ogogmad

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1051.
by ogogmad 5y ago
I don't think truly vowel-less words can exist, unless the consonants can all be "held" like {rr, sh, th, zh, l}. If a consonant cannot be held, like {b, k, t, d}, then there has to be a vowel somewhere. When I say "ng&q
1052.
by ogogmad 5y ago
I've started using Mathematica recently. I quite like it: I've used Sympy before, which was good, but nowhere near as "good" as Mathematica. How does it compare to the Lisp Machine operating systems? There's some va
1053.
by ogogmad 5y ago
When the author talks about too many languages and libraries, I personally think he means the proliferation of Unix DSLs (some of which are Posix and some are not) like Make, Awk, Sed, BC, DC, shell-script dialects, Gnuplot (I know it'
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A Short Glossary of Military Terminology(acoup.blog)
7 points by ogogmad 5y ago|1 comments
1055.
by ogogmad 5y ago
Superficial opinion: GNOME 3 is the best-looking DE for Linux, but I personally prefer using KDE. It's a shame then that the new flat design in GTK 4 looks ugly. I suppose it's all subjective -- but I'm struck by how visceral
1056.
by ogogmad 5y ago
In addition to the sibling answers: If you know the class of an object, let's say Class, but the object has yet to be "constructed" so that IPython can correctly infer its type, you can type `Class.[TAB]` in IPython and look
1057.
by ogogmad 5y ago
> Also, why does the tech community have an obsession with Rome? This question comes across as a bit sneering (more so one of its answers), but I'll say general intellectualism. This is what the orange site is about after all. See a
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Show HN: Dynamics of the QR algorithm visualized [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ogogmad 5y ago|0 comments
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by ogogmad 5y ago
> Floating point numbers are a particular way to represent (and modestly compress) rational numbers No no no no no no. Rational arithmetic satisfies (a+b)+c=a+(b+c); floating point arithmetic does not. Therefore floats are not a subset o
1060.
by ogogmad 5y ago
Obligatory reference to computable analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_analysis This shows that you can do exact real arithmetic without worrying about round-off errors. But it's expensive. If you
1061.
by ogogmad 5y ago
This provides an efficient method for drawing samples from BetaBinomial(n,alpha,beta) when alpha and beta are positive integers. What about when alpha and beta are positive reals, but not integers? [edit] What about using two measuring stic
1062.
by ogogmad 5y ago
> This war will likely upend the European security order. It also demonstrates how little real protection nuclear weapons provide. The world would be better off without these weapons. This should not imply unilateral disarmament though,
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by ogogmad 5y ago
I think the term started life in Russian (just before my time) before being translated directly into English. It's got little to do with Oligarchy in Plato's sense, but it originated as a reference to it. Incidentally, the term Ar
1064.
by ogogmad 5y ago
> He quoted the height of it to quite a degree of accuracy as proof of his touristic intentions Doesn't really prove anything. Could just be a really strange individual who memorises statistics. To 3 significant figures doe.
1065.
by ogogmad 5y ago
In principle, I'm willing to accept the right of countries to protect their "cultures" by limiting immigration. Within reason though: Once a person gets citizenship of a country, that right is irrevocable, and that person is
1066.
by ogogmad 5y ago
> "Khazarian" mafia This is jargon for Jews. It's based on the theory that Northern European Jews are descended from the Khazars. This particular theory of Jewish origins is popular with anti-Semites (for some reason) but
1067.
by ogogmad 5y ago
Wikipedia: > In December 2018, the Ukrainian parliament moved to again confer the award on Bandera but the proposal was rejected in August 2019. [emphasis mine] Before that, they had recently voted in Zelenskyy as President, who's
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by ogogmad 5y ago
Stalin was indeed violently antisemitic. See: The "doctor's plot", "Trotskyism", "rootless cosmopolitans", etc. Russian nationalists do indeed idolise him. But he wasn't Hitler. That aside, I urge peo
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1 points by ogogmad 5y ago|0 comments
1070.
by ogogmad 5y ago
The DeepL translation (deepl.com) seems to be a bit better: # BSI warns against the use of Kaspersky antivirus products The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns against the use of antivirus software from the Russian manufactu
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by ogogmad 5y ago
The polar opposite of this act is here: https://nitter.net/femeninna/status/1503464366330548227#m “If you think that we will stop in #Ukraine, you are deeply mistaken, this is just an intermediate stage” says the
1072.
by ogogmad 5y ago
At this point, it's so much obfuscation and noise that it's hard to know where the signal is. The Russians constantly employ disinformation -- a term that means lying -- to get their way. The level of chutzpah when they accuse Ukr
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by ogogmad 5y ago
Crushed and boiled sweetcorn tastes like something made from wheat ? If true, TIL.
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by ogogmad 5y ago
> Now polenta is made with maize, because it is more tasteful. Which means that the article's claim that it was "probably identical in taste and texture" is wrong. Which was my point.
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by ogogmad 5y ago
OK. My comment expresses scepticism that something made from sweetcorn tastes like something made from Old World wheat. It quoted a claim from the article that I didn't think likely to be true.
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by ogogmad 5y ago
Hold on. You've gone from saying "LOL" to the claim that Russia might lose, to providing justification for Russia's war. Not staying on topic. +15 RUB.
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by ogogmad 5y ago
Would it have been similar in taste and texture to a dish usually made from yellow maize?
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by ogogmad 5y ago
> The cost of baking bread was very high to a poor Roman, so if no access to a communal, public oven could be had, the grain would be crushed and made into a porridge known as ‘puls’ that was likely similar in taste and texture to modern
1079.
by ogogmad 5y ago
Can you read the man's mind? Because the rest of us are struggling to, and are preparing for the worst.
1080.
by ogogmad 5y ago
1. Why is Russia afraid of a defensive alliance with no compulsion to join (unlike the hilariously named Warsaw Pact)? The most enthusiastic members of the alliance are the closest to them... I wonder why... 2. NATO doesn't have hypers

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