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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.

It's not more morally reprehensible than <very reprehensible thing>.

A sense of humour didn't hurt.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

Mouse over the title on the webpage

History is sexist: it's his story!

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

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

Vivaldi has this now.

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.

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.

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.

Less buyers also means less economy of scale.

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.

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."?

Can't remap keys, so colemak/dvorak users are hooped.

MS Word does add word processing. E.g. your straight quotes will be contextually converted to the correct left/right quote, your hyphens can become em-dashes, etc.

To be fair, of all of the editors I've used, emacs is the slowest and needs a profiler the most.

Yes, companies are profit-driven always. Not customer-satisfaction driven, unless that's what will bring them the most profit (especially true for newer, smaller companies).

This makes me wonder if there is some structure similar to a corporation which would maximise something besides profit, without either being out-competed by a corporation or turning into one.

He was also on the fruits diet before the pancreatic cancer. Makes you wonder if the fruit diet contributed to the cancer.

Just make sure "selling" of shares can be automatic, because nobody wants to go back to a post they already read just to sell their shares or whatever.

This can partly be self-selection. I knew someone who chose to work at Huawei because they were learning Chinese and considered moving to China. Someone like that is a lot more likely to want to work for Huawei than someone who intends to stay right where they are and learn no Chinese.

How do they differ?

But is there anything stopping people from forming a second government on top of the first one?

Or it's a typo, and who cares?