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Comment · 5 years ago
It's intuitive to me that the option "c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12" is the only acceptable answer, since it is the only range you can tell immediately at a glance what numbers are included: 2, ..., 12. There shouldn't be a 1 or a 13 in the notation if there won't be a 1 or a 13 in the sequence it's describing -- it's just bad design.

If you select the option "c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12", then Dijkstra's subsequent argument for zero-indexing becomes an argument for one-indexing, because a sequence of length N yields the range 1 <= i <= N when subscripting with 1, but 0 <= i <= N-1 when starting at 0. The latter is uglier than the former.

Comment · 5 years ago
> It's not more morally reprehensible than <very reprehensible thing>.
Comment · 5 years ago
A sense of humour didn't hurt.
Comment · 5 years ago
Just kiss someone with better bacteria and you'll be fine.
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Comment · 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure that you either see the same thing as I do when you close your eyes, or you don't, and that it's very difficult to communicate about what "seeing" something in your mind actually means.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have often thought something like this would work much better than those extensions which block websites outright. Sure, you can watch that youtube video, but you have to wait 10 seconds first.
Comment · 5 years ago
Some of the species do not/did not exist as smaller versions, e.g. the three-toed ungulate with a trunk.
Comment · 5 years ago
Even people with aphantasia see as a result of a combination of bottom-up and top-down processing.

Also note that aphantasia is not a condition which is confirmed to even exist.

Comment · 5 years ago
Mouse over the title on the webpage
Comment · 5 years ago
History is sexist: it's his story!
Comment · 5 years ago
Unfortunately, the image was never displayed by the app that was downloading it as an internet test.
Comment · 5 years ago
No comment about browser rss-feeds can be meaningfully harmful.

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