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by nkurz 4mo ago
https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/
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by nkurz 4mo ago
I agree that it sends the wrong symbol, but actually Daniel is great. He cares tremendously about doing work that is actually real-world useful. I've co-written a few papers with him, and he's really hard working and open to outsi
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by nkurz 4mo ago
You keep saying that you "can't read the article" rather than that you choose not to. Are you philosophically opposed to clicking the archive link in this thread: https://archive.ph/cgUxZ ? Which is fine, alt
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by nkurz 5mo ago
Here's a starting point if you are intrigued: https://www.jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html The page above that has more info and other stories: https://www.jessamyn.com/barth/
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by nkurz 5mo ago
The judge's full decision (which is quite readable) is here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cr...
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by nkurz 5mo ago
I found it ironic that in an article by a brilliant linguist (and I mean that genuinely) about how fluidity of language can fool us into perceiving logic that isn't there that I was thrown out of frame by a silly grammatical error that
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by nkurz 5mo ago
You probably know the details better than I do (and perhaps there's a later twist I'm unaware of) but in 2022 Cocker denied that it was Stratou: Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life (via The Mirror), Cocker addressed clai
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by nkurz 6mo ago
It's trickier than that. Modern processors are speculative, which means that they guess at the result for a comparison and keep going along one side of a branch as far as they can until they are told they guessed wrong or hit some int
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by nkurz 6mo ago
> Unfortunately although we cut the search space to 2/3 of what it was for binary search at each step (1/3 vs 1/2), we do 3/2 as many comparisons at each step (one comparison 50% of the time, two comparisons the other
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by nkurz 6mo ago
Full article: American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, accordin
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Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen(asteriskmag.com)
706 points by nkurz 6mo ago|483 comments
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by nkurz 6mo ago
Most of what you are saying is correct, but I feel the need to respond to your far too many repeated assertions that "People do not eat tart cherries directly": Except for when they do! I grow several varieties of sour cherries in
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by nkurz 6mo ago
Unfortunately that's not the way it works. If it's [flagged] [dead] because of user flagging, some users can vouch for it to revive it. But if it's merely [flagged] (with associated penalties keeping it off the front pages)
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by nkurz 6mo ago
Almost, but not quite. Only 49.8% of votes for President were for Trump: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president A more accurate claim might be "More people voted for Trump in 2024 than any
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by nkurz 7mo ago
I think the standard is that the parenthesized date shows the last update, not the original. Is this not correct?
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by nkurz 7mo ago
https://archive.is/JOlEv
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by nkurz 7mo ago
> I always figured the algorithm was much simpler, it would just use the same branch as last execution — should work fairly well. Sure, that would work significantly better than no predictor at all. But you'd agree that a better pr
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by nkurz 7mo ago
> The "silver dollar" change isn't -- it's the dime. The design was in the works before the current administration, and is only intended to be for the 250th anniversary Referring to a dime as a dollar bothered me too.
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by nkurz 7mo ago
Great link. Specifically, this section is indeed a clear anwer: Custer’s design for the tails side of the coin — which features an eagle with one empty claw and one claw holding 13 arrows — won out in the selection process. The image ta
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by nkurz 7mo ago
Yes, this is a thing that can be done. No "derivatives" are necessary. You just figure out how many dollars worth of that particular stock your portion of the fund holds, and "sell short" that same amount of that same
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by nkurz 7mo ago
> You would think even the lowest paid employees performing routine labor at the company would be pulling in multiple 6-figure salaries. Why would you think that? Because of Musk's reputation for magnificence and generosity? Becau
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by nkurz 7mo ago
"Jürgen Habermas is dead. The philosopher and sociologist died on Saturday in Starnberg at the age of 96." https://www-spiegel-de.translate.goog/kultur/philosoph-juerg...
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by nkurz 7mo ago
The AllSides evaluation for CNN is interesting: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/cnn-media-bias . They have CNN currently rated as "Lean Left", changed from "Left" a few years ago due to the cha
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by nkurz 8mo ago
https://archive.is/W7KcJ
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by nkurz 8mo ago
https://archive.is/kfVOp
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by nkurz 8mo ago
Perhaps not, but that was my feeling on watching the Norwegian version, although to be fair, I was bothered enough that I only watched the first half. Defending my opinion, though, I felt that both had tall somewhat socially awkward men dre
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by nkurz 8mo ago
I was bothered that it seemed to be an extremely direct copy of this 2008 German commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY It took the same scenes, but in keeping with the theme, made them slightly worse. If t
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by nkurz 8mo ago
I used Claude to come up with this translation for the submission a couple days ago: And what she said was all true (And that she said was all true). I married her (I wifed on her), and she was a very beautiful woman (and she was full beaut
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by nkurz 8mo ago
https://archive.is/LNATB I thought this was a great article on the potential economic impacts of several possible conflict scenarios concerning Taiwan.
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The $10T Fight: Modeling a US-China War over Taiwan(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nkurz 8mo ago|1 comments

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