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by Iv 4y ago
Because, as mentioned several times in this discussion, if you give a python3 file to a python2 interpreter, you will get a SyntaxError even before the first line of the script runs. This is a way o ensuring the correct python version is us
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by Iv 4y ago
How does it relate to JPEG2000? I may soon have to recommend a lossy but potentially lossless image format for 3D medical images (with 16 bits channels), would JPEG XL fit this bill?
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by Iv 4y ago
It is both cute and horrifying to realize that Python has no builtin functionality for this.
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by Iv 4y ago
> I find it unlikely that my local supermarket is going to sell my purchasing habits to China or Iran. Oh really? Do you think they run an ethical check on people who propose to buy their data? I a sure China is home to a lot of cheap ba
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by Iv 4y ago
Ask tloriato that's hi scenario, not mine. I guess he fears the vega-fascist movement
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by Iv 4y ago
Rural Japan. I am moving out of it, and most rural communities are very aware of the fact that they are dying out. Houses are not only cheap, some are free. I have a friend who is living in a house just in exchange of cutting the grass ther
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by Iv 4y ago
French here in the process of buying a house in Isère. The cheapest regions in France are probably in the center, in Seine et Loire I saw many offers for very cheap houses. Be careful about buying medieval ruins: they can be cheap but they
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by Iv 4y ago
Uh, you literally have to track people's consumption to ration resources. During WWII it was done with state-issued ration tickets and a crackdown on the inevitable black market that emerged. That's a good alternative to this.
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by Iv 4y ago
Krita is a pixel editor. I mostly replaced GIMP with krita, but Inkscape is necessary for vector files.
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by Iv 4y ago
I would say that the government having the same amount of knowledge that private companies have is not necessarily a bad thing.
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by Iv 4y ago
Good luck arguing that a government can do good on a mostly American board.
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by Iv 4y ago
Yeah, fuck the leftist ideology that gave us the PATRIOT act, the legalization of torture, that wages wars on lies with no long term plans, who made the Echelon network a mass surveillance network. Fuck these neocon hippies.
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by Iv 4y ago
A store can sell its data to authoritarian governments that can jail people, to insurance companies that in some countries can prevent you from getting a credit card, a loan or even a job. Now another question: what the best a government is
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by Iv 4y ago
If Norway reaches the point where they have to ration meat, I don't see the problem with such a system.
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by Iv 4y ago
*illegally Sure, there are illegal ways around all laws. That does not make laws useless.
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by Iv 4y ago
The goal of a democratic state is not to control the behavior of its population.
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by Iv 4y ago
Thing is, in Rust, you can't choose not to go through the effort. The borrow checker forces you to do so.
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by Iv 4y ago
Probably based on a test set from the original dataset.
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by Iv 4y ago
I recently read about a discovery that may explain that preference. Psychologists have realized that it is easier for humans to remember a list than a set. That is, memorizing objects AND the order in which they appear is easier than just m
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by Iv 4y ago
Wait, 12 yo in the US don't know how to do chores or do not understand how a house is set up? Ok, I'll give you the Maya method, or the French method, or the Japanese method, or the Hacker method, or wherever we figured out parent
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by Iv 5y ago
That's actually pretty straightforward: (Tested with EleutherAI GPT-J-6B because why use a closed model when an open one exists?) Prompt: "Question: Solve three plus six. Answer: a=3 b=6 a+b Question: Solve twelve times fifteen. A
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by Iv 5y ago
> Ok, so if they can do all that automatically for an "electronic audit" why am I filing a return, just run that thing and send it to me and I can file an exception if there is something on it I disagree with. That's how i
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by Iv 5y ago
EleutherAI also started because researchers got bored in sync during lockdown. These projects give an idea of the awesome things creative people would do if they did not have to work
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by Iv 5y ago
A package has more right to travel than a human. Period.
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by Iv 5y ago
Well, I will certainly not find the premise absurd if a business plan assumes people will do that. Micro-blogging is what Twitter-like platforms are typically called: a picture, a move, a small paragraph, do that 4 or 5 times a day, you hav
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by Iv 5y ago
You know, I always found it stupid that people thought I would ever use my phone to type messages or worse to write blog posts. I would not rule out radical change of use patterns. People will not put on a headset to shop, they will shop as
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by Iv 5y ago
Because money is desperate to find sinks to throw itself at.
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by Iv 5y ago
The fact that Sci-hub is still illegal is an indictment of the legislative process.
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by Iv 5y ago
When you consider that the opposite to individualism is authoritarianism, there has been a cultural failure in society.
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by Iv 5y ago
You know what, you mention something that has pissed me off with a recent evolution of American culture by citing two examples I find relevant, so I'll expand. Star Wars is a 1977 movie. It actually consciously uses the codes (and copi

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