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by sn41 5y ago
From "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett: "Quis custodiet custard?"
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by sn41 5y ago
This is classic Schmidhubris, a mixture of truth and exaggeration. Turing's paper is a landmark, and includes even an equivalence proof of the power of the lambda calculus and his universal machine. In doing so, he came up with a fixed
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by sn41 5y ago
There's an idea for a series: a space opera with a cutting edge analytics-enhanced Ferengi ship where "it's continuing mission is to explore strange new ad streams, to fleece out new life and new civilisations, to boldly trad
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by sn41 5y ago
What you say makes sense in a good atmosphere. I work in a very toxic culture. Once people start blaming someone, their own blood boils with their rhetoric, and then it becomes a bitter fight. I see it as etiology vs. teleology - rather tha
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by sn41 5y ago
Yup, I tell my teammates, fix the error, not the blame. I refuse to find who did wrong. After an initial hesitation, suddenly everybody jumps to it and solves the issue.
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by sn41 5y ago
I see myself in the same role in my organization, except that I think in terms of a different bodily (semi) fluid. I even have had crises of confidence, thinking that "I told you syndrome" is a psychological issue with me. I do te
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by sn41 5y ago
I don't recommend this ever, but I of course make this moonshine on my own computer: I usually edit the man page to add cookbook/bugfix sections. Most of them are cookbook-style recipes. Whenever I find out some obscure bug or got
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by sn41 5y ago
Some aspects: 1. The Dutch were the pre-eminent traders in Asia after England. 2. Today, there are globally recognized Dutch brands like Shell, Philips, Unilever, and so on. 3. Dutch computer science has contributed to the advancement of te
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by sn41 5y ago
Yes, it will land you in deep trouble with most Asian cultures. They may glower and not say anything, but you can expect that mentally, they would have crossed you off. This is unfortunately the reality.
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by sn41 5y ago
Ah, the great suppository of wisdom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oep_DPDy6xw
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by sn41 5y ago
Czechia is not "uncolonized", either. The Soviet actions in 1968, the German annexation in the 1930s, an episode which includes the assassination of Reynhard Heydrich [1] leading to the Lidice massacre [2] are recent examples. Th
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by sn41 5y ago
Some issues I think I can see: 1. The above law makes it clear that it is only a man who can accuse the wife of another man of adultery. Your code seems to permit other genders as accusers. 2. Similarly it seems only the wife needed to face
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by sn41 5y ago
No, it is uncomputable, not an NP problem.
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One feature of the Kerala case, which does not get discussed much, is that the load is more or less evenly distributed throughout all the districts. This makes it easier to handle critical cases well.
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by sn41 5y ago
Mathematics is actually one of the few remaining areas of intellectual pursuits which are by and large untainted by salesmanship. I hope it stays that way.
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That's because it is illogical. A company may outsource some of its creative inputs, like graphics design or music for a game. That does not mean that creative work can be automated. There are different reasons for outsourcing - lack o
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by sn41 5y ago
And so they go for stock buyback strategies. Reduce the supply, the stock skyrockets, cash in, leave.
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by sn41 5y ago
I will definitely read the author. But the Wikipedia article is written in a strangely disturbing style - it feels as though I am listening to one side of a loud argument at a frat party.
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by sn41 5y ago
You mean rank and yank? I heard that one was a disaster for Enron and Microsoft.
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Must be an advanced hacker tool if it shows in "margins". My hex dump shows it only in one margin. /s
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by sn41 5y ago
Israel has reported that Pfizer-Biontech is effective, but with reduced effectiveness agains this variant [1]. I don't know about the other vaccines. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/04&
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by sn41 5y ago
Your suspicion may be right, the actual maybe off by a large factor. Sero survey whose results were available early February statistically indicated about 270 million exposures (as indicated by presence of antibodies) till February [1] (ass
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by sn41 5y ago
I use it explicitly to lose formatting while I copy from browser to an application like excel or Word. The intermediate step causes it to lose all unnecessary text properties.
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by sn41 5y ago
Aside from everything else, I have great respect for people who find bugs in widely used and long-established software. Even though this may not be a major bug, I admire the bugfinder just the same.
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by sn41 5y ago
Kerala just had a major election [1] . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kerala_Legislative_Assemb...
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Beginning of the summer months.
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Both are good. The book of course has more details. But the acting of Walter Huston and Humphrey Bogart adds an extra dimension.
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by sn41 5y ago
The Treasure of Sierra Madre is a very good introduction to game-theoretic decision making. In fact in our graduate game theory course, our instructor recommended watching it. It was far ahead of its times.
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There is a great "origin story" for "Mathematics: Its content, methods and meaning". Kolmogorov initially read a great deal of mathematics by reading encylopedias like one by Brockhaus and Efron. ( see, e.g. Tikhomirov &
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by sn41 6y ago
Oh yeah, I remember that this is where I really understood line discipline. For example, why backspace/Ctrl-H worked even if you are typing in things directly to a terminal (e.g. cat >> output file) and it did not need an editor

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