pinerd3

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by pinerd3 1y ago
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
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by pinerd3 1y ago
I think they basically agree with your point here -- they mention Descartes and Kant to say roughly "I hold basically these ideas, but I don't mention the philosophers' names when I talk about them because 1) I came to them i
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by pinerd3 2y ago
Strongly disagree with this: > I think the variety in barista coffee is different from the variety in, say, fashion or wine because with fashion and wine there is social signalling and all kinds of things going on Sounds like OP just doe
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by pinerd3 2y ago
Just fyi (perhaps @dang) this jumps to the Postscript of the blog post due to the anchor/hash in the URL. I was a bit confused initially.
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by pinerd3 2y ago
This is SO cool I love it. Feels like I'm reading snippets from a million people's diaries one after another. Humbling!
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by pinerd3 3y ago
Can you recommend any command-line pdf tools? As a student I have to look at lots of pdfs and the gui tools for manipulation are very lacking.
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by pinerd3 4y ago
I agree that a smart, ambitious person can become expert in more than one field in their life — but jumping to a new area of mathematics is on an entirely lower level than jumping from algorithmic finance to cutting edge biomedical, especia
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by pinerd3 4y ago
Oh, also, two other things: First, CuriosityStream has a bundle deal with Nebula where you can get both at once: [1]. You have to find an appropriate promo link from one of the participating YouTubers but that shouldn't be too hard. Se
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by pinerd3 4y ago
Worth mentioning Nebula [0], which is $10/month to support a large roster of educational (or education-adjacent) creators. The site is "creator-built and creator-owned", according to their homepage, and a number of YouTubers
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by pinerd3 5y ago
those first four are things that i didn't even realize bother me but i feel like it'll be a massive QoL improvement to have them turned off. thank you!
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by pinerd3 5y ago
Any chance you can say where you work? Because that sounds kind of like a dream job to me, haha.
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by pinerd3 5y ago
This is a reasonable argument, but it implies that FORTRAN is in fact not a good language for beginners; almost all beginners care about IO / text processing, and almost none care about linear algebra. (Especially if one is talking a
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by pinerd3 5y ago
woah that is cool
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by pinerd3 5y ago
Fossil is a version control system — it's what SQLite uses and it includes a static site/documentation generator, which is (AIUI) what generates sqlite.org. See https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html and https:/&
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by pinerd3 5y ago
This is clever, but I wouldn't call it a variation on this style of proof — the OP was an example of a somewhat-subtle logic error, while this is just two instances of wordplay (forelegs ⇔ four legs; six legs being an 'odd' n
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by pinerd3 5y ago
This is so cool, brightened my day - thanks for sharing :)
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by pinerd3 5y ago
that was a very interesting article; thanks for posting it :)