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>sine_wave.colors[::3] = "red"

I never knew I needed this until now

Re:Quantum Katas on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:21PM (#43106233)
Practice coding in Q#
Re:Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:03PM (#41703711)
Thanks for this Berman reference.
This is great point that demonstrates how to read ethically.
Re:On Tolstoy's “War and Peace” on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:43PM (#19323702)
Great quotation; reminds me of Nassim Taleb's remarks on planning in "Antifragile".
Re:On Tolstoy's “War and Peace” on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:39PM (#19323655)
Did you mean Herbert's "Dune"? Or did the movie diverge from the book?
Re:On Tolstoy's “War and Peace” on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:37PM (#19323644)
I never finished this novel, but the juxtaposition of social maneuvers and war struck me early in the story.
The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage — management.

https://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Principle-Cubicles-Eye-Manage...

Re:Dev Bootcamp is shutting down on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:58AM (#14762378)
This is fake news.
Re:Ask HN: Are decentralised webapps the future? on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:54PM (#14346254)
"The room for exactly where decentralized code execution gives a 10-X advantage over centralized code execution is not yet obvious to me. I don’t know what that application is." -- Balaji Srinivasan, from https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/04/21/21-with-bala...
Gary Taubes wrote a great book showing how politics marred nutritional science: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...
Re:A Look at the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @06:54AM (#10505888)
Evidently from the article, humans are different from other animals in that we are concerned with concepts like "purpose".