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by LeonB 3y ago
It is both! Yes there are some common simulator features that it doesn’t have (there’s no ‘prediction’ or randomness involved) but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the category of simulation. It helps simulate, or model, specific scenarios. La
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by LeonB 3y ago
I concur! This is considered part of her Mandela effect^1 isn’t it? The Wikipedia article on the aforementioned bears even has a section on it — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_confusio... ^1 - whic
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by LeonB 3y ago
It’s unlikely that 30% is reasonable. In the absence of a competitive market we don’t know whether 30% is reasonable but it’s unreasonable (or naive) to suspect that a closed system has hit on an efficient fee structure, from the end users
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by LeonB 3y ago
Cheers. Only waited 40+ years for it.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Once I began to be distracted by the discrepancy in case — they switch constantly from ‘ChatGPT’ to ‘ChatGpt’ and back — I was mesmerised by the inconsistency here. I don’t care which is used (I believe ‘ChatGPT’ is correct according to the
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by LeonB 3y ago
Ah - this is a quite common error. They selected the duchess on the right when they should’ve passed the duchess on the left hand side.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Absolutely. Watching your playback in TimeSnapper gives a lot of insights into the way a small distraction can derail you for hours (or it does for me, I mean)
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by LeonB 3y ago
Sedat, you’re a legend, and a machine, great to see you here or anywhere. Good luck with the legal challenges.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Each time DoD pops up, someone questions the authenticity of the `dos` label — and I remain unsure of the correct response. I think for now I’ll say — If you believe a more authentic DoD can be created, I agree and I’ll be its first fan. I’
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by LeonB 3y ago
In my defence, Ruby on Rails contains no actual rubies or any actual rails.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Author here. Thank you for pointing that out. I didn’t know who Terry Davis was — but I had heard of TempleOS and now I have some more reading to do. Much appreciated.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Author here. I’m pleased to see DOS on Dope reaching new generations. This thing will outlive me, and I’m happy about that. A few days ago at work, building an internal website for a customer, I designed a feature which involved executing a
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by LeonB 3y ago
Is it even possible, though, to know what the ship of Theseus is?
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by LeonB 3y ago
Who’s to say it hasn’t been through a dozen stars? Or a thousand? It could’ve blinked into existence five minutes ago. (I could be wrong)
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by LeonB 3y ago
If I were* the median atom in the universe, how many times would I have been through a full star cycle? 0? 1? 3000? * I’m not, but I’m just saying, “If I were” (but I’m not)
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by LeonB 3y ago
I was classically trained to add `TK` meaning “to come” (sic.) as a placeholder. Allegedly the letter combo TK very rarely occurs otherwise. Wikipedia article — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)
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by LeonB 3y ago
True, but I think this sentence buries the key point: “Apple and Google want you to use their app stores in this way.” …they want you to use their app stores, their way, because they retain 100% control of what you can and cannot do.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yep, agree++. It’s impossible to avoid relying on other people’s platforms. (Unless you want approximately zero customers, I guess) I wish these monopolistic corps didn’t have such an iron grip, but I’m not demanding creators single hande
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yeh, I love that the table has that playful sense of fun.
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by LeonB 3y ago
If it is a periodic table of all periodic tables then yes it would contain itself. Obviously. If it was a periodic table of all periodic tables except those that contain itself then it would only contain itself if it does not contain itself
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by LeonB 3y ago
And those that were building were basically doing research, not refining a product that had achieved product market fit. The gp makes it sound like they were manufacturing widgets. The existence of others in the market is better described a
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by LeonB 3y ago
A wisened old web developer named Rik told me that in a wiki he wrote long ago he performed his own cache-busting form of content negotiation by having urls ends with a file type — E.g. /fred.html - returns html /fred.m
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by LeonB 3y ago
“Blogroll” was the name for your list of other blogs you like, and was put into an OPML file.
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by LeonB 3y ago
That two-window approach was particular useful where you needed to be able to rearrange the order of the items. Now we tend to have a part of the record appearing to have texture (stripes or bumps) as a clue that grabbing it will afford pus
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by LeonB 3y ago
This was at head office of a large retail chain. Though it’s also an accurate description for a situation I encountered in the oil and gas industry.
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by LeonB 3y ago
The project goal of not competing on features, but allow for easy extension, is absolutely the right decision. I remember on a project over a decade ago we had to choose the right data grid component to use. Our customers wanted “excel li
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by LeonB 3y ago
Without getting into nda territory — the minority of Australians who used iPhones in 2017 represented a figure that far exceeded 50% of wealth held in Australian banks. Thus apple had tremendous market power in “fact”, even if the raw numbe
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by LeonB 3y ago
Ah, this reminds me — for a very long time there was a page called “The Sierpinski Triangle Page to End Most Sierpinski Triangle Pages” - which was a stunning tour de force, it seemingly went forever, covering every possible way to create,
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by LeonB 3y ago
You’re missing the point. There’s no magic percent of a market that proves or disproves the sort of behaviour that antitrust laws are designed to prevent.
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by LeonB 3y ago
> Apple didn’t force anyone to participate in Apple Pay We’re on different planets. > Banks got onboard because customers like the convenience … Banks in Australia fought it for years. Your point about 20% market share being enough de

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