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New comment by thotsBgone in "Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos"

thotsBgone — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:56:48 +0000

It's intuitive to me that the option "c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12" is the only acceptable answer, since it is the only range you can tell immediately at a glance what numbers are included: 2, ..., 12. There shouldn't be a 1 or a 13 in the notation if there won't be a 1 or a 13 in the sequence it's describing -- it's just bad design.

If you select the option "c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12", then Dijkstra's subsequent argument for zero-indexing becomes an argument for one-indexing, because a sequence of length N yields the range 1 <= i <= N when subscripting with 1, but 0 <= i <= N-1 when starting at 0. The latter is uglier than the former.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma"

thotsBgone — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:33:44 +0000

> It's not more morally reprehensible than .

New comment by thotsBgone in "Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen"

thotsBgone — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:05:32 +0000

A sense of humour didn't hurt.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Launch HN: Bristle (YC W21) – At-home microbiome test to improve oral health"

thotsBgone — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:56:10 +0000

Just kiss someone with better bacteria and you'll be fine.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen"

thotsBgone — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:08:03 +0000

In the theory of depression as an attractor state in a dynamical system[1], exercise would be one of many small cures for depression. To cure depression, one would likely have to combine several small cures, none of which would work on their own. For example: diet, exercise, amount of sleep, timing of sleep, pharmaceuticals, behavioural activation, cognitive distortions, social life, life circumstances, as well as any physical health issues which could be contributing to depression.

I no longer have depression, and it was a combination of small factors which did it for me.

1: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatri...

New comment by thotsBgone in "‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos"

thotsBgone — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:05:11 +0000

I'm pretty sure that you either see the same thing as I do when you close your eyes, or you don't, and that it's very difficult to communicate about what "seeing" something in your mind actually means.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it"

thotsBgone — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:04:14 +0000

I have often thought something like this would work much better than those extensions which block websites outright. Sure, you can watch that youtube video, but you have to wait 10 seconds first.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Amazon rainforest rock art 'depicts giant Ice Age creatures' (2020)"

thotsBgone — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:59:40 +0000

Some of the species do not/did not exist as smaller versions, e.g. the three-toed ungulate with a trunk.

New comment by thotsBgone in "‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos"

thotsBgone — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:58:25 +0000

Even people with aphantasia see as a result of a combination of bottom-up and top-down processing.

Also note that aphantasia is not a condition which is confirmed to even exist.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Actually Portable Executable"

thotsBgone — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:48:52 +0000

Mouse over the title on the webpage

New comment by thotsBgone in "YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs"

thotsBgone — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:34:38 +0000

History is sexist: it's his story!

New comment by thotsBgone in "20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower"

thotsBgone — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:18:21 +0000

Unfortunately, the image was never displayed by the app that was downloading it as an internet test.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web"

thotsBgone — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:31:00 +0000

No comment about browser rss-feeds can be meaningfully harmful.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web"

thotsBgone — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:29:55 +0000

Vivaldi has this now.

New comment by thotsBgone in "I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website"

thotsBgone — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:46:47 +0000

I heard a story from an Uber driver about a drunk woman he gave a ride to who intended to Uber like 3 blocks, but who ended up Ubering over an hour to the wrong city before she realised her mistake.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips"

thotsBgone — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:42:51 +0000

Every time you would tip $10, go give it to a homeless person instead. Your money will be spent more effectively, and you won't support the tipping mind-virus.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry"

thotsBgone — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:46:16 +0000

I tried like 8 antidepressants and never found one that helped me. I also tried psychedelics and they didn't help me, though the dose probably wasn't high enough.

What helped was intensive daily group therapy and behavioural modifications, as well as becoming more social.

Depression has many causes. Good luck finding yours.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds"

thotsBgone — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:38:01 +0000

Less buyers also means less economy of scale.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?"

thotsBgone — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:07:46 +0000

But what percentage of ants find themselves the subject of human curiosity? We look at a few ants, but not most of them. Maybe it's the same with aliens. We're just another mound of monkeys; nothing they haven't seen before.

New comment by thotsBgone in "Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster"

thotsBgone — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:30:23 +0000

It's not "unethical" to charge money for a product that you made from scratch. People on this website really like that word, "unethical". Makes me wonder if they even know what it means. "Unethical: something you don't like."?