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by svat 11mo ago
Don't miss the response “His Coy Mistress To Mr. Marvell” (by A. D. Hope): https://allpoetry.com/His-Coy-Mistress-To-Mr.-Marvell Since you have world enough and time Sir, to admonish me in rhyme, Pray Mr
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by svat 11mo ago
The comic "Frazz" is also often compared to Calvin and Hobbes (as if Frazz the janitor is an adult Calvin), there's a long section on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazz
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by svat 11mo ago
That's only the three most popular books by Darwin, almost the exact opposite of the posted website.
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by svat 11mo ago
You're right, but consider: • Of course it's very strange; that's why he wrote about it — the point is to convey what is not obvious. • Of course it's risky, but that's the point of much of the author's journey
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by svat 11mo ago
Even shorter is this comic from Julia Evans: https://wizardzines.com/comics/awk/
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by svat 11mo ago
In your case it may help to read it as: Micro-stressors such as others running late [...] represent the unavoidable pain that comes with being human.
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by svat 11mo ago
I learned the basics of AWK in a few minutes from here: https://learnxinyminutes.com/awk/ — and I agree with you, it was worth it!
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by svat 11mo ago
This is actually a good point, and something I've been wondering about too. What changed between the 90s and now, that Microsoft didn't get blamed for malware on Windows, but Google/Apple would be blamed now for malware on th
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by svat 11mo ago
I can easily believe that Google's YouTube team would love to kill off such apps, if they can make a significant (say ≥1%) impact on revenue. (After all, being able to make money from views is an actual part of the YouTube product fe
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by svat 11mo ago
From the very first announcement of this, Google has hinted that they were doing this under pressure from the governments in a few countries. (I don't remember the URL of the first announcement, but https://android-developer
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by svat 11mo ago
The article has a couple of quotes from Waymo leads on the topic: > “Freeway driving is one of those things that’s very easy to learn, but very hard to master when we’re talking about full autonomy without a human driver as a backup, an
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by svat 1y ago
I don't know what “investing over” means, but all I can say is (repeating myself): try it with a friend, without giving them the benefit of hindsight. (Very few visitors to a Wikipedia page read its talk page, very few of them will fur
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by svat 1y ago
Yes but it's not easy to find random Wikipedia user pages, or even find the specific talk page comment in the archives without knowing what to look for. Go ahead, find a friend, give them no clues, and see if they find it.
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by svat 1y ago
It's been a few years since I edited Wikipedia seriously, but the criterion for inclusion on Wikipedia is/was “verifiability, not truth” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t... ) – wha
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by svat 1y ago
I actually think it's a lovely paper (and he obviously intended to publish it, and put a lot of effort into compiling and editing it) and illustrates the nature of his writing very well: he's managed to be encyclopedic about all t
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by svat 1y ago
Thanks! If you look at his (logged-in) edits on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Scarlsen ), then apart from the lone comment on the talk page (about the reason for "42") an
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by svat 1y ago
It's interesting to compare that version from 2017 with the current version from 2025: https://github.com/KxSystems/javakdb/blob/9a94dc5af9288fe845... — the current one is over ten times as long in terms
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by svat 1y ago
IMO this is a really good blog post, whatever you think of the coding style. Great effort by the author, really good for eight hours' work (as mentioned), and some illuminating conclusions: https://needleful.net/blog&#x
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by svat 1y ago
The title currently on HN has dropped the quotes that are in the article title: the article is not titled Why don't you use dependent types? (i.e. asking that question of the readers) but is titled "Why don't you use depen
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by svat 1y ago
The article says this was for the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition, and it appears that a high-schooler Donald Knuth got to see one such machine in Chicago (possibly on a school trip; he grew up in Milwaukee) long before his first encounte
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by svat 1y ago
Another good blog post that is IMO in the same vein: https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2022-03-10-mechanism-vs-policy (“Improve your code by separating mechanism from policy”). This blends harmoniously with “functional cor
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by svat 1y ago
That URL https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steveklabnik is a link to your user profile.
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by svat 1y ago
Not uncommon even on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722 On my own (long abandoned) blog, about 20% of (public) posts seem to contain an em dash: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/?s=%E
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by svat 1y ago
Quotes aren't supposed to be altered like that; I've just fixed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1317337583 Changing "Palestine" to "economics" was done by an anonymous editor
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by svat 1y ago
See also Surprising reasons to use a syntax-coloring editor (2016 (1998)): https://blog.plover.com/prog/syntax-coloring-1998.html -- especially addendum point 3
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by svat 1y ago
The subheading says: > An exclusive excerpt from Skip Hollandsworth’s new book, She Kills. So I imagine it's an actual book chapter from the book (probably the first chapter), rather than a teaser to be continued: the ending here
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by svat 1y ago
Context (as I didn't know about this earlier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_for_Academic_Excellenc... (current version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compact_for_Acade...
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by svat 1y ago
Yes O(f(n)) shows how the function f(n) is upper-bounded, but the point of the comment you're replying to is that the function f could be the worst-case, average-case, or best-case running time of an algorithm, or even a (say) number-t
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by svat 1y ago
(2) is just a typo but as for (1) “metal–organic” correctly uses an en dash, and this is quite nice to see. They're consistently using the en dash even in their tweets etc, which is lovely. (Wikipedia gives examples like “Boston–Hartfo
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by svat 1y ago
Typically, such articles can be charitably interpreted as saying "I worry more about Y than X", rather than as literally making two separate claims (that X isn't a problem, and that Y is). So as a reader if you're trying

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