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by taejo 7y ago
Depends where you're sitting on the plane, I guess. My experience is seeing land a few seconds after touching the ground.
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by taejo 7y ago
My impression is that "minus" is pretty acceptable in German domain names -- more so than in the English-speaking world.
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by taejo 7y ago
It was just a joke, but we're talking about a manager who "makes drive-by commits of py2-only code, months after you all agreed that all new code should be py3-compatible, and then leaves town for a multi-week vacation..."
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by taejo 7y ago
I'm not a number-theory expert, but I think that non-primitive-recursive functions (iteration/recursion that isn't bounded ahead of time) don't really show up in number theory at all.
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by taejo 7y ago
It's tenet if you don't intend the pun, by the way.
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by taejo 7y ago
"Stack" is the name of a product; it wasn't a generic reference to "the Haskell stack".
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by taejo 7y ago
Isn't force-merging without waiting for code review or test results what managers are for?
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by taejo 7y ago
As you say, this is not a regex parser, but some readers may not know the theorem that the regular languages are exactly those which can be parsed by a Turing machine with constant memory, and parenthesis count can have log n bits. In fac
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by taejo 7y ago
And yet it does move. So you want a language that never changes, but also perfectly matches today's mores? And you want enough people to speak it that it lasts multiple decades?
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by taejo 7y ago
There was a programme where primary-school kids were taught Esperanto as their first foreign language for a year, before switching to French for N years. Not only did those in the programme speak better French at the end than those who had
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by taejo 7y ago
> Only one clearly neutral noun exists: homo = “person” (cf. French homme = “man”). Even the affix ‑ul, although glossed as “person”, is widely treated as male by default; if it wasn't, “young people” would always be junuloj instead
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by taejo 7y ago
The goal is to get more beef and less leather.
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by taejo 7y ago
German is a good example. The pronunciation of Standard German is different in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. If we wrote German in IPA, it would be different in all three countries. Even within Germany, somebody from Munich would either
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by taejo 7y ago
When the street view cars came to Germany, so many people requested redactions that the whole project got cancelled. Only the biggest cities have coverage and it hasn't been updated since 2011.
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by taejo 7y ago
It's "not wasteful" if you assume that everybody is going to travel a fixed distance, regardless of the price and availability of flights. That's obviously not true. In an instance of Jevon's Paradox, the increasing
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by taejo 7y ago
It happens in Germany too, and that's what I was referring to.
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by taejo 7y ago
As you say the metric system makes it less egregious, but it also happens in the EU that one item will be shown as €/100g and another as €/kg
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by taejo 7y ago
I had one slightly eccentric teacher who decided that the 25 and 125 times table were also necessary. While I don't know about necessary , I've definitely used that knowledge (possibly more useful to think of them as the one-quar
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by taejo 7y ago
Of course it would be great if everyone remembered everything, but isn't an "I don't know" better than an 80% guess? The longer I do this job, the more likely I am to say I don't know, when I don't know. > C
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by taejo 7y ago
This has happened: the example I know is that the editorial board of the linguistics journal Lingua resigned en masse to create the open-access Glossa . My impression from the outside (just a friend of linguists) is that Glossa is gene
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by taejo 7y ago
You argue in bad faith because you pretend that "wishing" is not a subjective phenomenon. If you wish for ice cream, and your friend has a car accident on the way to the ice cream shop and kills someone, did you wish to kill som
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by taejo 7y ago
> The rest of the world hasn’t even figured out how to force themselves to save their own equivalents, with few exceptions. It may be politically easier to impose sanctions or tariffs on foreign countries than to ban or tax their own el
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by taejo 7y ago
You're right, and I didn't mean to imply that a few centuries was a particularly long time (just that this is the time in which my scant knowledge is useful). Telescopes and microscopes also provided the motivation for improveme
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by taejo 7y ago
To be clear, my estimate for exposure time was for handmade cyanotype paper, not "real" photo paper.
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by taejo 7y ago
There are several photographic processes that are UV-sensitive, most notably cyanotypy, so you can work inside with the curtains closed with hardly any fogging, and then make photograms or contact prints outside. I've never tried takin
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by taejo 7y ago
It's a fun thought experiment to consider what you would be able to rediscover or reinvent from scratch millennia years ago. Perhaps the easiest and most likely to promote scientific progress would be the telescope and microscope: th
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by taejo 7y ago
To be fair to the younger fans, I feel like most older fans have never been in a darkroom, and are only familiar with them as a movie trope. I certainly would have recognized this scene before I ever developed my own pictures. It's t
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by taejo 7y ago
I have never heard Sturgeon's Law invoked to place the speaker anywhere : I've only heard it as a rebuttal of a dismissal. If someone haughtily says they don't watch TV, and cites three shows as reasons why TV is terrible,
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by taejo 7y ago
> A vector with orientation but a magnitude of 0 is a completely valid vector afaik Not by the mathematicians' definition. Maybe somewhere in physics such objects are useful, but if you formalized them you'd get something other
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by taejo 7y ago
When I did this I just drew a bunch of different puzzle-piece edges, making sure that they all had corresponding Bezier control points (easiest way to do this is to draw one and then move the points around in the copies without adding or ch

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