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by scott_s 6y ago
I don't disagree with your response, but I disagree with what I understand to be your initial point: the primary reason that the F-15's interface is this particular way is because cost was not a barrier. While that is part of it,
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> When cost is no barrier, And when operator training time and effort is extremely high.
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More "in thee-ree." I'm not surprised at all by it, as for me, "Hey, Sirir" is definitely close to "In theory."
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"In theory" triggers Siri for me often.
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Your dad may enjoy the Etrian Odyssey series ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrian_Odyssey ) for the DS and 3DS where a big part of the game is you drawing the map on the bottom screen as you explore the dungeon. Review
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Is the Escher-esque image under "Isometric Edit Mode" ( https://dungeonscrawl.com/images/pic10.png ) a joke, or does the tool allow for physically impossible layouts? Or am I reading the image wrong and it&#x27
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> I was following the time honored HN tradition of posting one line about the article and then taking up a tangent. Please don't.
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I'm surprised to read this, because about two months ago we discussed an presentation that claimed "EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22953730 ), which
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I found his chapters "Where good ideas come from and how to exploit them" ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3226595.3226608 ) and "Where we have failed" ( https://dl.acm.org&#x2
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As others said, yes, academic papers are still written in LaTex. However, arXiv does not actually accept a pdf for submissions, but require the actual LaTex sources and they generate their own pdf. As LaTex-to-HTML improves, they could alwa
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On an iPhone, I don't have much difficulty as double-tapping a column zooms into that column in a readable way.
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It is not possible for the news to be objective. Even the decision of what is news is a subjective process. If the news appears objective, that only means you share the perspective of the people reporting on and editing it.
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The news is not objective. There is no such thing as a “view from nowhere.” Editors make decisions daily about what even is news, and that is a subjective process.
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Counterpoint, from Ezra Klein of Vox ( https://www.vox.com/2020/6/10/21284651/new-york-times-tom-co... ): > There have always been boundaries around acceptable discourse, and the media has always been
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by scott_s 6y ago
No. They were pointing out it's possible that you prefer dark mode, even though it may not have the benefits you believe it does. Your preference may be more about aesthetic taste than a physiological response - and that's okay.
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On the advice of Wirecutter, I got a HON Exposure: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-office-chair... . I got it for $200 in the before-times. It's worked out pretty well, but if I had known it wa
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Teaching college students how to program my first year of grad school, I realized that it's not possible to make someone understand something. In a real sense, I could not teach them to program. Learning how to program is learning
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I think it is, yes. > I think the motivation "to be a better researcher" is quite narcissistic (in a mild sense) in the first place. This claim is independent of the negative behaviors; it's intended as independent support
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by scott_s 6y ago
I am unaware of any colloquial use of "narcissism" that would include going to grad school to learn more about a subject. Poster steev was also confused by this usage. You are correct, I have provided no evidence our confusion wil
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I'm the person you replied to in that thread, and in support of your point: after that discussion, I spent some time crawling through the proceedings of Very Large Databases (VLDB) and the ACM Digital Library, and I could find no insta
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My personal usage and understanding is quite close to the dictionary definition ( https://www.dictionary.com/browse/narcissism ): inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity . Those are not positive
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If you object to the word "pathological," then substitute "behavior with some negative impact on others."
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Most people understand "narcissism" to be pathological behavior. If you use it to not mean pathological behavior, most people are likely to not understand you.
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Python repl in a newly opened terminal session. Which is similar to the posted submission. During grad school, I went through a period of trying many different GUI based calculators, until I realized what I really wanted was a language&#x27
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All product pages need an is sentence. Telling me what it can do or enable without first telling me what it is does not help me understand it.
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Only from non-citizens: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf...
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> There is a link in the second paragraph. https://www.emaxhealth.com/13955/vitamin-d-deficiency-and-ge... . Those links are to studies which do not support the 40% claim. They are basic science research about vitami
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The only one of your links which involves a survey which justifies the claim is the one on iron deficiencies.
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It's not a worthless measure, as the recommendation from the top comment, and a widespread belief is that a daily multivitamin is useful for everyone . The important takeaway from this study is not the potential harm - which very well
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I agree. But the person I'm responding to was advocating for legal action. Unfortunately, I don't see what legal action to take.

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