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Even the most "solo" proofs rest on a foundation built by others (notations, concepts, lemmas, entire frameworks invented decades or centuries earlier), so nothing really is created in isolation.

It's also right to point out that mathematics can be done in solitude — but in my experience, that solitude is anything but passive. It takes a kind of disciplined internal dialogue—working through examples, forming your own structures, asking endless questions. (I quite like the way Paul Halmos puts this: “Don’t just read it; fight it.”)

Technology Connections' Alex has a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGT1EvmDJh4

Freakonomics has a great episode on Uber and their dataset: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-uber-is-an-economists-d...

...which makes me think that Uber ratings may have less to do with the driver and more to do with the person giving the rating. I, for one, struggle giving people a bad review knowing that their livelihood depends on it — it's either 5 stars or crickets.

For anybody interested in this era of photography, the book "A Triumph of Genius" by Ronald K. Fierstein is such a brilliant documentation of the history around the Kodak vs Polaroid patent war.

A huge Duolingo fan and I play every day, but I wonder whether it's actually helping me to learn anything. I've been using it to study mandarin characters for the 3rd year now, but when I actually see Chinese text there's barely anything I recognize.

Admittedly, I spend maybe 5-15 minutes per day on average and most of that I do in a rush, but the expectation still sounds fair -- reading would be relatively passive knowledge too.

Pay attention to the camera & directing the next time you watch an episode, it's an absolute masterpiece.

One example to look out for is the back-and-forth between Columbo and the baddie. They would usually stand in opposite ends of the room and shot from two (sets of) cameras. One camera is closer to Columbo and the other is closer to the baddie, so when the detective is "winning" an argument, he'll look bigger on the screen and vice versa.

This usually starts with a shot where Columbo looks super small somewhere in the back of the room, then he'd ask his famous "just one last question", and then they switch the setup. Now Columbo is bigger in the front, and the baddie looks small while they are in trouble.

Trying to decide between these:

(a) Wordpress (b) SquareSpace (c) https://strapi.io/ (d) https://prismic.io/ (e) https://www.contentful.com/

The output will be a simple website, we already have all pages in HTML, and from the tech perspective we could use any of the above.

What I've seen was: SquareSpace is still rather limited, Prismic and Contentful are around $500 per month in their non-free-tier, and Strapi is just too expensive to find devs for. Plus their editor looks the same as Wordpress's if I'm honest.

On the other hand, Wordpress has a massive community of reasonably priced freelancers, has updates many times a year, and most things you want out of the box (such as SEO, or easy hosting on Heroku or elsewhere). The only thing it doesn't have is the excitement to work with it :)

Is there a good business case for any of the competitors?

Interesting that she located the elements by tapping on the screen at certain positions, instead of using the left/right swipe _anywhere_ on the screen, which selects and reads the previous/next element.

Having seen a lot of these videos before (we've been working on making apps truly accessible), I never actually came across someone who didn't use the left/right swipe as a first plan of action, but hey ho, you always learn.

(I wonder if it depends on mental models, and whether you prefer building a 2D map of the screen to moving up and down in a 1-dimensional vector.)

If the goal is immunity to Covid-19, isn't it simpler to just: catch it?

To be on the safe side, they could have lowered the risks of a bad outcome by things like (1) catching a smaller viral load (2) actually prepare for it and catch it at a convenient time etc. (Someone who's actually interested would research this longer.)

Surely it's safer than the home cooked vaccine, and surely the favorable option on a risk vs potential benefit analysis. Would make for a boring blog post though.

This is a useful answer, especially because I don't think most people consider or make this decision mindfully. Sabbaticals can be an important option not only to advance your professional development but also to avoid burnout.

And I always hear people who consider it, but nine times out of ten (or probably more), they drop the idea for a copout reason (I met someone / need to save money for X / this job is too great to leave)

No-code is useful for building enough of the app to figure out whether there's a market for it in the first place. It's not fair to compare it to building the actual product with an actual team -- a more realistic alternative would be outsourcing the prototype/beta to some random team.

Oh wow, I did this for the better part of my grownup life without having a name for it. I called it "Self-Solving Problems" after reading "SEP field" in a Douglas Adams book:

"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem

I wonder if this could work as a DuckDuckGo clip? You search for a recipe, and see the result right there on top, without all the fluff.

TechCrunch works without javascript, which is quite nice from them though. Compare it some others, where the content is literally loaded after consent, using js.

We use user agent histogram as a security litmus test on our payment sites. If we see a spike of a smaller set of user agents without increased traffic (or a longer ‘tail’), we can almost be certain that something shady is going on. Not super useful as in, we can’t just block every legit looking user agent, but it notifies the analytics team that can then dig deeper.

Mean is 3.125, median is 2, and mode is 2. All of those are averages.

Imagine the day you're hired to be a test pilot, and _officially_ graduate as the worst pilot there is!

Putting this here for the argument's sake: I think children do get bored with all the distractions from internet, screens and what not. If you've ever seen a teenager mindlessly scroll Instagram on their iPhone, that look is pure boredom.

Notice that for an activity such as looking at your friends' photos online, allocating your last 15 minutes before hitting the pillow and allocating what's seemingly every hour of every day won't have the same effect.

Wouldn't that be incorporated in the inflation though?

An 1924 Ford cost $265 (In this Freedom Mailer: http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1924_Ford/1924...), which in today's money is only $3,968 (based on https://www.usinflationcalculator.com). Is that true? Why didn't _everybody_ have a car?

(CNN, June 20) Apple recalls batteries in some older 15-inch MacBook Pros: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/apple-recall-macbook-pro...

For everyone who's involved, seems like it's not a one off.

Nice one! So is the trick that:

1. JPEG allows text comments

2. Browsers don't enforce correct HTML (alternatively, is "����JFIF



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,��r<html>" correct HTML?)

3. And exif tools mostly work based on header & statistical analysis?

Or am I completely wrong here?

I went to see one of the championship finals a few years ago, and it is excellent fun. There are two built-in moments which are bound to be awesome: (1) when the box round is over, tension is through the roof, and the boxers are sat down around a chess board with classical music on, and (2) when two steps before a chess mate, the about-to-lose guy has three minutes to beat out all the smart from the opponent. Best spectator sport I can imagine, can only recommend to see one.

Unless you write down that password or use it elsewhere, that can be considered secret. Compare that to the difficulty of sampling someone's voice by simply eavesdropping.

How children lost the right to roam in four generations - highly related article and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13547089

From the comments there it seems that it's not about (perceived) risks at all, it's more about peer pressure. If no other parents in your group would let their kids go about on their own, you surely won't want to be the only one.

When it comes to batteries, disposing them is the smaller problem as it’s quite straight forward to recycle. Mining resources is what accounts for the majority of pollution & environment damage.

If price was the only factor that matters, we could be using nickel-metal-hydride batteries. They also last longer.

A more important aspect where Sodium would be better than Lithium for batteries is that it doesn't catch fire that easily. Lithium batteries are prone to thermal runaway, where if you increase their temperature that makes them release more energy and increase their temperature even more until they combust violently.

A graphic example to this is where Grand Tour's Richard Hammond recently crashed an electric car, which then continued to spontaneously catch fire five days after the crash (https://www.total-croatia-news.com/made-in-croatia/23852-the...)

Who are the students though? I'd assume that parallel computing is mostly interesting for university-grade "aspiring scientists", which is reinforced by the example software (a parallel 2D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics(SPH) code and a parallel Mandelbrot set race).

Do we assume that 18+ folks are only interested in parallel programming if it's assembled of shiny pipes?

I'm not familiar with the German legal system but the sum did depend on what they've uploaded. (It was detailed in the letter, if I remember correctly, $600 for half an episode-of-whatever and $3000 for multiple movies.)

As for the traffic monitoring, indeed, I'd imagine it to be honeypot tracker where all content/traffic is visible rather than something installed on the ISP side.

To remove pirated movies from the interwebs there are two options really: either attack content providers / trackers etc, or, find the users directly.

In Germany, as soon as you start a torrent client, your traffic is being monitored by bots and agents, and if you upload something inappropriate you (or your host) will get a letter from a law firm with a heavy fine. (I know of two friends who had to pay $600 and $3000.)