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Then I don't understand this, from the article that was cited: In the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the principle has a more literal meaning: that every possibil…

Disclaimer: I am absolutely not a physicist, and so the following might be quite incorrect. It seems that your interpretation of the rule is actually an assertion of the many world…

I assume you're referring to the gif of the German goal from the world cup. "Afraid" is a bit of a misinterpretation. When you're 5-10 feet from the other player and he's shooting …

One of my maths professors was a humorous guy and in his lectures would, as an ongoing joke, only explicitly credit Heaviside and Hungarians.

Yeah I agree it's a bit idiosyncratic.

Doing this really drove home how neurotic and generally distracted I had become. I'd do some reading at lunchtime and by bedtime couldn't recall much of it at all. I don't know for…

First I'd like to say that I think this particular critique, that of considering to what extent we ought to offload our skills into various technologies, is definitely worth engagi…

I'm pretty sure it's a quote from the co-founder, Wiktor. There's a picture of him with his name just below the quote.

This is technically true but in practice Docker for Mac hides this from you and does not require a prohibitive amount of memory. 99% of the developers at my company have 16gb MBPs …

> Who would risk building their company on a stack that you lose the license for if you do too well? You could frame this in a different way and come to a different conclusion. Ins…

One might believe that OSS's raison d'etre is to increase equality in economic opportunity. If you see OSS dev that way and you see corporations like Google and Facebook as opponen…

Chapter 6 is block ciphers, Chapter 7 is stream ciphers. Also, the first lines in chapter 7: Let’s try to build a stream cipher using the tools we already have. Since we already ha…

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie (the Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and the Last Argument of Kings). They're quite dark but surprisingly funny and maybe the most re…

also known coloquially as 'blue car syndrome'. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blue%20Car%2...

i think that's an interesting idea. instead of "how many jobs did we create?" you could ask "how much socioeconomic mobility did we create?". or something along those lines

I'm pretty confident the tendency to think you have it all figured out is not scoped to nerd-dom.

I'm not sure what the spirit of your comment is, but I feel like I should point out that this is to some extent the "point" of technology: to create more value with less human capi…

Contrarily, I'd say that these questions were picked precisely because the author understands the profound difficulty we've encountered in the pursuit of formalizing them. Also, at…

Not OP, but it could be a sweat issue. For me a half mile is plenty far, especially in direct sunlight and/or if I’m wearing a backpack, to work up a sweat walking at just a leisur…

My experience has also been with a decaying amount of customization. As I get better with Vim I learn more and more how to do things in a "Vim-native" manner which I had previously…

Isn't this exactly how it goes though? e.g. "They're selling books, Bob. Books. Not widgets. We're fine, Bob".

This is the sort of experience I’m looking for. Specifically, there’s a number of writers/journalists who I’d like to follow and Twitter seems ideal for following them. So what do …

Is it for some reason not a viable solution to just stop following people who shitpost? Or does Twitter push random users' posts at you? I ask because I've been circling around Twi…

My point isn't really about a distinction between information and knowledge. While high quality notes might witness the existence, or creation, of knowledge, that knowledge is not …

I use this site pretty regularly to bootstrap reading about topics that I haven't much familiarity with. Even if the 5 books aren't the best, they're almost always enough so that I…