ThinBold

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by ThinBold 4y ago
VALVe themselves have game IPs they want to protect. Within the boundary of "it's legal, wygd" there are always ways to make pirating VALVe games easier and VALVe will stand no ground to ban those.
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by ThinBold 4y ago
If the situation is that bad and cheating is that easy, soon there will be researchers cheating all the way to Elo 2000, just like there are researchers submitting garbage papers to prove that some journals are jokes. That will be interest
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by ThinBold 4y ago
Search for "admitted" and it is on page 2.
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by ThinBold 4y ago
It probably inherits the name from other languages that get it wrong.
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by ThinBold 4y ago
For the hyperbolic version area is the correct counterpart of arc-length. See the wikipedia for a picture. So only "ar-" and "a-" make sense. Blindly using "arc-" is like saying non-invertible matrices are &
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by ThinBold 4y ago
I (and I assume many do) buy flight tickets with a credit card so at least one bank knows you are traveling. Never have I had any problem when traveling. But there is one time I wanted to wire myself from Bank1 to Bank2, got blocked, call
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by ThinBold 4y ago
Despite all the good contents, calling the inverse function of hyperbolic tangent "arctanh" just makes no sense.
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by ThinBold 4y ago
> rely on imported components This doesn't matter. You buy wheat at $100 and sell breads at $250. You net $150 and convert that to, say, €150.
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by ThinBold 4y ago
Maths don't scale up. Moore's Law will catch up and eventually rendering math will be like rendering jpg. For now the priority is to get things to work so we don't waste extra time determining if we just avoid math or we us
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by ThinBold 4y ago
The sagemath[1] suggests > Whitespace before and after assignment and binary operator of the lowest priority in the expression: The AMS style guide[2, p. 117] suggests > Align multiline equations on operators: verbs are aligned with e
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by ThinBold 4y ago
After ten years of "we are getting to the last mile" and "we are finally completing", it just feels like bio people cannot give up this good reason when justifying their funding so we have to re-complete human genome eve
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by ThinBold 4y ago
You are designing a "prefix code". It is a collection of strings of button presses such as {A, BA, BBAA, BBABA, BBB, ...}. Each string maps to an action. Ideally no string is a prefix of another string. Even more ideally any infin
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by ThinBold 4y ago
Scooter has an even smaller wheel and is more unstable during high speed. Also bike is more muscle-efficient.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
You get to choose between out-sourcing the liability or naked-running. You can even linearly-interpolate between the two extremes. In case of banking, you already payed the hidden fee (banks get bailout using government money, aka your mo
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by ThinBold 5y ago
I guess I know why the parent is downvoted but in the end the responsibility is on both sides. If you don't speak fluent English you ask for interpreters in Spanish, Chinese, you name it. You can't insists on speaking an unpopular
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by ThinBold 5y ago
I check the document and the it looks great. Even if it fails to work at least you are always brought back to an integer value of x-coordinate.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
In vscode, tab (the key above capslock) is implemented by counting how many characters are on the current line and adding 4floor(x/4+1)-x spaces to the current line. This obviously doesn't work if there are non-ascii characters th
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by ThinBold 5y ago
There were days where seeing a unique doodle makes your day. And then one day you realized that there is an official page for all doodles and you spend a good time on it. Now it is just PR department yelling: we didn't forget it&#x27
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by ThinBold 5y ago
I mean we do have a lot of (perhaps too many) markdown dialects today. Wikipedia, wordpress, github, stackexchange, you name it. Last time I was using a Q&A forum for calculus course, it uses $$ to start and close a MathJax div.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
U+FF1B Fullwidth semicolon. The semicolon in CJKV ideographs.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
He's not even saying China is bad. He's related two things that people tend to like or hate simultaneously.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
If the app is in the foreground or I am in a meeting, Zoom can have my microphone. Anything beyond that is just absurd.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Note that the preprint on arXiv dated back to July 2021.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Funny enough, the moderncv document class does not have a pdf document back when I was trying to use it to create my CV ~5 years ago. (It does now.)
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by ThinBold 5y ago
The way CDC and media swing between "this Greek letter is fine; no mask is fine" and "everyone get your (n+1)th dose real quick" is just hilarious.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Pay respect to the author and also to people who use the word and want easy pronunciations so they can spend more time on what's more useful. If, say, our lovely Indian instructors on youtube decide that gif is git but with f, then le
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by ThinBold 5y ago
But that's exactly the reason why healthy people, whatever healthy means, should starve: If those who can control their asses do so, then there are more toilets available to those in need.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
What a beautiful way to shoot yourself in the foot
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by ThinBold 5y ago
The TikZ style should really be the default standard or even the bottom line. Last time I check Google Slides still doesn't understand how to connect two blocks of texts. I have to manually choose among four points (north/south&
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by ThinBold 5y ago
It is in geometry one can experience a spectrum of evidence from a picture (animated or not, interactive or not) to a line-to-line modus ponens proof. Not to mention the historical value that Euclid invented a literary genre that is now ca

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