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by chisquared 2y ago
> We don't recommend oh-my-fish for various reasons Care to elaborate a bit on those? Or is it the kind of thing that's impolite to discuss?
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by chisquared 2y ago
There’s no need for this extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425681
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by chisquared 2y ago
If b is negative, define c = -b, and use the linked result to show that a^2 - b^2 = a^2 - (-c)^2 = a^2 - c^2 = (a + c)(a - c) = (a + b)(a - b)
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by chisquared 2y ago
> Then you've just skipped the case when a^2 - b^2 is negative. Not really. If b > a, then swap them to conclude that b^2 - a^2 = (b + a)(b - a), which is what the visual proof demonstrates. Your conclusion is equivalent to sayin
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by chisquared 2y ago
Steve Jobs would have agreed with you at one point. I'm not sure what changed his mind (or if he ever even really did), but he also thought that aside from the native apps that came with the iPhone, everything else should just be a web
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by chisquared 3y ago
Huh, is this what Nix users mean by “impure”? If so, then it makes so much more sense to me now.
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by chisquared 4y ago
> Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build. GitHub redirects you to the new name in the event of a rename and you look up the old one.
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by chisquared 4y ago
> even package managers like pip This reminds me of a blog post [1] I read before. Pertinent quote: > Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking
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by chisquared 4y ago
I was going to say that the title reminded me of these notes I skimmed through ages ago called “Street-fighting mathematics” [1]. Sure enough, the end of the article indicates [1] as the reference. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/co
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by chisquared 4y ago
Interesting problems! It’s not hard to intuit the truth values of the conjectures in the first two questions. I don’t have proofs, though. No idea about the third one.
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by chisquared 4y ago
David Williams’ Probability with Martingales is a personal favourite. And I’m not the only one.
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by chisquared 4y ago
Almost everything here is an unmitigated disaster. However, > the secret exemption of Alameda from certain aspects of FTX.com’s auto-liquidation protocol — barring the part where this is secret — this seems like it would make some sense?
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by chisquared 4y ago
Same. My requirements are very basic, so the switch to colima was basically seamless. I also appreciated being able to avoid Docker Desktop constantly trying to update itself (which is what ultimately motivated me to make the switch). As a
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by chisquared 4y ago
> just banging out definitions and theorems This is pretty standard for graduate-level math texts, though. That might say something about their intended audience.
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by chisquared 4y ago
Judging from the TOC, everything in Part I of Boyd and Vandenberghe appears in some form in the monograph, so I don't think that's it.
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by chisquared 4y ago
I'm really impressed at how this article uses exactly the right amount of detail to illustrate the points it's trying to make. I've read too many that either have too much or (more typically) too little. That's a really
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by chisquared 4y ago
I think you can just do `tmux new -A`. IIRC this is equivalent to `tmux attach || tmux`.
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by chisquared 4y ago
Prefixing `arch -arm64` is pretty solid advice still, I think. It's really easy to inadvertently run your terminal in Rosetta, and not notice that you're running a non-native version of `brew`.
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by chisquared 4y ago
Note that the argument you've called ridiculous is a response to someone who does not want a > closed source, walled garden product from a company with business practices I don't like Such a person probably won't be using
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by chisquared 5y ago
The claims I made are not solely about China: they're true about very many other developing countries as well. See, for example, India. That said, I would dispute the claim that China's economic system is distinctly non-neoliberal
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by chisquared 5y ago
> How's that going in 2022? It's brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty [0], drastically increased their life expectancies [1], and significantly improved their chances of making it to adulthood [2]. For more, se
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by chisquared 5y ago
I encountered code like this in a C99 project recently. I still don't understand it, but I believe it's supposed to be possible.
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by chisquared 5y ago
Usually you can disable this by passing `--disable-silent-rules` to `configure` and/or `V=1` to `make`.
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by chisquared 5y ago
`export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)"` (or `sysctl -a hw.ncpu` for Mac users). That way you neither need to install Ninja nor remember to pass `-j` to `make`.
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by chisquared 5y ago
`HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP` used to be the default. Many users complained about how much space Homebrew used, and were shocked by how much they saved by doing `brew cleanup`, so now it’s done by default.
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by chisquared 5y ago
I think you’re misinterpreting Arrow there. Even a voting method that requires cardinal information entails that voters be able to say which one they prefer between two candidates. As for how a ballot capturing cardinal methods be reduced t
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by chisquared 5y ago
You might be interested in `HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP` and `HOMEBREW_NO_CLEANUP_FORMULAE`. See `man brew` for details.
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by chisquared 5y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “avoiding constraints”, but Arrow’s theorem very much applies to cardinal methods too. Typically these methods (e.g. the Borda count) do not satisfy IIA. Cardinal methods induce an order, and once a method crea
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by chisquared 5y ago
I quite like this lecture series, and I normally hate learning from YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPr...
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by chisquared 5y ago
Why is py-cryptography not comparable? Had py-cryptography done the same thing (i.e. made the same announcement and promises, and followed through on them), I'd think we could say the exact same thing about py-cryptography as above too

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