abnry

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by abnry 5d ago
I did well in school and the praise I received for excelling in my math degree did shape my life and impact my motivations. I do like praise. But outside of social reasons, it's understanding I crave. Thoroughly understanding a topic i
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by abnry 19d ago
I suppose if the number of nameable things is countable (because humans can only enumerate, and it is humans who name), then it trivially follows that some real numbers are unnameable. Which proves the existence of such entities. This remin
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by abnry 1mo ago
Getting lost when you have time and a full tank of gas is fun. Getting lost when you need to be someone on time is awful. We can love the former and hate the latter.
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by abnry 2mo ago
I don't think serious reader is a cringe term. Reading is a skill like any other and we use terms like "serious golfer" or "serious painter". The flip side of serious is causal. It's okay to structure your life
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by abnry 2mo ago
I need something like this for when my AC unit, which can only be right next to the TV, cycles on for a bit. It's sort of the inverse problem. When total noise gets louder I need the TV also to get louder.
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by abnry 3mo ago
Very nice! I solved them all in the backyard on a pleasant Sunday afternoon.
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by abnry 3mo ago
How can an animal even have a neck that long? Was it clear from the fossils that it is this long because I am skeptical.
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by abnry 3mo ago
This is where I got the link from.
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by abnry 3mo ago
I knew Flibbertigibbet from the sound of music: MARGARETTA: How do you find a word that means Maria? BERTHE: A flibberti gibbet! SOPHIA: A willo' the wisp! MARGARETTA: A clown!
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How many of the 170k English words do you know?(vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app)
501 points by abnry 3mo ago|555 comments
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by abnry 3mo ago
When I was a child, I remember going to the nearby children's museum and seeing an exhibit with 1 million bread tags. It was supposed to help conceptualize the number.
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by abnry 4mo ago
Are you carrying a lot of stress when you were walking 10 min mid-day? I think the wandering, creative mind is the goal and walking often facilitates that, but if some stronger force is keeping you away then it may not work.
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by abnry 6mo ago
Europeans are shocked by the portion sizes in America. But they feel normal in the US. Frogs often don't know they are being boiled.
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by abnry 6mo ago
The guiding analogy of the piece is that of planting a tree and waiting for it to mature. The reason we need to wait is that it takes time for some things to mature.
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by abnry 6mo ago
Which IIRC are all a consequence of Jensen's inequality.
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by abnry 7mo ago
Fantastic! Now I don't need to run it in a headless xorg session.
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by abnry 7mo ago
I'm still struggling to care about the "hit piece". It's an AI. Who cares what it says? Refusing AI commits is just like any other moderation decision people experience on the web anywhere else.
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by abnry 8mo ago
The NSFW content is a big bummer for me. I can't let a kid go to Wikipedia unsupervised because of this.
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by abnry 8mo ago
I love it! I typed "hello". > Your thought's hash is: 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79 > Including you, 267 persons had that thought already! > First time was 4 hours, 14 minutes ago,
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by abnry 9mo ago
I think the response is a great comment. It really is insane that they felt the need to damn the flooded campsite. The comment actually does a great job of accentuating the point of the story. Everyone offended is too caught up in their ach
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by abnry 9mo ago
Where do I get DRM-free ebooks to put on a Kobo? I don't support breaking DRM. So I'm using a Kindle because it has the best access to and integration with almost any book I want.
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by abnry 1y ago
I would really like a tool to reliably get the title of PDF. It is not as easy as it seems. If the PDF exists online (say a paper or course notes) a bonus would be to find that or related metadata.
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by abnry 2y ago
That's just controlled opposition.
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by abnry 2y ago
The real nerds celebrate octal pi day on 3/11. The crowds are too big on 3/14 anyways. https://imgur.com/a/gczeqkz
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by abnry 2y ago
You need a mortgage to buy most of their SDRs. Their cheapest IIRC is a B210 which is about $2,500.
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by abnry 2y ago
7 n^3 +n (mod 2) = 1 n^3 + n = n + n = 2*n = 0*n = 0
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by abnry 2y ago
> The accused doesn’t need to give their side of the story for people to know what happened. There is always a defense in court. This is not necessarily the defendant explicitly testifying. That's what I meant by the defendant maki
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by abnry 2y ago
There's martial law and there is civil law. Martial law applies to enemies and in wartime. In this case, killing enemies like Bin Laden is acceptable. However, in civil law, for the state to kill someone it has to be done through the c
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by abnry 2y ago
> But I don’t think it’s hyperbole to consider the actions of this CEO and his company in the same breath as such evil tyrants But it is. Tyrants round up women and children and execute them. Healthcare is more complicated because you ha
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by abnry 2y ago
See, you put the caveat at the bottom, but I think you are just having a normal discussion. You aren't speaking "very confidently," you are just making an argument. What I think happens is people who are very knowledgeable ab

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