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by sn41 5y ago
man... each year after 2020 is worse than the one before. Repent, for the next year is nigh!
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by sn41 5y ago
Google and other internationalisation efforts are absolutely a mess in India. India has many states based on languages - 22 listed languages - essentially each state has its own language and its own script, except in the Hindi belt. Its
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by sn41 5y ago
"The First Circle" by Solzhenitzyn is a great read. The caricature of Stalin in that book is absurd, I am not talking about that. There is a historical character Abakumov [1], and in one of his reflections, (from my memory) he rue
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by sn41 5y ago
Very slanted article. Turing was hardly unknown to logicians. In fact, even though the undecidability in lambda calculus was proven by Church in 1936 [1], Godel remained unconvinced that it was a complete model of mechanical computation. I
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by sn41 5y ago
This is the old scientific American article (from 1973) from where a lot of the claims originate, to my knowledge: Gerald Oster, "Auditory beats in the brain", Scientific American, 229 (4): pages 94-102, October 1973. https:&#x2F
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by sn41 5y ago
i find pink noise more relaxing than white noise when i want to focus.
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by sn41 5y ago
I understand your argument, and personally am looking to find some way to contribute baby formula to Ukrainian families from India. If you know any way, please let me know. But sanctions end up hurting many more economies than one country&#
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by sn41 5y ago
btw, Indians and French do share a common history. It is slender, but it's there. 1. Joseph Dupleix - during his time, it was a tossup whether India would end up as a French or a British colony. 2. Napoleon was on close terms wiith Mys
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by sn41 5y ago
yeah... I never get over how stupid I feel when I say that. I keep doing it, especially when I am already slightly flustered.
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by sn41 5y ago
On the other hand, being honest on LinkedIn may not be wise. I have never seen anyone not being enthusiastic on LinkedIn.
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by sn41 5y ago
I don't think this is complete. I think the product also has to fill a need, or an imagined need. An ancient quote from Thoreau, along a similar vein: “Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well-know
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by sn41 5y ago
From what I know, this happened in a large part due to the Three Body Problem. Once it was proved that there was no closed form solution in terms of elementary functions, Poincare suggested that we instead try to see if solutions existed at
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by sn41 5y ago
True... However, in academia where I work, there are not many options right now. Despite sinking nearly 20 years into this and enjoying my work, I'm having second thoughts due to the toxicity of my colleagues. Nice username, btw. I enj
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by sn41 5y ago
hmmm... thanks for that anecdote. i have been having dry eyes since last year... i thought it was age. But maybe I should try taking breaks when wearing masks.
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by sn41 5y ago
Kudos, Slava!! About 15 years ago, what really surprised me was the speed at which jEdit used to start up and react, compared to many other JVM-based applications. I found it to be a great, simple editor - I am an avid Emacs user for the mo
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by sn41 5y ago
What I like about a physical newspaper is that there is a completeness to it. I scan 2 or 3 sections, I know I have looked at everything, I am done. In an online website of a newspaper, there is no sense of which day the newsarticle is from
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by sn41 5y ago
There was a German detective series whose translation was called "The Old Fox" - I used to like it in the 80s. I haven't been able to find it online much.
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by sn41 5y ago
I thought it was an article about how Jonathan Ive (Apple) was inspired by Dieter Rams (Braun). [1] https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dieter-rams-film-exhib...
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by sn41 5y ago
Eats, shoots, and leaves. What a violent, uncaring panda. /s
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by sn41 5y ago
I keep using the word 'we' in single author papers- e.g. 'we now show...':)
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by sn41 5y ago
I don't agree with this fully. The most extensive language reform movement in the last 100 years was by Ataturk in Turkey. I don't think it falls into the above category. I think it is due to some form of idealism, and there are s
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by sn41 5y ago
This is not entirely a complete view. For example, sizeof() operator returns the declared size of an array. It seems that C recognizes the concept of an array.
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by sn41 5y ago
Won't this mean that you cannot think of anything else while operating the equipment?
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by sn41 5y ago
Is work important? I'd sure retire if I had a reasonable savings. And probably start a vegetable garden, and reading fiction which I have been putting off for long.
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by sn41 5y ago
Lawns are a waste of water, but on the other hand, I wonder what would summer be without the smell of freshly cut grass. "Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you o
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by sn41 5y ago
Not entirely in jest... my favorite "fun language" is actually Forth. It changes your programming style in other languages in mostly good ways.
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by sn41 5y ago
A minor gripe: Children of the night are wolves.. But perhaps it is deliberate, trying to compare tyrants to wolves. ---- quote: There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley
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by sn41 5y ago
If you want to read some of his more somber novels, I highly recommend Fiasco, Solaris and His Master's Voice.
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by sn41 5y ago
From a lyrical Wisconsin sage of yesteryears: "We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with
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by sn41 5y ago
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, and so on.

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