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Are you thinking of the short story "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov. (A technician discovers how to do simple arithmetical calculations in a world where no remembers arithme…

[The title is from the article being linked, as per HN guidelines.]

There seems to be an inexorable push to the Tidyverse in recent years. I remain hopeful, however, that Base-R (and DataTable) will also continue to thrive. ---------- Edit for clar…

> I am mostly confused by what the author thinks the selling point is. ------------------- From the article: > You don’t need to use any special desktop software; you mount the Wal…

I have never understood why Markdown has gotten so much attention over the last decade while ReStructured Text - which is a similar format but actually standardized and more develo…

"People who claim to be Moorish sovereign citizens believe they are bound mainly by maritime law, not the law of the places where they live ..." In that case, wouldn't this be an a…

> and not only in this life, it's for eternity. Kind of hard to make that argument and simultaneously argue that the soul transfers to a new body at death and is confined to Earth …

I'm also very troubled by the misuse of the term dharmic in this thread. Westerners misusing Indian terms to suit their own desires should be pushed back on. It sometimes seems lik…

I suggest learning more about what the word dharmic actually means. It seems clear to me that you are using some non-standard interpretation of its meaning.

> Ugh, I can't select text on the page. I do it to read more easily. If you are on firefox, try this: View -> Page Style -> No Style and scroll down. Hit + to enlarge if needed. I …

I'm curious why the parent comment was downvoted.

I found active bookmarks in Firefox to meet my needs before they removed that feature. I don't remember Google Reader all that well and I'm wondering how it was different than othe…

Since many still use RSS and since this post on Seth's Blog is so popular, thought I would point out that the blog has an RSS feed: https://seths.blog/rss

The paying audience for blockbusters is now global - and many movies earn more outside the U.S. than in it. As such, movie makers are probably now paying more attention to what is …

I both looked for and searched for a way to do so without a Microsoft account about a month ago - could not upgrade to Windows 10 Home without it and could not remove 10S without u…

"So it had to download ~3gb to update the OS, just to wipe itself." Similarly, if one wants to replace Windows 10S with Linux, have to either have or create a Microsoft account and…

Thank you for replying to posts on this topic and for all your work on Spyder. The following is simply an FYI, not a complaint - I am very thankful for all that the open source com…

Regarding your description of blocked toilet (i.e., where a plunger is needed every time): I used to have the same problem but then I realized that air bubbles came up every time I…

Testing out of a course used to generally be available for freshman level courses but rarely for anything more advanced than that. (The exception might be that one could generally …