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that (edit: the way you were taught) sounds like an altogether awful way to learn any hard science

Your issue with physics but not with math reminds me a little of Hume's law. The difference that has always made that difference "make sense" to me is that math rules, even the axi…

nifty. do you happen to have (or could you take) a picture of your actual journal, too, though?

may the Sun never set

If you're feeling nice, randomize whose time remains stable (to keep things fair), keep the organizer's time stable, or pick the time that minimizes the number of participants who …

They mean using the AI to do the import things and the higher structure for them, not removing tedium. It's like using a calculator for math school/home-work designed to teach mult…

Why do you think you didn't do similar when you were a student? We've seen this exact issue with other technology before: calculators for math; typewriters and then word processors…

> Is that how you want to build a company or society on. Resentment? I think this misunderstands their goals. They don't care how society/a company is built. All they care about is…

FWIW, it's a little better on the thinkpad side, even today: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Models If they want dell, though, they want dell. I'd say give them a budget an…

It's not crazy at all. That's what conglomerates do. GE literally built trains and electricity until 2021 when the train unit got spun off.

Yeah, ok, fine. The bread book is easier to read than das kapital, and the manifesto is far too simple.

torment nexus creators are shocked, appalled even, to discover that people desire to use it to torment others at nearby nexus

God, i am so glad to see these guys succeeding. The sun may have burned out, but the sky is still bright thanks to them. May they be so successful that i can eventually buy worksta…

just wanted to let you know that this comment is the only reason why i'm using vs code again after about 9 months of not using it at all.

please don't ditch timezones. https://qntm.org/continuous

please don't ditch timezones. https://qntm.org/abolish

at least one of the pilots did. according to the preliminary report, the switches were only in the cutoff position for 10 seconds before being switched back to the run position and…

so just to confirm, this HN submission [ 1] should have linked to this pdf of the paper [2] and put the article [3] that is the current link for the post as a comment? [1]: https:/…

We built something similar for the managed DB we use, but i think it's a mistake to autogenerate the migration scripts instead of autogenerating the schema from the migration. Thin…

What are side-effects but undocumented arguments and returns? Firstly, you want to ensure your functions are pure with respect to input. That is to say, they might reference a conf…

It's not meaningless, the author just doesn't like it. Open-source and source available were always meant to be watered-down versions of the FSF's free software specifically to be …

The aviation industry doesn't usually reduce incidents down to a single proximate or ultimate cause like that, but instead notes every decision/event that contributed to the incide…

There's actually a legal reason for tacking on anyone who is plausibly liable. The basic idea is to sue everyone in a single case and let the court sort out actual liability for ea…