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by spindle 4y ago
Hacker News has moderators who can place things at the top of the page regardless of votes. Personally I think they've been do a great job, but YMMV.
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by spindle 4y ago
I believe it was Lemaître who first discovered that! Just in case it matters.
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by spindle 4y ago
This is why I have a DSLR, and why my DSLR costs me less per year than my phone camera: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RCT-YMgjm9k
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by spindle 4y ago
I agree with you, but only about 1% of the observable universe is that close, so they weren't being completely ridiculous.
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by spindle 4y ago
For anyone like me who is NOT a big fan of Sagan's non-fiction: I've just read his novel, Contact, expecting not to like it, but actually thought it was great. His language is less flowery in the novel than it when he was appearin
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by spindle 4y ago
I love this video! I'm sad to say that it has nothing at all to do with Smalltalk. Its topic is an attempt to make all programs that run in Linux (and similar systems) able to access each others' data structures, including each ot
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by spindle 4y ago
I'm guessing, because I'm bored, and hopefully an expert will confirm or correct, but I think it means that they place sync markers every 24th of a second, to make syncing with video efficient.
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by spindle 4y ago
Philosophy (most sorts, although philosophy is such a broad field that there will be some disagreement about what it includes). For philosophy, we mostly use the Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu .
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by spindle 4y ago
There was a very good (charitable) takedown of some of the content of GEB referenced on Hacker News a few months ago, but I can't find it :-( Can anyone help please?
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by spindle 4y ago
I've tried teacrine. It did nothing at all for me. YMMV ... but the fact that YMMV makes it very different from caffeine, which has a marked effect on practically everybody.
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by spindle 4y ago
It was SO good, and no doubt will be again in the future :-) I have so much respect for Ehud Lamm and the other people who run it. Sadly, two of its best commentators have died recently - John Shutt (famous in some circles for writing abou
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by spindle 4y ago
Those of us who love INTERCAL spotted it much earlier. But I agree that it's great.
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by spindle 4y ago
ty!
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by spindle 4y ago
ABSOLUTELY. This shows fundamentally bad values. I've gone from recommending DDG to everyone to recommending other search engines.
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by spindle 4y ago
I rented a Toyota recently. The A-pillars were so huge that I thought I'd better drive around near the rental company for a while to get used to it. So I did that, concentrating on driving safely instead of concentrating on navigatin
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by spindle 4y ago
Smalltalk is meant to be the thing you're looking for. Alan Kay's given talks about this. Whether it actually works well in this respect, I don't know.
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by spindle 4y ago
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains
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by spindle 4y ago
It's in nixpkgs (for MacOS and Linux). I haven't tested it because it's flagged as having a security vulnerability (actually that's an excuse - it's really because I'm busy) but it should work.
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by spindle 4y ago
You might like to post that as two or three separate comments, since you're getting pushback on just one part of it. I strongly agree with you about the WSJ (and, personally, the rest, but the rest is separate).
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by spindle 4y ago
Yes! http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html (I know you meant post at the top level, but I don't do that and don't have time to look up the rules for doing that.)
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by spindle 4y ago
Not only rock solid but also very easy!
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by spindle 4y ago
The American Conservative has some very smart writers despite having right-wing premises, IMO. https://www.theamericanconservative.com If I were you, though, I'd be looking way outside both Democratic-leaning and Republica
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by spindle 4y ago
I'm looking forward to hearing an answer from someone who actually knows. My guess is that you'd need so much salt that it would add significantly to the cost
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by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.ph/gsIwr
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by spindle 4y ago
"I prefer my own memory to paper. It works hands-free while driving, works without light late at night, and it’s waterproof in the shower. I especially like the way it improves everything I put into it. I have missed an occasional appo
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by spindle 4y ago
And for many of us the software we use can run on ARM but it's extra work to make it run and that has to be factored in.
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by spindle 4y ago
I've had LOTS of students who've got almost 100% despite not studying too hard and taking the hardest classes on offer. (I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned this.) Maybe that means our grading systems are a bit weird, b
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by spindle 4y ago
Strongly agree, except that "assumes" can be unpacked a bit. There are various reasons why cosmologists think the distant universe is homogeneous, and some of them (not all) are closely based on evidence, most notably the approxi
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by spindle 4y ago
What a good thought. I'm sure a second one would have been much cheaper than the first one if they'd built it at the same time. Now, many of the teams and facilities that did the work have dissolved back into the academic and in
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by spindle 4y ago
I have only abstract advice, but it's important advice. The thing that a lot of people miss when choosing a topic is that it has to be not just something that you're excited about working on but also something that you love read

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