aaplok

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by aaplok 11d ago
I like baking. There are machines that can bake bread at an industrial scale that I cannot compete with. There are home kneaders that do much of the work very well. I use one of those more often than not. I still think it worth my time knea
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by aaplok 27d ago
I contend that this is natural evolution. Every GUI app is a browser nowadays, and that leaves a niche for leaner apps to fill. This is what TUI apps seem to be doing. Cross platform GUI is hard unless you elect to build a website and navig
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by aaplok 1mo ago
> Do we trust them or don't we? GP trusts them for reviewing external extension code, and ensure that it does not contain malware, but not for not inserting exception to their own telemetry if they wrote the code themselves. Or, mor
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by aaplok 1mo ago
One thing I like with pandoc is that it produces clean html or latex code (it can also produce clean markdown with the right option). If you compare this with the HTML produced by typst or hevea, this is super useful, as we can then roll ou
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by aaplok 2mo ago
> Mathematicians are, indeed, also paid to teach, peer-review, go to conferences and learn mathematics, but all of that better result in some damn good theorems. As a mathematician who publishes theorems, I think this is mistaken. New th
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by aaplok 5mo ago
Doesn't the quoted sentence indicate they did? How would they have known it has been updated since otherwise?
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by aaplok 5mo ago
I agree that calling someone a bad person for using one of the most common test images is excessive. However, regarding this: > The subject of the photograph merely went along with it. The subject of the photograph did ask for it to no l
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by aaplok 5mo ago
Because I have personally never seen "jazzes" pluralised and I didn't think of it. Maths and math are both used, and the reason I used the plural form is not because I insist on anything but because it is the most commonly us
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by aaplok 5mo ago
For me it's about having a distraction-free environment. I dislike having useless information cluttering my screen real-estate. Even now that I moved away from text-only, I typically work only with fullscreen windows. All I want to see
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by aaplok 5mo ago
Actually I think that maths and jazz have something in common in the general public peception that you have to be smart to "get it". Nobody will try to perform a deep intellectual analysis of Lady Gaga's or Ed Sheeran's
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by aaplok 6mo ago
There are slightly more women than men on Tristan de Cunha [0]. [0] https://www.tristandc.com/population.php
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by aaplok 6mo ago
GP reported on an opinion and called it insane. That's not an ad hominem. There is a difference between judging an opinion and judging a person. If the response had been something like "what is crazy is to think the world can just
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by aaplok 6mo ago
> It doesn’t matter how blue you die your hair If your intention is honest engagement with people you disagree with, you should refrain from ad-hominem attacks like this. Work with their arguments, not with their tastes or appearances. I
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by aaplok 7mo ago
That the credit for the theorem belongs to Cantor is not under question. This is acknolwedged in the article: >The revelation about Cantor’s result doesn’t undermine his legacy. He was still the first person to prove that there are more
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by aaplok 7mo ago
And maybe they will. We have gone from the industry clamouring that what's being done now is not possible and spending millions of lobbying money against it, to such laws spreading like wildfire. The next step is the (inevitable) mess
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by aaplok 7mo ago
> Requiring ID is not entirely the right approach here I think It is in the sense that it entices the industry to come up with a better approach. Otherwise they'll just sit on their piles of gold saying that it can't be done, a
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by aaplok 7mo ago
It depends how you define "good writing", which is too often associated with "proper language", and by extension with proper breeding. It is a class marker. People have a distinct voice when they write, including (perhap
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by aaplok 7mo ago
The comments suggest to recuse the judges from countries involved, or to remove the lowest or highest scores for each contestant. If you remove the scores given by the judges from France and the US, the French pair wins. If you remove the l
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by aaplok 8mo ago
Neat collection! Do you have advice on how to use those calculators with modern tooling? For example I remember there were cross-compilers for the hp48 [0], do you use any of that (and how do you transfer data to/from the calculators)
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by aaplok 8mo ago
> The very fact people think they need to read (fiction) books released this year more than ones released before is baffling. Do they really? I was comparing rates of production vs consumption. It doesn't follow that what is being
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by aaplok 8mo ago
> Can't they figure out what books to get without being told? Probably not? People are not "being told" what to read, they are given some opinionated advice which they can then decide to follow or not. According to Wikiped
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by aaplok 8mo ago
This quote explains why the author thinks that it is a problem : > with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning experts. Their issue is (seemingly) not with the paper, but
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by aaplok 9mo ago
> Distance education is a tiny percentage of higher education though. It is about a third of the students I teach, which amounts to several hundreds per term. It may be niche, but it is not insignificant, and definitely a problem for so
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by aaplok 9mo ago
A limitation of written exams is in distance education, which simply was hardly a thing for the hundreds of years exams were used. Just like WFH is a new practice employers have to learn to deal with, study from home (SFH) is a phenomenon t
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by aaplok 9mo ago
Being obnoxious works well. Obnoxious people get elected to power. Obnoxious companies (and CEOs) generate hype that increases stock prices. Obnoxious youtubers call themselves influencers and make a good living out of it. Or more charitabl
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by aaplok 9mo ago
> a bit more time actually parenting Well, "blame the parents" is as hypocritical as "think of the children". It just displaces the responsibility of excluding kids from society from the community to the parents. Crea
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by aaplok 9mo ago
You could force kids to read books without forcing which books to read. The issue as always is to find a balance between giving kids agency and making sure they do what's right.
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by aaplok 10mo ago
> It should be one component of all the tools available to the programmer. > All text editors worth using have a way to open a terminal for that one time you need it. Is this not somewhat self-contradictory? Having the terminal in the
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by aaplok 10mo ago
You got a bunch of responses already, here is an intuitive reason. In similar triangles all distances are scaled by a factor k, by definition. Then, intuitively the areas are scaled by a factor of k^2, since you obtain an area by multiplyin
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by aaplok 10mo ago
Here is a quote from your original message which I have read and suspect others have too: > In general coops are not good at tough decisions and innovation. > Duralex already went bankrupt several times and they are heading for it a

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