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Went ahead and clicked anyway, scientifically-minded that I am. No appreciable disillusionment occurred. Didn't Excel gain the ability to use names at some point? Is 'anominal' a w…

Important_Distinction. _That_Should_Be_in_the_Headline_Maybe. Thanks, saving a click, not going for the article; not that it's necessarily bad or uninteresting; not that I wouldn't…

I recently happened upon a comment (not on HN) that seemed to treat 'zugzwang' as a synonym for 'deadlock'. Possibly because 'zugzwang' sounds really cool and makes your inner voic…

I haven't kept up with C++ in a few years - what does constexpr do for local variables? constexpr double a0 = 1.5707288;

Tell it to "always when I search for quoted text, pretend you're the Galaxy S20 gallery app"

And it's actually a good thing that it hasn't come any closer.

The simple English article seems to imply the True Justified Belief 'definition'. I don't think the TJB really gets us anything. For instance: why is 'true' included in the TJB tri…

Conductivity: Film at Eleven

Java has interface types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(Java)

This expression is often misused, it seems. It sounds so cool, 'scorched-earth tactics'... like 'medieval', 'fire-and-brimstone', 'kill it with fire', etcetera. Maybe read up on th…

The alternatives to using previously or normally civilian buildings are, I believe, to be outdoors or in tents. Originally military buildings are too few and probably already in ba…

Is this _really_ how you want the game to be played?

Very nice. Made me think of Paul Simon, made me relisten to Graceland, the song. Always a great listen, great sound. Thought it was just about him paying tribute to musical roots, …

I use a very low-tech solution: I stick a tag at the start of javadoc comments, and make liberal use of empty lines for spacing. So I don't use any advanced html tags and stuff. Of…

If status codes bleed into 6xx we'll know HE COMES. I am starting an early warning system, a daemon process, polling random web sites for status lines like this. Do I need to handl…

Brings to mind Robert Pirsig's 'value rigidity' concept: 'an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values.' I don't remember if there was a term for …

Good observations. Actually more important than it looks, I think. All those little helpful things. Also worth discussing: micro-misfeatures to be avoided when designing new langua…

Nestable comment syntax is also nice. At least some MLs (eg SML) has it, that I know of. Indentation-sensitivity can also solve similar problems. (Indentation does not have to excl…

Yes! And corresponds nicely with 'spats' for solid angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spat_(angular_unit) 1 spat = 4 pi steradians.

True. Many tanks have been destroyed. But the zillion tanks destroyed are often presented without context, and used to imply that resistance has a better prospect than is realistic…

Yes, for individuals, it's worse. For accurate information, it's probably a wash, or a close call. There are so many other ways of biasing information streams than overt oppression…

That convoy outside Kiev just waiting there like a sitting duck seems to be a mystery to everybody, military experts included. But surely there must be answers somewhere?

Thanks. This article seems to bear this out: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60638949

If Chernobyl is in Russian hands, how do the Ukrainians know it's lost power?

It seems that the plane had to go all the way around the closed airspaces of Finland and Norway (well, Scandinavia) to reach the Atlantic. Or maybe it's the projection.