IgniteTheSun

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by IgniteTheSun 3y ago
Are you thinking of the short story "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov. (A technician discovers how to do simple arithmetical calculations in a world where no remembers arithmetic since its all automated away.) More informatio
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by IgniteTheSun 4y ago
[The title is from the article being linked, as per HN guidelines.]
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Base-R Is Alive and Well(r-bloggers.com)
1 points by IgniteTheSun 4y ago|3 comments
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by IgniteTheSun 4y ago
There seems to be an inexorable push to the Tidyverse in recent years. I remain hopeful, however, that Base-R (and DataTable) will also continue to thrive. ---------- Edit for clarity: I mean use of Base-R without requiring use of the Tid
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by IgniteTheSun 4y ago
> I am mostly confused by what the author thinks the selling point is. ------------------- From the article: > You don’t need to use any special desktop software; you mount the Walkman as a USB storage device and transfer files. Wait
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I have never understood why Markdown has gotten so much attention over the last decade while ReStructured Text - which is a similar format but actually standardized and more developed than Markdown - gets so little. Tools like DocUtils and
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
"People who claim to be Moorish sovereign citizens believe they are bound mainly by maritime law, not the law of the places where they live ..." In that case, wouldn't this be an act of piracy?
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
> and not only in this life, it's for eternity. Kind of hard to make that argument and simultaneously argue that the soul transfers to a new body at death and is confined to Earth (or worse) until the soul reaches a stage of enlight
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I'm also very troubled by the misuse of the term dharmic in this thread. Westerners misusing Indian terms to suit their own desires should be pushed back on. It sometimes seems like a deliberate strategy to confuse and therefore hide
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I suggest learning more about what the word dharmic actually means. It seems clear to me that you are using some non-standard interpretation of its meaning.
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
> Ugh, I can't select text on the page. I do it to read more easily. If you are on firefox, try this: View -> Page Style -> No Style and scroll down. Hit <cntl>+ to enlarge if needed. I do this on many sites nowadays -
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I'm curious why the parent comment was downvoted.
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by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I found active bookmarks in Firefox to meet my needs before they removed that feature. I don't remember Google Reader all that well and I'm wondering how it was different than other RSS readers. For example, Akregator is commonl
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Since many still use RSS and since this post on Seth's Blog is so popular, thought I would point out that the blog has an RSS feed: https://seths.blog/rss
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
The paying audience for blockbusters is now global - and many movies earn more outside the U.S. than in it. As such, movie makers are probably now paying more attention to what is considered appropriate versus obscene elsewhere.
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I both looked for and searched for a way to do so without a Microsoft account about a month ago - could not upgrade to Windows 10 Home without it and could not remove 10S without upgrading it first. I had downloaded a copy of Windows direc
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
"So it had to download ~3gb to update the OS, just to wipe itself." Similarly, if one wants to replace Windows 10S with Linux, have to either have or create a Microsoft account and then have to upgrade to Windows Home via a large
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Thank you for replying to posts on this topic and for all your work on Spyder. The following is simply an FYI, not a complaint - I am very thankful for all that the open source community does on projects like Spyder. I've used Spyder f
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Regarding your description of blocked toilet (i.e., where a plunger is needed every time): I used to have the same problem but then I realized that air bubbles came up every time I started using the plunger. That led me to realize that th
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Testing out of a course used to generally be available for freshman level courses but rarely for anything more advanced than that. (The exception might be that one could generally test out of up to a year of calculus since some people don&
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Considering the resource requirements for this AI approach mentioned in the article, its unlikely that its been tested on more than a few tens to hundreds of proteins. This may only work on a subset of the proteome so I would think it wort
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Considering that this system "uses approximately 128 TPUv3 cores (roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs) run over a few weeks" to determine a single protein structure, making predictions for all proteins encoded in a human genome s
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Maybe this explains why its become frustratingly difficult for me to quickly close the app on Android.
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Cable TV started as paid ad-free TV also. It now has so many ads that it is almost unwatchable at times. One wonders how much further YouTube can take this - it appears they are approaching the optimal point for extracting revenue from vid
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I strongly agree with the parent post that having a simple list of books somewhere on the site is a necessity to enable browsing. If I have to search by interest, it is quite unlikely I would search here no matter how much I like the work
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I wish more people complied with ISO 8601. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 Even better, wish everyone would standardize on: * YYYYMMDD for dates * YYYY-MM for months * YYYYMMDDTHHMM for time where T is th
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
These are called ductless air conditioners in the U.S.
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
"We just should to stop tolerating conventional things using Internet connection." Given IoT and 5G how can you stop this?
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
"I've had issues editing email addresses in clients with multiple mails per line." This was my first reaction when I saw the change - I really hope they get this right as it goes to the core functionality of Thunderbird. If
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
We had thousands of years of technology before computational devices came along. For example, there was a whole range of technology encompassed in the transition from rubbing 2 sticks together to start a fire to pocket size lighters. The te

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