purplejacket

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   by purplejacket 3y ago

   XY-Write anyone?
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   by purplejacket 3y ago

   I'm still rocking the iPhone 6. Thanks though.
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   by purplejacket 3y ago

   This book is brilliant. An overview of all of mathematics, insofar as that's possible. High quality articles. For instance Terence Tao wrote the entry on Compactness and Compactification (topology/analysis) among others. I&#x27
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   by purplejacket 3y ago

   Top comment.
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   by purplejacket 4y ago

   I hired a handy man to build one of these in front of my house a year ago and it has been a great project. In fact, I use it as a motivation to go out on bike rides in the city. What I do is take a chunk of books from my place, go to the
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   by purplejacket 4y ago

   Wikipedia: «At the time of their manufacture, the gyroscopes were the most nearly spherical objects ever made (two gyroscopes still hold that record, but third place has been taken by the silicon spheres made by the Avogadro project). Appr
7. 37.▲
   by purplejacket 4y ago

   Yup, I agree. Chess, full stop.
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   by purplejacket 4y ago

   https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive... Ooops.
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   by purplejacket 5y ago

   Also this coverage: https://thepressunited.com/updates/twitter-bans-us-marine-fo... Excerpt: "You’re suspending a decorated Marine Corps veteran and former chief UN weapons inspector who bravely warned the world a
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Some coverage of this story here, including an analysis of the photographs from Bucha: https://techstartups.com/2022/04/06/twitter-suspended-accoun...
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Looks like UK could learn a thing or two from the United States based on this story. Damn, I never thought I'd see myself saying _that_ .
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Didn't we see this ago on Mr. Robot? https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12835320/mr-robot-hack-rep...
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Richest company in the world.
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Are. You. Fucking. Kidding me?
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Fastmail: Couldn't you give a 2 or 3 paragraph summary of your service instead of this silly "easy to read" format that seems all the rage for web pages over the last 10+ years? I mean, fastmail of all companies should get
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    I want a <latex> element.
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    I wonder how hard it would be to code an AI to play this game.
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    Here you go, all space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7SOiKahy_k Definitely not easier. But good practice.
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    I like Stargate too. In fact these days it's the game I'm playing. Though I go back and forth. For me, back in the day, I went from Stargate to Defender because the 7/11 got rid of their Defender and the Safeway on the nex
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    by purplejacket 5y ago

    I love this video game. For a brief moment, about four years back, I was the top player on the Williams Defender Players Unite facebook group at hard difficulty settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEqoYW013E And, fo
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    by purplejacket 7y ago

    Can people please stop putting this paywall crap up here on hacker news?
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    by purplejacket 8y ago

    I can do better than skim reading. I just save to Pocket.
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    by purplejacket 8y ago

    Today I shed tears for beloved De Beers :-(
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    How many more years do vinyl LPs have?
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    For fucks sake, where are the pedestrians??
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    I agree. When I was in political activism circles we made CDs and pamphlets and such which we would sell during events. We charged maybe $5 for a CD, a low price, but not zero; we found that if people paid for the material they valued it
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    Yup. As unionjack22 says, this is just a hit piece. For instance, hospital bureaucrats can make way more than doctors. This from a 2014 NY Times article: "The base pay of insurance executives, hospital executives and even hospital
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    What I really want to know is: How was it that Neo's passport expiration date was 9/11/2001 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neo-Passport.png
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    by purplejacket 9y ago

    OMG, I just finished working through an example of this with my student, like literally minutes ago, and look what Hacker News brings me ...
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    Chevrolet Autonomous vehicle cuts off pedestrian at a crosswalk(youtube.com)

    1 points by purplejacket 9y ago|0 comments