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by zests 7y ago
This is behavior that could be expected when you evaluate _any_ infinite Taylor series far enough away from where the series is centered. Denominators of a typical Taylor series are fixed and the numerators depend polynomially on x. The pos
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You can get a piece of paper saying you have a degree with no work. Conversely, you can work really hard in college and learn orders of magnitude more than at any bootcamp.
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If someone with no working experience knows more than the professors then they go to a poor university.
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by zests 7y ago
I'm newer to the Docker scene but haven't really found any of the complaints in this article realized in my work. Faster speed would be nice but I don't really mind it now. I see a lot of complaints about the docker daemon an
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by zests 7y ago
In dc/shell/bash dc -e '_80538738812075974 3 ^ 80435758145817515 3 ^ 12602123297335631 3 ^ + + p'
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by zests 7y ago
Most Ivy Leagues today offer ridiculous financial aid packages to those who need it. He probably could have gone for less than $16k in 2019 dollars.
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by zests 7y ago
`n \choose k` is for the heretics (or maybe hereTeX) Just say NO! to plain TeX commands.
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by zests 7y ago
I want to write some scripts that are _slightly_ too complicated for bash. Basically just implementing some simple scripts that have a couple options/args and I want to use another tool. How good would perl 5/6 be for this? If not
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Flux (Metallurgy)(en.wikipedia.org)
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What do you do when people quote statistics like this in real life? I usually just sit there like an insincere fool and remain quiet or offer lukewarm agreement. I can't bring myself to tell them that I disagree because I don't wa
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by zests 7y ago
Bash is so terrible that I love using it. Its one of the most extreme language in that it has a lot of pros and a lot of cons. Its also ironic adjacent that you want people to install ruby with homebrew but most people install homebrew with
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by zests 7y ago
I have always heard that the rainforest is “carbon neutral” because a mature forest will emit just as much carbon as it absorbs. With that in mind, why does the fact that the rainforest produces 20% of the worlds oxygen matter? When I read
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It might help to know that control+x+e will open the current command being typed in $EDITOR.
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I interpret the "double "scare quotes"" in the title as suggesting cheeky sarcasm.