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by lahvak 2y ago
"In 2023, it became the first metro system in the world to operate entirely on electric power." That is very confusing. Most of the article seems to be about metro systems (a.k.a. underground, subway, the tubes, etc.). What happe
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by lahvak 2y ago
I remember in the summer of 89 having to wait several hours in Uzhhorod for exactly this reason. I don't remember if they kicked us of the train or if we wanted to use the opportunity to do some sightseeing, but there were no sights to
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by lahvak 2y ago
Just go and look into the nearest septic tank, I bet it's gonna be a similar experience.
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by lahvak 2y ago
First, I never liked Gnome, I remember trying it few times years ago, and quickly returning back to fvwm2 every time. On the other hand, I never understood why window managers put icons on the window title bars, and in my own fvwm2 config,
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by lahvak 2y ago
Olympics are a great point of national pride for the organizing country. I don't understand why these days we still let each Olympics be organized by a single country. It could very easily become a global event, where different discipl
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by lahvak 2y ago
I believe you've got it backwards. The theory of relativity would be wrong if GPS did not work, the theory of electromagnetism would be wrong if radio did not work, etc. The only thing that working radio tells us is that certain mathem
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Ask HN: Socratic LLM?
3 points by lahvak 2y ago|1 comments
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by lahvak 2y ago
A bit different take on the situation: https://jacobin.com/2024/05/georgia-ngos-eu-membership-democ...
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by lahvak 2y ago
Writing novels and analyzing novels are completely orthogonal skills. I bet there are many great authors who would completely suck at explaining other authors' works (or even their own), comparing different works, or explaining how lit
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by lahvak 2y ago
Another phrase I truly despise is "all but". First, it seems to mean exactly the opposite to what it actually means. Second, why even?
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by lahvak 2y ago
> What if the standardized tests aren't administered by the teacher? That seems like it would be an easy solution to get around the cheating problem. In order for the test scores to be granular enough to be used as measure of perfor
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by lahvak 2y ago
Years ago I used one of the first pis as a music/podcast player in my car. The problem was that there was no proper shutdown process, you turn of the car, and the power cuts off, so I set it up to create and mount a ram disk while boot
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by lahvak 2y ago
I think I'll have some yellow ones.
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by lahvak 3y ago
Look at 'netrw" plugin, which has been bundled as one of the default plugins with vim for years now.
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by lahvak 3y ago
Yeah, and what in the world is a "temporary email"?
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by lahvak 3y ago
Ha, emacs is an "extensible text editor", while vim is a "powerful text editor"!
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by lahvak 3y ago
A mandatory nitpick: you cannot do conditional probability without multivariate distributions, but you are right, you do not need linear algebra for a basic introduction. Even continuous distribution can be introduced, you just start with d
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by lahvak 3y ago
> so much like high school physics will not teach thinking but simply knowing how to apply the right formula at the right time... Unfortunately, that seems to apply to a lot of high school math, including a lot of calculus classes. And,
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by lahvak 3y ago
Chain rule is a bad example. If you cannot remember the chain rule, you do not understand the theory at all. And if you do understand what a derivative is, the chain rule is trivial.
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by lahvak 3y ago
> And these people upload the content that we all enjoy watching. Maybe you should speak only for yourself. It is possible that most people uploading to youtube do it because of the adds, but there are plenty of people who have other rea
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by lahvak 3y ago
I really do not understand what the complain about IBM is about. Are they saying that if you request a source code from IBM, they will stop developing Red Hat and there will be no future releases? Or are they saying that if you request the
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by lahvak 3y ago
Can someone familiar with OCaml comment on this: > The reason for this is that the language prominently features garbage collection, a feature which deletes code not in use by the machine. Using this results in "uninitialized data
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by lahvak 3y ago
> ... which is the industry term for hydrogen that naturally occurs in the layers of the Earth’s crust underground in northeastern France. That is an awfully specific term. What do they call it when it occurs in other countries?
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by lahvak 3y ago
Therefore, Hamburg is not a city in Europe.
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by lahvak 3y ago
> There is no world in which it would be better for anyone to be able to claim they are selling an iPhone with iPhone branding and everything over it while selling an old Alcatel feature phone. Except that it would not happen. In a word
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by lahvak 3y ago
Ad 1.: Multiplication of complex numbers is a very intuitive operation on complex plane, the moment you realize you need to use polar coordinates.
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by lahvak 3y ago
How does Vivaldi compare to Nyxt? Anybody has experience with both and can provide some comparison? Thanks!
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by lahvak 3y ago
Do you want the TeX code to be converted to svg in the browser at rendering time or are you ok with converting the figures to svg beforehand and including them in your html files? For the former I would look at TikZjaX ( https://g
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by lahvak 4y ago
I don't know about females, but I totally would!
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by lahvak 4y ago
Reminds me of the time when I and few of my friends were staying in my dad's and uncle's cabin in the hills for few weeks one summer, when we were about 15 or 16. One day one of us went down to the village to shop and came back wi

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