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by Jach 5y ago
"The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." --Malcolm Turnbull, Australia Prime Minister (2015-2018) There are some people who see attitudes like that in the
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by Jach 5y ago
"Can" is doing a lot of work here. I finally got around to playing with Lightning recently, my sense was it's quite a ways away from being ready unless you've got a decent amount of frequent income + spending going throu
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by Jach 5y ago
The Eternal Russian? Similar thinking was part of WW2 propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2YenLG_rQ (Fun fact: script written by Dr. Seuss.)
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by Jach 5y ago
On the other hand, being fully open source means if you've got a good development team you may be able to hack Godot itself to work around whatever limitations are currently biting you the hardest, and your shipped product doesn't
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by Jach 5y ago
I guess it seems like you kinda chose this question by chance, but for new similar types of questions, do you now do them yourself (or get a coworker to try) to get at least an n=1 sample for how long it ought to take? I like to give a 2x m
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by Jach 5y ago
I like this sarcastic piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20180207161304/http://home.pipel... > After a number of top-secret meetings at the highest levels, the "Ada Project" was conceived. .
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It also looked better on a CRT. I still remember getting the GameCube with Star Fox Adventures as my first game for my birthday a few weeks after it came out and just being mesmerized by the graphics. (But I also remember a similar mesmeriz
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by Jach 5y ago
Have you missed Yooka-Laylee?
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Notably the F did not take part in the collusion.
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If the 'avatar' is convincing and can have a continued existence as a person independent of my interaction with it, i.e. I don't "have" them as a form of possession, yes. It does seem better than 50/50 to me th
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by Jach 5y ago
You're overstating the risks a bit and it's not great to posit implausible motives and means for bad outcomes... Like, Fossil devs could "turn evil", and ship an update that destroys your museum and any copies it can fin
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by Jach 5y ago
I can't say anything to your first remark other than different people will want different things, it's unfair to level an implication of hypocrisy on the GP unless they have individually in the past actually complained about wanti
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by Jach 5y ago
Yes, but I get the unstated implication. I don't think it would be fair to apply it to me even though I think it may be fair to apply it to e.g. Kurzweil, unless he's made recent statements suggesting otherwise (I don't keep
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Don't knock it til you try it? I mean, already in recent years people have made some very low fidelity 'resurrections' and gotten some measure of comfort from it, never mind the many years of history of people who visit grave
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by Jach 5y ago
Here's a cite: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici... Of course it's not the only thing, and can be greatly mediated by other factors. From the book Age of Em , citing that and
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Why wouldn't you? Smarter people are generally happier than others too when the question is researched. I suppose it's possible to mistake low neuroticism for stupidity. And if you don't talk to dumb people (pick an IQ range
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I've gone back and forth on my feelings for the mindset. My current feelings just encompass the differences so it's not really a like or hate anymore either way. Yes, the human species is very intelligent and in a uniquely general
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Gource – a software version control visualization tool(gource.io)
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I'm saying on average such experience tends to wash out, at least among those who graduate, though I saw it in individuals by sophomore year. You have two groups, one with some level of pre-college experience, and the other without (no
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by Jach 5y ago
This is true and one of the initial criticisms of "there's not necessarily incentive alignment here" I thought of when I first encountered the idea. Hearing about #2 happen in reality is also sad. Though I think over longer p
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I agree, it happens, and it's a good idea for people to at least dip their toes in the seemingly infinite free or low cost resources out there to gauge things before spending very much money. (Again ignoring that the whole premise of t
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I think the issue being criticized isn't about credentials, which smart companies don't care much about already, but about ability to learn. Your oversimplification of equivalent education being to just watch a free series of vide
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by Jach 5y ago
Besides the good methods others have posted, and a really nice method (if you have it) of having someone else familiar with the code give you a tour, you can also do pretty well just by brute forcing it. Get a list of all the files, sorted
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There's a little story told about the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, by John Aubrey: "He was (vide his life) 40 yeares old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library in ..., Euclid&#
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As true in 1888 as now, Froude: "Each age would do better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them, instead of comparing itself with others to its own advantage."
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What you're describing as "real math" is no more "real" than the kind of "math" you do claim to want. They're both math. What you think of as math for math's sake is not necessarily any more for
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My favorite accessibility-increasing tool is the computer. Doing math shouldn't involve so much circus math , i.e. doing things just for show, since a computer does so much immediately and accurately. We already use graphing calculato
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by Jach 5y ago
Yes, all tracks of math involve people using math. Proof writing is a part of use for a lot of it. There are also very many tools within the use of proof writing where a lot of education is around learning a bunch of tools so that you can b
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Maybe if your NTFS drive is less than half full, at least I assume this is a limitation of this project since it mentions keeping an original copy... Still, belief in god seems about right, or you have good backups. I had about 2.5 TB on a
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by Jach 5y ago
I've long been aware of their $6k warranty of title. Only someone from Hwaci could give an accurate count of purchasers (they only say "Most people use SQLite without any kind of license or support"), but I would bet that not

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