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by romwell 4y ago
I've been diagnosed last year, at 34, and my life has started making so much more sense . Wish I got diagnosed earlier — getting a mathematics PhD with untreated ADHD was double plus ungood. I didn't know anything about ADHD, a
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by romwell 4y ago
The same can be said about the entire field of mathematics and science in general.
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There are plenty of unexplored things in physics too; the key word is "respectable". Looking from the outside, physics suffers a lot from fashion/hot trend tendencies, where you need to be doing the "hot" thing to m
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by romwell 4y ago
>Math used to be a young person game, but it now requires so much knowledge just to get to the frontiers of human knowledge, not to speak of making a dent into uncharted territory, that results are being obtained later and later in life
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by romwell 4y ago
>2010: Content aware fill invented (Barnes) I remember learning about content-aware fill algorithms in my computer vision class back when it was the hot new thing, and it felt like it was yesterday! ...it was, in fact, 2010. God damn it.
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by romwell 4y ago
>It is just because we are used to their shapes. No, it's because it is very asymmetric, and we prefer symmetric shapes to asymmetric ones. >The french horn is not exactly the paradigm of beauty. I disagree. The instrument has an
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by romwell 4y ago
Yup. I've played a show once where we shared some instruments with another band due to cramped stage. The keyboardist in the other band was playing a Nord Stage, which is a very expensive , but still plastic keyboard (they go for $4-5
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by romwell 4y ago
Absolutely. But most people don't tend to think of things like that until they bite. Case in point, most people don't get an ergonomic mouse/keyboard until their hands start hurting.
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by romwell 4y ago
>There's a maker[0] who builds wildly asymmetric violas that have pretty good sound and are ergonomically excellent I mean... That instrument can sound like it's made by Gods in Heavens, but it looks like one of those Dali semi
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by romwell 4y ago
> But that's exploiting the fact that humans treat decimal representations as having implicit denominators That's to say, we know which base we are using... which is a requirement for writing down numbers in the first place. &g
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by romwell 4y ago
The point is not clear, but if I were to guess, it's that Github Copilot should come with a California Prop 65 warning, because it can give your code "cancer" (GPL-licensed snippets from sources like Linux codebas).
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by romwell 4y ago
The curse of innovation: you might end up being stuck with it while the rest of the world learns from your mistakes. Case in point: Ma Bell. And things like signing the credit card receipt.
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by romwell 4y ago
>What If LaTeX Had Instant Preview? TiddlyWiki[1] with KaTeX plugin[2] does that. Or any project that uses KaTeX for that matter. Next? [1] https://tiddlywiki.com/ [2] https://katex.org/
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by romwell 4y ago
>+ it can have audio. Yeah, that's exactly why it can't and won't replace GIF.
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by romwell 4y ago
Don't forget "doesn't require fancy codecs and heavy video players for a simple animation"
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by romwell 4y ago
>Except Dr. Phil does have an actual PhD. Which he attended university and defended via dissertation. Unlike, say, RMS. Well that's the point. When RMS says he's a "Doctor", the expectation is "made a significant
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by romwell 4y ago
As a math PhD (the usual, thesis-and-all kind), I really see no issue with Dr. Stallman identifying as such. A doctorate is a doctorate. And if it makes him happier, why not? There's no harm or confusion (his qualifications are clear e
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by romwell 4y ago
It's not a service, so Google can't even shut it down, only abandon.
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by romwell 4y ago
>How would deleting the account in question help anyone, though? Or are you saying that after deleting, they would then be allowed to re-register after a ban? The problem described in the post is that the user has a shadow, inaccessible
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by romwell 4y ago
>What do you think about Flutter, Dart, Go, and Fuchsia? * Go : Google's infra uses Go. Guaranteed survival. * Dart/Flutter: Google Ads app was written in Dart/Flutter. Likely to stick around. * Fuchsia: it's the OS o
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by romwell 4y ago
> I’m just tired of reading melodramatic takes from people who haven’t experienced any hardship ... There’s literally a war happening On that note - I'm from Ukraine. Helped my mother-in-law get out of Kyiv in March, and went back t
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by romwell 4y ago
Let me provide a simpler model. If it's not driven by ad revenue (e.g. Search and, increasingly, Maps), helps Google maintain a grip on showing ads (Chrome and Android), or is critically used within Google (Mail, Docs, Calendar, Meet
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by romwell 4y ago
As if you ever get actual people from Google responding to peons like that. That's as reliable as it gets.
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by romwell 4y ago
No, the problem is that Google doesn't have a human being to tell the kid "have your parents contact us".
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by romwell 4y ago
>It may not be possible for Google to do that redirect without incurring legal liability. Utter nonsense. "Hold on, you are 13? Get your parents to call us, they'll have to set up that account for you"
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by romwell 4y ago
This sounds like exploitation of minors: let them create an account that generates revenue, but only kickban them when it suits the company
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by romwell 4y ago
I think the solution is "the right to fucking delete your account forver". Google keeping "limbo" accounts is dystopian, and seems like a GDPR violation to me.
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by romwell 4y ago
Yous said all that, and it's still not a justification to introduce a non-obvious and unique UI/UX paradigm just in one place that prevents user from accomplishing the task they need to do .
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by romwell 4y ago
>That's one approach. Or we could add all kinds of buttons Yes, we could add all kinds of buttons.... ...and get one of the best paid calculator apps in the app store, as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by romwell 4y ago
>As you hold your finger down the button grows. ...like no other button ever does . This only makes it worse. Something like a progress bar going around the button in a circle, I could give them a pass for - at least you get the indicat

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