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oehtXRwMkIs··on How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
You're looking at the result for aesthetic value not Platonism.

And by the measure of "most" meaning majority it would still be most.

oehtXRwMkIs··on Valve Steam Deck
A distro where only the kernel is rolling and cutting edge while the rest is slower paced sounds like the worst of both worlds to me.

My favorite part of Arch is the rolling packages and my least favorite is the rolling kernel. I dislike having to reboot so often.

oehtXRwMkIs··on South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
Since most mainstream songs these days have a distinct beat, does that even matter? You just count how many beats you hear in a minute.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Ethiopia's controversial mega-dam on Nile tributary
I don't understand how you interpreted the comment you replied to as taking a stance of "they were modern functioning states". The negation of causing disarray is not causing disarray. Relax with the strawmen.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Eigengrau
It always reminded me of what you see when you take a high ISO photo in pitch darkness. Noisy and sometimes greyish depending on camera settings.
oehtXRwMkIs··on The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
Anyone know what the lua patterns equivalent is to this trick?
oehtXRwMkIs··on How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
Which does not imply that she is not trying.
oehtXRwMkIs··on New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
They are UPF not SPF and recently they announced a voluntary recall because they weren't actually UPF 50.
oehtXRwMkIs··on DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants
Doing something similar, good luck. Can't tell if it's very difficult or very easy.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp
It's so annoying how "CJK" groups Hangul with completely different writing systems. And even makes people think they're similar.
oehtXRwMkIs··on CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases
The inverse of a conditional is not logically equivalent.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Gödel's Loophole
Could you say that such a system essentially devolved into FPTP in the case of the Nazi's at that time? Due to a lack of unified opposition?
oehtXRwMkIs··on Gödel's Loophole
Ah, the joys of first past the post. The largest minority takes all.

Also agree with the point about elite support. Not every supporter counts equally in terms of political support. Even in democracies this is the case.

oehtXRwMkIs··on Gödel's Loophole
I've noticed that many commenters on this insightful orange website like to bash on strawmen extrapolated from the headline or intro paragraph. They seem to think that this will make them come across as a critical thinker.
oehtXRwMkIs··on A beginner’s guide to web accessibility
They also don't use semantic elements at all, just a bunch of divs and spans everywhere.
oehtXRwMkIs··on UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher
It seems like copyleft is a solution to that sort of problem in the software domain but obviously not really in this context.

Another issue is that animal researchers are at risk of being targeted by a smear campaign by anti-animal research groups as they often take advantage of sunshine laws to cherry pick less than flattering footage.

This has led to a weird culture of where scientists are very hesitant to share any data with other scientists at public universities.

oehtXRwMkIs··on Is Being Salaried a Scam?
If you read the article it talks about exempt vs non-exempt and how salaried workers that make over $35,568 and do "higher-level work" are exempt from overtime. Those that are not exempt get 1.5x pay for overtime and 2x for double overtime (e.g. overtime on holiday). So in the US overtime is always 1.5x but many salaried workers simply don't get overtime.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
> easily switch

Disagree, just look at bors and the use of Azure CI. It would be a huge PIA to switch.

> hardly dependent on them

I wouldn't say hardly, I think it's more like kinda. GitHub's network effect is pretty strong. Compare the number of contributors to golang for example which is hosted on Google code.

oehtXRwMkIs··on Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
I think this is more of a reflection of mainstream OSS culture in general. Rust development currently is heavily tied to proprietary services (e.g. GitHub required for contributions, issues, crates.io login, CI, etc., Discord and Slack communities rather than Matrix, Zulip) and likes to license things under MIT. I think the lack of awareness/care for the big picture of fighting for software freedom is simply not there just as it is missing from mainstream OSS culture. Because convenience and network effect are king.
oehtXRwMkIs··on The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber
They're not assuming. They're analogizing.
oehtXRwMkIs··on On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
Science is descriptive, not prescriptive. So no psych/social science research would ever claim that people are rational utility maximizing machines since they're descriptive by their very nature. And if people were rational utility maximizing machines such an effect would not be observed since happiness affected by social comparison is irrational. I don't understand how you came up with such a straw man.

I'm guessing sorisos is spot on with their last sentence. There's a big difference between being a millionaire surrounded by middle classers and being a lower classer surrounded by extreme poverty. Often times with happiness research there are caveats and ranges to keep in mind but the nuances tend to get lost in the headlines.

oehtXRwMkIs··on Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD (2014)
std::vec::Vec
oehtXRwMkIs··on Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
Is it still true that Java (with Spring) is still the best backed stack to know for finding jobs? Or is Python sufficiently popular now for someone to ignore Java?
oehtXRwMkIs··on Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting and stock manipulation
I looked up Gell Mann but I still have no idea what you meant by that.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Wwwwayland sucks (2018)
I have never used GNOME and I've never experienced any of these issues.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
It depends on what you mean by "having something to do with the other" but I see what you mean. I should've assumed the more favorable interpretation of the comment I was replying to. Reminds me of the pirates and global warming correlation.
oehtXRwMkIs··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
Correlation does not imply causation but it does imply having something to do with the other. Your first sentence contradicts itself.
oehtXRwMkIs··on AirPods Max teardown makes Sony and Bose headphones look ‘like toys’
The Verge is a joke. They compared the Max to headphones that are ranked C and C- by crinacle while calling them their favorites. Not even similar prices or even quality (Max is B-), so what's the point?

Combined with their PC building guide I honestly don't think they're worth reading at all.

oehtXRwMkIs··on No evidence Vitamin D affects Covid severity in people of European ancestry
There are no proofs in science.
oehtXRwMkIs··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
Weird, that's the first time I've ever seen it spelled with 2 L's. But it does make more sense than one L.
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