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So the way to get kids to like Math is by forcing them to learn... proofs? Not learning how it applies to the world and solves problems, but how it can be used to impress professors who care about rig…

Software engineers do get that, they have been using vim, emacs for decades with few changes. Product designers on the other hand.

Am I misremembering that RIP also added a very boring download step? Like if you play LORD for the first time you have to download a bunch of images that get cached locally. Then the sysop updates to …

Finnegans Wake is probably the classical example. The latter books by William Gaddis also lose a lot (sometimes everything?) because they are so dependent on spoken American English. Cormac McCarthy i…

If you look at the spreadsheets you will see, for example, the 13th salary included as overhead. It's not overhead: it's part of employee income and goes directly in their pocket. The 95% fi…

> I think the way to prevent brain drain is not to impose restrictions on individual liberty but to compete better on the education/career market. Countries that are at the source of brain dra…

Emacs is more complex, and Emacs users do more in Emacs than just edit text. (think org-mode, debugger frontends, mail readers, etc.)

They should have told you that they were charging less for cash.

I have a cheap Surface that I bought at a promotion, with a pen. I can scribble/underline and it has a 3:2 screen ratio. With some discipline it is a dedicated device for a very specific kind of …

There are a few applications that use SQL databases as their save file format.

Mathematica has that, though the math notation is more about display than input.

In general it is fine to put whatever your job title is. If you are a Grand-Master Senior Foobar Engineer, that's fine. It's silly to use things like "Thinker, dreamer and entrepreneur&…

It's not necessary that the thing that replaces the Roman Empire is a new Roman Empire. It will be something different. Also if US strength depends on the loyalty of big capitalism then I have ba…

That's a bit like saying "Here we are in 1650 under an absolute monarchy. The people are the majority, they could topple our illegitimate hereditary government and make it a democracy, but t…

Read the article before commenting.

Try to post some grammatically incoherent comment and include the words "penis", "enlargement", and "pills". Let us know how it went. This is probably just an anti-spam m…

In a live migration scenario the TSC in the source and destination machines will be necessarily different so that emulation is required to make it not warp. That said, due to previous TSC instability …

Like you I also come from a third-world country and this sort of thing is also the advice there. Now I live in a much better country and I no longer have to fear the police. Quite a change. There is n…

They are latin letters, not english. Unless you mean futhorc. Which would be awesome.

Laws are not written around protocols. The GDPR is not HTTP-, Web- or Internet-specific.

The proper way of interpreting the sentence about "don't roll your own crypto" is that it actually means "don't roll out your own crypto until it has been peer reviewed by man…

It's possible that they can create money up to a point with positive effects and beyond that point the effects are negative.

Well, as good a time as any to remember an old exploit. Back in the old days, to put the modem back in command mode, you had to send it +++ and wait one second without sending anything. Hayes, a modem…

Edited. Feel free to delete my comment, it's redundant now.

Your comment is at the top. Please don't complain about downvoting. "China and Chinese companies have no real culture of user centric privacy." Citation needed. That's one billion …

TBH the neobank market in Brazil is kind of crowded and N26 doesn't have anything over those that started sooner.