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jjgreen
10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.
https://jjg.gitlab.io/en/
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Nice, I get vv-v on Firefox as expected
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This looks interesting, it's a pity that the example site, https://rq4.dev/ , "No JavaScript fingerprinting needed", fails without JavaScript (yes I get it, JS not neede…
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No point in making a deal with the US, they always welch.
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Apartheid, disgusting.
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You should return it and demand a full refund.
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User is autodead for (I think) self-promotion, but project looks rather interesting ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Accuracy_in_Midd... …
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A friend of mine asked for some help with a design of speaker-stands, 3 thick bits of wood formed into a Z shape, but what angle to cut? That fairly quickly reduced to solving a quadratic, but how to…
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One vote does, unlikely to be yours though.
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It's rough when our own media are so craven to power that we need to rely on Russian propaganda for news.
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Full title: Is the expected distance between two random interior points of a convex body always at most that of two random boundary points?
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Related discussion on MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/509202/
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I'd had a GH account for ages under my own name, I closed that as soon as Microsoft took it over, moved all my repos to GitLab, good move. I opened a new GH account under a silly name [1] so I c…
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That's been pending for a while, I'll just stop contributing code.
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A nit on the use of *: in lots of places there are "int* foo" and so on, but in C it's traditional to have "int *foo" since "int* foo, bar" looks like foo & bar …
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Come on Hong Kong, the UK has had this since 2000, catch up!
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"Not that it matters ...", What? Of course it matters! I only come to HN for extended arguments on the meaning of the Dialectic.
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The BBC gets round to this story in the end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493857
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Woit's response: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15647 …
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Iran's parliament speaker said as much a couple of hours ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce35wke27ynt?post=asset%3A23... …