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by yesenadam 4y ago
Dupe: This was already posted twice in the last 12 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34705198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702082
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I can't see a joke. I don't know about the average user, but you wasted my time by lying about what you linked to, so I thought I should warn others. (25 mins after posting my previous comment, before you replied, I deleted the se
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by yesenadam 4y ago
(I'm not sure that's not a joke.) It seems the credit actually should go to Vasili Arkhipov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Warning: It's actually a Saturday Night Live comedy sketch, by the look of it. (I didn't watch) To NoZebra120vClip: How about the virtue of not lying? (You claim in a recent comment to be a fan of virtue ethics.)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Thanks. All the sources I've looked at say his ancestry is disputed and a great source of controversy, not surprisingly, so I guess it says different stories in different texts. I don't think your tone of certainty is at all justi
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Pythagoras was Syrian, fwiw. Pythagoras of Samos?! Source? As far as I know, he was from Samos, a Greek island. Thus his name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Seems to me, this Julia Evans article has great advice on this subject: Get your work recognized: write a brag document https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ HN discussion 2019 (78 comments) https://ne
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Henry: I came up with the acronyms kind of on the spot, about the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) test and the Found and Retrieved Time (FART).
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Science got along fine without sci hub. Science in the rich countries perhaps, anyway. And if you're at a university.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
From that link: "AE: Although the Soviet Union collapsed, the communist ideology remained strong, so I grew up in an environment where communism was still an inspiring idea. Hence, I always understood Sci-Hub as a communist project. Th
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Hmm the transcriptions are interesting, but weirdly inaccurate. I checked out solos by Clifford Brown (Joy Spring) and Miles (So What). A lot of Clifford's quaver (8th note) lines are written a semiquaver (16th note) late when he'
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Ohh that's awesome, thank you! McFerrin and Jarreau and the Basie band sound so good.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Speaking of Joyspring -- Manhattan Transfer does a version of this, where they fit words to the actual solo. Jon Hendricks fitted the words to the actual solo. Sorry, giving the credit to MT didn't feel right. Article about it: C
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. ...Edit out swipes. ...Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". ht
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Apologies. Presumably those thousands of clinics etc in the search results "posit that palm reading is legitimate medicine". I had to guess what your question meant exactly - as is, it's not grammatical english, and is ambigu
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by yesenadam 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=ayurvedic+palm+reading
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by yesenadam 4y ago
"As of January of 2021, some 33 pieces of wreckage found on beaches have with varying degrees of certainty been tied to MH370" - TFA
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by yesenadam 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
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by yesenadam 4y ago
For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle https://www.you
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I think you are using the word "exploit" in a different way than it is usually used, leading most people to misunderstand you. Or as a sibling comment suggests, the word has two meanings, and your argument uses equivocation (two d
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> All business is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions. Where did you learn that? I don't think it's at all true. It seems maybe you have a no-true-scotsman definition of 'exploited', so
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Seems like it's not working now? I tried a few different apps and couldn't get any output at all.
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(2013)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I think he's referring to misunderstanding their message, which is...orthogonal to understanding them as people or not. Related: The entire introduction to the first edition of GK Chesterton's book on his friend George Bernard Sha
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Hi. Good question! That could take a book to answer. I meant to just refer to their level of purely musical skill though, thanks for the chance to clarify.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Jazz musician? Everyone who does it for a living ranges from amazing to genius and being just very good gets you nowhere professionally. Band leaders and/or singers can be, and quite commonly are, very average, and get regular wor
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> its possible to long press on the maximize button to put your windows on the left or right half. Ohh I never knew about that. Thank you!
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> That's specified right in the article title. My point was that a lot of the grammar seems exactly the same as Forth's, and different to, say, Postscript's.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
It appears to be extremely similar to Forth, surprisingly. The docs sections on Variables, Functions, Loops, at least, are all pretty much exactly Forth. the docs: https://github.com/tomhrr/cosh/blob/main&#x2F
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by yesenadam 4y ago
It's much shorter to set the field separator with an option: awk -F": " or awk -F ": " do the same thing.

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