting from Cortina d'Ampezzo a few years back. Our second day was from Rifugio Tofana, round the southern ridge of Tofana di Rozes
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by n4r9 1y ago
One of your "Click to run" examples is called "faculty calculation". I'm not a forth expert but it looks like a factorial function. Is "faculty" a replacement for "factorial" in some contexts?
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by n4r9 1y ago
> what exactly is the upper limit of care being provided to someone for "cancer"? It is very vague. It is light on detail but that feels tangential to me? Much like private insurance schemes, state healthcare systems necessaril
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by n4r9 1y ago
Yeah, there are going to be differing interpreations of "common hazards of life" and "adequate provision". But it certainly sounds like he's advocating state-funded healthcare for e.g. cancer, which is very differen
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by n4r9 1y ago
Agreed. PR departments are paid specifically to weasel around questions like this. If anything, it's in Google's interests because it gives them something to claim they're cooperating with.
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In "The Road to Serfdom": > There is no reason why in a society which has reached the general level of wealth which ours has attained the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedo
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by n4r9 1y ago
Which aircraft models would be more suitable for European countries to give a deterrent against potential threats like Russia?

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