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by raegis 4y ago
You can use both, to an extent. My most recent example: The documentation for GNU troff (groff) in Debian is incomplete-- the man page for eqn(1) includes the GNU extensions mostly, but not the basics. So I downloaded the OpenBSD manpages
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by raegis 4y ago
To be fair, you can cite a Wikipedia page along with the last revision date. And the complete revision history is available, I believe. I would expect researchers to include revision dates with any Wikipedia citation.
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by raegis 4y ago
This is exactly the problem. And we're all suffering for it.
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> In primary school for example, we learn maths by memorising times tables and solving thousands of basic arithmetic problems. This was important in a time before calculators... I used to think like you on this point, until I taught stud
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by raegis 4y ago
> Now I don't feel like a well-rounded adult, and I wish I spent more time when I was younger on music and humanities. Easy remedy. Learn an instrument. Find someone local to take weekly lessons, and practice several hours a week.
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by raegis 4y ago
Since I agreed to this without bothering to read it, do the other services (Venmo, CashApp, Zelle, etc.) have similar provisions anyone knows of? (Apologies in advance for being too lazy to read the agreements myself. And yes, I'm a
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by raegis 4y ago
That graph is misleading. The 1980s level of sugar intake is already way, way higher than sugar intake of prior generations of humans. For example, if you eat 3 times as much sugar as prior generations, reducing the intake to only 2 times
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by raegis 4y ago
I think Jonathan Boccara's talk, "105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olsGf6JIkU ), gives a nice overview of the <algorithm> library. Also, the examples on the r
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by raegis 4y ago
Submissions are moderated, but depending on the field, anything reasonable-looking may be accepted. For example, there is more than one "proof" of the Riemann Hypothesis in the arXiv. But the moderation system certainly keeps ou
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by raegis 4y ago
> Even just the git has many releases during Debian Stable... It just so happens the software you mentioned, git, is in stable backports, so it is updated frequently. Regardless, I've been on Debian stable since 2007, and running &
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by raegis 4y ago
You don't have to read them linearly. Volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms) starts with an awesome discussion of random number sequences. I think all programmers who use random number generators could benefit from reading it. You can
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by raegis 4y ago
These acronyms are destroying my will to live.
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by raegis 4y ago
> I believe he should have named the agency. I disagree. (1) There is evidence that his company may profit from the redesign, and (2) he risks being sued for even the slightest mischaracterization in his blog, which requires tens of tho
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by raegis 4y ago
I thought engineers use 22/7?
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by raegis 4y ago
I took Algebra 1 in 9th grade, and Algebra 2 and Geometry in the 10th grade. The 9th graders in my Algebra 2 class (who took Algebra 1 in 8th grade) had holes in their algebra background because middle school algebra is taught at a lower l
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by raegis 4y ago
Same here. Long ago I tried to generate an encryption key by flipping a coin. After getting a rhythm and flipping heads 20 consecutive times I gave up.
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by raegis 4y ago
> As a student witnessing the amount of cheating going on, I was always surprised about the noise raised by teachers on it: I always felt that my score was my own, and didn't care about comparing against others. Years ago a few stud
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by raegis 4y ago
> I still wonder sometimes whether an infinite composition of continuous functions has to be continuous (limit of a sequence) ... No, as you expected. Take f(x) = x^2 on [0,1]. Then f(f(f(...f(x))) converges to g(x) = { 0, if 0 <= x
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by raegis 4y ago
Step 3: Update the TODO list Step 4: Go to Step 2.
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by raegis 4y ago
> I'm not convinced that cycling is especially dangerous and my experience is that I've inevitably put my hands out when falling, so I think that gloves should be the first part of PPE recommended for cyclists. Around 15 years
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by raegis 4y ago
Ironically, I used to ride without a helmet, but only started when I moved to Los Angeles and had a few near-misses. Drivers here have a different idea about sharing the road than elsewhere. Biking fast through an intersection when a car
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by raegis 4y ago
Even well-maintained streets can get potholes, especially after huge weather swings. I once hit a pothole while biking and somersaulted over the handlebars. I landed on my back, but a slightly smaller rotation would have me in the hospita
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by raegis 4y ago
> ... what facts would have led you to correctly predict the massive divergence over the next 30 years? The events of 1914 or 1803 in Haiti? The U.S. has been meddling in Haiti's affairs ever since, threatening leaders who dare to r
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by raegis 4y ago
I think $30 a month is high just for email. I do $5/month now and have been doing this for over 20 years on my domain. (It was more expensive in the past.)
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by raegis 4y ago
I use it. Go to any Thinkpad enthusiast website and you would think the opposite. There are different types of trackpoints. The one I use is flush with the keys.
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I have this too and really loved it. But now I just use the cheapest B5 notebooks I can find, for the refill paper was somewhat expensive. For organization, I use the postit-like flags to label pages, and sometimes I'll write a table
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by raegis 4y ago
Why is this either/or? I took both calculus and statistics in college. Were you forced to choose one or the other?
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by raegis 4y ago
Same here. I just bite with my canines now. They seem to be indestructible so far.
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by raegis 5y ago
I spent an hour searching the library, and found some good articles, though I bet none of them will appear on a "best of" list. But I don't care--this is infinite fun.
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by raegis 5y ago
Thank you!

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