JadeNB

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> I am indifferent to this. Why? "The browser inserts itself into the browsing experience in a user-hostile way" is a bad slope to start down, even if the browser starts by inserting itself between one untrustworthy product an
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> I'll be honest, I don't have a problem with this while Google is and was allowed to insert their own on pages such as Google.com I think that there's a big difference between a company putting ads on a page they own, a
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Hijacking my browsing experience to try to direct me away from my goal definitely shows me the added value of "the trust of Microsoft." (Also, I think that I understand its meaning, but 'thirstily' seems like a weird ad
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The grouping in this is not obvious from the mangled, quotation-mark-less title: I thought it was reimplementing a clone of git, but, as the title on the article makes clear with quotation marks, it is specifically reimplementing `git clone
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What is the nature of the test? Is this something that plotters are notoriously prone to misrendering? If so, then do they do so in any predictable way?
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> You can hardly justify this structure in most other places...residents will revolt Those statements may both be true, but it's worth noting that people revolting against a measure doesn't mean it's unjustified. People w
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At least since the '80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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> Whats your point? Aren't people allowed to discuss stuff other people share with them on the internet? I think their point might be: such discussion might be fun for users, but could be unpleasant or unproductive for the maintaine
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> I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office. As someone who doesn't even know MS Office we
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It's so cromulent.
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I don't think that this adds anything to the discussion. If it's necessary to complain about Jupyter's name, the place to do that is surely where Jupyter development is being discussed, which is not here. Otherwise, as with a
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Looks like $2.99 extra a month gets you no ads. That's only a reasonable price if you discount the $15/month you're already paying. I mean, maybe it's reasonable anyway, and sure that $15/month is also paying
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> I'd say the Yoneda lemma should be in there. It's hard to explain without going through all the definitions but very broadly speaking it gives a precise way to characterize a object by its relations to other objects. To add a
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> It's better to define a function as a set of pairs, then you don't need to use anything else not introduced yet. If you're looking towards category theory, it may arguably be better to think in terms of abstract arrows a
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> For example, unless I'm very much mistaken, the illustration of the initial object is backwards: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrate... You are right. (Curiously, the picture of the term
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> Analog seems pretty well settled in the US for the past ~40 years. Yes, but not always. There was a time when it was a new thing, and, when so, it was much argued. > But my point is actually a bit different. Weren't VCRs a goo
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> When exactly did we decide that digital video shouldn't be easily recordable like analog video? > In any case, a download button is basically like a DVR. > DVRs may be legal according to the law … The recordability of analog
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> Sure, if you want to fade into history as an ultimately irrelevant ad network that simply had the novel ideal of tying ads into internet search early on in the internet’s youth and became popular and rich for a decade, then take this s
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> There's a simple option to disable this in Chrome: > chrome://settings/adPrivacy/interests And eventually there'll be another setting in another location, and then it'll start accidentally forgetti
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> What is sad is more and more common websites simply don't work in Firefox anymore (chase.com), so it's literally back to the days of running in IE6 or nothing, but Chrome is now that pestilence. I am used to accessing my Chas
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> I think it's a balance. For "emotional gardening" as I call it, disconnecting from tech / anti-social media and taking a walk is great. But if you still want to assess present reality and make good judgments about t
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Since you explicitly include the empty plot, I do have to mention that 2^7 is 128.
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> Adults love ice cream and "hate"* broccoli too, in general. They simply choose to eat one over the other based on external input. Of course it's impossible for one person's evidence to refute what happens "in g
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I think a large part of that is that Netflix when it was just DVDs was in the age before systematic review abuse reached its current state of the art, and before it became profitable for companies to participate. Amazon's standout stre
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> We saw what a fairly massive reduction in consumption looked like during the pandemic. It basically put CO2 levels back to what they were in 2016. That's no where nearly enough. It's not, but an improvement in CO2 levels that
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I think toenail meant less "will no one rid me of this turbulent reader?", and more "if it were really so bad, then someone would have written some sort of alternative solution already." (I'm not sure I agree with
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> the url was removed from favorites, but google provided the url again. > it would be trivial to copypasta to an external file. You can argue about whether or not this was a reasonable action, but, if it was an unreasonable action, t
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Do you know the answer? (Of course your remark makes sense even if you don't, but, if you do, then I'd love to know.)
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> None at this time, but until the advent of modern cryptography, the same was true of primality. I'm not sure that this is true, at least if you are flexible about what counts as an ‘application’. The concept of divisibility, and
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> Surely if 'all' is True then 'any' got to be too? No. `any([])` means "some element of [] is true", which is false because there aren't any elements. `all([])` means "all elements of [] are tru

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