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by lebca 1mo ago
Anecdotally, every iphone I've tried since my iphone 11 pro seems to take worse photos. I do take a lot of photos with a standalone camera though so I imagine I am biased.
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by lebca 2mo ago
It is possible to be successful in spite of one’s decisions
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by lebca 7mo ago
I used to know someone wealthy whose continued wealth relied on working with local and state governments. This person's public correspondence in lawsuits and with local government officials was purposefully littered with spelling, punc
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by lebca 9mo ago
Just a reminder that our experience does not necessarily invalidate someone else's experience. Eg, I was typing Alt-0151 and Alt-0150 (en-dash) on the reg in my middle school and high school essays along with in AIM. While some of my c
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by lebca 10mo ago
Second this! And if you want a part memoir part history of this subject as it relates to physics (through Langlands Program) part ode to the beauty of maths, I recommend reading Edward Frenkel's Love & Math: https://en.w
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by lebca 1y ago
Could you elaborate on your comment here? My interpretation of this critic's point regarding the difference in "print" vs "digital" is that print has(d?) more friction to publish, thereby having a built-in filter or
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by lebca 2y ago
Please consider avoiding more ad hominem attacks or revising the ones you've already plastered onto this discussion.
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by lebca 3y ago
The "feel shit for a week" are basically withdrawals, right? So...addictive? In terms of addicted to the taste of good coffee (+1), curious if you've found good tasting decaf. I struggle to find decaf flavors that are as rich
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by lebca 5y ago
Mark Rippletoe of Starting Strength has some counterarguments to this. E.g. being fit and heavy is better for bone density than out of shape and slim so in older age one is less likely to break something.
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by lebca 6y ago
Aren’t Google and Fitbit one in the same now given the acquisition? Or are you implying that Fitbit will function independently and Google will sell it if Fitbit isn’t profitable?
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by lebca 6y ago
What if the Mac had a newer OS than Mojave originally installed on it? That is how I interpreted the parent poster's comment. Given this interpretation, I'm don't think I'd have the expectation to be able to install an e
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by lebca 7y ago
Could you point out where in the song you hear space? I was interpreting the conversation's use of space to mean silence. Do you mean space in the auditory spectrum, but not in the time spectrum? Meaning, this song is less crowded inst
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by lebca 7y ago
My understanding was that apart from GM killing it on a more general statewide level, the SC dirt is really soft and the tunnels collapsed a lot more often than expected, taking deaths with them during collapses and rebuilds.
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by lebca 8y ago
just discovered this! Thank you.
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by lebca 8y ago
Thanks! I'm enjoying comparing novels I've read and finding surprises at misremembering the prose of some of them. Was it a deliberate decision to not include the ability to search for specific titles? I've been clicking thro
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by lebca 9y ago
As someone who only discovered Pieter by finding his last article posted on HN, and then subsequently learning a lot from reading many of his other articles on his website (different perspective on life, humility, consulting in tech outside
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by lebca 9y ago
To add to this point, I contacted a realtor through Zillow, had two email exchanges with him where I asked specific questions about a property. Each time, my questions were ignored, and his responses can be summarized as "are you pre-a
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by lebca 9y ago
Having majored in mathematics and music, and taken only undergraduate physics courses I would say my personal experience agrees with kafkaesq. I often thought maths was closer to English literature & composition classes or music composi
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by lebca 10y ago
While I have not read the book, when I've spoken about it to reputable Bach musicologists and logicians, one group says Hofstadter misinterprets Bach's work and tries to create something that actually isn't there while the ot
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by lebca 10y ago
Sure, but even in western music the chromatic scale is considered to have been exhausted in the 20th century. Modern music has moved on to use other notes and sounds and in many cases is not even pitch-centric.
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by lebca 10y ago
While real analysis alone is probably not enough to do a real representative analysis, if the class were the first real analysis class in the undergrad sequence, then I'd call it an earlier class. Eg, 1st upper division real analysis c
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by lebca 10y ago
You're not wrong about the bay being mostly shallow. To clarify though, the bay's average depth in the southern and northern areas is closer to 15-17 ft and near the Golden Gate Bridge and Treasure Island area is closer to 40ft[1]
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by lebca 10y ago
This works until one notices the backwards hanging clothes more than the forwards hanging ones, and then one's OCD or something begins to care about reversing all the hangers more than choosing what to wear, like a game...
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by lebca 10y ago
and post Tesla acquisition of SpaceX, Master Plan: Part Tres Solar powered flying cars that will take you to Mars and beyond.
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by lebca 10y ago
Could you recommend another hosting service with better security practices than Linode?
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by lebca 10y ago
That was beautiful. It's been a long time since I've read anything derived as elegantly and clearly described as that. Got any more?