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That was an oversight from my side ;)

Suggestion: leave (verb) 1. To go away 2. To keep in place

Vim is quite nice, but also quite... old-fashioned? I use vanilla vim as my main editor. Today I had to search for some text verbatim, and I don't think there's a way to do this in…

> When I say that it was a bedroom, I don’t just mean that it would be identified as a bedroom on the condo’s floor plan, I mean that this room had a fully made up bed crammed into…

It didn't strike me as one, and I'm not sure what it would be a metaphor for.

I've had the same experience. After two on-site interviews, an assessment, and a series of tests. I got offered 2k/month for a full-time job (despite my current job making about 25…

Not a place I'd want to work, I think. Two red flags are: 1. They signal from the first point that all your time belongs to the company. Taking a test of 6 hours is not something I…

While we're talking about thing we don't understand: I never understand the need to scoff at people who make such a small mistake. If you have a need to call people unbelievably st…

Is the point of free software to create as much variations of a program as possible? I'd rather see that useful changes are merged upstream, or projects are forked. If this had hap…

I'm always a proponent of simplicity. Some criticism about the site: What a horrible layout. I zoomed out to 25% (the furthest you can go) and the text is still to big.

I think that distributions patching software is especially problematic -- whether you consider it a symptom or a cause of fragmentation.

I have no doubt writing fiction isn't easy. I'm just saying that in general, a math book like I mentioned takes more time and expertise to write than fiction. Not in the first plac…

Yup, 32 hours/week (on paper) and slightly less than 2k/month before taxes.

This seems to be very relevant. I have double BSc and MSc degrees in STEM fields and am still struggling to find a proper job. On my first job I made less than 2k (for 4 days a wee…

My bank allows arbitrary length, but enforces certain special characters while disallowing others. Which means I can't use the (long and secure) password and have to write it down.…

You make a good point: There surely is a difference between someone like Donald Knuth writing a book that is relatively niche, and a best-seller. For one, I can imagine that a page…

> very little of the cost of making a book is tied up in the physical format Either that's bullshit, or the costs are entirely artificial. I really, really want "Concrete mathemati…

You should approximate it with an exponential function. Actually, the nth Fibonacci can be obtained exactly by rounding an exponential function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibon…

Ah, it makes total sense now! Thanks for taking the time to explain your thought process to a random stranger on the internet ;) I'd say that the exposition in your post is very fi…

Thanks. I just don't understand how you arrived at k The rest is clear.

I like to think that I'm good at these combinatorics-kind of questions, but I can't wrap my head around this one. I can follow the construction of the matrix, but I don't understan…

To put this in perspective: The cost of calculating a 10k character hash is negligible compared to serving a modestly sized image. Still, you have a point that allowing arbitrary s…

How's it coming along? Will there be an English translation available? Actually, I just tried to translate part of the book (the whole book is 'too big to translate') with Google t…

I understand that you follow some misguided security guidelines that state that a password must contain special characters and have a length of at least X. What I don't understand …