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"28. Find a teacher of general relativity online. I tried." Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0&list=PLPPSIjDe9T...

"For safety, Swift requires the variables to be initialized before being passed with &. This is because it cannot know whether the method being called tries to read from a pointer …

Yeah, you can move points around to get the setup that seems nicest to you, which is why it isn't perfect for proofs yet.

Adding appropriate commas doesn't help, afaict.

See, my problem with this idea is the inaccuracy of Google Translate's translations. For Romance languages, the results are questionable enough (I'm also learning French at the mom…

I'm very confused about the purpose of this. If it's just taking advantage of the Translate API so you don't have to use the browser app, I can see the convenience of being able to…

Fun. But typos are BRUTAL. "For future reference, 3 + 1 = 4. It should not take 2.69s to solve that next time."

But how do you teach anything without examples? Pedagogically, this stuff is invaluable.

The mechanical efficiency of the the mass killings, for one, is fairly unique. Also, the stories of the Holocaust are more widely heard because many of the people that were alive w…

In regard to the first tip, I use `git add -i` even more often, because it gives you an interactive prompt that asks you which files you want to add to a commit (i.e. you don't hav…

Does anyone else have trouble seeing the words with the font that they use?

Define stable. Do you mean it crashes? or that it drops out once in a while? Because I use Facebook over XMPP and I've never actually experienced any problems.

Basically, the point of the PDF is that fire deaths and response times are decreasing, even while the EMS call volume is increasing.

According to some comments above, GIMP does support PSD files, and I know for a fact that GIMP supports scripting, so you could just write a script to export the layers for you.

I believe that the author of the article is the same person speaking at the TED Talk -- or am I missing something?

Not all progress is gradual. Sometimes we need a complete overhaul. In this case, I don't see the need, but if there is something that much better than current notation, then I wou…

It has 201 digits (it's on the order of 10^200), so it would be about 9.167 googol googol. Yeah, that's incomprehensible. Not the biggest integer I can think of (see Graham's Numbe…

Anyway, the point isn't that she's faster than a computer (I mean, my laptop can conjure up that answer with PARI/GP in under a millisecond). The point is a) she pushed the limits …

Sure, these are generally valid points, but Hummingbird doesn't really solve them. I'd love to see a solution to those problems, though. >12-pitch solutions exist, but they're just…

It's fixed now, apparently.

Really? Then how do we have progress? I mean, I prefer current notation, but who's to say that this is the best possible notation to express musical ideas? Although Hummingbird isn…

Basically my defense of traditional notation is that although it makes easy music hard to read initially, it makes difficult music easy to read in the long run. If a notation has t…

Funny that I came across this right after a concert (Bottesini, Elgar, Hindemith, Monti, Saint-Saens, and Dvorak -- all 1st movements of one of their respective concertos, except f…