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by notfashion 7y ago
Here's the quote: "Once category theory was developed and used, in particular when the central theoretical role played by adjoint functors was understood, a fascinating process of reversal of perspective, a gestalt switch, took
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by notfashion 7y ago
Here we go again with the FUD: "mentally ill people often behave in ... dangerous ways". This kind of claim is harmful to the mentally ill as a group, because it is just not true. The vast majority of mentally ill people are not
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by notfashion 7y ago
You could have read the document before spewing toxic FUD about the kind of things mentally ill people supposedly do. Here's the section that addresses your concern: "All persons, including those with disabilities, have a duty to
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by notfashion 7y ago
Everybody who writes about Semir Zeki (PI on that paper) and his work is polite about him. I can only assume that this is because he is a) a likeable guy and b) the professional aestheticians and artists who could make negative comments thi
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by notfashion 7y ago
Whether it feels weird or not, the hostname label is "www". The hostname-as-tld example is sort of against the rules: https://serverfault.com/questions/907226/is-it-possible-to-c... Either way, ".&q
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by notfashion 7y ago
The way you are using "www." and "." is incorrect. The dot isn't part of the local hostname "www". It is a separator or delimiter for the textual elements in the domain name. "Redirecting from (or to)
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by notfashion 7y ago
Yes, but the "least amount of work", as far as Idris is concerned, has no necessary relationship to what the programmer intended when they defined the type. It guesses the simplest thing that fits, but that's far from a guara
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by notfashion 7y ago
> This type specifies that both Vects must be length n. If they are not equal in length, the code will not compile. In fact, this type is so narrowly specified that Idris can infer the entire implementation of the function from it. It&#x
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by notfashion 7y ago
Why wouldn't it be? The performance was called "The Artist is Present". It was all about actually having an encounter between the artist and members of the public. Abramovic does a lot of performances that are physically dema
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by notfashion 7y ago
> Ideally, everything one says should be sincere, so your idea sounds weird to me. This is an extremely characteristic HN/engineer comment. People use irony in communication. It's part of the human repertoire. Saying "oh g
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by notfashion 7y ago
I've spent quite a lot of time in graduate art training and I'd go further: this isn't about a high level of technical skill or performance, it's about personality. A composer is not a pianist writ large; a software engi
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by notfashion 7y ago
It's Cliff Stoll, not just some wacky guy. He is extremely famous among people who were interested in computer security in the 90s. I know that's not the sense of "hacker" that "hacker news" refers to, but stil
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by notfashion 7y ago
Valuing workers is separate from valuing quality. I don't think the article I linked to implies in any way that the exploited workers are doing inferior work.
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by notfashion 7y ago
Even very expensive designer clothing may still be made in exploitative conditions. See https://qz.com/1397139/italian-workers-are-earning-near-swea...