JadeNB

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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," people sure like to use VIM for a thousand different purposes by hacking plugins. This used to be derided as the microsoft way decades ago. I&#x27
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
As a parent, I would want to know everything about anyone who's going to be around my children in any capacity. That doesn't mean I have a right to it, though.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Why are we protecting criminals, just because they are minors? Protect victims, not criminals. Protect victims and criminals. Protect victims from the harm done to them by criminals, but also protect criminals from excessive, or, as
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
Or maybe not Lenovo, I'd like my high-spec Linux laptop to come without a rootkit.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
Still nothing seems to happen when I click "Scan". Does that mean that none of the extension IDs provided are on the list?
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
I think the comparison is unfair. Wolfram is endowed with a very generous sense of his own self worth, but, other than the victims of his litigation, I'm not aware that he's hurting anybody.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
In my experience, Alpha works very hard to force you into a natural-language syntax that takes away much of the fun of the rule-based aspects of the Wolfram language.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
I believe that Banach called the spaces now named after him "spaces of type B," presumably to make a stab at modesty.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
I've never understood why we first become masters of science only to become doctors of philosophy ....
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
> This is AI slop, sadly. Here's a sentence that very few humans might scribe: > "But what if one were to look at the question empirically, say in effect just by enumerating possible programs and explicitly seeing how fast t
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
While those interested probably already know about them, amateur restorations can be decidedly less felicitous, with probably the most famous example being Ecce Homo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Garc%C3%A
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
> Roadside Picnic I believe would also fall into this category. Though the aliens are just theoretical in the book and the characters deal with what is speculated to be the aftermath of an alien visit. Another sci-fi classic sorta made i
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
Most of Egan's work after his very early stuff believes deeply in post-scarcity humanity.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
I've only read the first book, and that a while ago, but my memory is that, while humans are the focus of Thompson's Rosewater trilogy, they are again neither the Big Bad nor the Big Good.
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by JadeNB 8mo ago
> Rather than think in terms of making things cheaper for people to afford we should think how to produce wealthier people who could afford better than the cheapest of cheapest crap. I'm not trying to be snarky, but, if the principl
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
I was not weighing in on whether one should or shouldn't speak ill of the dead, only trying to answer: > Why is their reputation relevant? They're dead.
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> If that were true, how could it be anything but ok? Should I feel guilty because I evolved from monkeys and carry around the leftist equivalent of original sin? I think that there's a gap between "how can it be anything but
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> Reputation guides your behavior toward that person. But they're no longer around. There is no behavior toward them. They're gone. Their reputation is no longer relevant. It also culturally informs someone's perceived sui
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
You might want to find out why the order was immediately vacated, but you, or at least I, will not do so by reading the article: > One day after granting the TRO, the same judge ruled that it should not remain in effect and vacated the o
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> My interdental brushes claim that the wire is 0.8 megamolar wide, which is not a normal measure of width. 0.8 megamolar = 800,000 teeth? That, uh, seems pretty wide for an interdental brush.
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> [1] I once worked on a system that kept logs of certain types of query so it could display a guess of how long things were going to take and a progress bar to go with it, but this was actually more irritating to the users than no progr
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> I'm an academic and its difficult for me to imagine what the fuck deans do that is worth ~3-4 times as much as the people actually teaching and doing research. Fire them into outer space, I say. I'm also an academic. To me, t
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
What distinction do you draw between academics and teachers? Those are usually overlapping roles. According to https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/key-issues/compensati... (just an example of a public university), i
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
I think your parent comment was speaking of a "base-$\alpha$ representation", where $\alpha$ is a single transcendental number—no concerns about countability, though one must be quite careful about the "digits" in this
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
> Given that Jabberwocky is also quite readable, we shouldn't be too astonished. The conventions of literature have changed a lot less than math notation and terminology have since 1867.
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
Also it's from TheDailyWTF, not an endorsement of the practices there even in 2006.
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by JadeNB 9mo ago
Safety not guaranteed.
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by JadeNB 10mo ago
"I block all online ads" is a less useful title than "How I block all online ads", and pointing out when the title mangler has made the title worse serves as a request to moderators to fix it if they agree. Which they d
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by JadeNB 10mo ago
> Meanwhile younger undergrad and grad students are getting more and more accustomed to LLMs forming the front end for any knowledge they consume. Well, that's terrifying. I mean, I knew it about undergrads, but I sure hoped people
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by JadeNB 10mo ago
Maybe we could come up with another ludicrous suite of names for HBO/HBO Go/HBO Max once it's merged with Netflix.

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