MikeDelta

You buy the CD (and give the issuer your money on deposit against the rate of 3.5%)

Good luck with your journey. You deserve to be respected and happy!

For those interested, a bit more background on false positives of rare events

https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/medical-tests-and-bayes-theore...

What do you think is going to happen when you say no or want to be compensated?

They might start respecting you and your time more.

They are not indeed, just sharing my anecdata that the best ones I have come across happen to know much more about the details.

I am sure one can find good and efficient devs that know very little about the underlying system and are very capable of using the available abstractions and frameworks. I just happen to find the first group better.

One argument that I hear is that all these abstractions allow the developer to focus on delivering products and not worrying about the nuts and bolts of the underlying system, but in my experience the best and most efficient developers have been the ones who know how the systems work.

I loved Stallone's reaction to that.

Did the guy run to his desk close to the fire to grab his phone?

If I understand correctly, nerdiness is related to the theme of the band (characters) and the topic of their songs? How is kickassery determined?

Horrible, especially given the circumstances he is in and how his legacy was taken away from him. I hope he manages to solve it and get his account and videos back.

Ha, I saw this in my queue on Steam yesterday, it definitly drew my attention. Congratulations on your achievement!

I read a while ago about leek that was stolen while it was still toxic from the pesticides. Apparently the leeks needed some more weeks for the toxins to flush through. Haven't been able to find some other info about this process.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna9704486

Time to update the list of adhesive tapes on Wikipedia, featured and discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043179

Very sad, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437226

This is very sad, his music has been an inspiration for me for a large part of my life. This is one of those days you knew were coming but hoped they didn't.

Physics-based bedsheet deformation. Imagine that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31300954

I think you are saying the same thing? Without the API it sounds like a great community service that is kept accurate by its users. But the paid-for (and pricey?) API that profits from this is what gives a bit of a sour taste to the 'community' feeling.

There was also a case of soldiers using flash-card apps to learn about the nuclear bases they were stationed at, revealing various facts.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...

Or block all your accounts.

> and accepted an offer from another company where I met my wife!

That really cheered me up this morning, I met my wife at work as well.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

I think that is thanks to the Knuth-Plass algorithm, with Knuth being the inventor of Tex, which powers Latex. The problem seems not trivial indeed.

http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230668/any-progress-...

http://litherum.blogspot.com/2015/07/knuth-plass-line-breaki...

So many devs that have an opinion on decorators, frameworks, cloud services, but so few that actually build stuff that works. Totally agree.

Indeed, it felt more like damage control.

It felt like many on HN didn't buy it either, and it is a pattern seen so often with many a company.

Amazing that it took Grink 22 days to secure the files.

Wonder what an NFT of her work would have sold for.

Indeed!

I remember a few years ago when the drop was supposed to fall. It was so exciting watching the drop almost fall, but after a few weeks of no visible movement it got dull.

Of master is not acceptable anymore, how are we going to call the MSc or MA degrees?

And quantum physics has degenerate energy levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels

It appreciate the idea to make language more precise where possible.

However, terms like motherboard and whitelisting are just a few in the universe of complicated (yet gender neutral) terms like GPU, CPU, DDR, parity, firewall, IP6, etc.

Of course, that is not a reason to not improve the language where one can, but I don't know if it will help that much in CS.