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Comment · 11 months ago
Then maybe stop commenting about contentious topics in US politics?
Comment · 11 months ago
> you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash/zsh/fish

The reason in question is that not that long ago, people said "you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash", and people choosing to go off the beaten path lead to zsh and fish becoming powerful and way more popular/well-supported than they were before.

Comment · 1 year ago
The first four words on that page include the name of the author "Dave Liepmann" which != Tufte
Comment · 1 year ago
Your definition is definitely the historically more common one.

But see the final definition under the verb here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdict#English

(transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]

You see this version with the noun "interdictor" now as well.

Comment · 2 years ago
A lot of my friends are professors or lecturers at universities with "motivationally-diverse" undergraduate populations; LLM-based cheating has become so common that they often reward higher marks to poorly-written papers, just by virtue of them not having been written by *GPT et al.
Comment · 2 years ago
That Wiki page even has a section about the RH:

> The Riemann hypothesis is noteworthy for its appearance on the list of Hilbert problems, Smale's list, the list of Millennium Prize Problems, and even the Weil conjectures, in its geometric guise. Although it has been attacked by major mathematicians of our day, many experts believe that it will still be part of unsolved problems lists for many centuries. Hilbert himself declared: "If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proved?"

Comment · 2 years ago
I am generally open to this idea, but this particular way of defining what bundles are allowed or not seems incredibly weak. Take Adobe's Creative Cloud. There is almost no one in the world who uses all of the tools in it. There are dozens of alternatives made by other companies that only cover a single component software. Adobe is the market leader with virtually all of the component pieces of software. Why is the US not targeting Adobe with antitrust for bundling together tools for typesetters, marketers, video editors, animators, etc, etc?
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Comment · 2 years ago
At some point the test stopped being fizz buzz and started being "reproduce Brent's cycle detection algorithm from memory or from first principles if you have forgotten what it is", which isn't testing your ability to program in any meaningful way.
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Comment · 2 years ago
The thing that makes them "caustic or acidic" is that they are acidic (~3pH), by virtue of having dissolved carbon dioxide (ie carbonic acid) + acidic preservatives in them. You are putting them into your stomach (with your gastric acid, ~2pH). If you spilled your stomach contents on the concrete shipping dock repeatedly, it would weaken the concrete much faster. Now, I don't drink soda and they are objectively bad for your teeth, but the fact that they eat away at concrete does not seem like the right reason to avoid them.
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Comment · 2 years ago
For anyone wondering why this is here, I just found this: https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-li...

> Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

As of 6 days ago.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockdown_resistance

I don't know if this has appeared in ticks but it has appeared in mosquitos.

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