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by frodetb 3y ago
Agreed! I'm realizing that my comment came across as negative, but I did appreciate seeing a second path to the same place. I also agree that the expression x^(1/x) feels like a more natural place to start. You often see this I th
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by frodetb 3y ago
Logs will appear no matter what, at some point in the line of reasoning. They are only held back until differentiating in this approach. I think the expression for the derivative of logn/n was much nicer to grapple with.
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by frodetb 3y ago
"Catitude" is a good one. One might also say "felinity". Or "kittyhood". Or "purrsonality"! I've only watched the movie version, but all these feel like they were words spoken by a character in C
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by frodetb 3y ago
Hey now, I turned out all right.
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by frodetb 3y ago
For the past decade there has here in Norway been a recurring news sensation surrounding the mountain Mannen [1] (literally "the man" ) located in Romsdal in the northernmost part of Western Norway. Geologists have found Mannen
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by frodetb 3y ago
Right on point, "a blessing and a curse".
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by frodetb 3y ago
The tailoring was just for taper and length. The waist I didn't do much with so it's pretty loose. Besides, the pants are simply supposed to be worn with suspenders. I'm not sure as I haven't tried fitted high-rise trous
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by frodetb 3y ago
I absolutely have! Didn't think it was worth the tangent so I'm glad you're bringing it up. Women's fashion is so much more varied in shape, size, style, and fit, and some of it even looks comfortable. As a matter of fac
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by frodetb 3y ago
This is a premise I can get behind. One of the silliest battles I have found myself fighting against society has been my search for comfortable yet attractive men's pants. I deeply dislike the restricting fit of modern pants, especiall
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by frodetb 3y ago
Me too, and I was disappointed to see this comment section mostly full of people either blaming the author or explaining why their experience actually makes sense. It's like a positive feedback-loop (though I guess morally negative) be
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by frodetb 4y ago
"Permitted" is a strong word for activity enabled by a protocol. It implies some moral acceptance from the ones who designed the tool. I think a better word would be "possible". Similar to how e-mail makes it possible to
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by frodetb 4y ago
You are right to point that out, but I don't think the article is making a claim that its findings compose a recipe for exceptionalism. It actually seems very careful not to make any claims at all, except that it presents " a few
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by frodetb 4y ago
I've been surprised to find myself making multiple similar pivots over the years. A lot of what I dismissed in my younger years as lacking of intellectual merit, I have come around to value much more highly than I ever would have guess
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by frodetb 4y ago
That's a pretty flimsy argument. Yes, you can map mathematical ideas onto concepts within different fields of study, but that's kind of the point. Mathematics aims to abstract away any such notions of where you might encounter the
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by frodetb 4y ago
"Don't eat much" is quite different from "don't eat at all for a period of time", both conceptually and in how they impact the body.
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by frodetb 4y ago
My friend shared some screenshots of ChatGPT giving a convincing response to the prompt > Outline a proof of the snake lemma Satisfied with the output, my friend then asked it to outline a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, and ra
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by frodetb 4y ago
I don't think that's accurate. One of the things that make incubation and choosing which startups to fund so difficult is precisely the lack of track record. According to Graham himself, when everyone involved with a startup are n
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by frodetb 4y ago
It' uplifting to hear that these things can be managed and unlearned. I hate knowing that I am my own biggest obstacle in certain respects.
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by frodetb 4y ago
Goodhart's law strikes again.
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by frodetb 4y ago
I think this is a big one as well, and would go one step further and say that anyone no matter their place on the spectrum may fail at communication in this way. I bet most junior developers know what I mean, if they've sat in meetings
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by frodetb 4y ago
Here's some advice from a Norwegian who programmed in Vim for years on the nordic layout: do yourself a favor and get an American keyboard ASAP. The brackets alone are worth it.
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by frodetb 4y ago
One of the most delightful yet surprising things about learning another language is to see a whole new part of the internet (not to mention "the world") become accessible and unveil itself to you. After my time with Spanish, as an
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by frodetb 4y ago
With all the devotion on display from so many very clever people, it's hard not to be at least a little curious about Emacs. But I still have something holding me back. On the one hand, the entire environment that I've heard descr
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by frodetb 4y ago
La ligilo tute ne malpravas. Vi vere faris _tujan_ vortaron!
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by frodetb 4y ago
I got sucked into Esperanto after a year in Spain trying to learn Spanish. I was intrigued by the premise of an easy to learn, exception free language, with vocabulary that would already be somewhat familiar, and logical ways of building ne
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by frodetb 4y ago
I wonder if the explanation for Carlsen's move could be far simpler than people are making it out to be. This is the guy who decided not to compete for the world title, simply because he didn't feel like it. He loves chess, and wa
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by frodetb 4y ago
This is wonderful! Just what I need. I keep returning to this one YT series by Frederic Schuller, "Lectures on Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics"[1], where he goes through the mathematical foundations of theoretical physi
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by frodetb 4y ago
The same can be said about the entertainment business since pretty much forever. Writers can be quite eccentric people, yet manage to tell compelling stories about characters we relate to. Movie makers, actors, and script writers, all might
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by frodetb 4y ago
I love cursive, even as a programmer who touch types on a keyboard most of the day. Cursive is just so comfy and looks so nice. But I'm also incredibly thankful that I'm as proficient with a keyboard as I am. I'm never more t
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by frodetb 4y ago
What better place than Hackernews for sharing the newest video of the biggest selfproclaimed hack-frauds on the web?

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