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by asaph 2y ago
typo in title: “patters” should be “patterns”.
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by asaph 2y ago
This article is nearly 10 years old. Is this still true?
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by asaph 3y ago
That album is more challenging to appreciate for listeners new to jazz, while Kind of Blue is immediately accessible to mainstream listeners.
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by asaph 3y ago
Am I the only one who saw the title and thought OTP was "one time password"?
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by asaph 3y ago
Coincidentally, not ironically. Perhaps clairvoyantly or prophetically. Definitely not ironically.
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by asaph 4y ago
As per https://layoffs.fyi/ , Twilio laid off 1500 people on 2/13/2023, 17% of its workforce.
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by asaph 4y ago
I would go so far as to say it isn't worth your time to catalog them. If you can find a 2nd-hand record store that will take them, accept whatever they offer. Otherwise, throw them out. Don't hoard them in your home beyond the poi
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by asaph 4y ago
Judging by the condition of the records shown in the picture, and by the description of the records as "late-70's to mid-80's", a not particularly collectible vinyl era that produced mass amounts of low-grade (thin) viny
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by asaph 4y ago
“Almost” and “easily” are subjective and open to interpretation. My point is, that this is not a rigorous standard.
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by asaph 4y ago
In English, the exceptions to the rules are arbitrary and numerous. English is also a moving target. From a logic problem perspective, English grammar is more of a practical brute force endeavor than an interesting one. When I read the arti
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by asaph 4y ago
What’s the threshold of special cases allowed where the problem is considered solved?
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by asaph 4y ago
Perhaps my impression that this grammatical problem should be treated with logical rigor, where even a single counter-example invalidates the solution, isn’t the way this is being treated. The way it was presented in the article was like it
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by asaph 4y ago
Well how would you know that if the rules of grammar are not fully resolved?
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by asaph 4y ago
> Employing this interpretation, he found the Panini's "language machine" produced grammatically correct words with almost no exceptions. If there are exceptions, I would think the problem isn’t solved. Perhaps the article
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by asaph 4y ago
I only read the abstract because the rest of the article is behind a paywall. So I didn’t see this. However, it too, seems somewhat inconsistent with the idea put forth in the title and abstract. Perhaps the advice is: To be more likable, t
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by asaph 4y ago
One of the often repeated pearls of wisdom from How to Win Friends and Influence People[0] by Dale Carnegie, is people like to talk about themselves and they’ll like you more if you let them do that in a conversation. I’m paraphrasing. This
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by asaph 4y ago
Sturgeon’s Law[0] states that “90 percent of everything is crap.” [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by asaph 5y ago
Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.
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Zero Acre Farms puts microbes to work on a better alternative to vegetable oil(techcrunch.com)
3 points by asaph 5y ago|0 comments
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by asaph 5y ago
> My dad just bought a new Toyota Civic and ... Honda makes the Civic, not Toyota.
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by asaph 5y ago
Occam's Razor. It was most likely a lost human from a distant land, speaking another language, traveling in an exotic looking vessel. This is a simpler explanation than invoking extraterrestrial life.
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by asaph 5y ago
> More sustainable > Validators don’t need energy-intensive computers in order to participate in a proof-of-stake system – just a laptop or smart phone. This will make Ethereum better for the environment. To me, this is the biggest wi
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by asaph 5y ago
Is this post actually research for an upcoming paper on apologizing to the open source community?
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by asaph 5y ago
Other companies working on cell-cultured fish: Finless Foods: https://www.finlessfoods.com/ BlueNalu: https://www.bluenalu.com/
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by asaph 6y ago
Let's not lose sight of the fact that in the era before smart TVs, the revenue model for most TV networks was advertising.
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by asaph 6y ago
An incremental formatting tweak is not a revolution.
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by asaph 6y ago
The plural of virus is viruses, not virii. Reference: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3838/viruses-or-...
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by asaph 6y ago
E-Sports are a thing now.
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by asaph 6y ago
Don't assume the author is a man. The author of this article is Stephanie Yang.
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by asaph 6y ago
Why doesn't http://paulgraham.com/ redirect to https://paulgraham.com/ ? And why doesn't https://paulgraham.com/ have a valid SSL cert? I expect better from PG.

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