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I've only ever read this on Hacker News, in the form "Welcome to $current_year !", where $ is the scalar sigil in the Perl programming language, indicating that it's a variable, an…

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Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.

Your comments are not visible because you were shadowbanned years ago. You should create a new account.

FYI, you were shadowbanned four days ago, probably automatically for your multiple flagged-to-death comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208156 . Maybe you should …

https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

> [...] the camera needed frequent enough service [...] Let's hope that in the future software engineering becomes mature enough that we don't need daily security updates.

https://archive.ph/XTtzc

"qbittorrent-nox" is the name of the headless package.

I found out that's just disk cache. Try launching some memory hungry programs and you'll see the cache released and qBittorrent running at around 150 MB again.

I "just Googled" it: > In recent decades, as understanding of human genetics has advanced, claims of inherent differences in intelligence between races have been broadly rejected b…

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English has "verbing", too. > "[E]asy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English." https://ww…

In Hungarian it's "izé". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iz%C3%A9

Compare yourself to others every time you want, but always remember this Venn diagram: https://i.imgur.com/pVoiW0l.png .

The word "meme" was created by Dawkins to be similar to "gene", because they spread similarly. Cancer is, in a certain sense, a genetic disease, the result of the malfunction of ge…

Thanks for the correction! I also think that both "in the head" and "on paper" work is necessary, of course, and I also think that Feynman did both, like everyone else. But we know…

Also: The Feynman Algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution. Implying that the "thinking" happens in the head, not on the paper. There's …

I don't think there's a difference here between Science and Mathematics. Scientists also study their tools (e.g. telescopes are studied by Optics), and use the objects of their stu…