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> Can nerds as a group please drop the "I don't get the sportsball so it's clearly a waste of time" bit?

No.

The same is true of almost any question that starts “Can nerds as a group...”

It's not like there is a National Council of Nerds coordinating nerd doctrine.

> Athletics promote physical fitness,

Generally, that's fairly obvious.

> working together as a team,

Less true; team sports (like any team activity) does that, but athletics doesn't consist exclusively of team sports.

> and are at their roots generally enjoyable to those who choose to play them.

Most activities are enjoyable to those who choose to participate, because otherwise people wouldn't choose to participate.
Why do you require a CS degree for your developer positions? Bad experience in the past or just to give your hiring managers a filter?
This is the same thing as just plugging into a regular power outlet. You don't know if the thing you're expecting to provide 110v is actually giving you 10,000v.

Then again if things were really bad or malicious you could end up losing your life like Sheryl Aldeguer.
Using successive multiplication instead of exponent operation:

6> (each ((x (range 2 1000)))
(each ((y (range 1 100)) ;; needed just for the put-line
(z [giterate true (op * x) x]))
(when (= x (sum (digits z)))
(put-line `@x @y`))))

(Makes no difference; run time is vastly dominated by the contribution of the (sum (digits z)) business.)
Can a human jump off of Ultima Thule?

https://xkcd.com/681_large/
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How do people using old hardware have issues with USB-C?
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> I think your harsh reaction to his thought experiment is entirely anti-intellectual.

I don't think that's the case. A lot of racist or discriminating ideas can come from a place of "Well, my basis for thought is my own direct experience with no regard for how other people experience it or the validity of that experience." When his doubting of other peoples sense experience is solely based on his own sense experience without any interest in scientific basis or context, it's not an intellectual line of thought - it's just pseudo-intellectual rationalization for his own sense experience.
What results? Give me $30 billion dollars to waste and I can easily show you $28 billion dollars of progress.
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Depends on the theory. If you believe that college education is a positional good - that it allows people to be classified as middle-class and be prioritized for white collar work at the expense of non-college-educated competitors - then tax subsidies is the last thing you'd want to do.
Without conspiracy can you tell the name of a sustainable and evolvable magacity? I found exactly NO one, not only of existing one's but also hypothetical in some architect's published ideas.

The first and most important reason is space: a city can't evolve because the lack of space. While it might be possible in theory grow the city and after have people moving from the old part to a new one to demolish and rebuild the new one no city I know of have ever being able to do so in practice. I do not know big not-crowded not polluted cities. I do not know any "safe" city in terms of various kind of possible events from floods to earthquake to terrorist attack to military attacks...

I do not want to say that's there are conspiracy-like factors to push towards megacities but I only see a big prevalence of negative things than positive, so no reason to push nor want to be in even small cities...
> Are you manufacturing your own USB devices?

I do (depending on your definition of "manufacturing". I buy USB controller chips to add to my projects), although not USB C.

Now that you bring it up, I do wonder if this authentication scheme will mean that hobbyists won't be able to use it.
The ports are only on the right hand side. The voltmeter screen always display in the same orientation. So if I flip it over, it will display correctly instead of upside down, but only the person sitting in front of me will be able to read it as the display will be facing the back of the screen of the laptop

It is a simple USB-C design oversight from Pluggable that a simple gyroscope or extra screen would have fixed easily.
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What would count as "modeling non-Euclidean space natively"? I mean, these spaces are basically just piecewise-Euclidean spaces and the portals define how the pieces connect. Or did you mean smoothly curved space with wormholes (which I imagine would be confusing as heck)?
I'm in the same boat, I intend to keep my 7+ and X for quite a while - especially since there's nothing really interesting out on the market or any new killer feature on the horizon for now.

Having recently deleted all my timeline-based social media accounts, I'd even consider switching to a smart dumbphone like the Nokia 8110 if it had WhatsApp and Spotify (WhatsApp is rumoured to be at least coming soon to KaiOS) and just get rid of the distraction altogether.
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One step closer for my totally pointless, no real use case dream of running a container in a browser tab.
I recently attempted CenturyLink's chatbot for support (it is a hurdle to attempt to alleviate support chats). It got to a prompt, something like:

You can give me your membership number or phone number. Which would you prefer?
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2) phone number

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Why shouldn't it cost less for an English or a philosophy degree than an engineering degree? The job prospects are not only worse but so are your lifetime earnings.

Or looking at it another way the English and philosophy majors are subsidizing the cost of an engineering degree.
Shouldn't be hard to port since it uses cross-platform GLFW for most of the input/windowing stuff.

https://www.glfw.org/

The only Windows-specific stuff is a bunch of MessageBox and other minor calls
> the depth of feeling that seems to come from a challenge to one's sense experience seems disproportionately severe.

Yes. Because the lack of empathy is appalling. Whether it's this topic or the dress color or whatever, there's a crazy amount of lack of empathy for other points of view and other ways of experiencing the world - thus, all the pointless arguments over something that is just down to equally valid ways the brain interprets the world. I never argued with anybody what the right color was, because that was never the point or the interesting part of the whole thing - the interesting idea was what part of the brain is responsible for the differences from person to person, and that people take for granted how they experience the world.
Can you please stop deleting and reposting? This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

A small number of reposts is fine, but deletion is for things that shouldn't have been posted in the first place.
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Versioning the client/server interface would've also reduced such risk.
Unless you are pure OSS or pure closed source - you end up with a poly-repo strategy regardless as you split open and closed code, suffering the annoyances of both systems.
> I am surprised to see this comment "faded." I suppose this means you've rubbed a moderator the wrong way.

Not a moderator - a reader with enough karma to be able to downvote (500 karma, IIRC).
Pretty much confirms battery degradation was driving growth, doesn't it?
After the 68040 Motorola was working on PowerPC because they thought it was impossible to improve performance and maintain 68K compatibility.
I'm not torn about USB C at all. All in all, it doesn't seem like a good thing to me, which is why I'm avoiding it so far. I know that eventually I'll have to give in, but that day isn't here yet.
DC voltages below 50 V are considered "safe" in normal indoor conditions. It's often referred to as "extra low voltage", as opposed to "low voltage" (50 V - 1000 V) and "high voltage" ( > 1000 V).

If you want to verify the safety of 18 V: ever touch both poles of a 9V battery with your fingers? You can't feel anything. Go ahead and try two in series, you still won't feel it.
Wow. That's a really good point... subsidies lead to overconsumption and overconsumption of education leads to "degree inflation" which leads to... even more overconsumption of education.

Yikes.
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I'm a self learner and I find that having a strong sense about my solution is usually good enough. If I feel my answer is brittle then I should simply review the problem statement or anterior definitions and theorem.

I usually look at the solutions when I've come to the conclusion that the problem is just too difficult and typically discover I hadn't thought of something that made the problem accessible. I would argue that if there are sufficient examples within the chapters, not providing solutions to the exercises shouldn't be a problem.

That is unless you have multi-month/research level problems à la Knuth.
I think you're running under the assumption that all students making the request are doing it for the right reasons.

I could be wrong, but my intuition goes the other way and I'm assuming most students do it to get a better grade, not learn more.
FWIW if you are greeted with a white page try using Chromium.
Apparently the site doesn't work at all in Firefox64 with an error about lazyYT being undefined (I sent an email to webmaster@).
That's roughly the voltage that laptop AC adapters output, and they do so continuously without needing any special negotiation/signaling.

(Even those from manufacturers that try to lock this down using an EEPROM, e.g. Dell, still output their voltage like the others, but the laptop might not want to charge from an "unofficial" power source.)
I wonder if some of it has to do with the fact that you can get Photoshop for $10/month, whereas 3D programs are still super expensive. I used Blender well over a decade ago because I couldn't afford Maya or Max.

Given how cheap and good Photoshop is I just can't imagine why you'd use Gimp. (Sorry Gimp. I love open source too, but... Photoshop.)
If the loans are guaranteed by the government and people can't discharge them, then there is almost zero risk to the creditor. How do they justify charging interest higher than a government bond?

I can see why there are rumblings of loan forgiveness, as it has metastasized into something truly horrible.
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Not to mention seeing it in practically pitch black darkness
> Once you lose that giant bezel it looks really jarring on phones that still have it.

And now the Iphone XR has brought the side-bezel back! It almost looks like a rubber case.
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I would argue that such people didn't need a laptop to start with but did have a need to project the fact that they have money to spend.
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Apparently not according to the Chinese, who made the first clone (based on an 8051 microcontroller IIRC) within months of the official release. They're still in an ongoing cat-and-mouse game with Apple.
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IMO it's also the release model, which follows the even (stable) and odd (unstable) version numbers. When 2.10 was released there had been lots of unstable versions prior to that, but as they're marked unstable (and can be) distributions will never pick them up.

Like this, a really long time gap can pass between two stable versions even if the code has been under active development (remember the Linux 2.4 -> 2.6 transition?).

Of course it's a lot of speculation on my part, and no, I'm not advocating for time-based releases (they IMO make no sense for this type of project).
I call bullshit on "our repository is too big for one machine".

Seriously, you have over 1 TB of code and 100 people wrote it?
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>I think you're running under the assumption that all students making the request are doing it for the right reasons.

No, that's what the "albeit selectively" clause was referring to.

>I could be wrong, but my intuition goes the other way and I'm assuming most students do it to get a better grade, not learn more.

As in my comment, it doesn't matter. Their job is to be an expert on this material. Failing to correctly label an answer is failing at their job. Punishing someone for pointing out a failure at your job is unprofessional.
>but modern email clients need to be able to render rich web content

No they don't.
Those are all great features. (Yes, even the  Watch.) None exists on its own. The underlying product is still the iPhone.
My understanding was that the exact position was known within a few hundred miles of precision using both Hubble and the NH's cameras.
Not parent, but I also got to touch scratch back in the 06/07 time period, and found it quite pleasant.

My initial environment for learning however, had been a TI-83 calculator, and had StackOverflow existed back then (or had the calculator come with a "quick start coding examples" book or something) it would have been 200% ideal. As is I learned most of the core concepts via trial and error, because I was very motivated to make games for my friends and program solutions to homework problems. For keeping me interested at that age the "Real world applicability" aspect cannot be understated.

To share a fun failure mode however, and emphasize the need for accompanying documentation (and this is what scratch does somewhat well in being rigid, at the tautological downside of being rigid) When I first learned about for loops, I didn't actually realize how one used them typically. I thought they were a "wait for N seconds" sleep-style function, and would actually use it in this fashion with laughably high loop iterations and strange formulations in the boolean field.
Super interesting approach. I worked on superconductivity during my time in Academia and my supervisor worked on high-Tc superconductors. Really fascinating to see the similarities here, as the high-Tc superconductors also seem to gain their superconductivity from their layered 2D structure. From my understanding Graphene offers a way to experiment with such layers in a more direct way by stacking them with an angle. I also think this could lead to many interesting new discoveries and material systems, but as you said it can take many decades for something like this to yield applied results such as new technologies. Still it’s absolutely worth it!
> but everyone wants a specific color

Not everyone! Personally, I couldn't care less what color my cables are (unless the color is telling me something important about the cable).
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