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by p0llard 6y ago
In general ~/.config is only for config; data should be in ~/.local/share, but a lot of programs get this wrong and abuse ~/.config using it for everything. Even worse are the programs which use it to cache runtime data;
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by p0llard 6y ago
I haven't run this, so perhaps the behaviour is different to what I'm expecting, but since it uses `XDG_DATA_HOME` (`data_dir` in the `directories` crate) I'd expect it to appear as /home/alice/.local&#x2
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by p0llard 6y ago
> Once you start doing quick things with lists like the zip function, or list comprehensions, it's hard to go back. Totally agree with you on this one, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that they're a defining
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by p0llard 6y ago
> so for anyone approaching it with an undergrad or lesser background in math, learning it feels a bit like starting with a clean slate Did you mean without? Algebraic topology would be a pretty standard 4th year undergrad course in the
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by p0llard 6y ago
> "mean" doesn't quite cut it, if you want to be a stickler about it. I'm going to assume, then, that you didn't read my original comment which started off this line of discussion? By that standard, you just fai
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by p0llard 6y ago
> It is a bit tongue in cheek. As was my reply ;)
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by p0llard 6y ago
> "the function f(x) = 15 is an average, but since it's a constant function it will almost always be a terrible one" It has minimum variance, how can it be a terrible estimator?.. ;)
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by p0llard 6y ago
> So far as I can tell, the common word for statistical mean is "average" in English You're quite probably right about common parlance.. > but it's not the correct technical language. ..but as you point out it&#x2
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by p0llard 6y ago
This is true, but an ISO UK keyboard also "provides four easily accessible pairs of single-character symmetrical 'brackets'"; for this particular purpose there is no distinguishing factor between the two layouts.
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by p0llard 6y ago
The whole "correlation does not imply causation" thing is completely misunderstood. The issue is with the meaning of the word "imply"; when used in the formal sense as it appears is Classical Logic, correlation does inde
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by p0llard 6y ago
Interesting, this seems in principle to be similar to a (hypothetical) concept of "prosecutable torts" in English Law, indeed some of the examples (trespass to land, defamation) are torts in English Law.
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by p0llard 6y ago
Do we get to see the sudden enormous AWS bills as HN overloads your site?
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by p0llard 6y ago
> by 10 years, you should definitely be post-candidacy. Yes sure, 10 years was perhaps a stretch. But anyone who has lived in the US pretty much continuously for 5 or 6 years (undergrad plus the first couple of years of grad school, or p
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by p0llard 6y ago
> It seems like they believe that the Trump Administration is trying to manipulate them into opening prematurely, and that they are very cognizant of this. You're right, and the court filing addresses this explicitly; see 75) in h
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by p0llard 6y ago
One big issue here is that F-1 students must maintain residency in order to be eligible for OPT. This is secondary to the fact that if you're a PhD student on an F-1, you literally live in the US; you aren't just popping over for
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by p0llard 6y ago
The "obvious solution" would surely be for grsecurity's customers to band together into a cartel to put an end to this pretty unpleasant behaviour?
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by p0llard 6y ago
This seems pretty good from a brief flick through; the author. Graham Hutton, is pretty well known in the CS community. Some other resources for people who find that this piques their interest and that they want to go deeper: * Formal Reas
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Ask HN: Why don't you use formal methods?
8 points by p0llard 6y ago|4 comments
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by p0llard 6y ago
> I.e., do you know that when you submit to Nature, you can specify to whom your paper should and should not be sent to for review? It's the same in e.g. ACM conferences; indeed there is a developing scandal surrounding organised fr
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by p0llard 6y ago
Undergraduate studies in the US in general are very different from in Europe. I did my undergrad (EECS) at Imperial and MIT (for my final year), and the difference between the two was pretty enormous. My home department expected me to take
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by p0llard 6y ago
Yep, I'm a computer scientist and the I'd say probably the majority of the papers I read are from ACM conference proceedings, weirdly the journal/conference prestige split seems to be reversed in CS compared to other discipli
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by p0llard 6y ago
Can universities not manage that themselves? Archival isn't a new problem and I don't believe it's a problem that should be tackled by a profit making company; if there were a non-profit responsible for safe-guarding the coll
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by p0llard 6y ago
Ah, but that distinction was made by the reviewers, who are (in the overwhelmingly vast majority of cases) unpaid; the publisher itself isn't providing that as a service, at least as far as I understand.
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by p0llard 6y ago
Yes sure, but they also command an enormous premium for doing so; perhaps I'm too naive, but I would hope that in a "rational market" this wouldn't be possible. I would expect universities to be running their own publi
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by p0llard 6y ago
Ordinarily I would be inclined to say that as a "private marketplace", Apple is entirely within its rights to selectively enforce rules (and whims) like this so as to maximize their profit, but surely there must be a limit when ab
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Ask HN: What added value do academic publishers provide?
8 points by p0llard 6y ago|11 comments
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by p0llard 6y ago
> electronics is to electricity what software engineering is to CS I would respectfully disagree with this assertion. I'm pretty sure my colleagues who are designing novel FinFET transistors for low noise applications are "doin
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by p0llard 6y ago
> the branch of physics _and technology_ concerned with the design of circuits using transistors and microchips, and with the behaviour and movement of electrons in a semiconductor, conductor, vacuum, or gas. Yep; it is explicitly is tal
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by p0llard 6y ago
> Electronics is about building useful circuits. This is just factually inaccurate; electronics is the field which relates to control/emission of electrons. If you build a "useful circuit" which does not use any active com
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by p0llard 6y ago
I'm not sure I completely agree with this: electronics refers specifically to (essentially) anything concerning the control/emission of electrons (so transistors, thermionic valves, etc.); it's not just "advanced electri

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