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New comment by numerobis in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

numerobis — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:25:48 +0000

What standards specifically? What is the solution to the problem that Dutch standards provide? Duh

New comment by numerobis in "The Battle Line at Louvain"

numerobis — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:10:43 +0000

This is the name of the city today, but this has not always been the case. In the past, Leuven was a bilingual city, and to many of the people who lived there, the city was known as Louvain.

New comment by numerobis in "The Battle Line at Louvain"

numerobis — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:04:04 +0000

Back then, a large proportion of Flemish intellectuals (including my grandparents) were French-speaking, which is a reason why there were so many French students and professors in Leuven/Louvain. Therefore I think that, in the context of the article, the "wrongness" of calling the city Louvain is not as clear-cut as you suggest.

New comment by numerobis in "What Monks Know about Focus"

numerobis — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:06:45 +0000

> The basic Buddhist teachings and practices even for lay people cover this vast domain concisely

Not so concisely I would say. What source are you refering to here? Because the Pali Cannon is very long…

New comment by numerobis in "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

numerobis — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:10:27 +0000

To take: "to move something or someone from one place to another". Copying is not taking, sorry.

New comment by numerobis in "A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command (2020)"

numerobis — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:00:47 +0000

Are backticks necessary these days? I thought it was advised to use `$(...)` instead…

New comment by numerobis in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

numerobis — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:33:27 +0000

To anyone interested in reading more reports (and more nuanced ones, in my opinion) from experienced meditators, I highly recommend the streamentry subreddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/streamentry).

New comment by numerobis in "αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε"

numerobis — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:36:49 +0000

Really confusing that they use mu when upsilon is available...

New comment by numerobis in "Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet"

numerobis — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:20:15 +0000

Why don't you stick to the energy growth rate (instead of the 4.72% velocity growth rate) and then use the relativistic formula of the kinetic energy (in which the relationship between energy and velocity is not quadratic — the quadratic approximation is valid only for small velocities)?

New comment by numerobis in "GNU Guix 1.0"

numerobis — Mon, 06 May 2019 09:12:51 +0000

I also prefer guix's documentation. `info guix` is a very good resource. :)

New comment by numerobis in "Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series"

numerobis — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:09:39 +0000

Orientation is only two numbers, since a unit vector does the job? So, three numbers in total?

New comment by numerobis in "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016)"

numerobis — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:09:20 +0000

There seems to be a lot of confusion here about what open source means. In practical terms, open source and free software imply the same freedoms for the users, including the rights to change and redistribute the source code.

The more common terminology for proprietary software whose source is available is source-available.

See the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Open-sour...

New comment by numerobis in "Vim 8.1"

numerobis — Fri, 18 May 2018 22:24:45 +0000

You'd still be able to use .

How Google can alter election results

numerobis — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:57:56 +0000

Article URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-epstein/googles-hypocrisy_b_8253332.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457263

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