vehemenz

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by vehemenz 5y ago
Okay. But why philosophy specifically? One could make this argument for any major.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Wow, I never even thought of that. Associating pi with a place in the orbit, ideally one of the equinoxes, would actually make sense.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
In base 12, for example, pi is 3.18480949. It would turn out to be a different date.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Are you repeating something a high school math teacher told you, or are you engaging in some kind of mathematical platonism? Either way, you're going to need an argument.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The feature you are talking about is called n-key rollover. Cheap keyboards generally don't have it. Similar to you, I discovered the issue in the 90s with FPS games. Keyboard manufacturers have been designed with n-key rollover as a f
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by vehemenz 5y ago
It's chaos enough that anyone thinks Pi Day is interesting. 1. Calendar dates are usually Big Endian, except in the US and a few other places. 2. 3.14 is not the value of pi in the decimal system. It is an approximation. 3. As it is, t
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I second this opinion. And the process continues long after graduating. I received my degree 13 years ago, and my positions have shifted dramatically in some areas, thanks in part to journal access through my uni and libgen to be fair.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Believe it or not, many people go to college for more than credential-seeking or vocation. Some people want to develop intellectually. Others are more or less set—either financially, or with the vocational skills they developed in high scho
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by vehemenz 5y ago
If you want to suggest your own version of the Midwest, preface your claims that you are straying from ordinary/conventional usage. If you don't know what the Midwest is, allow me to inform you. Chicago is the center of the Midwes
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by vehemenz 5y ago
If you're going to quote a line, quote the context. The OP was talking about "boom cities" as a problem, which they aren't by themselves. The problem is the unaffordability of the cities, caused by lack of housing, which
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by vehemenz 5y ago
You'd have a stronger argument if remote work didn't have the potential to increase rural living and exurban sprawl, both of which contribute massively to energy waste and ecological destruction. At least in the US. Boom cities we
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I've noticed that, like the author, many advocating for WFH live far away from their office and have long commutes. Suppose your office were next door. Then, you could have a 1-minute commute and enjoy some degree of socialization and
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Can you elaborate? You seem to be invoking "race" in a metaphysical sense. Implicit in your statement is that you do not "believe in" race. What is it that you do not believe in? Or are you suggested "race" doe
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by vehemenz 5y ago
MathML has many potential uses. It's been around for a long time, and its advantages over LaTeX are clear if you've spent any amount of time with it. Why I think LaTeX "won out": 1) Chrome dropped MathML 10ish years ago
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Accessibility. A fully unambiguous mathematical language like MathML can produce markup for the blind.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I'm not sure when it happened, but in the past few months I started noticing slower responsiveness in Chrome. Which is weird, because historically that was the type of thing I tolerated in Firefox. It looks like Firefox is the new spee
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by vehemenz 5y ago
This. When someone needs to solve some particular problem, they reach for the most convenient npm package called "react-something-something" that works great until, a month later, there is more data or complexity in the applicatio
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Sure. While we're at it, variable assignment should not be "=" in the first place.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
"5" == 5 evaluating to true is only a problem if you don't understand how to do a strict comparison. It is conventional in PHP and JavaScript to use === unless there is some reason not to.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with. They want to legislate a return to "old" (post 1949) values by banning foreign tutors, suppressing dissent on WeChat and Weibo, and doing generally auth
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Apple addressed this in iOS 15 with Secure Paste: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/08/ios-15-secure-paste/
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by vehemenz 5y ago
How is the refresh rate relevant? If it were a CRT, I could somewhat understand because 60 Hz visibly flickers and might give you a headache. But this has never been a concern with LCDs.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> Why so much focus on the keyboard size (at a hefty premium), the desk looks huge and a regular keyboard is much cheaper, and only a couple cm wider. A large keyboard (TKL or larger) negatively impacts ergonomics. A standard keyboard ha
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Considering that international students are overwhelmingly nonwhite, I don't think those numbers really hold up. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrol...
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by vehemenz 5y ago
What you describe with respect to many worlds sounds more like possible worlds semantics. Someone not committed to the view might treat it as a formalism with no metaphysical baggage, but I don't think that is what the endorsors of man
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by vehemenz 5y ago
That is exactly what he argues. But I think it's a tough position, given that relational quantum mechanics also works "out of the box" and doesn't require ontological realism and a deeply speculative metaphysics. Sean Ca
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> But facts are only facts if they correspond with that to which they refer, oftentimes other objects, so when you include facts, ultimately it boils down to external objects. Only if ontological questions are legitimate questions about
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by vehemenz 5y ago
A few thoughts. 1. Sean is leaving CalTech at the end of next year. It's not a huge surprise, given his interests, that he is pursuing the issues in the philosophy of mind that intersect with quantum physics. Most work in this area is
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I wonder if you read literally anything about this product before commenting on it. Because I immediately understood what it was and who it was for. This is a portable PC with a built-in screen and game controls. It's much closer to a
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I think it's great that interesting layouts are still being designed, and that the mechanical keyboard community has become open to non-ANSI layouts. Hopefully we will see more of that, and maybe someday the Logitechs of the world will

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