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Penrose: Create Beautiful Mathematical Diagrams(penrose.cs.cmu.edu)
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by picometer 3y ago
The replies to this comment are zoning in on the epistemological dilemma it poses. Soliciting theories for one of the most difficult scientific puzzles, on HN of all places: do you expect someone to serve you up a neatly-wrapped viable and
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by picometer 3y ago
Yeah, I suspect the grandparent comment meant that spellcheck (and perhaps other tools, like you listed) should be standardized. And thanks to the big cos (Apple and Microsoft) doing full vertical integration of their stack and calling it t
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by picometer 3y ago
You’re totally right - nothing can really stop a well enough funded smear campaign. In this example, I don’t think Project Veritas was going after her specifically. But it’s literally the only search result for her somewhat-unique name (and
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by picometer 3y ago
I think this could be a bad idea for some prople, and here’s why. I was just searching an old teacher of mine to see how she was doing. I knew she was super old-school (doesn’t even have a smartphone, let alone social media profiles) but I
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by picometer 3y ago
The optimist in me hopes that a UBI-like system would enable more people to tackle research, nonprofits, and other long term “social good” type projects.
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by picometer 3y ago
I had this set up on a vertical wall at my previous apartment and it was so much fun. I’m working on getting it set up in my current place, too, and I’d really like to get it projecting downwards so that I don’t have to deal with taping thi
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by picometer 3y ago
Now that I think about it, maybe the spherical or cylindrical shape is actually better suited to an apartment building. The inner units _would_ have typical rectangular angles. For units along the curved surface, some walls will be straight
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by picometer 3y ago
Yes, the surface area ratio is only applicable to whole buildings. But, regardless of how the interior is divided, the whole space has to be heated. (Empty apartments notwithstanding, since that would change the shared-internal-walls calcul
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by picometer 3y ago
A sphere’s minimized surface area per volume also means that temperature control is more efficient: there’s less surface area for heat to escape in the winter, or enter in the summer. So for the same (or similar) wall material cost & on
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by picometer 3y ago
+1, and also, CS fundamentals absolutely can be learned & exercised in the use of high-level tools. One of the beauties of that knowledge is that its concepts are transferable across domains and layers of the computational stack. Pro ti
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by picometer 3y ago
This seems like a good context for the quote, “if you want to build a ship, […] teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” I don’t think that Saint-Exupery intended to suggest that the yearning was enough on its own, but it makes th
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by picometer 3y ago
From the article: > The email also reminds [non-remote-designated] employees […] that managers can factor their absences into performance reviews. Requiring on-site vs remote work is one thing; tying it to performance considerations is a
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by picometer 3y ago
While I’m not anti-psychology, I understand that perspective. It’s precisely when social sciences try to apply methods or standards from the natural/‘hard’ sciences that things go wrong. It is more difficult, as you said, and it’s al
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by picometer 3y ago
Which region if I may ask? Did you encounter any permitting difficulties?
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by picometer 3y ago
Straight from the article > this post is mostly about the aesthetic perks. the things that cost discord exactly nothing I presume the second sentence is shorthand for: no marginal cost for Discord, after the development is done. So, two
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by picometer 3y ago
I think the word “truly” is doing the heavy lifting here.
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by picometer 3y ago
“Some of the most interesting questions about CAS [Complex Adaptive Systems] have to do with their relations to one another. We know that such systems have a tendency to spawn others. Thus biological evolution gave rise to thinking, includi
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by picometer 3y ago
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast dropped BetterHelp as an ad sponsor immediately after hearing about this mess. So there are some out there who care. It certainly increases my (already high) trust in their podcast operations.
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by picometer 4y ago
Your final conclusion surprised me. All of the software woes you describe sound like they come from insufficient foundational technology, so why not be pleased that they are now investing in those foundations?
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by picometer 4y ago
Why do you use words like “brutal” and “cruel”? We celebrate those paragons - that’s why we have the Olympics. “Cruel” only makes sense in the limited scope context of single competitions. And we should also celebrate hyper-effective progra
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by picometer 4y ago
Hi - I am trying out Warp at a job that defaults to the MacOS ecosystem. But as a Linux user in all other domains I’m glad to hear that you’ll be going cross platform. I vacillated for a long, long time before registering for an account. Th
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by picometer 4y ago
Terawatts come to mind.
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by picometer 4y ago
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” - Maria Mitchell, 19th cent. American astronomer
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by picometer 5y ago
I was also feeling frustrated with this. The HN post links to an event lineup, not a product/marketing page. It would be much less frustrating if it had a link to the homepage, which does describe the product: https://redw
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by picometer 5y ago
This is the headline you are annoyed at, its subheading in the article, and the article's concluding paragraph: "Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record" "Natural variability is probably the cause, although gl
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by picometer 5y ago
I have this as well, including the loops for time units (day, week, year) and varying “camera” perspectives. Sometimes it’s labelled as “space-sequence synesthesia” (or “space-time”, which sounds cooler but doesn’t cover the non-time sequen
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Of Cajun Navy and Agile (2017)(staciaheimgartner.com)
2 points by picometer 5y ago|0 comments
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by picometer 5y ago
{ "a": [ { "b": "foo" }, { "c": "bar" } ] } vs. { "a": [ { "b": "too" }, { "c": "bar" }, { "b": "uh
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by picometer 5y ago
I originally read this essay in high school english but still think of it frequently. These ideas are foundational for critical thinking; it's a way to cut through BS and see things more clearly. But it should come with few small warni

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