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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 my gut feeling that your preference yields an equivalent amount of ugly N+1.


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


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...


Totally agree with the small factors take: For me, it would be diet, exercise, amount of sleep, sleep time, behavioral activation, translating unhelpful to helpful thoughts, social life, life circumstances, minimizing tempting distractions and having bluetooth music stations available at all times helps tremendously.


Did the removal of thots have anything to do with the curing your depression?


A sense of humour didn't hurt.


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.


Could be a tapir? From the side it looks 3 toed


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.


As an aphant I’m pretty sure it exists. But just in case let me close my eyes and double-check...nope still nothing there. ;-).


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.


Mouse over the title on the webpage


Ok, it shows a tooltip.

The `title` attribute should specifically not be used here; ARIA labels should. The title attribute is implemented differently across browsers and assistive technologies [1] and is supposed to be a title, not a duplicate of the content of the element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...


History is sexist: it's his story!


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


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