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by rvbissell 10mo ago
The name changed when Slashdot lost significant mindshare among tech nerds.
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by rvbissell 11mo ago
It also said in an html comment, there are no secret messages in this html there are no tyops in this html which at the time I took as some inside joke.
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by rvbissell 1y ago
> anything but regular From context your meaning is clear, but I think you got that idiom inverted.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Are you me? I think you might be me.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
'headcanon' is jargon within general fandom. The term refers to the application of imagination against the established canon of a body of fiction, to expand upon that body of work. Example: - Superman being from Krypton is canon.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
I was about to recommend "Satisfaction High, Information Tenuous"
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by rvbissell 2y ago
> He's being interviewed and some people blink a lot when they're nervous! We're talking about a guy that chooses to be in front of a camera, weekly, for millions of views.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Someone who doesn't care about polluting our corpus is not going to care about your robots.txt
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Catch 22: and if there is no air inside the box, then you are certain the cat is dead.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
There might be, I don't know. But as you're already aware, we are culturally stuck with pi and so that's how it is taught.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Actually, no: that Tau-centric area formula you gave derives naturally from taking the integral. Your example actually fits the expectation you have from what you learned in Calculus I. You should _expect_ that 1/2 scaling to be the
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by rvbissell 2y ago
No, Tau is fundamental. Pi only exists because someone mistakenly thought the formula for circumference involved diameter, when in fact it involves radius. ("Quit factoring a 2 out of Tau!" I tell them.)
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by rvbissell 2y ago
There are only so many TLAs...
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by rvbissell 2y ago
My guess is: economies of scale, in 2024 (vs say, 1990)
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by rvbissell 2y ago
That's cool. The news front-page screenshot & calendar use-cases appeal to me. (Although, it seems like I could just do the news FP thing myself, with "Any image URL", rather than your $3/mo service.) Is it touch i
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by rvbissell 2y ago
It seems to me that GP was using sarcasm to express agreement with your comment.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Do you have any examples of the pretty-printing that you've generated?
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by rvbissell 2y ago
I missed your suggestion about Cantor's diagonalization earlier today, but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. That is quite clever.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
That's an interesting statement about rationals. My intuition would be to consider them a subset of the reals, and for natural numbers to be a subset of the rationals. How is my intuition failing me, in this case? EDIT: found the ans
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Thank you. It seems absurd that 'next largest' could mean 'larger than the largest'. Hence my (OP's) interpretation.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
>He obsessively pursued the ‘continuum hypothesis’, which states roughly that the infinitude of real numbers is next largest to that of natural numbers. That sounds backwards? There are infinite real numbers between just 0 and 1, alone.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
Moon phase is caused by moon position, relative to the sun-moon-earth system. My point was that the moon can be directly above or below, regardless of phase. .... but thinking about it a little more, the tide probably gets an additional b
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by rvbissell 2y ago
> In addition, they only spawn during full or new moons – because they need a high tide. Seems like tides should be dependent solely on moon position, not moon phase.
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by rvbissell 2y ago
> They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them. Isn't it more accurate to say that photons move at the speed of causality , when the medium is a pure vacuum? Because in some other medium like glass, the
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by rvbissell 3y ago
John, Even though this HN post is about GMSL specifically, I want to use it to thank you for writing "The GNU Make Book"[0]. It was a veritable treasure trove that greatly increased my competency with GNU Make. The experience of
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by rvbissell 3y ago
Let's call those tweaks epi(stemological)-cycles.
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by rvbissell 3y ago
Abomination. That's where \| should be.
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by rvbissell 3y ago
Oh man, 3 more novels to read -- thanks!
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by rvbissell 3y ago
Same. Maybe I was a naive young adult, but I totally did not anticipate the twist in that plot. So in that regard I felt like I got my money's worth.
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by rvbissell 3y ago
I knew the exact scene you were going to link to.

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