Jtsummers

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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> Any name that you can't type is going to be a problem. Fortunately the name is Snap! so typing it isn't much of a problem. (With the !, which was stripped from the submission title and when most people write about it.)
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Schools have long relied on an honor system, unless you can get really close to a 1:1 ratio with the students so the instructor can properly evaluate each and every one. But, as a society, we've decided that's too expensive so peo
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
NetLogo is its own language, but definitely inspired by and modeled on the original Logo (thus the name). But it has some differences in syntax and semantics, and is oriented toward agent based modeling (which also introduces some new synta
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Logo was directly inspired by Lisp and the first implementation was even written in Lisp.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
The submitter made it up. Despite being a user on the site for years they apparently don't know the submission rules: use the original title, only edit to fit or for obvious clickbait. The simplest rules are the hardest to remember?
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> You would conclude that storytelling is higher structures of some base unit I'd be very surprised to meet someone who learned that lesson by comparing protein folding (suggesting a high level of intelligence and probably education
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260910195003/https://www.theat...
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The Thrill of Wanting AI to Destroy the World(theatlantic.com)
3 points by Jtsummers 1mo ago|2 comments
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Analogies are like models, some are useful, but they're all wrong. Just because we can analogize between protein folding and narrative/storytelling doesn't mean that we can derive anything particularly useful about one from t
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
I guess my real confusion is this: You keep predicting the end of civilization in your comments, but you only seem to talk about collecting money to deal with it. Does your end of civilization not also involve the severe loss in value of ou
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
How valuable will your money be once civilization is destroyed and you, self-admittedly, have no skills that would help you after the collapse? Seems like a better use of your time may be in identifying and developing those skills and culti
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Suspicious in that it's unlikely or suspicious in that it betrays their real motivation? On the former: It kind of makes sense if they think they can convince regulators that they (and maybe a few select competitors) are the only ones
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Effective Altruism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism It has some interesting ideas, and also gave us people like Sam Bankman-Fried.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
He can't promise money since Congress hasn't approved it, and this would be north of $1 trillion so I guess he's looking to set more record deficits.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Stopping to listen to someone is not very egocentric. Without the headphones (in the scenario) she would have just ignored him or politely declined the flyer. So either way, wrong word.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> came off as quite geocentric Did you mean to use another word here? I mean, the vast majority of people are still on Earth so many things are geocentric and that's rarely considered a problem.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Fair, zooming in I guess I can see that. You may want to correct the label on the photo though, it shares dimensions with the 5 but you've clearly photographed an SE (original, it turns out, which was part of my confusion since you swi
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-13-mi... The SE was the one that shared the 8's dimensions, the Mini was smaller than both. That Mini appears to be in a case, so the comparison photos a
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
The passport card is only used for land and sea entries, it's not a full replacement for the passport (would be nice if it was) and never has been. It does work as a federally issued ID if you need one.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
The iPhone Air's SOC demonstrates that they could compact the actual SOC portion substantially. Add a bit of thickness back for the battery, and they could have a Mini with space for a decent camera and decent battery life. Remove the
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> The last Mini was iPhone 8 sized It was smaller than the iPhone 8. It was slightly thicker (0.01"), shorter (by 0.27") and narrower (0.13"). And it had a bigger display despite being overall smaller. It was bigger than t
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> Article reads like an ad. You've mistaken a press release for an article. This is Apple's own site and announcement of Apple's own product. Of course it's an ad.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260909172720/https://www.theat...
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What Happened at Stars and Stripes(theatlantic.com)
4 points by Jtsummers 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
You've been complaining about this for years now, have you still not read the FAQ for this site?
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> What season is the Mr. Garrison storyline from? It started about 10 years ago, when the person apparently stopped watching it, during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> And I suspect that cross section of people writing C code you want to verify with formal verification folks is not particularly big. Perhaps not, but C is still used in a lot of critical systems. Things like this for proving properties
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
> I just read the headline. Why should I read the article when the headline is so misleading. Because the article explains the origins of the saints as Christianity coopting the story of the Buddha. The headline isn't wrong or misle
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by Jtsummers 1mo ago
Unlike the old C* linked at the top of this particular thread, Ada is still seeing active development in its language standard and implementations and new work. Pascal (via FreePascal and Delphi, in particular) is also still maintained and
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When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering(theatlantic.com)
21 points by Jtsummers 1mo ago|11 comments

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