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by theoh 8y ago
This isn't true for people who approach their undergraduate degree as a kind of classic liberal arts education or intellectual orientation. Many professional trainings are offered as graduate degrees, without the expectation that an ap
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by theoh 8y ago
These integers are so large that they cannot be precisely represented by 32 bit or 64 bit floats. So there's a rounding effect. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1848953
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by theoh 8y ago
The verb "portray" doesn't mean what you guys seem to think it means.
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by theoh 8y ago
But "surrendering to the Irish" on those issues wouldn't exactly be a big deal. I was talking about substantive disputes.
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure there are any unresolved disputes between the Republic of Ireland and the UK. There's the constitutional claim on the 32 counties, I suppose. The most significant formal dispute between the states was a trade war in t
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by theoh 8y ago
See also "unconscious competence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
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by theoh 8y ago
On HN, one is not supposed to comment on being downvoted: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Past attempts to exclude political discussion from HN reflect
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by theoh 8y ago
As someone who has experienced it, I believe that the neoliberal concept of "workfare" and the related idea that just any job is good for the disabled is something we need to be really careful about. This isn't just a &quot
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by theoh 8y ago
See http://www.kufic.info
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by theoh 8y ago
Presumably there's a "breakout" burr on the outside surface of the metal which indicates that the drill bit emerged through that surface.
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by theoh 8y ago
There are rational geometry libraries which are precise (edit: I mean that answers are "exact"): http://www.algorithmic-solutions.info/leda_guide/Geometry.ht... Quilez's concern with how the number fits
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by theoh 8y ago
For most disciplines, there are places on the web where esoteric information can be found. Wikipedia is very strong on math and computer science topics, and I recognize the feeling that you are describing of realising how much there is to l
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by theoh 8y ago
Well, the Pew research organization puts everyone who earns above a certain amount in the upper class. It's about 100k. And we know that the rich have got even richer in the last few years, with a thinning of the "middle" ear
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by theoh 8y ago
The argument made in the piece is that there is increased polarization between the haves and the have nots. Successful professionals are haves. I don't know what nuances the term "upper class" has historically had in Californ
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by theoh 8y ago
You're taking that line out of context and rephrasing it. "That said, the overall trend is hard to miss: Luxury isn’t connoted with fussy extras; no-nonsense boldness is the rule. “Spartan solutions have been rampant in all areas
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by theoh 8y ago
There are a couple of good images on this page which make clear the fact that floating point position 'degrades' in discrete steps as the number gets larger. It's not quite the same as counting in logarithmic terms, which is
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by theoh 8y ago
I found the original account by Diaconis, with more detail: "The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Revolution" (it's the first example in the paper) https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/M
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by theoh 8y ago
There are problems with the manipulation of binary data in bash, as discussed here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278639/how-can-i-wo... In particular, the value 0 can't be stored in a bash variabl
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by theoh 8y ago
With read(), the return value is separate from the data read. It is arguably elegant to read as many characters as possible and to not consider hitting the end of the file as an error—just a point that can't be read beyond, like a stop
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by theoh 8y ago
It uses various Imagemagick tools (Imagemagick supports sixel). Nobody manipulates binary files/pixel data in bash, do they?
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by theoh 8y ago
I think when Klathmon said "online friends", they meant friends who only communicate online. That's the scenario my reply addressed. You haven't exactly made it clear what kind of relationships you are talking about, but
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by theoh 8y ago
Friendships that start online and stay online (without ever involving meeting IRL) have been a minority interest. I can't say whether that's changed now. It used to imply a decision to spend time interacting through a screen (eith
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by theoh 8y ago
The idea that this advice means "don't bother documenting APIs" is a straw man which isn't worth arguing about. The "non-programmers" phrasing is misleading, I agree, but the widely held sentiment that the auth
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by theoh 8y ago
No, you have misunderstood. This statement refers to documentation in the form of comments in source files. You are referring to the documentation of interfaces (e.g. manual pages in Unix) which is definitely required. A gnarly function in
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by theoh 8y ago
Anecdotal evidence from smaller markets (city of just a million or so) is that online dating doesn't work, and you certainly can't be sure of not running into people again. Your comment evokes something like a tuple space, where p
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by theoh 8y ago
It's http://txti.es , which you could have checked for yourself.
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I'm guessing the problem is that making the drone fall out of the sky is not safe either, in the general case. So either a bird that will grab a drone and return to the handler, or some kind of way of scooping up the drone in a net hel
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by theoh 8y ago
I think it's safe to assume that the knotted/maze pattern script (for example) was not intended to be consumed as text.
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It's a bit like an embroidered sampler: the content is filler, or at least isn't factually significant/important so there probably hasn't been any reason to look closely. I'm not sure about this kind of document per
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Mathematics is a creative activity, at least at the professional level.

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