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by tomerv 5y ago
Windows has Thumbs.db
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by tomerv 5y ago
I hate that, and I usually just skip that part. No point fighting it, I guess.
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by tomerv 5y ago
I really prefer the original list, which is short and to the point. Your #5 is a subset of 3. Be a member of the prevailing tribe. Tribe can mean many things here, including: team, company, country, and I guess also gender and skin
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by tomerv 5y ago
Those are actually just regular l's, and the "upside down n" is just a regular "u". The more interesting letters are from the Unicode IPA Extensions range: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks&#x
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by tomerv 5y ago
If I request a password reset, that constitutes an approval to send me that email.
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by tomerv 5y ago
You're just a few steps away from reinventing Twitter!
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by tomerv 5y ago
> Did the foundations of what is knowable by science shift during the night? Yes! The moment the approval committee decides that certain experiments are no longer allowed, that makes some results no longer reachable by science, or at lea
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Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)(mathwithbaddrawings.com)
110 points by tomerv 5y ago|124 comments
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by tomerv 5y ago
Wouldn't a simple LED indicator have the same result? My "dumb" dishwasher has a small light it shines on the floor when it's on. Also, if I set it up and close it without actually starting it, it beeps to let me know.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Some Google services have support. I pay for extra storage, and I get Google One bundled with it, which includes a support channel. I haven't tried it myself yet, but I heard that it's reasonable. The real issue is that when you&
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by tomerv 5y ago
At first I thought it was about an algorithm to generate text with mistakes on purpose - and that it did a nice job.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Oh, no-one here is claiming that their idea makes any financial (or technological) sense, just that their idea is indeed storing it on the blockchain.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Did you actually read the post? They propose to put it on-chain, and even say > [O]ur NFT collection could very possibly become the largest on-chain collection ever in the history of Ethereum. Time would only be on our side because as ga
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by tomerv 5y ago
I don't think right-to-left is the issue, since numbers in Arabic are still written left-to-right. However, they use different digits, which don't fit on a 7-segment display, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Dependency Risk and Funding(lucumr.pocoo.org)
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by tomerv 5y ago
> For height 5, it's impossible, by the golden ratio. Strictly speaking, it's Conway's proof uses the golden ratio. But it could be that there's an alternate proof that doesn't use the golden ratio.
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by tomerv 5y ago
The full cartoon video is still on the official channel: https://youtu.be/jf3ajS5me78
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by tomerv 5y ago
Not sure if I want to get into this discussion... but is underage porn still illegal when it's not technically depicting a real person? And is it moral? I could see it going either way (no child got hurt in the process / but it ma
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by tomerv 5y ago
I think you need to divide by tan(15) instead, which would give 9330 ft.
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by tomerv 5y ago
How is that better that just stealing a car without the airtag?
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by tomerv 5y ago
What is "virtue signal about virtue signalling"? If you don't need Whatsapp to communicate with your friends/family/colleagues then good for you. In my social circles Whatsapp is a must. Refusing to use it is almost
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by tomerv 5y ago
My comment started a thread where people felt comfortable to explain why they accepted the terms, so I think I did contribute something.
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by tomerv 5y ago
People seeing this post are split to 2 groups: - Those who didn't accept the new terms are glad to use the opportunity to virtue-signal. - Those who accepted the new terms are afraid to admit so. I'll bite the bullet: I accepted t
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by tomerv 5y ago
According to GP that's still the easier part. A more valuable service would be a "bill-a-company-for-your-open-source-work"-as-a-service.
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by tomerv 5y ago
My take is that there is a wide gap between informal discussions of UB, such as blog posts, and the way compiler writers think of them. So I'm leaning towards the "obvious to researchers" option.
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by tomerv 5y ago
What sort of questions? Care to give a concrete example? GPT-3 is certainly capable of regurgitating facts, even to the point of rewording them, and connecting a small number of facts together. But it's not capable of making logical de
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by tomerv 5y ago
Practically speaking, it is not a good advice to just treat log(n) as if it is constant. While it's true that log(n) is always small in practice, the conclusion should not be to ignore it, but rather to notice the constant factor. And
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by tomerv 5y ago
I think that this is indeed the formula in GP's question. And indeed sometimes math notation is obtuse like that. It looks like 2 terms, but the triangle goes together with the t as a single term. At other times it might be called &quo
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by tomerv 5y ago
Okay, you convinced me about that one (I haven't heard about this love rose thing before, and I don't live in the US). But my point about the stirrers still stands. I also think that the cheap socks are just that. But maybe they&#
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by tomerv 5y ago
I seriously doubt many of your predictions. 2. Valorizing excess Not sure what exactly you mean by this, but having more than you need and showing off is basic human behavior, and I don't see a reason that will change. 3. Bonfires and

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