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American only refers to someone from the US in English. The correct demonym for someone from "the Americas" in English would be "Americanian". (Just as Bahamas -> Bahmanian)

The other definition of American is a common confusion from Spanish and has never been in regular usage in the English language. That's because English doesn't have the concept of "America" to refer to both North and South America. Historically English defined the continents differently from Spanish, and never treated them as one.
Oh, but dreams — even the most wild ones — are coherent, specially over time. They're just not usually obvious to the ego mind.
you wrote a book for this? I suppose a blog post is enough imho
Even without RAF air cover, the Royal Navy was to forge into the channel at any cost to break up an invasion. It would have been messy.
I'm on my 5th Corsair keyboard with Cherry switches - they eventually always start double clicking, Corsair replaces the keyboard under warranty, rinse and repeat. It's awful from electronics waste point of view, but I just don't see those as very reliable products.
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Logitech is no longer the great company it used to be, so I have decided to no longer purchase their products. I purchased a G Pro X Wireless Headset less than 2 years ago, and I'm already on my second warrranty replacement (3 total headsets.) Multiple parts on it seem designed to fail, and all of mine have failed in the same way. They use laughably small screws to connect the band to the arms that hold the earcups and they just snap after a few months. It's very sad to see so much e-waste created just to increase profits by a few cents per unit.

I've been using wired mechanical keyboards for about 15 years so I can't recommend a wireless model, but Ducky makes great, reliable, entry-level mechanical keyboards. I've mostly used Ducky and I've never had one of their keyboards fail in any way. Glorious also makes great keyboards, but based on my perception of the build quality, I have a feeling their cheaper keyboards might not last as long. I'm currently using a Glorious GMMK Pro and it feels very solid.
Because down/up swipes are usually used to switch apps, or go to settings/menu's, so right/left swipes are a lot easier to switch months/days/weeks
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It will depend on the university. Where I studied, an introductory class to probability and statistics was mandatory, as was measure theory where probability theory was at least hinted at.

Other universities may have even stronger probability theory requirements, or none at all. But it's certainly not an uncommon specialisation.

Note that probability theory is not necessarily the same thing as statistics. While the latter builds upon the former, statistics is more about "given the data, what's the most likely distribution ", as opposed to "given the distribution, what's the data gonna look like" (probability theory). For mathematicians, the latter seems to be more relevant, as it's a more deductive form of reasoning.
This is complicated by the threshold required for censure being 2/3 instead of simple majority

However the real problem is political capital, if parliament wanted to they could just refuse to adopt any law or budget etc unless X member of the commission resigns or Y bill is proposed by the commission. The power is there, and this is essentially how parliaments evolved over history, wrestling power away from the monarchs (or in this case they'd be wrestling power from the heads of government in the European Concil)

But because the EP lacks visibility and people are generally uneducated in how the EU works the MEPs won't take the risk even if they felt it was needed and they will hardly be punished for not taking it because people vote MEPs in based on national politics and not their positions in the EU

There aren't really more powers to be given to the parliament, you could make censure of the commission being 50%+1 instead of 2/3 and letting them officially initiate legislation, but those are minor changes and won't change the underlying awareness problem

Even in this thread on a platform on which you'd expect people to be reasonably educated and capable of googling before commenting half of the comments about what the EU and institutions can do are completely uninformed

Even the article in the submission is attacking the European Commission by discussing claims made by an organization entirely distinct from the EU

(The EC draft is deserving of many attacks but it has enough wrong in it not to require bringing in something entirely unrelated)
Huh? The argument is that they commit crimes and receive ransoms in BTC that they can then convert to USD, EUR. This is a new incentive to commit crimes that simply didn’t exist before; wire transfers and the like are not a good substitute, by design.
Look at it a different way: maybe BASIC is good at exactly what it was intended to do, which is to provide a good intro to programming to kids and beginners. It was never intended to write enterprise-scale software, and that's ok. That's not the intended use case for BASIC, and it's fine that BASIC can't please everyone with every possible use case.
We are using ML and the pointy end of capitalism to create traps for the human mind (at scale). This is dangerous.
> They're necessarily heavier to contain more sensors and actuators though which requires a larger/heavier tractor to reliably haul them around fields.

This is a bad assumption

Tractors are heavier because they have larger engines to be able to handle larger equipment which in turn allows them to do the same job in less time. The weight add for creature comforts and sensors is insignificant, easily less than 500lbs in a 20k lbs machine.

They are heavier because they are themselves wider or can handle wider equipment. In effect, their "drag" has been steadily increasing which increases the size of the engine to overcome it.
I don't see the connection here. Does duckduckgo/bing have more ethical advertisers? Are ads for "financial service which turns out to be a scam" dependent on tracking?
Much higher octane fuel for aircraft.
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> QMK

Have a look at ZMK then, if you want to go wireless!

https://zmk.dev/
Sovereign currencies are backed by military force.

Gold has some intrinsic value but is more similar to Bitcoin.
I would love a firefox & chrome extension that would generate a tinyworld on every new tab.
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Tagliatelle or spaghetti by default? :)
Oh. I thought you were talking about a viable GitHub competitor ;)
> We'll see where money goes when there's nowhere good to invest it AND fiat currency is being inflated like crazy

We're literally seeing that now. The money is flowing out of BTC even faster than all the other investments losing value.

The original article is overstated and lacks nuance, but he's not wrong on that point.
Well after reading such a hard hitting article about toxic positivity, I am recommending job title change for a team member fixing bad data in accounts to "Account Wellness Champion".
The illicit drug trade far exceeds the number of ransomware events and they use almost exclusively fiat.
The link talks about nano- vs micro-seconds, so probably just a typo.
"I don't believe it because I'm missing context" is a weak argument to make. The tweets read like the author isn't a native English speaker. The traditional vs. simplified characters accusation should be relatively easy to confirm if you want to put in at least a little effort. Looking up characters as someone who isn't familiar with them at all might be cumbersome but is absolutely possible.

But then again you wonder why such blatant mistakes would be made in the first place, if this was done by someone at least halfway professional.
I'd start with:

1. What do I want to learn?

2. Regarding that particular topic's community: on which online chatroom platform is it most active?

For example, Discord hosts official communities for: Strapi (headless CMS framework), NestJS.

Whereas IRC (Libera server) hosts official communities for: NodeJS. I don't recall if other IRC channels I visit are official-- but it has many other great chat rooms.

Some are on both. For example (Note: I am not sure if this particular site represents Linux officially)--> "This is the official site for the Linux.Chat community, namely #linux on Libera and Linux.Chat on Discord" [1].

Note they list IRC first, Discord second. That's my approach in terms of prioritizing the two, as well: Personally I prefer IRC for its simplicity and old-school history & philosophy.

[1] https://linux.chat/
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You found 2 actual emails with the same md5? That sounds very unlikely. MD5 is weak against attack, but you're not going to be hitting collisions with "normal" data and especially not short strings.
Democracy consistently stolen by the loudest voice in the room.
There's more than just index funds out there. People park their money in art, stamps, antiques, rare coins, watches, real estate in the tundra. What does a Monet have to do with real-world economics, other than the hope that we all continue to agree it's valuable?
You are thinking of fully decentralised systems.

A system where there is a centralised leader is still a distributed system so long as at least some of the processing takes place on other nodes.
I wonder if Walmart has ever considered that they may have been "catfished" into this concept by Amazon?

There are way too many issues with this to list --- for example; wind and trees and rain and liability.
The folks at ZeroHedge have also predicted the financial apocalypse about seventeen times since 2008.
His "Topics in Algebra", "Abstract Algebra", or both?
Thanks.

You'd have done very much better to have included at least the fact that this was personal communication (a valid citation, if difficult to verify), and responded earlier to questions regarding your source.

The additional detail is helpful, but wouldn't have necessarily been required in your first comment. (It would have been useful on a request for more information.)

I'm still dubious, as this being a widespread occurrence of systems being in a boot-loop occurred in both wars, as a major engagement and two or three decades of soldiers' tales, congressional hearings, press accounts, documentaries, etc., would have tended to reveal this.

The cited sections from your GAO report don't refer to software or electronics re-cycling / re-booting issues specifically. Fuel, air filters, failed parts (unspecified), friendly fire, limited weapons systems ranges, dodgey radios, and missing navigation systems ... are still not "boot-loops".

So: you've provided a citation. It fails to support your claims.
It's hard to believe you can view the two as equal. There is definitely censorship in the West and I agree it's bad too. But to say that it's somehow equal to what the CCP does requires a degree of self delusion that is simply staggering. So yes, I do sincerely find your character to be questionable. I'm not just throwing an ad hominem around to distract from a weakness in my argument.
I'd say Yeah. I use and pay for their Apps platform for a few personal projects. Its cheap (like $5/mo/app). It reminds me enough of Heroku that I'm happy. The built-in CI is kind of slow. But it just works and requires relatively low configuration, especially when compared to AWS/GCP/Azure.

There are simpler, more specialized products, but I think DO strikes a really good balance. For example, I've hosted static sites on Cloudflare Pages, which is a solid product, but its also rather unconfigureable; I was running into issues with their built-in CI even using a static site generator which wasn't on their supported list.
>asking a question is not possible unless you personally find someone (or someones) qualified to answer it.

Ah, so we're at this old problem again (The you-need-to-know-the-right-people-problem). That didn't take long. How do I find experts that care about problem?
I’m a programmer, almost 10 years out of college now. I’ve been thinking I should re familiarize myself with stats, discrete math, that kind of thing. So I love your idea.
I don't care. YouTube sucks. It really, REALLY, sucks. The interface sucks. The algo sucks. The controls sucks. The content is psychologically damaging to kids. The content is barely good for adults.

The platform needs to be refactored completely and if the ad guys show up, kill them (figuratively and in jest).
If I understand your example correctly, it is about using time zones as a proxy for "regions where a TV show might be broadcast", which is clearly inadequate but because time zones are coarse and unrelated to the actual data of interest, not because broadcasting times are represented with timezones. (There might or might not be a second layer of error: 13:00 central time is the same time as 14:00 eastern time, 1 time zone to the east, and pretending they are different is a horrible abuse)
That's odd. I got the calendar app off of f-droid and it works just fine for me.
I would love to play a Morrowind successor with a modern engine, maybe not a total remake, but further along in the storyline of Tamriel. I just want to revisit a lot of those places I used to go to with the same type of rich detail of Skyrim and Oblivion (for its time).

Aside: I would love to see the other regions in Nirn someday as well. We've yet to see anything beyond Tamriel in the modern games, and there are even other races / species we have yet seen which could make for a really interesting game if done correctly.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Nirn

Edit:

If they do a Morrowind Sequel or Prequel they need to be careful not to overlook even minor details, unless they go far enough forward / backward to where most things are ignored, but I would say even check the books and the quests of the game to make sure nothing is amiss.
Pretty much applied math.

Well... yeah. I mean, I might be wrong, but my default assumption is that when people on HN ask about learning math, unless they explicitly say otherwise, they are mainly interested in maths from an applied viewpoint. That is to say, I think most such inquiries are rooted in a basis of "I want to learn the math require to DO 'x'" where x might be "machine learning" or "circuit analysis" or whatever, as opposed to "I want to become a mathematician and advance the overall state of mathematics as a field."

I say that at least in part because of an assumption that people who want to become mathematicians per-se are probably asking their questions on Mathoverflow or whatever, and not HN.

EDIT: to be fair the specific sub-thread we're in here does contain this, which I guess justifies taking a "pure mathematics" position in this part of the overall discussion.

Are probability and statistics not part of a regular mathematics curriculum?

Still though, this seems to be a general issue with any maths related discussion on HN. It seems like a lot of people are commenting from a position of assuming that the initial question was based on an interest in pure / theoretical maths and the "I want to become a mathematician" idea. And I am somewhat skeptical that that is normally what's intended by the person asking the initial question.
"hacker news is to tech what cnbc is to finance"
can all laugh and move on now
Park money in an imaginary currency?

Like… buy a piece of farmland instead. Buy oil or steel. Buy something that has some value.

It’s very likely Bitcoin randomly goes to 0. I can’t imagine a long term world in which a random plot of land in Nebraska goes to 0….
I'm not talking about hiking paths. National Forests publish MVUM maps that tell you where you are allowed to take a vehicle and drive/camp. These forest roads can be in rough shape, but many of them are easily possible with competent driving and a bit of clearance. Large swathes of these areas have no cell coverage at all.

Then add in all the amazing places you can camp in northern BC, the Yukon Territory and Alaska and the list of coverage-less camping destimations grows even longer, though many of those areas are outside the latitudes where Starlink works right now.

There are also quite a few established , non-dispersed campgrounds in the weat that I've been to that had no cell service. The other Crater Lake (the one in northern California) is one example I can remember off the top of my head.
If you're in the market the keychron brand has similar builds with hot swappable switches. I'm rocking a K6 with holy panda switches and absolutely love the buttery feel.
Having written my thesis in LaTex, I can say it is wonderful and a wonderful waste of time.
No, you get there by having the Tether money printer prop up valuations, until there's too much money to keep printing, and without that upward pull, it just starts correlating with NASDAQ.
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> Simply being a place one can park money that cannot be inflated / printed away is enough to justify it.

If you parked your money in Bitcoin on Jan 1 because you were worried about inflation that was coming, today that money would only have about 60% of the purchasing power.
If you have a large, full size keyboard that is already taking up a large amount of space on your desk, and you have a large desk surface, then I agree the wireless keyboard doesn't seem like huge benefit.

I've had big and small keyboards. With smaller one, I find myself setting aside to make more room on desk on ad-hoc basis, since my desk is rather small.

Also, having a wire sticking out of small keyboard perceptibly creates more visual clutter. Could just be me ;-)
The generation side is actually probably easier than the critic side. I don't know of any network that is capable of determining if something is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, instead they always compare to known examples.
Usage as a means of exchange has never been a strong point for Bitcoin. People just speculate under the assumption that one day the protocol will change enough to catch up with credit card latency.
You suspect correctly. Tractors weigh more because they have steadily increased in size which decreases the number of passes a tractor needs to make over a field.

Like having a 20 inch lawnmower vs a 50 inch lawn mower. The 20 inch mower can be self propelled with a tiny HP engine. The 50 inch mowers are pretty much all riding because the extra drag and engine size increase to cut the grass is large enough that adding bigger wheels and a steering wheel makes more sense than having someone push it. Obviously, the 50 inch mower will work a lot faster.
Radical Candor by Kim Scott described something similar and labeled it Ruinous Empathy[1]. I found her insight into these conversation patterns helpful.

1: https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/
> (FYI: not search related)

I agree with the first part of the title, but this part seems like you're going out of your way to defend yourself. The mention of "DuckDuckGo's browser" should already imply it's not search related.
> Anybody, please show me the ways of doing computation over all the data that was encoded as fancy programming language syntax. This requires even more language features to get this data back from the compiler in some weird form... if possible at all.

Happily! https://lisp-lang.org/
Honestly I'm not an expert on that part of the lua internals so I can't confidently say why. I don't think it's a fundamental problem since later versions use the same approach afaik, so I assume it's just implementation nuance. 5.0 used, IIRC, mark-and-sweep which is not great either but it's predictable: it's easy to develop intuition for how much you're allocating and what the collection cost will feel like.

The main practical issues I've run into with 5.1:

- per-object overhead in time and space both increased significantly, making many small allocations much more expensive than fewer big ones. further pushing you into the "mutate a few huge global tables" pattern that is already a problem in lua conventions.

- some of lua's more lauded and genuinely powerful features, esp metatables, don't work smoothly or predictably with the GC. it leads to people trying to manually tune it with __gc metamethods, which is hard to do correctly and causes memory leaks if done incorrectly.

- weak tables idk,. esp with strings for some reason. similar to the __gc, there is a solution there but in practice it's very hard to be sure you've got it right and it's worse to get it wrong than to not try.

I'm sure a PL expert can explain and justify all this but I am just a normal person who codes for money. Lua is admired for being simple and accessible, but especially in the older versions you get into the low level weeds real fast over this stuff. Kind of a good example of minimal implementation exposing you directly to irrelevant complexity, really.
Why is the TLD from Slovakia ? (.sk)

Is thenetsk some reference that I don't get ?
> Most laptops have only one or two USB-B slots and many are moving towards USB-C

Eh, don't buy those models then. Send the market a message.
I don't think chemical fertiliser is a solution to overfarming; it's a way of increasing yield. Although I guess that could be what you mean by overfarming? The yield per hectare should be whatever is naturally sustained?
I’ve never heard of a student paying for their engineering, math or science degree.

If you do get an offer to study, but without sponsorship, it’s a signal they don’t really want you.
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Never I will buy again Logitech crappy hardware. Also we should avoid buying wireless stuff unless necessary imo.
This is also exactly the kind of thing I was looking for and the reason I bought a CODE Keyboard years ago when they came out. I don’t know whether my keys are swappable and I don’t care. I just wanted something to replace my Model M that has super and media keys and a backlight.
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The moral and economic arguments are pretty simple.

From the economic perspective, If someone gives $100 to charity, and a gets a $20 tax deduction, this is a net positive. Ostensibly, the point of government is to help people, and the point of charities are to help people. In reality, Half of that $20 tax would have gone to building bombs, so it is more like $10 vs $100.

From the moral perspective, charitable donations are set apart from other transactions because there is no quid-pro-quo, so more good is done. When you buy a movie ticket, a significant portion of that goes creating the product you receive (paying the movie studio, building the theatre, paying investors). With a charitable donation, the idea is that that more good is done because you are forgoing receiving any goods or services.
> That's the reason they give when they are put a microphone in their face, in reality humans are pleasure utility maximizers, if you cannot extract any advantage out of kids then it's only natural that people won't have them.

Exactly. I know that having kids ruined my mother's life and trapped my parents in an unfulfilling relationship. Why would I want to waste my life raising kids, when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) and requires so much money and time?
When people are so generously out there "helping people grow" in tactful ways, much of the time the benevolent helper doesn't actually know how to do that.

People generally make what they think are rational decisions, it always feels like extreme hubris when someone decides that they know what would be best for someone else. They can't possibly know what reasoning lead to their current course of action. Thats what makes toxic positivity toxic, its people deciding that whatever lead you to have less than a cheerleader level of positivity is irrelevant, your thoughts on the matter are irrelevant, because they know how you should feel about something and want to help you "course correct"