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by dfdz 2y ago
About a decade ago, TIME Magazine published A World Without Bees [1] Since then, many people seem to think bees are on the edge of extinction. In fact, there are more bees now than ever before [2] [1] https://content.time.com&#x2
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by dfdz 3y ago
> Participants were instructed in their respective native languages to estimate roughly how much time it took If they really want to claim that the “language you speak” changes your perception of time, then they should have avoided the c
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by dfdz 3y ago
> They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. Profound or contrapositive [1]? P = reader Q = not steal not P = does not read not Q = Theif P - > Q not Q - > not P [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dfdz 3y ago
> the story from France of the second-grader who, asked what 2x3 equals, replied "3x2", knowing only that multiplication was commutative. This is a classic joke making fun of the issues with French education based on the Bourba
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by dfdz 3y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997 “arXiv will not consider removal for reasons such as journal similarity detection, nor failure to obtain consent from co-authors, as these do not invalidate the license applied by the s
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by dfdz 4y ago
Best advice in this thread: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
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by dfdz 4y ago
I did not realize RPN is not available for CAS, that is disappointing. Is an HP 50G really the last of its kind? Hard to suggest since it’s priced like a collectors item now…
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by dfdz 4y ago
HP Prime on Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) mode [1, Page 47]. RPN is a basic stack based programming language, which is really fun to use [2]. [1] https://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/attachments/psg/palm-webossof...
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by dfdz 4y ago
One key feature of 1Password is the use of a secret key in addition to a master password. See page 10 [1] which explains how the secret key provides extra entropy (which makes it much harder to brute force a user who choses a weak password)
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by dfdz 4y ago
> Fusion “Breakthrough” Won’t Lead to Practical Fusion Energy >Just one more step on the long road to commercialization Road noun 1. a wide way leading from one place to another 2. a series of events or a course of action that will le
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by dfdz 4y ago
Turning Machines Are Magic: The Gathering [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828
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by dfdz 4y ago
> "Busyness is a sign of poverty that will eventually lead to personal bankruptcy" "People who like pseudo-profound quotes are not so smart, science says" [1,2] [1] https://qz.com/566050/people-wh
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by dfdz 4y ago
> flex, not a tool Suppose that a plane has 250 seats and makes 50 trans-con flights a month. Airline A decides to advertise having fast internet access in their flight, and raises ticket prices by $2 a seat to fund it. (250)(50)(2) = 2
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by dfdz 4y ago
This does not directly address your question, but it does really help with finding errors: https://ctan.org/pkg/texfot?lang=en texfot – Filter clutter from the output of a TEX run The package provides a small Perl scri
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by dfdz 4y ago
> ArXiv won't let authors remove their paper from the website This is an essential feature of arXiv to maintain academic integrity and encourage serious academic submissions. If you realize that your paper contains an error, then yo
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by dfdz 4y ago
I expect more from IEEE than a bait-and-switch: > license plate on that car showed that it was registered to ... Steer EV ... Agents served a subpoena on Steer EV for the renter’s billing and contact details. Steer EV provided those—and
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by dfdz 4y ago
In case you missed this in the article, the effect you described is a possible explanation of why the effect happens … > Or perhaps external factors come into play: A layer of frost in a freezer can act as an insulator, keeping heat from
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by dfdz 4y ago
On hacker news, it is equal plausible that the comment is being downvoted since it is not completely serious, so I will add the disclaimer that: The purpose of my above comment is to add to the conversation by considering this development o
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by dfdz 4y ago
I have a few qualms with this app. As a shopify user, you can already build such a system for yourself quite trivially. From the Shopify organization admin, click Stores. Click Create store. In the Store type section, select the purpose of
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by dfdz 4y ago
> Their move to a paid subscription was very odd above several people note that > the IKEA one … is the only one in the article they don't earn a commission on when someone buys it How do you want wirecutter to stay economically
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by dfdz 4y ago
This is a horrible policy, but it seems there is a possible solution (for people with good enough credit, which means the most vulnerable people cannot do this): Get a mortgage on house that will take a while to pay off. In order to “save”
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by dfdz 4y ago
I disagree that the title is click bait. The AES standard is only defined for 128, 192 and 256 bits [1], but in the title the author mentioned breaking AES-1024. So it is clear to technical readers that the title contains a joke, which will
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by dfdz 4y ago
This criticism seems unfair. There is nothing wrong with semi-supervised learning.
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by dfdz 4y ago
I think CSV is a decent file format for tabular data. The author claims that CSV files are > difficult to parse efficiently using multiple cores, due to the quoting (you can’t start parsing from part way through a file). But I do not see
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by dfdz 4y ago
> 249,871 High School Mathematics Teachers in USA [1] > 5,972 Math Professors in USA [2] 1. There are simply not enough college math professors for this to work. [1] https://www.zippia.com/high-school-mathematics-teach
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by dfdz 4y ago
The student is > ranked 23rd out of 668 students at a mediocre public high school [1]. [1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/texas/dis...
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by dfdz 4y ago
There are about 30 million coders in the world [1] And about 80 thousand mathematicians [2] So about 375 individuals programming for every 1 person writing proofs If we assume this configuration is optimal, then my answer to your question i
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by dfdz 4y ago
> End the Star Seller Program I did not know exactly what the star seller program was. It requires that in the last three months of shop data [1]: > 95%+ of first messages in a thread are responded to within 24 hours. > 95%+ of ord
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by dfdz 4y ago
Here is a much better summary of what happened from Boaz Barak: https://mobile.twitter.com/boazbaraktcs/status/1511366075035...
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by dfdz 4y ago
> Do you believe in Free Software? What does it mean to "believe" in Free Software? I believe Free Software (as defined in your post) exists and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. > Is free software a lost ca

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